Shaunae Miller-Uibo

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Shaunae Miller-Uibo
Shaunae Miller-Uibo London 2017.jpg
Miller-Uibo at the 2017 World Championships
Personal information
Birth nameShaunae Miller
NationalityBahamian
Born (1994-04-15) 15 April 1994 (age 27)
Nassau, Bahamas
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Country Bahamas
SportAthletics
Event(s)Sprint
College teamGeorgia Bulldogs
ClubPure Athletics Club
Coached byLance Brauman
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 2 0 0
World Championships 0 2 1
World Indoor Championships 0 0 1
World Relays 1 0 0
Continental Cup 3 0 0
Commonwealth Games 1 0 0
Total 7 2 2
Women's athletics
Representing the  Bahamas
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 400 m
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2015 Beijing 400 m
Silver medal – second place 2019 Doha 400 m
Bronze medal – third place 2017 London 200 m
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sopot 400 m
World Relays
Gold medal – first place 2017 Nassau 4×400 m mixed
Diamond League
First place 2017 200 m
First place 2017 400 m
First place 2018 200 m
First place 2019 200 m
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast 200 m
Continental Cup
Representing the Americas (orthographic projection).svg Americas
Gold medal – first place 2018 Ostrava 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2018 Ostrava 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2018 Ostrava 4×400 m mixed
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Moncton 400 m
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Lille 400 m

Shaunae Miller-Uibo (born 15 April 1994) is a Bahamian athlete sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. She is a two-time Olympic champion in 400 metres (2016, 2020). At the World Athletics Championships Miller-Uibo won a silver medal in 2015 and 2019 in the 400 metres and a bronze in 2017 in the 200 metres.

Miller-Uibo was a 400 m gold medallist at the 2010 World Junior and 2011 World Youth Championships before taking her first senior medal (a bronze) at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships. She was the 200 m gold medallist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and a four time Diamond League champion.

Her personal best of 21.74 is the Bahamian national record for the 200 m. She is the fastest Bahamian over 400 m with a time of 48.36 seconds (2020 Tokyo Olympics), which secured her the sixth place at the all-time top list.[1] She holds unofficial world records in the 200 metres straight and 300 metres indoor events. She has won several national titles in 200 m and 400 m, and also won the NCAA Division I Indoor title for the Georgia Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs.

Early life[]

Of Afro-Bahamian heritage, Miller-Uibo was born to Mabelene and Shaun Miller in Nassau, Bahamas on 15 April 1994.[2] She completed her high school education at St. Augustine's College in Nassau and later attended the University of Georgia. She met Maicel Uibo, an Estonian decathlete, at Georgia and the pair married in 2017.[3]

Career[]

Youth career[]

Miller-Uibo competed in athletics from a very young age and won five medals at the 2007 Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics in the under-14 category. Bronze medals in relay races followed at the 2009 CARIFTA Games and the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.

She claimed the 400 m titles at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships and 2010 CARIFTA Games, as well as four medals with the Bahamas in the 4 × 100 metres relay and 4 × 400 metres relay. Sixteen-year-old Miller-Uibo became the first Bahamian to be 400 m champion at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and the youngest woman to ever win the event. She won the gold medal in a time of 52.52 denying Margaret Etim who finished second in 53.05 (this was the slowest winning time in the history of the event).[4]

In the following year Miller-Uibo won the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics with a time of 51.84, becoming the first athlete to ever hold both the U20 and U18 championship 400 m titles concurrently.[5] She returned to defend her 400 m title at the 2011 CARIFTA Games, but was disqualified in the final. She also failed in her defence at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, trailing in fourth. She did however win 200 m and 4 × 400 metres relay silver medals at the 2012 CARIFTA Games. In her last age category competition, she won three gold medals (200 m, 400 m, 4 × 100 metres relay) at the 2013 CARIFTA Games and was given the Austin Sealy Award as the best athlete of the tournament.

Senior career[]

At the 2012 Olympics Miller-Uibo did not finish her 400 m heat. Miller-Uibo turned professional in 2013, signing a sponsorship deal with Adidas.[6] She made her first global final that same year, taking fourth at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in the 200 m. The year after, she won her first senior medal at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships behind Francena McCorory and Kaliese Spencer in the 400 m. She made the 200 m final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, but ended the race in sixth.

The 2015 season marked her first impact at the IAAF Diamond League, as she won the 400 m at the top level Athletissima and Memorial Van Damme meets. Miller-Uibo won the silver medal in the 400 m at the 2015 World Championships that year. She also ran with the Bahamian women's 4 × 400 metres relay team in the heats at that competition and set a Bahamian national record of 3:28.46 minutes.

In 2016, Miller-Uibo won the Prefontaine Classic 400 m event.[7]

Miller-Uibo (right) on the 200 m women podium at the 2017 World Championships

At the 2017 Prefontaine Classic, Miller-Uibo became the first Bahamian woman to run under 22 seconds in the 200 metres, improving her own national record to 21.91 seconds.[8] On 4 June 2017, she set the 200 metres straight world record of 21.76, greatly improving the previous record of 22.55 set by Allyson Felix.[9] At the 2017 World Championships she won the bronze medal in the 200 metres race. She finished fourth in the 400 metres event. In the same year, Miller-Uibo won both the 400 m and the 200 m Diamond League titles, making her the first Bahamian to ever win a Diamond League title.

Having dominated the 200 m during 2018 and 2019, and clocking world-leading time in the 400 m in 2018, Miller-Uibo won the 400 m silver medal in the 2019 World Championships in Athletics in Qatar, running the tenth fastest time in history, a national record of 48.37 seconds.[1][10] The winner of the event, Salwa Eid Naser, was provisionally suspended by the Athletics integrity Unit in June 2020 for missing four anti doping tests in a period of 12 months, the last of which was in January 2020.[11]

In 2021 Miller-Uibo opened her outdoor season with a world-leading time of 22.03 s, her fastest ever 200 m opener, set at the Pure Athletics Spring Invitational in Clermont, Florida on April 4.[12]

Olympic champion[]

At the 2016 Olympics she won the gold medal in the 400 m, diving across the line to beat Allyson Felix by 0.07 seconds and record a personal best time of 49.44 seconds.[13][14] She was the flag-bearer for the Bahamas at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[15] Miller-Uibo went on to win the gold medal again in the 400 m at the 2020 Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021.[16]

Statistics[]

  • Information from World Athletics profile.[17]

Personal bests[]

Surface Distance Time Venue Date Notes
Outdoor 100 m 10.98 Clermont, Florida, USA 24 July 2020 +1.4 m/s wind
150 m 16.23 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 20 May 2018 -0.7 m/s wind,[18] WB[note 1]
200 m 21.74 Zürich, Switzerland 29 August 2019 -0.4 m/s wind, NR
300 m 34.41 Ostrava, Czech Republic 20 June 2019 WB[note 1]
400 m 48.36 Tokyo, Japan 6 August 2021 #6 all-time, AR
Indoor 200 m 22.40 Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA 31 January 2021 #9 all-time, NR
300 m 35.45 New York, New York, USA 3 February 2018 =WB[note 1]
400 m 50.21 New York, New York, USA 13 February 2021 #8 all-time, AR
  1. ^ a b c World Athletics does not ratify the 150 m or 300 m distances for record purposes; Miller-Uibo's times are considered to be the world bests.[19][20][21]

International competitions[]

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2007 CAC Age Group Championships (U14) San Salvador, El Salvador 3rd 80 m 10.30
3rd 60 m hurdles 9.82
3rd Long jump 4.84 m
2nd Shot put 8.44 m
2nd Hexathlon 3324 pts
2009 CARIFTA Games (U17)[note 1] Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia 5th 100 m 11.94 w
6th 300 m hurdles 44.55
3rd 4×100 m relay 47.04
3rd 4×400 m relay 3:45.99
Pan American Junior Championships Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 5th 4×100 m relay 45.85
3rd 4×400 m relay 3:42.17
2010 CAC Junior Championships (U17) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 3rd 200 m 24.51
1st 400 m 53.39
2nd 4×100 m relay 46.64
2nd 4×400 m relay 3:51.27
CARIFTA Games (U17) George Town, Cayman Islands 1st 400 m 53.36
4th 300 m hurdles 43.35
3rd 4×100 m relay 46.85
3rd 4×400 m relay 3:48.86
World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada 1st 400 m 52.52
4th 4×400 m relay 3:33.43
2011 CARIFTA Games Montego Bay, Jamaica DQ 400 m False start
3rd 4×400 m relay 3:41.05
World Youth Championships Lille, France 1st 400 m 51.84
2012 CARIFTA Games (U20) Hamilton, Bermuda 2nd 200 m 23.18
2nd 4×400 m relay 3:40.44
World Junior Championships Barcelona, Spain 4th 400 m 51.78
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom DNF (heats) 400 m Did not finish
2013 CARIFTA Games (U20) Nassau, Bahamas 1st 200 m 22.77 CR
1st 400 m 51.63
1st 4×100 m relay 44.77
World Championships Moscow, Russia 4th 200 m 22.74
DQ (semis) 4×100 m relay Lane infringement
2014 World Indoor Championships Sopot, Poland 3rd 400 m 52.06
Commonwealth Games Glasgow, United Kingdom 6th 400 m 53.08
7th (semis) 4×100 m relay 44.50 Q[note 2]
7th 4×400 m relay 3:34.86
2015 World Relays Nassau, Bahamas DQ 4×200 m relay Illegal pass
World Championships Beijing, China 2nd 400 m 49.67
10th (semis) 4×400 m relay 3:28.46 NR
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1st 400 m 49.44
2017 World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 10th (semis) 4×400 m relay 3:34.40
1st 4×400 m mixed 3:14.42
World Championships London, United Kingdom 3rd 200 m 22.15
4th 400 m 50.49
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 1st 200 m 22.09 GR
Continental Cup Ostrava, Czech Republic 1st 200 m 22.16
1st 4×100 m relay 42.11
1st 4×400 m mixed 3:13.01
2019 World Championships Doha, Qatar 2nd 400 m 48.37 AR
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 8th 200 m 24.00
1st 400 m 48.36 AR
  1. ^ Miller competed in the under-20 (U20) category for the 4×400 m relay.
  2. ^ Miller ran for the Bahamian team in the semis and helped them qualify for the final, but she was replaced with another runner in the final; The squad that ran in the final finished 6th.

Circuit wins and national titles[]

  • Diamond League
    • Final winner: 2017 (200 m & 400 m), 2018 (200 m), 2019 (200 m)
    • Lausanne: 2015 (400 m)
    • Brussels: 2015 (400 m), 2017 (400 m), 2018 (200 m)
    • Shanghai: 2016 (400 m), 2017 (400 m), 2018 (200 m)
    • Eugene: 2016 (400 m), 2018 (400 m)
    • London: 2016 (400 m)
    • Rabat: 2017 (400 m), 2018 (200 m)
    • Zürich: 2017 (200 m), 2019 (200 m)
    • Monaco: 2018 (400 m), 2019 (200 m), 2021 (200 m)
    • Birmingham: 2018 (200 m), 2019 (200 m)
  • Bahamian National Championships
    • 200 m: 2017
    • 400 m: 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019

Personal life[]

Miller-Uibo grew up in a Christian home, the granddaughter and niece of pastors. She has a personal faith and trust in God.[22]

Her sister is Shauntae-Ashleigh Miller, Miss Universe Bahamas 2020

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Senior Outdoor 400 Metres Women. IAAF (2019-10-05). Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  2. ^ Shaunae Miller. Georgia Dogs. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Golden girl meets her match". The Tribune. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  4. ^ World Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  5. ^ "IAAF Inside Athletics Season 2 - Episode 13 - Shaunae Miller". YouTube. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Bahamian quarter-miler Shaunae Miller turns pro – Sport". JamaicaObserver.com. 10 July 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Shaunae Miller wins 400m, Jamaicans finish 4th and 5th at Prefontaine Classic – Sport". JamaicaObserver.com. 28 May 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  8. ^ "Shaunae Miller-Uibo breaks national 200m record".
  9. ^ "Shaunae Miller-Uibo makes history with 200m straight world record | The Tribune". Tribune242.com. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  10. ^ Homewood, Brian (3 October 2019). "Eid Naser stuns Miller-Uibo to win 400 metres in third-fastest time". Reuters. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  11. ^ "Naser missed four anti-doping tests". BBC Sport. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  12. ^ Leighton, Levy (5 April 2021). "Miller-Uibo stuns with world-leading 22.03 200m opener at Pure Athletics Spring Invitational". SportsMax. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  13. ^ Thomas, Claire (16 August 2016). "Shaunae Miller dives over line to win controversial Olympic gold in 400 metres". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  14. ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Shaunae Miller dives at line to snatch 400m gold". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  15. ^ "Miller qualifies for Olympics in second event". thenassauguardian.com. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  16. ^ "Athletics - Final Results - Women's 400m" (PDF). olympics.com. 6 August 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  17. ^ "ATHLETE PROFILE Shaunae MILLER-UIBO". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  18. ^ "adidas Women's 150m". adidas. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  19. ^ "Shaunae Miller-Uibo breaks world 150m best in Boston – weekly round-up". Athletics Weekly. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  20. ^ Shryack, Lincoln (20 June 2019). "De Grasse Beats Coleman, Miller-Uibo Smashes 300m World Best". FloTrack. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  21. ^ "Athletics: U.S. sets 4x800m record, Miller-Uibo equals fastest 300m". Reuters. 3 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  22. ^ Weir, Stuart. "Twelve Questions with Shaunae Miller-Uibo". RunBlogRun. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

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