Third-fastest woman of all time bests fellow mums in Jamaica school parents’ competition
One person wrote on Twitter: “Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce showed up and floored everyone in the parent’s race at her boy’s school.is the third-fastest woman of all time, behind Florence Joyner-Griffith and Elaine Thompson-Herah, with a best of 10.6 seconds in the 100m, and is regarded by many as the best female sprinter of all time.
She won gold in the 100m at the 2008 Games in Beijing and London 2012 as well as five world titles in the same event. Nicknamed the “pocket rocket” because of her 5ft height, in July 2022 the Jamaican became the oldest sprinter to win a world championship when she was victorious in Eugene, Oregon, aged 35.
Fraser-Pryce adjusted her turquoise wig halfway through her women’s 200m heat in Eugene, after she flew around a bend and felt it slipping; but still qualified on her way to winning the title.She said: “I had my hair done, coloured from home, and I packed them.
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