How tall is Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce?

• Besides her towering height, Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce weighs 115 lb (52 kgs)
• She has three Olympic gold and silver medals
• Fraser-Pryce is one the greatest female sprinter of all time raised by a single mum in Kingston town

There is always something intriguing about Jamaica and her athletes. And one thing many people are curious about is how tall is Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce?

She hails from Kingston, the Jamaican capital. She was born on December 27 1986 and rose to fame in 2008 as the first Caribbean woman to win the 100 m gold medal at the Olympics.

A year later, she became only the third woman to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the 100-meter sprint. When Fraser-Pryce had her first child in 2017, she took a hiatus from athletics but would return in 2019 and scooped a gold medal.

This fete at 32 years made her a hero once more by winning this medal as a mother – the second one in history.

In the history of the 100-meter event, only Fraser-Pryce has won the title of world champion four times. In 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2019.

There are four of the five global 100 m titles she has won since 2008, as well as two of the last three Olympic 100 m crowns she has competed in, since then.

How Tall is Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce? Photo/The Independent

She is just the second female sprinter in history to win both the World and Olympic 100 m titles at once. For the first time in history, she became the first female sprinter to win gold medals in the 100-meter, 200-meter, and 4×100-meter relay events at the same World Championship.

But her towering figure raises a lot of questions among her fans. How tall is Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce? Her height is 1.52 m!

HOW MANY GOLD MEDALS DOES SHELLY ANN FRASER PRYCE HAVE?

Besides her towering height, she weighs 115 lb (52 kgs). Yet, more than any other female sprinter in history, Fraser-Pryce dominated the sport for nearly a decade.

With her diminutive stature she embodies her nickname of ‘Pocket Rocket’ due to her lightning-quick block starts. Her personal best time is 10.70 seconds, which ranks her fourth on the all-time 100 m women’s sprinting list.

Fraser-Pryce is one the greatest female sprinter of all time by several newspapers and sports pundits, including former Olympian Michael Johnson. She is her generation’s best female sprinter, according to World Athletics.

She has a total of three gold medals besides the common question about how tall is Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce. All of them are from the Olympics. Beijing Olympics (2008), London Olympics (2012) and Tokyo Olympics (2020).

She further has three silver medals from Rio, Tokyo and London Olympics. Maxine Simpson, Fraser-Pryce’s mother was a former athlete.

She raised the Jamaica track legend together with her two brothers and worked as a street vendor. But, a young Fraser-Pryce was a gifted sprinter since she was a child.

She would run barefoot while in primary school. She won bronze in the inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships when she was sixteen years old.

The Olympian started coaching under Stephen Francis at the University of Technology in Jamaica in 2006. At the Jamaican National Senior Championships, she placed fifth in the 100m with a time of 20.

At the European athletics circuit, the 35-year-old made her international debut. Her big break came when she finished second in the Jamaican Olympic trials for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, surprising everyone.

How Tall is Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce? Photo/Eurosport

IS SHELLY-ANN FRASER RICH?

The Jamaican sprinter has a net worth of $4 million. She’s fairly rich per se.  Puma is her biggest sponsorship deal. She also has another endorsement with HUMBL.

The Olympic legends founded The Pocket Rocket Foundation to make empower the less fortunate in society. As much as how tall is Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce is a common question among the world, her foundation is impactful in Jamaica.

It awards scholarships to young high school students who compete in a variety of sports which she is gracious to sponsor.

IS SHELLY FRASER-PRYCE HAIR REAL?

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce says she is not ashamed of her African origin because she competes in coloured wigs. Fraser-hair Pryce’s colour was as much of a talking point during the 2019 World Championships as her gold medal victory.

She claims that the wigs are an important component of her image.