Jamaican sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has been credited for her great impact on female athletes around the world during her near two-decade career that will end this year.
Jamaican sprinting legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has been lauded for being a major inspiration to women in track and field over the years.
Fraser-Pryce is entering into the final months of her storied athletics career after announcing that she will retire after the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan in September.
With her career spanning nearly two decades and yielding 11 world titles and five Olympics gold medals, the 38-year-old has rubbed off positively to others, especially the younger athletes, going by the sentiments of Masai Russel, Ackera Nugent and Athing Mu.
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“How much of inspiration you have been to women in sports. Looking at someone like Shelly-Ann, she has done it over and over again,” said Olympics 100m hurdles champion Russel.
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Nugent, who is currently in great form, weighed in: “She is a woman to really look up to like how her level of sportsmanship and how she like pour life into us even without saying a lot of words. Very motivational for us younger women to know how to walk with grace and our heads held high.”
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It is the same message of gratitude that was sent to Fraser-Pryce by former Olympics 800m champion Athing Mu.
“Just thank you for all you have done and the inspiration you have been to all these girls. I am not a sprinter but you definitely inspired me to run fast,” said Mu.
It is not just female athletes who have seen and felt the impact of the Jamaican sprint queen. Paralympics champion Hunter Woodhall is also in awe of her work on and off the track.
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“Thank you for inspiring so many women and changing what is possible as a woman. Being a mother and coming back and being so dominant for so long,” said Woodhall.
Fraser-Pryce sealed her ticket to the World Championships after finishing third in the 100m finals at the Jamaican Championships last month.