How to watch Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce return to the track at the Jamaican National Championships 2023 and full event schedule
The three-time Olympic champion is among the stars seeking to book their tickets to August’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce launches her bid for a record sixth World women's 100m title, with her return to the athletics track in her homeland this week.
The sprint legend is competing at the 2023 Jamaican National Championships from 6-9 July at the National Stadium in Kingston.
She's keen to make amends after being forced to push the start of her season due to a knee injury, with the 2023 World Athletics Championships fast approaching.
The event is key for Jamaican athletes to seal their spots on the national team for the Budapest showpiece in August, although as the reigning women's 100m world champion, Fraser-Pryce, and the Diamond League champion, she will be offered a wildcard to compete at the Worlds.
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Fraser-Pryce picked up an injury last May in Kenya, where she was due to open her season at the World Continental Tour, and was forced to go 'back to the drawing board'.
She’s back training and upbeat ahead of her season debut.
"I really just trust that God will always work things out… You do the work, and you just get on the track, and you know you have a good team. Coaches are prepared, we're prepared," she said in a recent interview with Black Enterprise.
Her first 100m race in Kingston will be on Friday (7 July), ahead of the finals the following day.
The three-time Olympic champion hasn’t raced since September 8, 2022, in Zurich, when she won her fifth Diamond League Trophy.
Fraser-Pryce has also won world titles and Olympic medals at the 200m distance, but announced earlier in the season that she would be focusing on the 100m.
How to watch Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at the Jamaican Athletics National Championships
Track and field fans in the Caribbean island will be able to watch live action from their national athletics championships in free-to-air broadcasts from Television Jamaica.
Viewers from around the world can follow the action live via Pay Per View on 1Spot Media.
2023 Jamaica National Championships schedule
Day 1: Thursday 6 July
- 4:00 pm Men's 5000m Final
- 4:01 pm Women's Long Jump Final
- 7:00 pm Women's High Jump Final
Day 2: Friday 7 July
- 3:04 pm Men's High Jump Finals
- 4:55 pm Women's 100m Semi-finals
- 5:10 pm Men's 100m Semi-finals
- 6:17 pm Women's 1500m Final
- 6:25 pm Men's 1500m Final
- 7:10 pm Women Discus Throw Final
- 7:41 pm Women's 400m Hurdles Final
- 7:51 pm Men's 400m Hurdles Final
- 8:45 pm Women's 100m Final
- 8:53 pm Men's 100m Final
Day 3: Saturday 8 July
- 3:02 pm Men's Pole Vault Final
- 4:12 pm Women's Triple Jump Final
- 4:17 pm Men's Discus Throw Final
- 4:32 pm Women's Shot Put Final
- 5:45 pm Men's Long Jump Final
- 6:20 pm Men's 200m Semi-finals
- 8:20 pm Women's 400m Semi-finals
- 8:40 pm Men's 400m Semi-finals
Day 4: Sunday 9 July
- 10:40 am Men's Hammer Throw Final
- 4:00 pm Men's Triple Jump Final
- 4:45 pm Women's 800m Final
- 4:52 pm Men's 800m Final
- 4:56 pm Men's Javelin Throw Final
- 5:30 pm Men's Shot Put Final
- 5:37 pm Women's 400m Final
- 5:44 pm Men's 400m Final
- 6:12 pm Women's 100m Hurdles Final
- 6:30 pm Women's Javelin Throw Final
- 6:34 pm Men's 110m Hurdles Final
- 6:50 pm Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final
- 7:38 pm Women's 200m Final
- 7:45 pm Men's 200m Final