She is the most decorated champion of all time. I love Felix but SAFP is officially the goat. What happened to Elaine?
She is the most decorated champion of all time. I love Felix but SAFP is officially the goat. What happened to Elaine?
and she's a mom!
3x Oly champ
5x World champ
4x Oly silve medalist
2 x World Championships Silver medallist
1 x World Indoor champion
1 x Olympic Games Bronze medallist
1 x Commonwealth Games winner
1 x In Top 8 at Olympic Games
1 x Pan American Games winner
1 x In Top 8 at World Championships
1 x World Athletics Final winner
1 x World Athletics Final Silver medallist
2 x IAAF World Relays Bronze medallist
1 x NACAC Championships Silver medallist
22 x Diamond League meeting winner
7 x National champion
1 x In Top 8 at NACAC Championships
4 x Diamond Trophy winner
Fraser-Pryce is way beyond Felix.
Where does she rank all time male or female?
I’d say it’s close between SAFP and Gail Devers. Combing the Olympics with indoor and outdoor world championships, here is the tale of the tape:
Individual gold medals: Devers 10, SAFP 9
Total individual medals: Devers 13, SAFP 12
Total gold medals (including relays): Devers 12, SAFP 14
All medals total (including relays): Devers 16, SAFP 21
They’re close in longevity, too. Devers had a medal-winning span from 1991-2004, and SAFP has won medals since 2008.
It’s close, but I give the edge to Devers because she won championships in both the flat 100 and the hurdles, including double-gold in 1993. Phenomenal!
Nah, what is she like 36 and still running 10.6? Give me a break.
All I know is that they are both goats….with Hellah THOMPson. They just don’t like each other. They behave like goats.
yes, she is the greatest.
Shericka and Shelly hugged each other. Its clear Elaine And Shelly dont like each other at all!
Who even cares about indoors aside from americans
Look at how many World and Olympic champions compete indoors every year and answer your own question.
Put some respect on Merlene Ottey as well. Let's remove relay medals because that's a team effort. Merlene has 17 individual medals from olympics and WC. She doesn't have the high gold tally - but is def. in the conversation.
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At Tokyo they had fast tracks, reason they performed 10:54 in the 100m.
Flo-Jo will be ever in the "doubt" category of history, simply because her peaking was extremely short.
This year I was supposed to follow the progression of this Egyptian (a primer in the Arab World) who has 11:02 as PB and who appear to have better body build than the Jamaican stars. Bassant Hamida (age 25) is trained by .... her husband. (*)
Here, second rank after Shelly, in Kip Keino Classic, May 2022:
She stayed at home because suffering injuries for months.
(*) The story of the name "Bassant" which common in Egypt. They took it from Greece who took it from the French, which simply Passant translated in Egyptian.
Elaine won 100/200 gold in back to back Olympics just like Usain. Like Usain she is the goat
14 years. Just another ridiculously juiced athlete.
SAFP is the most consistent female sprinter of all time. But 10.49 by FloJo overshadowed all her accomplishments.
Flojo was world elite for about 6/7 seasons. And then retired. Shelly is world elite since 2008.
I realised that. They are friendly to each other. Shelly Ann and Elaine hate each other.
I also loved the Bracy/Bromell embrace/hug..
SAFP is the (female) goat of all goats.