Danielle Carruthers (born December 22, 1979) is an American
hurdler
Hurdling is the act of jumping over an obstacle at a high speed or in a sprint. In the early 19th century, hurdlers ran at and jumped over each hurdle (sometimes known as 'burgles'), landing on both feet and checking their forward motion. Today, ...
who was a silver medalist in the
100-meter hurdles
The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is p ...
at the
2011 World Championships in Athletics
The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011.
The United States topped the medal standings in th ...
. Her personal best time is 12.47 seconds, set at that competition.
Hailing from
Paducah, Kentucky
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, she first became well known on the
Indiana University
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Campuses
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*Indiana Universit ...
track team. She had won the
60-meter hurdles
60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.68 seconds ( Susanna K ...
at the 2005 and 2006
NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship The NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship refers to one of three annual collegiate indoor track and field competitions for women organised by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for athletes from institutions that make up its th ...
s.
She finished eighth at the
2001 Summer Universiade
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, fourth at the
2006 World Indoor Championships and seventh at the
2006 World Athletics Final.
Carruthers finished second behind
Sally Pearson
Sally Pearson, OAM (née McLellan; born 19 September 1986) is an Australian former athlete. She is the 2011 and 2017 World champion and 2012 Olympic champion in the 100 metres hurdles. She also won a silver medal in the 100 m hurdles at th ...
of
Australia
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at the
World Athletics Championships
The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ...
in 2011, in the 100 m hurdles where Carruthers set a new personal best of 12.47 in front of compatriot
Dawn Harper, the reigning Olympic champion at the event. It was there that Pearson set a new championship record of 12.28. Carruthers won the
2011 Diamond League
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trophy over Pearson.
Carruthers did not compete in the 2013 and 2014 seasons.
Carruthers was inducted into the Indiana University Athletics Hall of Fame November 3, 2017.
References
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1979 births
Living people
African-American female track and field athletes
American female hurdlers
Indiana Hoosiers women's track and field athletes
World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States
World Athletics Championships medalists
Sportswomen from Kentucky
Sportspeople from Paducah, Kentucky
Diamond League winners
21st-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American women
20th-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American women
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