Dalilah Muhammad

Dalilah Muhammad
Muhammad after her Olympic victory in 2016
nation	United States
birthday	7th February 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	New York City , United States
size	173 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	52.16 s
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 2 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 400 m hurdles  World championships gold Doha 2019 400 m hurdles silver Moscow 2013 400 m hurdles silver London 2017 400 m hurdles gold Doha 2019 4 × 400 m  Youth World Championships gold Ostrava 2007 400 m hurdles
last change: October 11, 2019

Dalilah Muhammad (born February 7, 1990 in New York City ) is an American hurdler who specializes in the 400 meter distance .

Life

Muhammad won the 2007 World Youth Championships in Ostrava , and in 2009 she became US Junior Champion and Pan-American Vice Junior Champion. In 2013 she went to the World Athletics Championships in Moscow as US champion and won the silver medal there. Muhammad won her first gold medal when she crossed the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 53.13 s at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . At the 2017 World Athletics Championships , like four years earlier, she won silver.

Muhammad won the 400 meter hurdles at the US Championships in Des Moines in 2019 , setting a new world record with 52.20 seconds. Later that year she won her first World Championship gold with another world record at the World Championships in Doha. She won in 52.16 s in a duel against her compatriot Sydney McLaughlin , who achieved the third fastest time ever on this route in 52.23 s.

Dalilah Muhammad started at the University of Southern California when she was in college .

Personal bests

• 100 m : 11.42 s, May 4, 2013, Los Angeles
• 200 m : 23.35 s, March 30, 2019, Palo Alto
• 400 m : 50.60 s, June 16, 2019, Chorzów
• 60 m hurdles (hall): 8.23 ​​s, March 2, 2012, Fayetteville
• 100m hurdles : 13.33s, May 26, 2012, Austin
• 400 m hurdles : 52.16 s, October 4, 2019, Doha ( world record )

Web links

• Dalilah Muhammad in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field
• Dalilah Muhammad in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Dalilah Muhammad. In: teamusa.org. Retrieved June 17, 2019 . 
2. ^ University of Southern California Official Athletic Site: Dalilah Muhammad Profile