Bianca Knight (born January 2, 1989) is an American former
track and field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...
athlete who competed in the
100
100 or one hundred ( Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
and
200 meters. At the
2012 Summer Olympics she won a team event gold medal in the 4x100 metres relay team. In the final, the quartet of
Tianna Madison,
Allyson Felix, she and
Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter ( , born November 24, 1979) is a retired American sprinter, who competed in the 60 metres, 100 m and 200 m. For over a decade, between 2009 and 2021, Jeter held the title as "Fastest woman alive" after running a 100 m personal be ...
broke a 27-year-old world record.
Career
Knight attended Ridgeland High School in
Ridgeland, Mississippi and won the female Gatorade Athlete of the Year in track and field in 2006. She is the first Mississippi native to win a Gatorade Athlete of the Year award.
As a
University of Texas
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freshman, Knight won the 2008 indoor
NCAA
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200 m championship in a collegiate-record time of 22.40. Turning professional following her freshman indoor campaign, she finished 5th at the 2008
US Olympic Trials in the 200 m. She won second stage of
IAAF Diamond League
The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fourteen of the best invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF) one-day mee ...
, in the 200 m, in
Rome
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,
Golden Gala
Golden Gala is an annual track and field event normally held at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy. Previously one of the IAAF Golden League events, it is now part of the Diamond League. Following the 2013 death of Italian sprinting legend Piet ...
.
Knight competes professionally for
Adidas.
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1989 births
Living people
American female sprinters
African-American female track and field athletes
Track and field athletes from Mississippi
Texas Longhorns women's track and field athletes
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
World Athletics Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
World Athletics record holders (relay)
People from Pearl, Mississippi
World Athletics Championships winners
Olympic female sprinters
21st-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
20th-century African-American women
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