Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce carries the national flag after winning the 60m final during the Athletics World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland, Sunday, March 9.

André Lowe, Senior Staff Reporter

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the greatest female championships sprinter on the planet. That is the assessment of her coach Stephen Francis, who also took time to laud her ability to stay at the top of her game since she broke on the scene in 2008.

Three gold medals at last year's IAAF World Championships in Moscow, first woman to hold 100m, 200m and 60m world titles simultaneously, IAAF World Female Athlete of the Year, fastest Jamaican in the 100m in history, Diamond League winner.

Still, for Francis - the man who has led her development, Jamaica's sprinting darling is already the best when it comes to showing up when it matters most and has a knack of keeping herself motivated and on top of her game.

Some way off Florence Griffith-Joyner's 10.49 seconds 100m world record, Francis also feels that his charge, who has personal best times of 10.70 seconds (100m) and 22.09 (200m), has not had the best of luck with wind speed and her time, but that she will get closer.

"I don't think there is any question that where championships are concerned, that she (Fraser-Pryce) is certainly the greatest female sprinter in the world in history, certainly in the 100m," said Francis. "No other woman has done what she has done."

What she has done is to win back-to-back Olympic 100m titles, a feat first accomplished by Wyomia Tyus and matched by Gail Devers; two of the last three World Championships 100m titles, while adding the 200m gold last year in Moscow. She also added a 200m silver medal to her name at the 2012 Olympic Games.

"She's been unlucky with wind; she's never had races with +1.5 or +1.9 and certainly no races with +5 that end up at +0.0 so that she can run 10.49 or whatever," Francis added in a cheeky reference to the current 100m word record. "If she gets lucky (with wind), super times will come with it."

"What Shelly has done which has pleased me most; she has mastered the trick of staying good. I tell them all the way that it's far easier to get good than to stay good. And a lot of natural factors, which mitigate against you staying at number one, there are a lot of things that push you down, but I think she manages to conquer those things and have herself focused and developed a mindset that keeps her where she is," Francis said.

"If she can keep it up then I don't know how much limit she has. She is always willing to work, willing to do what needs to be done," Francis' analysis continued.