Shelly-Anne confirms Paris Games as her final Olympic track appearance

Jamaican track and field sprinter Shelly Anne Fraser Pryce has confirmed that her participation in next year’s Paris 2024 Games will be her last athlete appearance in the quadrennial event.

In a short statement on her Facebook page, the 36-year-old said: “H.E.L.L.O. Shelly-Ann is my name, running is my fame! I got Paris on my mind…..My 5th and final one for all time.

“Have you started your 2024 plans??? Stop waiting for a New Year!”

With three Olympic gold medals, an appearance at the Paris Games will be the fifth time she will grace the Summer Games, having secured her first qualification in Beijing in 2008.

Since then, Fraser-Pryce has gone on to feature in the 2012, 2016 and 2020 games, winning 100m gold in Beijing and London, before leading the Jamaican team to a 4x100m gold in Tokyo two years ago.

This season, the five-time Olympic silver medalist has had to deal with two injuries, with the first one being a knee injury that forced her out of the 2023 KipKeino Classic in Nairobi, Kenya, and sustained a muscle injury in her last event (4x100m) at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

Sprint sensation Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce out of Kip Keino Classic

"The examination showed that the injury is not severe and she should progress quite fine," Fraser Pryce’s coach Dr. Warren Blake said shortly after the World Championships in August.

While Jamaica won silver, Fraser Pryce added bronze to her impressive World Championships medal count as she came in behind US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson and Shericka Richardson in the women’s 100m final.

In total, the 2013 IAAF World Athlete of the Year has 16 total World Championships medals, winning 10 golds; the latest being the 100m crown in Eugene, Oregon, USA last year.