2016 Summer Olympics - Athletes

100m, 200m, 4x100m relay

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Date of birth

1986-12-27

Birthplace

Kingston

Height

152 cm

Weight

57.0 kg

Olympic Games (4 medals: 2 gold, 2 silver)

  • 100m: 1st (2008, 2012)
  • 200m : 2nd (2012)
  • 4x100m relay: 2nd (2012)

World Championships (9 medals: 7 gold, 2 silver)

  • 100m: 1st (2009, 2013, 2015)
  • 200m: 1st (2013)
  • 4x100m relay: 1st (2009, 2013, 2015), 2nd (2007, 2011)

World Indoor Championships (1 medal: 1 gold)

  • 60m : 1st (2014)

Third time's a charm

Two-time reigning Olympic champion in the women's 100m, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will be going for an unprecedented triple in Rio.

Another gold medal would see the 29-year-old surpass American duo Wyomia Tyus (1964-1968) and Gail Devers (1992-1996), the only other women to manage successive titles in the most prestigious of sprint events.

Also a triple world champion in the 100m (2009, 2013, 2015), the diminutive Fraser-Pryce (1.52m) grew up in a deprived area of Kingston; it was a difficult childhood which shaped her character, and gave her an iron will to succeed. "You have a talent," she was told by her mother Maxine, "go and use it". Mission accomplished.

Results

Women's 100m

Women's 100m10.86
1Women's 100m, Round 110.96 Q
1Women's 100m, Round 1, Heat 410.96 Q
1Women's 100m, Semifinal10.88 Q
1Women's 100m, Semifinal, Semifinal 210.88 Q
3Women's 100m, Final10.86

Women's 4 x 100m Relay

Women's 4 x 100m Relay41.36
2Women's 4 x 100m Relay, Round 141.79 Q
1Women's 4 x 100m Relay, Round 1, Heat 141.79 Q
2Women's 4 x 100m Relay, Final41.36

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