KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange has hailed Olympic and World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce as “nothing short of a phenomenal athlete, a wonderful mother and great daughter of Jamaica”.

Fraser-Pryce won gold in the Women’s 100 metres at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar yesterday, earning her fourth World Championship title in the event.

The 32-year-old coasted to an impressive victory in a world leading time for the year of 10.71 seconds in the final.

“It is phenomenal that at 32 and after motherhood, Shelly-Ann shows no sign of literally slowing down. To have so comprehensively beaten the quality competition she faced today and clocked the time she did, she showed us that she is in a class by herself,” Grange said.

“And it was so heartwarming to see Shelly-Ann cap the performance with her son Zyon in her arms as she took her victory lap,” the minister added.

She also congratulated Olympic champion Elaine Thompson and Jonielle Smith — the other two Jamaicans who competed but did not win a medal in the women’s 100m final.

Grange also had much praise for the Jamaican “athletes who ran in the mixed gender 4x400m relay, creating history in reaching the finals of the inaugural staging of the race and taking the silver medal”.

The Jamaican team was composed of Nathon Allen, Roneisha Mcgregor, Tiffany James and Javon Francis.