Gabbi Cunningham
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| Birth name | Gabriele Cunningham | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | February 22, 1998 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 100 metres hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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Gabriele “Gabbi” Cunningham (born February 22, 1998)[1] is an American Olympic track athlete. She won the bronze medal in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
An alumna of the North Carolina State University and from Charlotte, North Carolina, she attended Mallard Creek High School. Cunningham was a 2018 NCAA All-American for the Indoor 60m hurdles, and a 2019 NCAA All-American for the Indoor 60m and the 60m hurdles. She was a two time Pan Am Junior Championships Medalist in 2017, with gold in the 4x100m relay and bronze in the 200m.[2]
In Albuquerque on February 15, 2020 Cunningham ran 7.92 for the indoor 60m hurdles which placed her in the top 10 for the year in that discipline worldwide.[3]
Cunningham finished fourth in the 100m hurdles at the 2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) in a personal best time of 12:53, and replaced the banned Brianna McNeal in the US Olympic squad for the 2020 Summer Games. Confirmation that McNeal lost her appeal to have her doping suspension overturned came on July 2, 2021.[4][5][6] Cunningham ran 13.01 s for seventh in the final.[7]
In 2022, she earned the bronze medal for the 60m hurdles at the World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade with a time of 7.87 seconds. Cyréna Samba-Mayela won gold and Devynne Charlton captured silver.[8]
International competitions
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time |
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| 2017 | Pan American U20 Championships | Trujillo, Peru | 3rd | 200 m | 23.60 |
| 1st | 4x100 m relay | 44.07 | |||
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 7th | 100 m hurdles | 13.01 |
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 3rd | 60 m hurdles | 7.87 |
Personal bests
- 60 metres indoor – 7.23 (Lubbock, TX 2019)
- 60 metres hurdles indoor – 7.82 (Spokane, WA 2022)
- 100 metres – 11.21 (+1.8 m/s, Des Moines, IA 2018)
- 100 metres hurdles – 12.53 (+0.8 m/s, Eugene, OR 2021)
- 200 metres – 23.04 (+0.4 m/s, Coral Gables, FL 2018)
References
- ^ "Gabriele CUNNINGHAM | Profile". worldathletics.org.
- ^ "Gabriele Cunningham - 2018-19 - Track". NC State University Athletics.
- ^ "60 Metres Hurdles - women - senior - indoor - 2020". www.worldathletics.org.
- ^ "Olympic champion McNeal loses ban appeal". BBC Sport.
- ^ Stubbs, Roman (June 20, 2021). "After disappointment in 2016, Keni Harrison secures Olympic bid". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 23, 2021.
- ^ "Results". results.usatf.org.
- ^ https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-women-s-100m-hurdles-rnd1-000100-.htm[permanent dead link]
- ^ Crumley, Euan (March 19, 2022). "Marcell Jacobs edges out Christian Coleman to land 60m gold". AW. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
External links
- Gabbi Cunningham at www.USATF.org
- Gabbi Cunningham at Team USA (archived)
- Gabbi Cunningham at World Athletics
- Gabbi Cunningham at Olympics.com
- Gabbi Cunningham at Olympedia
- 1998 births
- Living people
- American female hurdlers
- North Carolina State University alumni
- Sportspeople from Charlotte, North Carolina
- Track and field athletes from North Carolina
- African-American track and field athletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
- 21st-century African-American sportspeople
- 21st-century African-American women
- World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists