Athletics news - Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce smashes 40-year-old Pan Am Games record

ByReuters

Updated 10/08/2019 at 12:36 GMT

Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce broke the 40-year-old Pan Am Games 200 metres record when the twice Olympic 100 metres champion clocked 22.43 seconds on Friday.

Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce celebrates after winning the Athletics Women's 200m Final during the Lima 2019 Pan-American Games in Lima

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The 32-year-old clipped two-hundredths of a second off American Evelyn Ashford's Games record of 22.45 set at San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979.

Fraser-Pryce, who won Olympic titles in 2008 and 2012, beat Brazil's Vitoria Cristina Rose by almost two-tenths of a second with Bahamian Tynia Gaither third in 22.76.

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