Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce shares a joke with Prince Albert as Usain Bolt looks on.Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce shares a joke with Prince Albert as Usain Bolt looks on.

Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce were crowned male and female World Athletes of the Year for 2013 by the sport’s governing IAAF at a ceremony in Monaco on Saturday night.

Bolt won gold in the 100 metres, 200 and 4x100 relay at the Moscow worlds in August to take his all-time tally to eight golds and two silvers at the championships, making him the most successful athlete in their history.

The 27-year-old, who also has six Olympic gold medals and holds the 100 and 200 metres world records, won the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) award for the third season in a row and the fifth time in six years.

“This season will be the one to go for the (200m) world record,” said Bolt, hinting that a time below 19 seconds was the target. His current world record is 19.19 seconds.

Fellow Jamaican sprinter Fraser-Pryce claimed gold medals in the same three events in Moscow, having previously won two golds and two silvers, and is also the Olympic sprint champion.

The 26-year-old Fraser-Pryce collected her first female World Athlete of the Year award, and it was also the first time since Britain’s successes in 1993 that two athletes from the same country have won the awards in the same year.

“I’m shocked and excited. It’s something that has been a dream of mine,” said Fraser-Pryce, who becomes the second Jamaican woman to win the award after Merlene Ottey in 1990.

Bolt and Fraser-Pryce also receive a prize of $100,000.

The other male nominees were Ukraine high jumper Bohan Bondarenko and British distance runner Mo Farah, while New Zealand shot-putter Valerie Adams and Czech hurdler Zuzana Hejnova were short-listed for the women’s prize.

Meanwhile, Bolt said that controversy over Jamaica’s anti-doping programme is scaring off potential sponsors and costing him money.

“There is a lot going on with this drug thing that I really feel they need to be clear (about) and clarify because now it is causing problems for me when it comes to making money in my sport,” Bolt, who never failed a drug test, said.

High-ranking World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officials went to Jamaica last month to look at the country’s anti-doping efforts after weeks of criticism following positive tests from several high-profile athletes.

WADA president John Fahey had suggested the Caribbean nation could face severe penalties if the Jamaica Anti-Doping Com-mission (JADCO) was declared non-compliant. Only WADA code-compliant sports can participate in the Olympic Games.

Jamaica’s minister with responsibility for sports, Natalie Neita-Headley, told a news conference at JADCO head-quarters last month that WADA had given no indication it was non-compliant.

However, Bolt said the fallout from the controversy was affecting him.

“It is really costing me money now. I am not too happy with that,” he said.

“Track and field is my job.”

Bolt’s manager Ricky Simms said rumours suggesting Bolt might not be at the next Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 had upset the sprinter and put off a potential sponsor.

“I think what he was disturbed about was... the misinformation that was out there,” Simms told Reuters.

“It’s a potential new spon-sorship. They asked the question ‘Are you going to be in the Olympics?’ They don’t want to sponsor him and then he is not in the Olympics.”

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