Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce wins World Championship 100m gold, again

Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce has won the women's 100 metre finals at the 15th IAAF World Championships in Bejing, China, in a time of 10.76 seconds running into a negative headwind of -0.3 metres per second.
    
She is the first woman to win three World Championship gold medals over 100 metres since the Championships inaugurated in 1983. Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands in a national record 10.81 secs and Tori Bowie of the United States, 10.86 secs,  finished second and third respectively.
    
Jamaica's Veronica Campbell Brown, 10.91 secs finished 4th, while Natasha Morrison was 7th in 11.02 secs.

Fraser Pryce is the only woman to win the sprint double and the sprint relay at the same championships back in 2013 in Moscow, and is the third woman in Olympic history to win back to back 100 metres in 2008 and 2012. The Olympic Games started in 1896 in Athens, Greece.

Fraser Pryce's gold medal lifted Jamaica to second in the medal standings with three, 2 gold and a bronze, behind Kenya with 6 medals, 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze.

In the women's Triple Jump final, Jamaica's Kimberly Williams finished 5th with a season's best 14.45 metres on her 5th of six jumps, while Shanieka Thomas was 11th at 14.08 metres on his 3rd of three jumps.

The gold went to Colombia's Caterine Ibarguen with 14.90 metres ahead of Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko of Israel 14.78 metres on her 2nd of six jumps, while Kazakstan's Olga Rypakova took the bronze with 14.77 metres on her 6th and last effort.

The men's 3000 metre steeplechase final was won again by Kenya's Ezekiel Kemboi in 8 mins 11.28 secs as Kenyans swept the first four places; another Kenyan, Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot won the women's 10,000 metre gold; while Canada's Shawnacy Barber won the men's pole vault at 5.90 metres.

Hurdlers Kaliese Spencer and Jeneive Russell advanced to the 400 metre hurdles final.

Spencer finished second in semifinal-2 in 54.45 seconds behind Denmark's Sara Slott Petersen 54.34. Russell was also second but in semifinal-3 in 54.78 secs behind The Czech Republic's Zuzana Hejnova 54.24 secs.

And in the men's 400 metre semifinals, Jamaica's Peter Matthews 45.42 secs, National record holder Rusheen McDonald 44.86 secs and Javon Francis 44.77 secs all failed to punch their tickets to the final, finishing 8th, 6th and 4th respectively.