After picking up her second win of the season in Paris last month, Jamaican sprint star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will hope to continue her fine 100m form when she returns to Diamond League action in Silesia, Poland on August 6th. <\/p>\n
The meeting in Chorzow’s Silesia Stadium will be the first time that the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial has taken place as a Wanda Diamond League event, and will be the first meeting back on the WDL circuit following the World Athletics Championships in Oregon this month. <\/p>\n
Fraser-Pryce now joins pole vault world record holder Mondo Duplantis in what is already promising to be a stellar line-up, with the the four-time Diamond League champion looking to build on the form which saw her sail to victory in a meeting record 10.67 in Paris. <\/p>\n
The Jamaican veteran is one of the most decorated athletes in the series’ history, having won a 100m and 200m title double in 2013, and also clinched the 100m Diamond Trophy in 2012 and 2015.<\/p>\n
She has one victory in each discipline so far this season, clocking an impressive 22.41 in the 200m in Eugene a few weeks before her 100m win in Paris. <\/p>\n
In Silesia, she will line up in the non-Diamond League 100m against the likes of Polish star Ewa Swoboda, who has hit some of the best form of her career this season. <\/p>\n
“I feel proud to have my name mentioned alongside Shelly-Ann’s. She is an icon. Every sprinter wants to be like her. Each athlete dreams of achieving at least one half of what Fraser-Pryce has and to stay at the top for this long. I hope it will be the best female 100m race ever to take place on Polish soil,” said Swoboda. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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