At the 2012 London Games, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce became only the third woman in history to successfully defend an Olympic 100 m title.
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, the multiple Olympic and world female sprint champion, declared on Wednesday that she would participate in the May 13 race at the Kip Keino Classic Challenge Tour 2023. Fraser-Pryce, who won her tenth world championship at the Eugene, Oregon, 2022 World Athletics Championships, will compete at the event where she launched her 2017 campaign by winning the women’s 100m in a scorching 10.67 seconds. Yes, I will be competing over the 100 meters in Nairobi on May 13 for the Kip Keino Classic. The previous year was fantastic and awesome in every way
The winner of the men’s 100-meter race at the Commonwealth Games and African Championships, Ferdinand Omanyala, will also compete in the Kip Keino Classic Challenge Tour 2023, according to news agency Xinhua. Omanyala defeated world champion Fred Kerley of the United States last year. After winning the men’s 200-meter race at the 2021 Kip Keino Classic, it is unclear if Kerley will visit Kenya a third time. The only World Athletics Challenge Tour Gold Label competition held in Africa is the Kip Keino Classic.
Born in Jamaica on December 27, 1986, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is one of the greatest sprinters of all time. She competes in the 60m, 100m, and 200-meter distances. Fraser-Pryce’s career, which stretches from the late 2000s to the 2020s, makes him one of the longest-living track athletes in history. The heyday of Jamaican sprinting was ushered in by her success on the track, particularly her consistency in important championships. She has won the world championship in the 100 m five times, and she has won two gold medals at the Olympics in that race. She has won gold at the World Championships and Olympic silver in the 200 m.
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She won eight medals at the Olympics and rose to prominence at the 2008 Beijing Games, where she became the first Caribbean woman to win the gold medal in 100m. At the 2012 London Games, she became only the third woman in history to successfully defend an Olympic 100 m title. She finished the 2016 Rio Olympics with a bronze medal after an injury ruined her season. She won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, 13 years after her first Olympic victory, making history by becoming the first person to medal in the 100-meter event at four straight Olympic Games.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who has won ten gold and four silver medals at the World Athletics Championships, is one of the most decorated athletes in history. She is the only sprinter to have captured five 100-meter world championships in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2022. Her victory in 2019 made her the first mother in 24 years to win the 100-meter race at the world level, and her victory in 2022, when she was 35 years old, made her the oldest sprinter to ever win the world title. She was chosen as the IAAF World Athlete of the Year in 2013 after becoming the first woman to win the 100, 200, and 4 x 100 meter events at the same World Championship. She also won the 60-meter world indoor title in 2014, making history as the first female athlete to simultaneously hold world titles in all four sprint events.
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