Tokyo, Sept. 22 -- Jamaican track and field sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce retired from the world athletics in Tokyo after an eventful career spanning nearly two decades.

Nine world championships and five Olympic Games later, the 38-year-old signed off in Tokyo on Sunday by helping a Jamaican quartet featuring 21-year-old twin sisters Tia and Tina Clayton to world 4x100m silver.

The record five-time world 100m champion had departed the sport as a legend in Japan, the nation where she made her first appearance on the world stage 18 years ago, reports BBC.

The most decorated female 100m sprinter in history, Fraser-Pryce has missed just one of the sport's past 15 major global competitions.

That single absence came at the World Championsh...