BUDAPEST, Hungary — Jamaica’s five-time World Championships 100m gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has started treatment for the injury she suffered during the women’s 4x100m relay final at the National Athletics Centre on Saturday.

Fraser-Pryce, who was third in the women’s 100m final on the second day of the World Athletics Championships here in Budapest, picked up the right leg injury while running the second leg on the 4x100m team that won the silver medal behind the United States.

She was taken to the hospital after the race.

Dr Warren Blake, one of the doctors assigned to the Jamaica team at the championships, said the sprint superstar’s injury was not serious and he expects her to make a full recovery.

“[She is] in good spirits. I mean, a bit disappointed that we didn’t get the gold [medal] but despite that, she knows what championships are all about and she’s in good spirits,” he said.

“She was examined and the examination showed that the injury is not severe, and she should progress quite fine. So she started treatment and she’s currently resting,” said Blake, the former Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association president.

Fraser-Pryce’s Coach Reynaldo Walcott also expressed optimism.

“She is getting treatment and the early prognosis is positive,” he told the Jamaica Observer.

Fraser-Pryce, 36, was the second Jamaican athlete to be taken to the hospital after Andrew Hudson had to seek medical attention when broken glass got into his right eye following a collision between two shuttle carts.

Hudson was among those being transported by one of the carts just before the semi-finals of the men’s 200m. The athletes were being taken from the warm-up area to the room they occupy before going on to the track.

— Paul A Reid