page_title: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
section_title: 2017–present: Motherhood and fourth world title
hierarchical_section_title: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce / Professional career / 2017–present: Motherhood and fourth world title
caption_attribution_description: DOH30187 100m final women
context_page_description: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD is a Jamaican track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. Widely regarded as one of the greatest sprinters of all time, her achievements on the track for more than a decade have helped to elevate Jamaican athletics on the international scene. In the 100 m, her signature event, she is a two-time Olympic gold medallist and a four-time world champion, while in the 200 m, she is an Olympic silver medallist and the 2013 world champion.
  A six-time Olympic medallist, Fraser-Pryce won her first title at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, becoming the first Caribbean woman to win 100 m gold in this event. At the 2012 London Olympics, she became one of only three women in history to defend an Olympic 100 m title. After injury affected her season, she won bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics, becoming the first female sprinter to win 100 m medals at three consecutive Olympics.
  At the World Championships, Fraser-Pryce is one of the most decorated athletes in history with 11 medals, including nine gold and two silver.
context_section_description: In early 2017, Fraser-Pryce announced that she was pregnant and would not be defending her title at the 2017 World Championships in London. She went into labour while watching the world 100 m final that year, and gave birth the next day via emergency C-section. She returned to competition less than a year later, describing her journey back as both physically and mentally challenging: "My stomach would be in pain...I couldn’t [train] abdominals properly. I [wondered] whether my body would allow me to put the level of work in to get it done.” Despite expectations that she would retire, she publicly promised a major comeback. 
  Fraser-Pryce took to the international circuit for several Diamond League meets, all while breastfeeding for the first 15 months. After eight races, she posted her first sub-11-second clocking of the year with 10.98 s at the London Grand Prix in July. She also competed in the 4 × 100 m at the 2018 Athletics World Cup, winning silver behind Great Britain. In August, she ran 11.18 s for fifth place at the Toronto North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Championships, where she also earned silver behind the United States in the 4 × 100 m relay. 
  After ending her 2018 season in August, Fraser-Pryce made steady progress with her training into the 2019 season. At the Jamaican Championships in June, she finished second to double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson in both the 100 m and the 200 m. Although Thompson won by a comfortable margin in the 200 m, the 100 m final ended in a photo finish, with both sprinters sharing the world-leading time of 10.73 s. Fraser-Pryce’s 10.73 s in this race became the fastest non-winning time in history. Fraser-Pryce returned to the top of women's sprinting for the remainder of the 2019 season, running at close to personal best times in the 100 m, and recording three of the five fastest times of the year. In August, she won 200 m gold at the 2019 Pan American Games, setting a new championship record of 22.43 s. However, after losing to Thompson in June, the two did not meet until the 2019 Doha World Championships, in one of the event's most highly anticipated showdowns. 
  In Doha, Fraser-Pryce cruised to 10.80 s in the 100 m heats, the fastest first-round time in World Championships history. She followed with 10.81 s in the semifinal, the fastest qualifying time ahead of the final. In the 100 m final, she outpaced the field from the start, powering away to her fourth title in a world-leading 10.71 s—her fastest time since 2013. Her rival Thompson finished fourth in 10.93 s. With this achievement, she became the oldest woman ever and first mother in 24 years to win a 100 m global title. Fraser-Pryce took particular satisfaction in her win, calling it "a victory for motherhood," and brought her two-year-old son on her victory lap around the stadium. She added a second gold medal at the championships by running the second leg of the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team, her ninth world championship title overall. She had also planned to contest the 200 m, but later withdrew.
  In February 2020, Fraser-Pryce won the 60 m at the Muller Indoor Athletics Grand Prix, clocking 7.16 s. It was her first indoor competition since she won gold in Sopot back in 2014. Her 2020 season was put on hold in early spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which also led to the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics. She has announced that she will retire after the 2022 World Championships.
caption: Fraser-Pryce (centre) at the start of the 100 m final at the 2019 World Championships.
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