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Dalilah Muhammad (born February 7, 1990)[1] is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 meters hurdles. She is the 2016 Rio Olympics champion[2] and 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, becoming at the latter the second-fastest woman of all time in the event with her personal best of 51.58 seconds.[3] Muhammad was second at both the 2013 and 2017 World Championships to take her first gold in 2019, setting the former world record of 52.16 s. 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.

Dalilah Muhammad

Muhammad at Rio 2016
Personal information
Born	(1990-02-07) February 7, 1990 (age 32) 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)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Athletics (track and field)
Event(s)	400 m hurdles
Achievements and titles
World finals	2013 400 m hurdles,  Silver 2017 400 m hurdles,  Silver 2019 400 m hurdles,  Gold 4×400 m,  Gold 2022 400 m hurdles,  Bronze
Olympic finals	2016 Rio 400 m hurdles,  Gold 2020 Tokyo 400 m hurdles,  Silver 4×400 m,  Gold
Medal record Women's athletics Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m hurdles 2020 Tokyo 4×400 m relay 2020 Tokyo 400 m hurdles World Championships 2019 Doha 400 m hurdles 2019 Doha 4×400 m relay 2013 Moscow 400 m hurdles 2017 London 400 m hurdles 2022 Eugene 400 m hurdles Diamond League 2017 400 m hurdles 2018 400 m hurdles World Youth Championships 2007 Ostrava 400 m hurdles 2007 Ostrava Medley relay Pan American Junior Championships 2009 Port of Spain 400 m hurdles

Muhammad won the 400 m hurdles at the 2007 World Youth Championships, and placed second in the event at the 2009 Pan American Junior Championships. Collegiately, she ran for the USC Trojans, for whom she was a four-time All-American at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. She was also the 2013, 2016, and 2017 American national champion[4] and a two-time Diamond League winner.

Early life

Dalilah Muhammad was born February 7, 1990, in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, to parents Nadirah and Askia Muhammad.[5][6]

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 in Bayside, Queens, she won the 2008 New York State and Nike Outdoor Nationals titles in the 400 m hurdles.[7] 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.[8] Muhammad earned 2007 Gatorade Female Athlete of the Year for New York State.[9]

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.[10] 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.[11] 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.[7]

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.[10] 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.[7]

Professional

After graduating from USC, she chose to compete professionally in the 400 m hurdles. She improved her personal best in the 2013 season with 55.97 then 54.94 seconds in California. In her IAAF Diamond League debut, she placed fourth at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix with a time of 54.74 seconds. She won at the Memorial Primo Nebiolo in Italy in 54.66, then she placed third 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.[12] Muhammad has represented Nike since 2013.[13] At the 2014 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Muhammad qualified for the 400 m hurdles but did not start.[14] At the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, she placed 7th with a time of 57.31.[15]

At the 2016 United States Olympic Trials, she won the 400-meter hurdles in 52.88. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won gold in the event, making her the first American woman to ever win gold in the 400-meter hurdles.[16] The following year, she won the 2017 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with new personal best of 52.64. Muhammad went on to compete at the 2017 World Championships, and came away with a silver medal. She also won the 2017 and 2018 Diamond League titles in her event.

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).[17][18] 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.[19] She won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships, improving her time by 0.04 seconds, setting the new world record with a time of 52.16 seconds.[20][21] At the end of the season she was selected for the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Award by the U.S.A. Track and Field Federation[22] and by Track and Field News at its World Women's Athlete of the Year, voted their first choice by 24 of the publication's 36-member panel.[23]

Track statistics

Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[1]

Personal bests

Event	Time (s)	Wind	Venue	Date	Notes
400 m hurdles	51.58		Tokyo, Japan	August 4, 2021	#2 all-time[3]
400 m dash	50.60		Chorzów, Poland	June 16, 2019
4×400 m relay split	48.94		Tokyo, Japan	August 7, 2021	third leg[24]
200 m dash	23.35	-0.1 m/s	Palo Alto, California, U.S.	March 30, 2019
100 m hurdles	13.33	+1.9 m/s	Austin, Texas, U.S.	May 26, 2012
100 m dash	11.42	+1.7 m/s	Los Angeles, California, U.S.	May 4, 2013
60 m hurdles indoor	8.23		Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.	March 2, 2012

International championships

Representing the  United States

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time	Notes
2007	World Youth Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	1st	400 m hurdles	57.25
			1st (sf2)	Medley relay	2:08.38	[n 1]
2009	Pan American Junior Championships	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	2nd	400 m hurdles	58.42
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	2nd	400 m hurdles	54.09
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1st	400 m hurdles	53.13
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	2nd	400 m hurdles	53.50
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	1st	400 m hurdles	52.16	WR
			1st	4×400 m relay	3:18.92
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	2nd	400 m hurdles	51.58	PB
			1st	4×400 m relay	3:16.85
2022	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	3rd	400 m hurdles	53.13	SB

400 m hurdles circuit wins and titles

• Diamond League champion (2): 2017,[27] 2018.[28]
  • 2016: London, Lausanne
  • 2017: Brussels
  • 2018: Shanghai, Oslo, Zürich
  • 2019: Doha, Rome
  • 2021: Eugene (MR)
  • 2022: Birmingham

National championships

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing the USC Trojans (2009-2012) and Nike (2013-2019)
2009	NCAA Division I Championships	Fayetteville, Arkansas	3rd	400 m hurdles	56.65
	U.S. Junior Championships	Eugene, Oregon	1st	400 m hurdles	57.32[29]
2010	NCAA Division I Championships	Eugene, Oregon	9th	400 m hurdles	57.85
			17th	4×400 m relay	3:39.90
2011	NCAA Division I Championships	Des Moines, Iowa	6th	400 m hurdles	57.88
2012	NCAA Division I Championships	Des Moines, Iowa	5th	400 m hurdles	56.71
	U.S. Olympic Trials	Eugene, Oregon	20th	400 m hurdles	58.46[30]
2013	U.S. Championships	Des Moines, Iowa	1st	400 m hurdles	53.83[31]
2015	U.S. Championships	Eugene, Oregon	11th	400 m hurdles	57.33[15]
2016	U.S. Olympic Trials	Eugene, Oregon	1st	400 m hurdles	52.88
2017	U.S. Championships	Sacramento, California	1st	400 m hurdles	52.64
2019	U.S. Championships	Des Moines, Iowa	1st	400 m hurdles	52.20
2021	U.S. Olympic Trials	Eugene, Oregon	2nd	400 m hurdles	52.42

• NCAA results from Track & Field Results Reporting System.[32]

See also

• Muslim women in sport

Notes

References

External links

External video
Women's 400m Hurdles Final - World Record, World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 on YouTube

• Dalilah Muhammad at World Athletics
• Dalilah Muhammad at legacy.USATF.org
• Dalilah Muhammad at www.USATF.org
• Dalilah Muhammad at Diamond League
• Dalilah Muhammad at Olympics.com
• Dalilah Muhammad at Olympedia
• Dalilah Muhammad at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee

Records
Preceded by Yuliya Pechonkina	Women's 400 m hurdles world record holder July 28, 2019 – June 27, 2021	Succeeded by Sydney McLaughlin
Awards
Preceded by Caster Semenya	Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Year 2019	Succeeded by Yulimar Rojas

На других языках

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[de] Dalilah Muhammad

Dalilah Muhammad (* 7. Februar 1990 in New York City[1]) ist eine US-amerikanische Hürdenläuferin, die sich auf die 400-Meter-Distanz spezialisiert hat. Sie wurde über diese Strecke Olympiasiegerin und Weltmeisterin und stellte mehrmals einen Weltrekord auf.

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- [en] Dalilah Muhammad

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[fr] Dalilah Muhammad

Dalilah Muhammad (née le 7 février 1990 à New York) est une athlète américaine, spécialiste du 400 mètres haies, championne olympique en 2016 à Rio et championne du monde en 2019 à Doha. À 29 ans, elle bat à deux reprises le record du monde de la discipline en le portant finalement à 52 s 16 lors des championnats du monde à Doha le 4 octobre 2019[1]. Ce record est battu en 2021 par Sydney McLaughlin (51 s 90 puis 51 s 46)[2].

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[it] Dalilah Muhammad

Dalilah Muhammad (New York, 7 febbraio 1990) è un'ostacolista statunitense, campionessa olimpica dei 400 metri ostacoli a Rio de Janeiro 2016 e campionessa mondiale a Doha 2019.

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[ru] Мухаммад, Далайла

Далайла Мухаммад (англ. Dalilah Muhammad; род. 7 февраля 1990[1], Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк) — американская легкоатлетка, которая специализируется в барьерном и гладком беге на 400 метров. Олимпийская чемпионка 2016 года, двукратная чемпионка мира 2019 года. Экс-рекордсменка мира на дистанции 400 метров с барьерами.

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