Steven Solomon

Steven Solomon
Steven Solomon at the 2012 Olympics
nation	Australia
birthday	16th May 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Vaucluse , Australia
size	185 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	44.97 s
society	Randwick Botany Harriers
Trainer	Fira Dvoskina
status	active
Medal table
U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Junior World Championships bronze Barcelona 2012 400 m
last change: May 6, 2018

Steven Solomon (born May 16, 1993 ) is an Australian sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Athletic career

Steven Solomon gained his first international experience at the 2010 Youth Oceania Championships in Sydney , where he won the gold medal with the Australian 4 x 400 meter relay. With the relay he also took part in the Junior World Championships in Moncton , but was eliminated there in the preliminary round. A year later he was part of the Australian season for the World Championships in Daegu , where they were eliminated with 3: 01.56 min in advance. 2012 Solomon again took part in the Junior World Championships in Barcelona and won the bronze medal over 400 meters in 45.52 s. With the Australian season he finished fourth in the final. He also qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in London , where he in the individual event with 45.14 s in the final finished eighth. With the Australian season he was eliminated with 3: 03.17 min in the first round .

In 2013 he took part in the relay at the World Championships in Moscow , where he finished seventh in the final with 3: 02.26 min. 2014 he took over 400 meters at the Commonwealth Games in Scotland Glasgow in part and was able to not finish his semifinal race. Three years later Solomon qualified over 400 meters for the World Championships in London and was eliminated there with 46.27 s in the lead . In April 2018 he finished seventh in the 400 meter final in 45.64 s at the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast . With the Australian 4-by-400-meter relay, he was disqualified in the run-up.

Solomon was the Australian 400-meter champion in 2011 and 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2017.

Personal bests

• 400 meters: 44.97 s on August 5, 2012 in London
  • 400 meters (indoor): 45.44 s, 23 February 2018 in Clemson ( Oceania record )
  • 500 meters (indoor): 1: 01.44 min, January 31, 2014 in State College ( Oceania record )
  • 600 meters (hall): 1: 17.49 min, February 2, 2018 in Ann Arbor ( Oceania record )

Web links

Commons : Steven Solomon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Steven Solomon in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Steven Solomon in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
• Steven Solomon in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Solomon qualifies for World Track and Field championships. In: Maccabi Australia. April 18, 2011, accessed February 7, 2014 . 
• Danny Caro: Global stars want to light up the London Olympics. In: The Jewish Chronicle Online. July 13, 2012, accessed February 7, 2014 .