'This is a crazy Bolt effect'

“I was inspired by last night (Bolt’s victory),” Fraser said. “This is a crazy Bolt effect.”

“I was thinking before the race about winning. I thought to myself, ‘Calm down. You have to win first. You need to go out there and do it.’

“I’m just so happy to put Jamaica on the map. No one expected me to win so there was no pressure.”

American Edwards, who finished last, said she false started and expected to be called back.

“I thought I had moved before the gun,” Edwards said. “I had to go but I was off step. That threw me off a lot. I’m pretty sure it was a false start.”

Fraser, whose prior claim to fame came on last year’s world 4x100 runner-up relay, surged ahead at the start and pulled away from Simpson midway into the race with Stewart catching her for the first Olympic sweep in the event.

“We made history, just like Bolt," Sherone Simpson, the silver medallist said. “We’re all great athletes and I’m very excited about the tremendous achievement. We’re very good athletes and this says a lot for our country.”

Kerron Stewart, who had the second-fastest time in the world this year at 10.80, said the sweep was the culmination of years of efforts for the Caribbean island’s sprinters.

“It was about time,” Stewart said. “We have been waiting for this a long time and so many Jamaican athletes have come so close. The guys should have done it too. They had the speed.”