{"id":3525,"date":"2022-07-19T15:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyulaimemorial.hu\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2022-07-19T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:10:55","slug":"the-most-colourful-character-of-athletics-has-an-unfinished-business-in-szekesfehervar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyulaimemorial.hu\/en\/news\/the-most-colourful-character-of-athletics-has-an-unfinished-business-in-szekesfehervar\/","title":{"rendered":"The most colourful character of athletics has an unfinished business in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos: Carmen Mandato, Christian Petersen \/ Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, now five-time world champion of the 100m, will compete in the Gyulai Istv\u00e1n Memorial – Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix on 8 August. The 35-year-old sprinter is in better shape than ever.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If there was any question, in Eugene it became clear that Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is one of the best sprinters of all time. The Jamaican runner won the 100m for the fifth time in World Championships history after 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2019. At 35 years old, she became the oldest woman to take first place in the royal event.<\/p>\n

The legend, nicknamed the Pocket Rocket because of her height of just 1.52 metres, won on the Hayward Field in her characteristic style. She blasted out at the start with lightning speed and built up an unbeatable lead in the first stage of the race, leaving the others unable to overtake her. The number of prestigious races she has won in the past in a similar way is incalculable.<\/p>\n

This was the case at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, where she also won the gold medal. It is obvious that Fraser-Pryce’s performance is not affected by time. Not so the dye on her hair, which has varied in flamboyance in different colors over the past years during her major races. At the current World Championships, she picked purple in the 100m heats, and the next day in the final, she ran a championship record of 10.67 seconds in Jamaican style, with yellow and green hair colours.<\/p>\n

It is no coincidence that she, as one of the most popular athletes, has had her own hair salon in Kingston since 2013. Unlike Chic Hair Ja, she serves a much nobler purpose with the Pocket Rocket Foundation, which she also founded, to financially support high school students in need to develop their talents.<\/p>\n

Her time in the World Championships final shows that Fraser-Pryce is still in the form of her life at 35. She has been reaching these milestones as a mother since 7 August 2017, when she gave birth to her son, Zyon.<\/p>\n

Jamaica’s golden generation of female sprinters are making history right before our eyes. Along with Fraser-Pryce, five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shericka Jackson, a 28-year-old at the perfect age and the number one title contender for the 200m at the Oregon World Championships, and Briana Williams, just 20, fell two tenths short of the world record of 40.82 in the 4x100m relay in Tokyo last year. We wonder if they will be able to achieve the sensational world record a year older and with more experience.<\/p>\n

If they succeed, it could put Fraser-Pryce on an even higher level – if there is one higher… In any case, one thing is still missing from her career: a victory at the Gyulai Memorial. Last year, her countryman Thompson-Herah beat her in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r with a competition record of 10.71.<\/p>\n

Therefore, Fraser-Pryce, who is always smiling and has a very positive attitude, must aim for the first place in the race on 8 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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