Aminat Jamal

Aminat Jamal
Animata Jamal, 2016
Full name	Aminat Yusuf Jamal
nation	Bahrain Nigeria
birthday	27th June 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Nigeria
size	166 cm
Weight	56 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	55.54
National squad	since 2015
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Games 0 × 2 × 0 × Asian Championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Indoor Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Military world games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships bronze Doha 2019 4 × 400 m mixed  Asian Games silver Jakarta 2018 400 m hurdles silver Jakarta 2018 4 × 400 m Asian Championships gold Doha 2019 4 × 400 m gold Doha 2019 4 × 400 m mixed silver Doha 2019 400 m hurdles Indoor Asian Championships gold Doha 2016 4 × 400 m Military world games gold Wuhan 2019 400 m hurdles
last change: November 16, 2019

Aminat Yusuf Jamal ( Arabic أمينات يوسف جمال, DMG Amīnāt Yūsuf Ǧamāl ; * June 27, 1997 ) is a Bahraini hurdler of Nigerian origin who has been eligible to compete in Bahrain since 2015.

Athletic career

Aminat Jamal gained her first international experience at the 2015 Arab Championships in Manama , where she won the bronze medal in the 400-meter run in 57.27 seconds . End of October she won at the World Military Games in the South Korean Mungyeon in the 400-meter hurdles fourth in 58.20 s. In 2016 she took part in the Bahraini 4 x 400 meter relay at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha , where she won with a new Asian record of 3: 35.07 minutes ahead of Iran and Jordan. At the Arab Junior Championships in Tlemcen , she won both the 10o- and 400-meter hurdles and qualified for the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz , where she was sixth in the hurdles in 58.23 s and disqualified with the relay in the preliminary run. In 2017 she won the bronze medal in the 400 m hurdles and gold with the relay at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku . She also qualified for the World Championships in London , where she was eliminated with 57.41 s in the run . The following year she took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time and won the bronze medal there in 55.65 s. In addition, she secured the silver medal with the Bahraini relay and only had to admit defeat to the Indian team. In 2019, her compatriot Adekoya was stripped of the gold medal and Jamal was awarded the silver medal. At the beginning of September she finished fifth in the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava in 55.65 s.

In 2019 she won the Arab Championships in Cairo over 400 meter hurdles in 57.05 s and won the silver medal in the 100 meter hurdles in 14.66 s. Then she won the Asian Championships in Doha with the women's relay and the mixed relay and won the silver medal in the hurdles behind the Vietnamese Quách Thị Lan in 56.36 s . At the World Championships in October she reached the semi-finals in the hurdles , in which she was eliminated with 55.54 s. In addition, she won the bronze medal in the mixed relay behind the United States and Jamaica in a new Asian record of 3: 11.82 minutes. She then won the Military World Games in Wuhan in a new championship record of 55.12 seconds and finished fourth in the women's relay in 3: 38.24 minutes.

Personal bests

• 400 meters: 55.43 s, May 10, 2014 in Akure
• 100 m hurdles: 14.15 s (+0.4 m / s), July 9, 2018 in Amman
• 400 m hurdles: 55.12 s, October 24, 2019 in Wuhan

Web links

• Aminat Jamal in the database of World Athletics (English)