Fraser-Pryce crowned 2013 female World Athlete of the Year
Monaco - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) was named the Female World Athlete of the Year for 2013.
Fraser-Pryce, a first-time winner, received her trophy at the evening’s IAAF World Athletics Gala held at the Salle des Etoiles of the Sporting Club d’Eté.
The awards were hosted by International Athletics Foundation (IAF) Honorary President HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and IAF & IAAF President Lamine Diack, who presented the trophies to the Male and Female winners.
Fraser-Pryce will also receive a prize of US$100,000.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, 26, regained her 100m title at the 2013 IAAF World Championships, winning in 10.71 which remained the fastest time of the year. After having run the fastest time of the year in the 200m, 22.13 at the Jamaican championships in June, she went on to win the gold medal over the longer distance in Moscow.
Like her compatriot Bolt, she also anchored the Jamaican 4x100m team to victory, a national record and the second fastest time in history.
“I'm shocked and excited. It's something that has been a dream of mine,” said a delighted Fraser-Pryce, who becomes the second Jamaican woman to win, after Merlene Ottey in 1990.
“Not all the time do things happen that we want to happen, but this did,” she added. Other awards IAAF RISING STAR AWARD
Mary Cain (USA) Cain, 17, has set numerous US junior and high school middle-distance records and age-bests since the start of the year and became the youngest athlete ever to represent the USA at the IAAF World Championships after qualifying for the 1500m, making the final in Moscow.
She ran 800m in 1:59.51 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene to become the first US youth, junior or high school female runner to go under two minutes and improved the US junior 1500m record by almost five seconds when she ran 4:04.62 this summer.
FEMALE MASTERS ATHLETE OF THE YEAR Christa Bortignon (CAN) Bortignon, competing in the W75 category, won eight gold medals at the 2013 World Masters Athletics Championships. She holds six W75 World records.
IAAF HALL OF FAME – 2013 INDUCTEES Harrison Dillard Marjorie Jackson Hannes Kolehmainen Natalya Lisovskaya Svetlana Masterkova Noureddine Morceli Parry O'Brien Marie-José Pérec Viktor Saneyev Yuriy Sedykh Daley Thompson Grete Waitz
