“Standing here having done it again at 32, and holding my baby, is a dream come true,” Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce said after she won the 100-meter final at the World Championships in Doha in 2019. It has been six years, Fraser-Pryce is nearing the age of forty, and yet it’s hard to imagine her off the podium. Thankfully, we don’t have to! This is because the five-time World Champion is not letting her age define her stature. And the Jamaican National Championships from this week are a testament to that. Here’s how.

On June 27, 2025, Shelly-Ann competed at the Jamaican National Championships in Kingston, the qualifying meet for the upcoming World Championships. This was her last race on Jamaican soil, one last run on home, and she ran like it. The 28-year-old clocked a season’s best of 10.91 seconds to finish third. She finished behind the up‑and‑coming Tina Clayton (10.81 s) and Shericka Jackson (10.88 s). All three of them have qualified for the world championships. With this, the woman has repeated the past.

Shelly‑Ann Fraser-Pryce remarkably clocked 10.91s in the women’s 100 m at Kingston’s National Stadium in back-to-back years — first during the semi-finals of the Jamaican Olympic Trials on June 28, 2024, securing her place in the final. The ability to go on a break after that, return for your final season, and clock the same time, which is a sub-11, is an insane performance for a 38-year-old. Pryce is the definition of age is just a number.

She is nothing short of flawless on her home track: every single time she has competed at the Jamaican Athletics (JAAA) National Championships at Kingston’s National Stadium in the 100 m, she has made the Jamaican team. Be it her 10.70s heat win on June 24, 2022, before a did-not-finish in the semis that year, or 10.98 s heat on June 27, 2024, advancing comfortably by topping the field. There’s a 10.91 s semi-final on June 28, 2024, securing her spot for the Paris Olympics, and now another stellar 10.91 s in the final. Her legacy is so big that even Usain Bolt was present in her race to support her.

“My son needs me,” Shelly said when she took a break after the 2024 Olympics. “My husband and I have been together since before I won in 2008. He has sacrificed for me. We’re a partnership, a team. I think I now owe it to them to do something else.” A year later, she confessed in the interview after the race that her husband is a big support and she does not know where she would be without him.

Now she has officially qualified for the 2025 World Athletics Championships, set to take place from September 13 to 21 in Tokyo, Japan. And she is dangerous in the world championships.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the World Championships

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has established herself as the most decorated female sprinter in World Championships history, amassing 10 golds, 5 silvers, and 1 bronze. At just 23, Fraser‑Pryce exploded onto the global stage in Berlin 2009, producing what many called “one of the most sensational starts ever seen in a major final.” She vaulted out of the blocks, creating a lead of over a metre ahead of the field within the first 0.1 seconds, and held on to win the title in 10.73 s, a personal best at the time.

Ten years after Berlin, Fraser‑Pryce made a bold statement in Doha 2019—her first World Championship after giving birth in 2017. With her son Zyon watching, she dominated the final, powering off the line and finishing in 10.71 s, just 0.01 off the championship record. In Eugene 2022, at age 35, Fraser‑Pryce delivered perhaps her most awe-inspiring performance. She led a historic Jamaican podium sweep, crushing the field with a championship record of 10.67 s—her fifth world 100 m title.

In a blistering race where seven of the eight finalists dipped under 11 seconds, she became the first woman to win five world titles in a single event. At age 36, Fraser‑Pryce claimed bronze in Budapest with a solid 10.77 s, finishing just behind Shericka Jackson (10.72 s) and the new champion Sha’Carri Richardson (10.65 s, championship record). Now is the time for Tokyo. Predict her performance.