Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is not going to 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 putting 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 now have the 200m to run,” was her response to the prospect of her competing within the occasion in Budapest, trackalerts.com reviews.
This wasn’t the primary sign from Fraser-Pryce that her intention could be to give attention to the 100m. Olympics.com reviews the sprinter expressed her intentions earlier within the yr: “Final yr I stated that was it,” stated Fraser-Pryce. “And it might probably be it for me for actual and I’ll simply give attention to the 100m. The double could be very exhausting. It’s strenous. The workload that you want to do it’s positively exhausting.”
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 finally yr’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 yr is a part of a stellar historical past Fraser-Pryce has had within the 200m, which additionally contains her silver within the 2012 Summer time Olympics in London and gold within the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow.
However she has outshined these along with her accomplishments within the 100m. Fraser-Pryce’s has 5 100m titles, only one in need of Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka’s document for world titles in a single particular person occasion. She presently 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.
