Shaunae Miller-Uibo
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College team | Georgia Bulldogs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coached by | Lance Brauman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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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 |
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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 |
International competitions[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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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 |
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[]
- List of 2016 Summer Olympics medal winners
- List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
- List of World Championships in Athletics medalists (women)
- List of professional sports families
- List of Bahamians
- 200 metres at the World Championships in Athletics
- 400 metres at the Olympics
- Bahamas at the Olympics
References[]
- ^ a b Senior Outdoor 400 Metres Women. IAAF (2019-10-05). Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ Shaunae Miller. Georgia Dogs. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
- ^ "Golden girl meets her match". The Tribune. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ World Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
- ^ "IAAF Inside Athletics Season 2 - Episode 13 - Shaunae Miller". YouTube. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "Bahamian quarter-miler Shaunae Miller turns pro – Sport". JamaicaObserver.com. 10 July 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "Shaunae Miller wins 400m, Jamaicans finish 4th and 5th at Prefontaine Classic – Sport". JamaicaObserver.com. 28 May 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "Shaunae Miller-Uibo breaks national 200m record".
- ^ "Shaunae Miller-Uibo makes history with 200m straight world record | The Tribune". Tribune242.com. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ Homewood, Brian (3 October 2019). "Eid Naser stuns Miller-Uibo to win 400 metres in third-fastest time". Reuters. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ "Naser missed four anti-doping tests". BBC Sport. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Shaunae Miller dives at line to snatch 400m gold". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ^ "Miller qualifies for Olympics in second event". thenassauguardian.com. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ^ "Athletics - Final Results - Women's 400m" (PDF). olympics.com. 6 August 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ^ "ATHLETE PROFILE Shaunae MILLER-UIBO". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ "adidas Women's 150m". adidas. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ "Shaunae Miller-Uibo breaks world 150m best in Boston – weekly round-up". Athletics Weekly. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ Shryack, Lincoln (20 June 2019). "De Grasse Beats Coleman, Miller-Uibo Smashes 300m World Best". FloTrack. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ "Athletics: U.S. sets 4x800m record, Miller-Uibo equals fastest 300m". Reuters. 3 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ Weir, Stuart. "Twelve Questions with Shaunae Miller-Uibo". RunBlogRun. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
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