Salwa Eid Naser

Salwa Eid Naser
Salwa Eid Naser in Doha 2019
nation	Bahrain Nigeria
birthday	23rd May 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Anambra , Nigeria
size	166 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	48.14 s
Trainer	Jose Rubio, formerly John George Obeya
status	blocked
Medal table
World championships 1 × 1 × 1 × Asian Games 2 × 1 × 0 × Asian Championships 4 × 0 × 1 × Indoor Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Military world games 2 × 0 × 1 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Youth Olympic Games 0 × 1 × 0 × U18 Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships silver London 2017 400 m gold Doha 2019 400 m bronze Doha 2019 4 × 400 m mixed  Asian Games gold Jakarta 2018 400 m gold Jakarta 2018 4 × 100 m silver Jakarta 2018 4 × 400 m Asian Championships gold Doha 2019 200 m gold Doha 2019 400 m gold Doha 2019 4 × 400 m gold Doha 2019 4 × 400 m mixed bronze Doha 2019 4 × 100 m Indoor Asian Championships gold Doha 2016 4 × 400 m Military world games gold Mungyeon 2015 400 m gold Wuhan 2019 400 m bronze Wuhan 2019 4 × 100 m  Youth World Championships gold Cali 2015 400 m  Youth Olympic Games silver Nanjing 2014 400 m Youth Asian Championships gold Doha 2015 400 m bronze Doha 2015 Sprint relay
last change: June 5, 2020

Salwa Eid Naser (* May 23, 1998 in Anambra as Ebelechukwu Agbapuonwu ) is a Bahraini sprinter of Nigerian origin who has specialized in the 400-meter course and is temporarily suspended.

Athletic career

Naser was born in Nigeria as Ebelechukwu Agbapuonwu , her mother is Nigerian and her father is a Bahraini. Since 2014 she competes as Salwa Eid Naser for Bahrain.

For the first time at an international championship, Salwa Eid Naser competed at the Arab Junior Championships 2014 in Cairo . There she won the gold medal over 200 and 400 meters. At the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing she won the silver medal and only had to admit defeat to the Australian Jessica Thornton . A year later she became world champion over 400 meters at the youth world championships in Cali . She also won the gold medal in this discipline and bronze with the Bahraini sprint relay (1000 meters) at the Asian Youth Championships in Doha . At the Military World Games in Mungyeong , South Korea, she won gold over 400 meters, becoming the youngest winner in the history of these games. She also won bronze in the 4 x 400 meter relay. In 2016 she won the gold medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha. She also qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she reached the semi-finals with a new record .

In 2017 she won gold over 400 meters at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku and with both sprint relays. With her achievements, she also qualified for the World Championships in London , where she reached the 400 meter final and won the silver medal behind the American Phyllis Francis . She improved the Bahraini record in all of her three runs and also came under the 50-second mark for the first time. At the Diamond League graduation in Brussels , she improved her record again and secured second place in the Diamond Race. In 2018, Naser ran mainly in the Diamond League and stayed there under 50 seconds in all races. At the Herculis in Monaco , she improved the Asian record of the Chinese Ma Yuqin to 49.08 s and thus achieved second place behind Shaunae Miller-Uibo from the Bahamas. At the end of August, she took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta , where she won the gold medal in the 400-meter run ahead of Indian Hima Das with a new championship record of 50.09 seconds . She was also victorious with the Bahraini 4 x 100 meter relay and the mixed 4 x 400 meter relay. In 2019, however, the gold medal with the mixed relay was revoked because of a doping offense of her colleague Kemi Adekoya. The Bahraini team only had to admit defeat to India with the 4 x 400 meter relay consisting of Aminat Yusuf Jamal , Iman Essa Jasim , Edidiong Odiong and Salwa Eid Naser. At the beginning of September, she won the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava in 49.32 s, making it the second fastest time of her career.

In 2019, Naser won the Arab Championships in Cairo in 52.72 seconds and with the 4 x 100 meter relay. Shortly afterwards she won the Asian Championships in Doha over 200 meters in championship record time of 22.74 s and in 51.34 s over 400 meters. There were also victories with the 4 x 400 meter relay (women and mixed) and bronze with the 4 x 100 meter relay. At the World Championships , which also took place in Doha in October, Naser climbed almost a second to 48.14 s in the final and not only set a new Asian record, but also won gold and was third in the all-time world best list . In addition, she secured herself the bronze medal behind the United States and Jamaica in the first mixed relay in 3: 11.82 minutes, also an Asian record. She then won the Military World Games in Wuhan in 50.15 s and won the bronze medal behind Brazil and the People's Republic of China in the 4 x 100 meter relay in 44.24 s. In addition, she was disqualified over 200 meters in the preliminary run.

From June 4, 2020, Naser was temporarily suspended by the independent integrity commission (AIU) of the world athletics association World Athletics for violating the reporting requirements of the anti- doping rules and must now refute the allegations of avoiding a two-year ban.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 11.24 s (+1.3 m / s), June 8, 2019 in Salamanca
  • 60 meters (hall): 7.37 s, February 19, 2016 in Doha ( Bahraini record )
• 200 meters: 22.51 s (+1.9 m / s), June 30, 2019 in Palo Alto ( Bahraini record )
• 400 meters: 48.14 s, October 3, 2019 in Doha ( Asian record )

Web links

Commons : Salwa Eid Naser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Salwa Eid Naser in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Salwa Eid Naser in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gen 10: one-lap wonder Salwa Eid Naser. In: iaaf.org. December 17, 2017, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Ebele Agbapuonwu Becomes Salwa Naser - Nigerian athletes dump Nigeria in droves. In: dailytimes.ng. August 11, 2017, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Steve Landells: Naser takes a tip from George Michael and gets 400m gold in Cali. IAAF, July 21, 2015, accessed October 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Cathal Dennehy: Having beaten her heroes, Naser lives her teenage dreams. IAAF, August 10, 2017, accessed on October 27, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Naser completes 200m / 400m double as Asian Championships conclude in Doha. IAAF, April 24, 2019, accessed on May 6, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Mike Rowbottom: Report: women's 400m - IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019. IAAF, October 3, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Naser, Lasitskene and Romani capture Military World Games titles in Wuhan. IAAF, October 23, 2019, accessed on November 12, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Latest Sanctions (dynamic page, later under Latest sanctions for Doping and Non-Doping Violations )
9. ↑ Nicolas Walter: Salwa Eid Naser provisionally suspended by the world association , anti-doping fight, on: Leichtathletik.de, from June 5, 2020, accessed June 5, 2020
10. ↑ Bahrain's wonder runner suspended , on: sport1.de, from June 5, 2020, accessed June 5, 2020