Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has announced her retirement from athletics following the just-ended World Athletics Championships.

The 38-year-old finished off in Tokyo by helping Jamaica to a world 4x100m silver medal.

Following an impressive 18-year career, during which she left a mark on the track and became a five-time world 100m champion as well as a two-time Olympic gold medalist, Fraser-Pryce has now retired from the sport.

In an official announcement, the 38-year-old shared an official statement on her social media page.

“I am a proud daughter of the soil, and I owe an eternal debt of gratitude to Jamaica,” she said. “We may be small, but we are mighty, and I am humbled to have represented the strength of our nation with passion on the global stage," she wrote.

In her impressive career, the most decorated female 100m sprinter in history, Fraser-Pryce, missed just one of the sport's past 15 major global competitions: the World Championships in London in 2017, due to giving birth.

She went on to make five global podiums following her return to the track as a mother, including winning back-to-back world 100m titles as she wrote her name into the history books.

Fraser-Pryce became the oldest woman to claim a 100m world title in 2019, extending that record by three years, aged 35 in Eugene.