The reigning global 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is not going to race the 200m on the 2023 International Athletics Championships in Budapest.
The 3-time Olympic champion, who shall be aiming for her 6th 100m global identify, were indexed by way of for a dash double by way of Jamaican Athletics after qualifying 2d quickest within the 200m by the use of her nationwide championships.
However Fraser-Pryce best intends to race the ladies’s 100m and the 4x100m relay. Previous within the yr she showed her plans to concentrate on the 100m sooner or later. “Remaining yr I stated that was once it,” she stated. “And it’s going to perhaps be it for me for actual and I’ll simply center of attention at the 100m. The double could be very exhausting. It’s strenuous. The workload that you wish to have to do it’s undoubtedly exhausting.”
Fraser-Pryce clinched a file 5th 100m global identify in 2022, turning into the primary athlete to win 5 global titles in one person operating match – an accomplishment that can be influencing her choice to concentrate on her most powerful race.
This leaves the protecting champion Shericka Jackson who has a wild card, plus Natalliah Whyte, and Kevona Davis.
The ladies’s 100m guarantees to be an ideal race with the 2 Jamaican stars tipped to make the overall along American Sha’Carri Richardson and Ivorian Marie-Jose Ta Lou.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce can glance again at a stellar 200m occupation thus far.
The 36-year-old secured a 200m silver medal on the 2012 London Olympics and was global champion within the distance a yr later. After completing fourth at Tokyo 2020 held in 2021, she bagged every other 200m silver eventually yr’s global championships.
It received’t be the primary time that Fraser-Pryce is ruling out the 200m.
She had dropped the longer dash on the 2015 International Championships in Beijing, the place she received the 100m and the 4x100m relay.
