Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, also known as the 'Mommy rocket', won the women's 100m gold medal at the World Athletics Championships for the fifth time in her career.



She was born in 1986, 36, and Fraser-Pryce was the first to cross the finish line in the women's 100m final at the 2022 World Athletics Championships at Eugene Hayward Field, Oregon, USA, in 10.67 seconds, her new record.



10.67 is a new competition record set by Marion Jones of the United States at the 1999 Seville Games, which was set by 0.03 seconds ahead of 10.70.



Sherika Jackson finished second with a personal best of 10.73, and Elaine Thompson, who won the Rio 2016 and 2021 Olympic Games twice in a row, finished third with a time of 10.81, making Jamaican athletes the first women to become women at the World Athletics Championships. I swept 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in the 100m.



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At last year's Tokyo Olympics, Thompson won the gold medal (10.61), Fraser-Pryce took the silver (10.74) and Jackson took the bronze (10.76).



With this, Jamaica achieved the feat of winning the women's 100m gold-silver-bronze medals at the majors for the second year in a row.



'Europe's Pride' Dina Usher-Smith set a new British record of 10.83 seconds, but she finished fourth.



Dyeing her hair in yellow and green, the colors of the Jamaican flag, Fraser-Pryce sprinted from the 50m mark with explosive speed and ran from the front to the finish line.



Fraser-Pryce became the fifth woman to win the women's 100m at the World Championships in Athletics, following Berlin in 2009, Moscow in 2013, Beijing in 2015, and Doha in 2019, becoming the most successful gold medalist in both men's and women's 100m.



In the men's 100m, Usain Bolt (Jamaica), Carl Lewis, and Maurice Greene (USA) won the world championships three times, and in the women's division, Marion Jones (USA) won the women's two times, the second most 100m gold medals after Fraser-Pryce. was worn around the neck.



Fraser-Pryce gave birth to her son Zeon in August 2017 and missed the London World Championships that year.



At the time, Fraser-Pryce confessed, "When I heard the news of her pregnancy, I cried a lot because I was afraid, 'Is this the end of her career?'"



However, Fraser-Pryce returned to the track after giving birth, and successfully reclaimed the 100m in Doha in 2019.



Fraser-Pryce, whose best 100m record before giving birth was 10.70 seconds, stunned the world track and field world by shortening his record to 10.60 seconds after giving birth.



This year, Fraser-Pryce ranked first in the world rankings with a time of 10.67 seconds, and at the Eugene World Championships, an overwhelming race of 10.67 seconds was held.



Fraser-Pryce added one gold medal today and became the 10th gold medalist at the World Championships (5 100m, 1 200m, 4 400m relay).



Only three athletes have won 10 or more gold medals at the World Championships: US women's sprinter Allison Felix (13), Jamaica's Usain Bolt (11) and Fraser-Pryce (10).



Fraser-Pryce will also challenge for gold medals in the 200m and 400m relays at the Eugene World Championships.



(Photo = AP, Yonhap News)