BELLE Tia-Adana

Olympic Games

Year	Location	400m Hurdles
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Round 1 (56.68)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	400m Hurdles
2019	Doha, QAT	Heats (57.37)
2017	London, GBR	Heats (58.82)

Pan American Games

Year	Location	400m Hurdles
2019	Lima, PER	5th (55.93)

NACAC Championships

Year	Location	400m Hurdles
2018	Toronto, ON, CAN	8th (58.82)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	400m Hurdles
2021	1 x 8th
2019	1 x 3rd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
3	2019	400m Hurdles	London, GBR	54.54
8	2021	400m Hurdles	Florence, ITA	58.36

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
8	2021	400m Hurdles	World Athletics Continental Tour	Hengelo, NED	57.19

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2019	400m Hurdles	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	55.42

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Smurfette, Blue [she often wears blue wigs when she races] (Athlete, 26 Jul 2021)

Cooking, reading, travelling. (Athlete, 26 Jul 2021)

Athlete

Criminology - Saint Augustine's University, Raleigh, NC, USA

English

GW Express [Raleigh, NC, USA]

George Williams [personal], USA

She ran her first race at age four in pre-school. (Athlete, 26 Jul 2021)

She was encouraged to get involved in athletics by her mother and coaches Jasper Blades and Janelle Denny. (olympic.org.bb, 01 Jan 2017)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Arran Andersen YouTube channel, 08 May 2019)

Winning a silver medal at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine. (Athlete, 26 Jul 2021)

"You are here for a reason." (Athlete, 26 Jul 2021)

While competing for Saint Augustine's University in the United States of America, she was named Atlantic Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year in 2017 and 2016. She was also named the university's Most Valuable Female Runner of 2015/16, and the university's Most Outstanding Freshman of 2014. (Bimshire Athletics Facebook page, 27 Apr 2016; thefalconforum.com, 31 Dec 2014; saintaugfalcons.com, 23 May 2015, 25 May 2016)