The triple Olympic and ten-time world champion spearheads a 66-strong Jamaican team in Paris
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will bid farewell to the Olympics this summer as she races in her fifth consecutive and last Games.
The triple Olympic and ten-time world champion will represent Jamaica in the 100m. She has two Olympic 100m titles (Beijing 2008 and London 2012) to her name and has also claimed an astonishing five world gold medals over the distance.
Fraser-Pryce, who opened her campaign last month and has a season’s best of 10.94, will also be part of the 4x100m squad at the Olympics and will be hoping to retain the crown that Jamaica won three years ago.
The 37-year-old has medalled in every single Olympics, from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 to Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
She will be joined over 100m in Paris by Shericka Jackson and Tia Clayton.
Jackson is of course the double world 200m champion and fastest woman alive around half a lap. After a surprising start to the season – her season bests in the 100m and 200m by the end of May were just 11.03 and 22.97 – she bounced back at the Jamaican trials.
Shericka Jackson (Getty)
The 29-year-old clocked a stunning 10.84 to win the 100m and two days later came back to claim victory in the 200m with 22.29.
Clayton is just 19 and is one of Jamaica’s many prodigious sprinting talents in the sport.
The teenager finished second to Jackson in her country’s 100m final at the trials and clocked 10.90. In the semi-finals, she recorded an incredible personal best of 10.86.
On the men’s side, Jamaica boasts three young sprinting superstars.
Kishane Thompson stormed to a sensational win at the trials with a world-leading 9.77, establishing himself as a contender for the Olympic gold medal in Paris.
One man who might have something to say about that is Oblique Seville, who wasn’t too far behind Thompson in Kingston with a personal best of 9.82.
Oblique Seville (Getty)
The third man selected for the 100m is Ackeem Blake, and with a personal best of 9.92, he could get a medal in the French capital.
In the 100m hurdles, double world champion Danielle Williams will be hopeful of adding an Olympic gold medal to her collection.
Hansle Parchment did just that over 110m hurdles in Tokyo but he will have a tough test against the likes of Grant Holloway and also compatriot Rasheed Broadbell.
Even though Jamaica is famous for its sprinting, a bundle of talent lies elsewhere in the team.
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