American sprinter Usain Bolt has won eight Olympic gold medals and three consecutive 100-meter and 200-meter crowns, in 2008, 2012, and 2016. When it comes to 100-meters, Bolt has won three gold medals at successive Olympics. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, on the other hand, won the championship in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012 but finished third in Rio behind Elaine Thompson-Herah and Tori Bowie.
As of June 5, Fraser-Pryce set a new record for the quickest 100m time in more than three decades, clocking 10.63 seconds. Seeing her run so good at 34 was nothing new to Bolt.
There’s a lot on Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s plate and there is so much at stake, but nothing will deter her from her goal of making history inTokyo 2020 and matching the feats of fellow Jamaican Usain Bolt, who won three gold medals in the men’s 100m event.
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica celebrates winning a gold medal. (Getty)
Track and fieldsprinterShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaicais attempting to win her third gold medal in the 100m at the Olympics, 13 years after winning her first.On the line in Tokyo will be her compatriot Elaine Thompson-Herah and British 200m world champion Dina Asher-Smith.
In the US Olympic trials, Sha’Carri Richardson tested positive for marijuana, ruling her out of the 100-meter race in this summer’s Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. As the first Jamaican woman to win the 100m race in the Olympics, Fraser-Pryce triumphed in Beijing in 2008, defeating Merlene Ottey and Juliet Cuthbert. The following year, she was banned for six months after testing positive fora prohibited drug, which she stated was caused by toothache medicine.
Despite winning the 100m Olympic gold in London in 2012, Fraser-Pryce was unable to complete her hat-trick at Rio in 2016, finishing third behind Thompson-Herah. As a result, she took time off to have a baby but returned in 2019 to win her fourth 100m global title and ninth world championship gold.In June, the Jamaican sprinter achieved a lifetime best of 10.63 seconds in “super spikes” to become the all-time second-fastest woman behind the late US sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, who ran 10.49 seconds.
