MUHAMMAD Dalilah

United States of America

Date of Birth: 7 Feb 1990

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Place of birth: NEW YORK, NY

Birth Country:

United States of America

Place of residence : LOS ANGELES, CA

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's 400m Hurdles	2
	Women's 4 x 400m Relay USA United States of America	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 400m Hurdles Round 1 - Heat 5	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 400m Hurdles Semi-Final 1	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 400m Hurdles Final	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 4 x 400m Relay Round 1 - Heat 2	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 4 x 400m Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	400m Hurdles
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1st (53.13)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	400m Hurdles	4 x 400m
2019	Doha, QAT	1st (52.16)	1st (3:18.92)
2017	London, GBR	2nd (53.50)	-
2013	Moscow, RUS	2nd (54.09)	-

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

Year	400m Hurdles
2019	2 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd
2018	3 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd
2017	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 5th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019	400m Hurdles	Rome, ITA	53.67
1	2019	400m Hurdles	Doha, QAT	53.61
1	2018	400m Hurdles	Zurich, SUI	53.88
1	2018	400m Hurdles	Oslo, NOR	53.65
1	2018	400m Hurdles	Shanghai, CHN	53.77
1	2017	400m Hurdles	Brussels, BEL	53.89
2	2019	400m Hurdles	Oslo, NOR	54.35
2	2018	400m Hurdles	Eugene, OR, USA	54.09
2	2017	400m Hurdles	Birmingham, GBR	54.20
3	2019	400m Hurdles	Zurich, SUI	54.13
3	2018	400m Hurdles	London, GBR	54.86

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2019	400m Hurdles	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	53.88

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

Socialising with friends, watching TV. (essence.com, 13 Aug 2020)

Occupation:

Business - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Languages spoken:

Lawrence Johnson [personal], USA, from 2016

In July 2019 she sustained a mild concussion after falling during training in Los Angeles, CA, United States of America. (si.com, 07 Aug 2019)

She had a quadriceps injury in 2015. (flotrack.org, 11 Jul 2016)

She began running at age seven. (runblogrun.com, 12 Jul 2016)

She took up the sport for fun, sprinting around the buildings where she grew up in Queens, NY, United States of America. "There was a time when I used to dance as much as I ran track, and I loved dancing but when it came time to make a choice, because I could not do both, I knew that the right answer was track and field. When I made that decision I was in high school. I started to realise I can go far in this sport, and I had something else to give this sport. I needed to follow that drive and passion for running." (essence.com, 13 Aug 2020; latimes.com, 18 Oct 2019)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (latimes.com, 18 Oct 2019)

She trains five or six days a week for three hours a day. (essence.com, 13 Aug 2020)

Winning gold and running a world record time of 52.16 in the 400m hurdles at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. (Instagram profile, 05 Oct 2019)

Coach Lawrence Johnson. (latimes.com, 18 Oct 2019)

In 2019 she received the US Track & Field [USATF] Jackie Joyner-Kersee Athlete of the Year award. (usatf.org, 08 Dec 2019)

General Interest

General
PUSHED BY RIVAL
She set a world record in the 400m hurdles on two occasions in 2019. The first time was at 2019 US Championships, where she broke the mark set by Russian athlete Yuliya Pechonkina in 2003, and she then bettered her own time at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Muhammad's US teammate Sydney McLaughlin won silver in Doha, finishing with a time that would have been quick enough for a world record just 10 weeks earlier, and Muhammad believes it is only a matter of time before an athlete breaks the 52-second barrier. "World records are broken when you have such strong talent in the race. Sydney's young. She'll be there for the rest of my career. I'm just going to try to go with that, and see what's possible." (latimes.com, 04 Oct 2019)

COACHING SWITCH
She began working with coach Yolanda Demus in 2013. She was affected by injury and loss of form over the next two years, and in 2016 she decided to switch coaches and start training with Lawrence Johnson. "I was faster than I had ever been with my new coach. I knew I was a different athlete." (latimes.com, 18 Oct 2019; si.com, 07 Aug 2019)

Milestones

She became the first female athlete representing the United States of America to win a gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the Olympic Games when she claimed victory at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. (essence.com, 13 Aug 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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