Updated On: 18 July, 2022 09:49 AM IST | Oregon | AP
The 35-year-old Fraser-Pryce, mother of a 4-year-old son, Zyon, on Sunday led all the way and crossed the line in 10.67 seconds. She beat Shericka Jackson by 0.06 seconds while Thompson-Herah finished a surprising third in 10.81

Jamaica`s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce celebrates winning the women`s 100m final during the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on July 17, 2022. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP). Source/PTI
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce sped her way back to the top of the sprint game, winning her fifth world title at 100 meters by leading a Jamaican sweep and knocking off Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah. The 35-year-old Fraser-Pryce, mother of a 4-year-old son, Zyon, on Sunday led all the way and crossed the line in 10.67 seconds. She beat Shericka Jackson by 0.06 seconds while Thompson-Herah finished a surprising third in 10.81. A night that started with thoughts that Thompson-Herah might knock off Florence Griffith-Joyner`s 34-year-old world record of 10.49 closed instead with Fraser-Pryce setting a world-championships record. Marion Jones set the old mark of 10.70 in 1999.
With her blonde and green-tinted hair waving in the breeze as she jogged through her victory lap, stopping to take pictures with fans that cheered her as loudly as anyone Sunday, Fraser-Pryce was all smiles, a different reaction than last year in Tokyo, when she finished second by a sizable 0.13. "I went back home and I worked and I worked and I came out here, and I had the success," a beaming Fraser-Pryce said in her on-track interview. She`ll add it to titles she won in 2009, `13, 15 and `19. She also won the Olympics in 2008 and 2012. A night after the US swept the podium in the men`s 100, Fraser-Pryce and Co., showed there`s still plenty of speed down on the island. Usain Bolt won three world titles at 100 meters over his decade of dominance. Fraser-Pryce now has five over a span that dates to 2009 in Berlin, the worlds at which Bolt set the men`s 100 record of 9.58 that still stands. Fraser-Pryce was 22 then.