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American hurdler

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1939-11-13
Active to
2014-07-29
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Key facts

Nationality
American
Born
( 1990-02-07 ) February 7, 1990 (age 36) , Jamaica, Queens , New York , U.S.
Home town
Rochdale Village, Queens , New York, U.S.
Education
Benjamin N. Cardozo High School
Alma mater
University of Southern California
Height
5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight
121 lb (55 kg)
Country
United States
Sport
Athletics ( track and field )
Event
400 m hurdles
Olympic finals
2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m hurdles, Gold 2020 Tokyo 400 m hurdles, Silver 4 × 400 m relay, Gold
World finals
2013 Moscow 400 m hurdles, Silver 2017 London 400 m hurdles, Silver 2019 Doha 400 m hurdles, Gold 4 × 400 m relay, Gold 2022 Eugene 400 m hurdles, Bronze

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Sports profile

Sport
Athletics
Team
USA Athletics
Position
Hurdler
Nationality
United States

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Encyclopedic overview

Dalilah Muhammad (born February 7, 1990) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the 400 meters hurdles. She is the 2016 Rio Olympic champion and 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, becoming at the latter the then-second-fastest woman of all time in the event with her personal best of 51.58 seconds.

Muhammad was second at both the 2013 and 2017 World Championships before taking her first World Championship gold in 2019, setting the former world record of 52.16 s. She also won a bronze medal in 2022. She was the second female 400 m hurdler in history, after Sally Gunnell, to have won the Olympic, World titles and broken the world record. At both the 2019 World Championships and Tokyo Games, she also took gold as part of women's 4 × 400 metres relay team. In 2019, she was named the Female Athlete of the Year by World Athletics.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dalilah Muhammad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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