Jamaica sweeps the podium in Women's 100m

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce produced a trademark performance to win a record fifth 100m title at the World Championships on Sunday.

The Jamaican exploded out of the blocks and had the race sewn up way before crossing the line in a championship record time of 10.67 seconds.

Fraser-Pryce won her first world 100m title 13 years ago but says her latest victory means the most.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce sped her way back to the top of the sprint game at the world championships in Oregon, winning her fifth 100 metres world title by leading a Jamaican sweep and knocking off Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herazh.

Fraser-Pryce, 35, mother of a four-year-old son, Zyon, led all the way and crossed the line in 10.67 seconds. She beat Shericka Jackson by 0.06s, while Thompson-Herah finished a surprising third in 10.81s.

A night that started with thoughts that Thompson-Herah might knock off Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 34-year-old world record of 10.49s closed instead with Fraser-Pryce setting a world championships record. Marion Jones set the old mark of 10.70s in 1999.

Fraser-Pryce was all smiles after the race, a different reaction than last year in Tokyo, when she finished second by a sizeable 0.13s.

“I went back home and I worked and I worked and I came out here, and I had the success,” she said in her on-track interview.The win added to titles she won in 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2019. She also won the Olympic titles in 2008 and 2012. (Agencies)