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Jamaican female sprint icon who is a three-time Olympic champion Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce wants to run sparingly this year as she strategises on the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. 

“I won’t be able to do as much as I did last year. Age is catching up and I am no longer the spring chicken I was to be running all over. I will be strategic and think long term, especially the next Olympics. 

Fraser-Pryce, who won women’s 100m at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics, said while she is not getting younger, she hopes to run in Kenya again soon. 

“I’m grateful for the welcome I have received here and the crowd was amazing. I promised a good race and winning here today gives me a lot of confidence for the season,” she said. 

“Kenya is a place I’d love to compete again given an opportunity, while I won’t be running as often, I will not pass an opportunity to race here again,” the 10-time world champion said. 

Signature performance

On Saturday, she delivered the signature performance of the 2022 Kip Keino Classic Continental Tour meeting when she scorched to an incredible 10.67 victory in the opening 100m of the season in Nairobi. 

“To come here and run a fast time in front of all these cheering people is great,” she said with delight. 

President Uhuru Kenyatta and First Lady Margaret Kenyatta joined thousands of fans who created a cracking atmosphere at the Kasarani Stadium during the third edition of Africa’s only Gold Label Continental Tour meeting. 

On an afternoon littered with world leading, personal and seasonal bests from an international cast of top track and field athletes, Fraser-Pryce, 35, delivered one of the most enduring performances in her first race on African soil.