Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce Easily Wins Her First 100m Race of the Season: Video

• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was on top form as she stormed to victory in her first 100m race of the 2023 season in Luzern, Switzerland
• She clocked 10.82 seconds as she steps up her preparation for the upcoming World Athletics championships
• The Jamaican sprint veteran is the reigning champion in the 100m

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has not raced a lot this season, but she looked comfortable in the first 100m race at Spitzenleichtathletik in Lucerne, Switzerland.

The reigning 100m world champion has been dealing with injury but stormed to victory as she ramps up her preparation ahead of the 2023 World Athletics championships in Budapest, Hungary, next month.

The 36-year-old powered to victory in 10.82 seconds, ahead of New Zealand's Zoe Hobbs (11.08) and American Kennedy Blackmon (11.11), per Olympics.

The 10x world champion raced for the first time at the Jamaican National Championships on 9 July in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 200m, but she was beaten by Shericka Jackson, who claimed a sprint double.

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Fraser-Pryce competition

The Jamaican sprint legend is preparing to race next month at the world championships, but she will come up against the two fastest women this year Sha'Carri Richardson and Jackson. The American ran a personal best of 10.71 at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships.

Jackson then shattered Richardson's record at the Jamaican Championships by clocking 10.65 seconds. This will set up a monumental showdown between the veteran and the younger sprinters.

Recently, Richardson narrowly beat Jackson in the 100m at a Diamond League meet in Silesia, Poland, per NBC Sports.

Fraser-Pryce's background

That Fraser-Pryce will go down in history as one of the greatest sprinters - male or female - is no longer in question. The only thing she hasn't been able to do in the women's 100m is to break the long-standing record of Florence Griffith-Joyner, set in 1988.

Flo-Jo used a whopping 10.49 seconds in a 100-metre dash at the U.S Olympic trials, and no one has broken that record more than three decades later. Some will argue it was massively wind-assisted though.

Fraser-Pryce has gone ahead to write her own history. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Sports Brief reported she grew up in a violence-stricken environment and was raised by a single mother. She started running barefoot while in primary school at the tender age of 10.