10-08-2019 03:42 via kvoa.com

Jamaica: Fraser-Pryce breaks 40-year-old Pan Am Games record

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce broke the 40-year-old Pan American Games 200-meter record Friday.
The two-time Olympic 100 champion clocked 22.43 seconds in the Peruvian capital of Lima. The tournament’s previous record of 22.45 was set by American Evelyn Ashford in Puerto Rico’s capital in 1979. Fraser-Pryce beat Brazil’s Vitoria Cristina Rose, who won silver, and the Bahamian, Tynia Gaither, who took bronze.
“It’s a long time since
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