‘My son needs me’: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to retire after Paris Olympics

Three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has revealed she plans to retire after the Paris Games this summer.

The 37-year-old won the 100m title in both 2008 and 2012 and took a third Olympic gold as part of the Jamaican relay team at Tokyo 2020.

The latter title, as well as three of her ten world titles, came after the birth of her son in 2017.

In an interview with Essence.comFraser-Pryce said her family was key to her decision. “There’s not a day I get up to go to practice and I think, ‘I’m over this,’” she said. “My son needs me. My husband and I have been together since before I won in 2008. He sacrificed himself for me.

“We are a partnership, a team. And it is thanks to that support that I can do the things I have done all these years. And I think now I owe it to them to do something different.

Fraser-Pryce, who also has four Olympic silver medals and one bronze medal, became the oldest woman to win the world 100m title when she took gold in Doha in 2019, and she regained the crown in Eugene in 2022 at 35- years old.

Last year, Fraser-Pryce was caught on video winning her son’s sports day race in Jamaica. The multiple Olympic and world championship gold medalist competed against other mothers and won by a wide margin.