The undisputed sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce joins the 100m line-up

With American breakout star Jefferson-Wooden, her teammate and compatriot Sha’Carri Richardson, Mai McCoy, and Daryll Neita already confirmed, the race was shaping up to be a high-calibre clash. But it gets even better. 

Three-time Olympic champion and ten-time (!) world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will go head-to-head with her American rivals. This will be Fraser-Pryce’s fifth appearance at the Memorial. Her winning time of 10.72 in 2013 still stands as the meeting record. The last time she competed in Brussels, in 2022, she missed victory by just one hundredth of a second, narrowly losing to