Fraser-Pryce hoping hard work can bring sixth World title

After setting the world alight with her impressive winning performance at last year’s World Athletics Championship in Eugene, Oregon, 10-time World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is banking on her hard work and the grace of God to bring her more silverware as the 2022 RJRGLEANER National Sportswoman of the Year goes in search of her sixth World 100m title in Budapest, Hungary, this summer.

The 2022 Diamond League 100m champion says her 36-year-old body has been coping well in her training with the Reynaldo Walcott-coached Elite Performance Track Club, and a sixth 100m World title is in her sights.

“The goal is to win, and I want to win a sixth World title. I want to also see if I can get a personal best (PB) of 10.5, and I will continue to work because I know with the will of God, I will prevail.”

Fraser-Pryce, who, along with former men’s world 100m record holder Asafa Powell, were patrons for this year’s Sigma Corporate Run, which raised a record sum for charitable organisations.

With her first 100m World title coming all the way back in Berlin in 2009, Fraser Pryce maintained that the process still remains the same and that is to put in the hard work.

“Training has been going good right now. I am just putting in the work and laying the foundation with a long season ahead, so right now you can say that I am laying the bricks.”

Already, some of Fraser-Pryce’s compatriots have begun their season with World 200m champion Shericka Jackson and double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson Herah both opening their season at the Queen’s/Grace Jackson meet two weeks ago.

Fraser-Pryce said she is not sure when she will get a chance to test her legs just yet, but the sprinting legend zoned in on what she will be doing in the interim.

“I am not necessarily doing a lot of background but more speed and endurance work, and I am really just building up to what I expect to be another tough season,” she said.