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Dat Girl, Dat Girl Shelly-Ann 
Is like unnu tek dem big ting yah fi granted wid unnu low key responses 
Shelly cements her place as the greatest female sprinter of this generation (perhaps ANY generation) ...and Jamaica' greatest ever
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce powers to third world championships 100m gold
• Jamaican sprinter holds off Schippers in 10.76sec to win gold
• Matches compatriot Usain Bolt’s feat of three world 100m titles
Sean Ingle in Beijing
Monday 24 August 2015 09.44 EDT Last modified on Monday 24 August 2015
To comprehend the staggering improvement in Dafne Schippers’ sprinting – an improvement that took her to a world championship 100m silver medal behind Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on Monday night – one has to go back to a small Austrian field in May.
It was there, while facing Jessica Ennis-Hill and the world’s best heptathletes in the prestigious Hypo Meeting in Götzis, that Schippers injured a knee during the high jump and decided to commit to sprinting rather than multi-eventing. This was the result – a lane next to Fraser-Pryce, the greatest woman 100m runner of her era, perhaps of any age, regardless of what the record books say about Florence Griffith-Joyner. And it was a real barnstormer of a race, too.
The Jamaican, who had her plaits dyed green and a headband of daisies around her forehead, made an explosive, near-perfect start and established a four-metre lead by halfway. But that display of flower power was countered bythe flying Dutchwoman Schippers, who began to motor during the second 50m and was closing fast only for the line to come too soon. A delighted Fraser-Pryce took victory in 10.76sec, with Schippers second in 10.81, a substantial personal best and fourth fastest time by a European, and the American Tori Bowie third in 10.86.
Fraser-Pryce has now won three world and two Olympic 100m titles but she said this latest success was “something special”.
Is like unnu tek dem big ting yah fi granted wid unnu low key responses Shelly cements her place as the greatest female sprinter of this generation (perhaps ANY generation) ...and Jamaica' greatest ever
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce powers to third world championships 100m gold
• Jamaican sprinter holds off Schippers in 10.76sec to win gold
• Matches compatriot Usain Bolt’s feat of three world 100m titles
Sean Ingle in Beijing
Monday 24 August 2015 09.44 EDT Last modified on Monday 24 August 2015
To comprehend the staggering improvement in Dafne Schippers’ sprinting – an improvement that took her to a world championship 100m silver medal behind Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on Monday night – one has to go back to a small Austrian field in May.
It was there, while facing Jessica Ennis-Hill and the world’s best heptathletes in the prestigious Hypo Meeting in Götzis, that Schippers injured a knee during the high jump and decided to commit to sprinting rather than multi-eventing. This was the result – a lane next to Fraser-Pryce, the greatest woman 100m runner of her era, perhaps of any age, regardless of what the record books say about Florence Griffith-Joyner. And it was a real barnstormer of a race, too.
The Jamaican, who had her plaits dyed green and a headband of daisies around her forehead, made an explosive, near-perfect start and established a four-metre lead by halfway. But that display of flower power was countered bythe flying Dutchwoman Schippers, who began to motor during the second 50m and was closing fast only for the line to come too soon. A delighted Fraser-Pryce took victory in 10.76sec, with Schippers second in 10.81, a substantial personal best and fourth fastest time by a European, and the American Tori Bowie third in 10.86.
Fraser-Pryce has now won three world and two Olympic 100m titles but she said this latest success was “something special”.
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