1. Dalilah Muhammad is the 2016 Rio Olympics champion and 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, becoming at the latter the then-second-fastest woman of all time in the event with her personal best of 51.58 seconds.
16 Facts About Dalilah Muhammad
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Dalilah Muhammad was the second female 400 m hurdler in history, after Sally Gunnell, to have won the Olympic, World titles and broken the world record.
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Dalilah 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.
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Dalilah Muhammad was the 2013,2016, and 2017 American national champion and a two-time Diamond League winner.
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Dalilah Muhammad was born February 7,1990, in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, to parents Nadirah and Askia Muhammad.
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Dalilah Muhammad competed in various track and field events at high school, including the hurdles, sprints, and high jump.
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Dalilah Muhammad earned 2007 Gatorade Female Athlete of the Year for New York State.
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Dalilah Muhammad won the national junior title that year and was the silver medallist at the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.
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Dalilah Muhammad was again an NCAA finalist in her speciality, coming in fifth, and she participated in the heats at the 2012 United States Olympic Trials.
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Dalilah Muhammad improved her personal best in the 2013 season with 55.97 then 54.94 seconds in California.
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Dalilah Muhammad 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.
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Dalilah Muhammad went on to compete at the 2017 World Championships, and came away with a silver medal.
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Dalilah Muhammad won the 2017 and 2018 Diamond League titles in her event.
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Dalilah 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.
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Dalilah Muhammad was only the second woman in the history of the 400 m hurdles, after Sally Gunnell, to have won the Olympic title and broken the world record.
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Dalilah Muhammad 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.