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Jamaican 100 metre Champion Fraser-Pryce to return in 2025 then retire

Sports · Dennis Masinde · April 12, 2025
Jamaican 100 metre Champion Fraser-Pryce to return in 2025 then retire
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Team Jamaica after finishing 2nd during round 1 of the women's 100m at the Stade de France during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France. She has qualified for the Tokyo World Championships in September PHOTO/Sam Barnes/Sportsfile via Getty Images)
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"Time will honour your greatness," added Fraser-Pryce, who won back-to-back 100-metre Olympic titles in 2008 and 2012.

Jamaican 100 metre women's great Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce says that she plans to compete one more year in 2025 before seeking retirement.

The two-time Olympic gold medallist said on social media Friday that she will be back for what is expected to be her final year of competition.

The 10-time world championships gold medallist previously said that she would compete for one more year and, at the end of an Instagram video, wrote that she had "unfinished business."

"Time will honour your greatness," added Fraser-Pryce, who won back-to-back 100-metre Olympic titles in 2008 and 2012.

Her final Olympics ended in serious disappointment last year in Paris when she missed her 100m semifinal after sustaining an injury in the warm-up.

Fraser-Pryce's preparations were unsettled by security officials who delayed her entry into the Stade de France as Jamaica's women's Olympic sprint dominance ended.

An eight-time Olympic medallist, she rose from pretty much nowhere at the 2008 Beijing Olympics to become the first Caribbean woman to win gold in the 100m.

At the 2012 London Olympics, she became the third woman in history to defend an Olympic 100m title.

After injury affected her season, she won bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Thirteen years after her first Olympic win, she won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the most decorated 100-metre sprinter at the Olympic Games.

At the biennial World Athletics Championships, Fraser-Pryce is one of the most decorated athletes in history, winning ten gold, five silver medals and a bronze.

She is the only sprinter to win five world titles in the 100m in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2022.

Her win in 2019 made her the first mother in 24 years to claim a global 100m title.

She will be looking to compete at this year's World Athletics Championships to be held in Tokyo Japan in September this year.

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