Historic 60m win for Fraser-Pryce

Despite not being a huge fan of running indoors, Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce raced her way into the history books at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships last Sunday, winning the women’s 60 metres in a time of 6.98 seconds.

Murielle Ahoure of the Cote d’Ivoire  took silver, finishing 0.03 seconds behind Fraser-Pryce. Tianna Bartoletta, the US champion at the distance, finished in third.

Fraser-Pryce is now only the second women in history to win world titles in the 60 meters, 100 metres, and 200 metres. However, despite the amazing accomplishment, the two-time Olympic gold medalist said the 60 metres isn’t really her favorite thing: “To be honest I don’t like it. There is so much that can go wrong in a 60. Not nailing the start….You have persons that don’t nail the start can win a 100…But in the 60 you have to get going.”

In winning in Sopot, she also became the first woman in history to win IAAF world titles in the 60m, 100m, 200m and 4x100m.

Not that impressive statistics means anything to the world 100m, 200m and 4x100m champion.

“I’ve said many times that I’m not one of those people who check statistics, follows history and says, ‘If I do this, what will happen’,” she revealed.

Having begun her 2014 campaign with a 7.11 clocking in a special outdoor race in Kingston, her home country not having any indoor facility, her only loss of the season was having to settle for second place in Birmingham four weeks ago behind world 100m and 200m silver medallist  Ahoure – her fierce rival who claimed the silver medal in Sopot in 7.01.