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Revision as of 19:59, 25 December 2019

Dalilah Muhammad
Muhammad at Rio 2016
Personal information
NationalityAmerican
Born (1990-02-07) February 7, 1990 (age 34)
New York, New York
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
CountryUnited States
SportTrack and field
Event400m hurdles
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m hurdles
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Doha 400 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place 2019 Doha 4×400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2013 Moscow 400 m hurdles
Silver medal – second place 2017 London 400 m hurdles
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Ostrava 400 m hurdles
Pan Am Jr Championships
Silver medal – second place 2009 Port of Spain 400 m hurdles

Dalilah Muhammad (born February 7, 1990)[1] is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. She won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships, setting the current world record with a time of 52.16 seconds. She was also the 2013, 2016, and 2017 American national champion.[2] At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won gold in the 400 metres hurdles.[3] Muhammad is only the second female 400 meter hurdler in history, after Sally Gunnell, to have won the Olympic and World titles and broken the world record.

Muhammad won the 400-meter hurdles at the 2007 World Youth Championships, and she won silver at the 2013 World Championships and 2017 World Championships. Collegiately, she ran for the USC Trojans, for whom she was a four-time All-American at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Early life

Dalilah Muhammad was born February 7, 1990 in Queens, New York City, to parents Nadirah and Askia Muhammad who are part of a Muslim American family.[4]

Athletic career

High school and college track

Dalilah Muhammad competed in various track and field events at high school, including the hurdles, sprints, and high jump. While at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School, she won the 2008 New York State and Nike Outdoor Nationals titles in the 400 m hurdles.[5] During that period, she also gained her first international experience. At the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics, she took the 400 m hurdles gold medal.[6] Muhammad earned 2007 Gatorade Female Athlete of the Year for New York State.[7]

In 2008, she enrolled at the University of Southern California on a sports scholarship, majoring in business. Joining the USC Trojans track team, she competed extensively in her first season. At the Pacific-10 Conference meet, she was runner-up in the 400 m hurdles, fourth in the 4×400-meter relay, and also set a personal record of 13.79 seconds as a finalist in the 100-meter hurdles.[8] The NCAA Outdoor Championship saw her set a 400 m hurdles best of 56.49 seconds and finish in third place in the final. She won the national junior title that year and was the silver medallist at the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.[9] In her second year at USC, she was a runner-up at the Pac-10 championships but narrowly missed out on the NCAA final. The 2011 outdoor season saw her repeat her Pac-10-second place, and a personal record of 56.04 seconds in the NCAA semi-finals led to a sixth-place finish in the 400 m hurdles final.[5]

In 2012, she set personal records in the sprint hurdles events, running 8.23 seconds for the 60-meter hurdles and 13.33 seconds for the 100 m hurdles. She ranked fifth in the latter event at the Pac-12 meet, where she placed third in the 400 m hurdles. She was again an NCAA finalist in her speciality, coming in fifth, and she also participated in the heats at the 2012 United States Olympic Trials.[8] She ended her career as a USC Trojan athlete as the school's third fastest ever 400 m hurdler and a four-time NCAA All-American.[5]

Professional

After graduating from college, Muhammad chose to compete professionally in the 400 m hurdles. She began to improve her personal record early on in the 2013 season with bests of 55.97 then 54.94 seconds in California. On her IAAF Diamond League debut, she placed fourth at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix with a time of 54.74 seconds. She knocked another eight hundredths off to win at the Memorial Primo Nebiolo in Italy, then she placed in the top three at the Bislett Games in Norway with a run of 54.33 seconds.

At the 2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, she improved her personal record by half a second with a run of 53.83 in the final to win her first national title in the 400 m hurdles.[10] Muhammad has represented Nike since 2013.[11] At the 2014 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Muhammad earned a spot in the 400 m hurdles but did not start.[12] At the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Muhammad placed 7th with a time of 57.31.[13] At the 2016 United States Olympic Trials, Muhammad won the 400-meter hurdles in 52.88. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won gold in the 400-meter hurdles. She defended her title at the 2017 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, winning with a personal best time of 52.64.

Muhammad broke the 400-meter hurdles world record at the 2019 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 52.20 seconds, improving Yuliya Pechonkina's 16-year-old record of 52.34 (2003).[14][15] Muhammad is only the second woman in the history of the 400m hurdles, after Sally Gunnell, to have won the Olympic title and broken the world record. In September, the IAAF ratified Muhammad's time as the official world record.[16] She won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships, improving her time by 0.04 seconds, thus setting the new world record with a time of 52.16 seconds.[17] At the end of the season she was selected for the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Award.[18]

Competition record

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing the  United States
2007 World Youth Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic 1st 57.25
2009 Pan American Junior Championships Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2nd 58.42
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia 2nd 54.09
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1st 53.13
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom 2nd 53.50
2019 World Championships Doha, Qatar 1st 52.16 WR

USA National Championships

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing the  United States
2007 2007 USA Youth Outdoor Track & Field Championships Benedictine University 2nd 400 m 55.84
2009 USA Junior Track and Field Championships Eugene, Oregon 1st 400 m hurdles 57.32[19]
2012 US Olympic Trials Eugene, Oregon 20th 400 m hurdles 58.46[20]
2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Des Moines, Iowa 1st 400 m hurdles 53.83[21]
2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Eugene, Oregon 11th 400 m hurdles 57.33[13]
2016 US Olympic Trials Eugene, Oregon 1st 400 m hurdles 52.88
2017 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Sacramento, California 1st 400 m hurdles 52.64
2019 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Des Moines, Iowa 1st 400 m hurdles 52.20

Personal bests

See also

References

  1. ^ "Dalilah MUHAMMAD | Profile | iaaf.org". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  2. ^ Dalilah Muhammad diamond league profile. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  3. ^ "American Dalilah Muhammad wins 400m hurdles gold". August 19, 2016. Archived from the original on September 17, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  4. ^ Boone, Ruschell (August 13, 2016). "Parents of Queens Track and Field Star Get Ready to Cheer Her On in Olympics". NY1. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Dalilah Muhammad. USC Trojans. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  6. ^ Girls 400m Hurdles Final. IAAF (July 13, 2007). Retrieved on July 28, 2013.
  7. ^ 2007 New York Gatorade Female Athlete of the Year. Retrieved on July 22, 2016.
  8. ^ a b Dalilah Muhammad. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on July 28, 2013.
  9. ^ Pan American Junior Championships 2009 Archived February 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
  10. ^ Upsets and Breakthroughs on Final Day of USA Outdoor Championships. USATF (June 23, 2013). Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  11. ^ 2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships results. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  12. ^ 2014 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships results. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  13. ^ a b 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships results. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  14. ^ Vera, Amir (July 29, 2019). "Dalilah Muhammad breaks 16-year-old world record at US track and field championships". CNN. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  15. ^ Chavez, Chris (August 7, 2019). "The Imperfect World Record: Examining Dalilah Muhammad's 400-Meter Hurdles Race". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  16. ^ "Ratified: Muhammad's world 400m hurdles record and Anderson's world U20 100m hurdles record". IAAF. September 11, 2019. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  17. ^ Scott Cacciola (October 4, 2019). "Dalilah Muhammad Breaks Her Own World Record in the 400-Meter Hurdles". The New York Times. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  18. ^ https://www.usatf.org/news/2019/the-year’s-best-athletes-performances-and-hall-of-
  19. ^ 2009 USA Junior Outdoor Track and Field Championship. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  20. ^ US Olympic Trials Women's 400 m prelims. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  21. ^ 2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships results. Retrieved October 11, 2019.

External links

Records
Preceded by Women's 400 m hurdles world record holder
July 28, 2019 – present 		Incumbent
Awards
Preceded by Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Year
2019 		Incumbent
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