Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won’t race within the 200m on the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Budapest. The 36-year-old Jamaican sprinting sensation and reigning 100m world champion was poised to compete for gold in three occasions within the Hungarian capital later this month, however is entered solely within the 100m and the 4x100m relay occasions.
Fraser-Pryce certified for the 200m on the World Althetics Championships after inserting second within the occasion on the Jamaican championships. Nevertheless, on the heels of her qualifying efficiency, she was very open about her reluctance to tackle the 200m in Budepest. “The Lord must come and contact me and say, ‘Get up, we’ve got the 200m to run,” was her response to the prospect of her competing within the occasion in Budapest, trackalerts.com studies.
This wasn’t the primary sign from Fraser-Pryce that her intention could be to concentrate on the 100m. Olympics.com studies the sprinter expressed her intentions earlier within the 12 months: “Final 12 months I mentioned that was it,” mentioned Fraser-Pryce. “And it could probably be it for me for actual and I’ll simply concentrate on the 100m. The double may be very laborious. It’s strenous. The workload that it is advisable do it’s positively laborious.”
That is hardly the primary time she has sidestepped competitors within the 200m to focus on the shorter distance. Fraser-Pryce took silver within the 200m ultimately 12 months’s World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Ore., behind fellow Jamaican Shericka Jackson, however she skipped the 200m at her final two appearances on the World Athletics Championships in 2015 and 2019.
Her silver final 12 months is a part of a stellar historical past Fraser-Pryce has had within the 200m, which additionally contains her silver within the 2012 Summer season Olympics in London and gold within the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow.
However she has outshined these together with her accomplishments within the 100m. Fraser-Pryce’s has 5 100m titles, only one wanting Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka’s document for world titles in a single particular person occasion. She at present ranks fourth on this planet within the 100m (10.82), behind Jackson (10.65), American Sha’Carri Richardson (10.71) and Ivory Coast runner Marie-Josée Ta Lou (10.75).
Fraser-Pryce’s shot at her sixth world title within the 100m begins with first-round heats on the World Athletics Championships on Aug. 20.
