Blink and you’ll miss her! Three-time Olympic gold medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce leaves her competition in the dust as she takes her son’s school sports day VERY seriously.
- Olympic sprinter and world champion leads the peloton by almost 50 meters
- Fraser-Pryce saw that sports day was no less competitive event than a final.
- Jamaican track legend was World Athletics’ Best Overall Female Athlete in 2022
Sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, winner of three Olympic gold medals, decimated the competition in a race for parents on her son’s school sports day.
The Jamaican 100m star, whose personal best time of 10.6 seconds makes her the third fastest woman of all time behind Florence Joyner-Griffith and Elaine Thompson-Herah, left nothing to chance when she set out to compete in the race, beating the rest of the pack by nearly 50 metres.
Fraser-Pryce’s name is often mentioned in discussions of the greatest sprinters of all time, so it’s no surprise that she can’t shake a competitive spirit even in less than Olympic circumstances.
Cheered on by trackside fans, Fraser-Pryce nearly disappeared from sight to cross the finish line before the camera could catch her opponents.
The ‘Pocket Rocket’ was competing in support of his son Zyon, who was born in 2017, three years before Fraser-Pryce won a gold medal in the 100m relay at the Tokyo Olympics.
Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce fired the starting gun in an instant and crossed the finish line 50m ahead of her competition.
The world champion is a vivid presence on the court due to her ever-changing hair color.
Fraser-Pryce burst onto the international track and field scene in 2008 after winning gold in the 100m at the world athletics final in Stuttgart.
The sprinter is a ten-time world champion in the 100m, relay and 200m disciplines, with her most recent victory coming in 2022 at the tournament held in Eugene, Oregon.
Four-time Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Michael Johnson was impressed by Fraser-Pryce’s commitment and mocked his own anxieties surrounding the parents’ career.
He posted: ‘At my son’s school parent sports day, I was long retired and some of the parents were younger than me. Increased risk of “I’m John and I just beat Michael Johnson in a race.” No!’
Fraser-Pryce collected one of her gold medals at the 2012 London Olympics (pictured)
The ‘Pocket Rocket’ is the third fastest woman in history and her compatriot Elaine Thompson-Herah (L) is the second