Shaunae Miller-Uibo (born 15 April 1994)
is a Bahamian
track and field
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sprinter who competes in the
200
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and
400 metres
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. She is a two-time Olympic champion after winning the women's
400 metres
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at the
2016 Rio Olympics and again at the
2020 Tokyo Olympics
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. She is the
2022 World champion in the event.
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 ...
Miller-Uibo won silver medals in the 400 m in
2015
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and
2019
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, and a bronze at the 200 m in
2017
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when she also placed fourth at her longer distance. In 2022, she won her first world outdoor and
indoor 400 m titles. She holds
North American records in the 400 m both outdoors and indoors, set in October 2019 and February 2021 respectively. Her marks of 48.36 (improved at the Tokyo Games) and 50.21 seconds place her respectively sixth and joint eighth on the
world all-time list.
She holds
world bests over the
300 metres outdoors and indoors.
At 16-year-old, she was the 400 m
2010 World junior champion to take the
World youth title a year later. At 19, Miller-Uibo placed fourth in the 200 m at the
2013 World Championships, and then took her first senior medal (a bronze) at the
2014 World Indoor Championships competing at 400 m. She was the
2018 Commonwealth Games
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, be ...
200 m champion, and won four
Diamond League
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titles, having secured the 200 m/400 m double in
2017
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; she owns circuit records in both disciplines.
Miller-Uibo holds world's fastest women's marks in straight races of
150 m, and
200 m. Her personal best of 21.74 s for the 200 m is a
Bahamian national record. She won several national titles in both her disciplines, 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 in a Christian home to Mabelene and Shaun Miller in
Nassau, Bahamas, the granddaughter and niece of pastors, on 15 April 1994. She has a personal faith and trust in God. Her sister is Shauntae-Ashleigh Miller, Miss Universe Bahamas 2020.
She completed her high school education at
St. Augustine's College in Nassau and later attended the
University of Georgia
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, establ ...
.
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 race
A relay race is a racing competition where members of a team take turns completing parts of Race track, racecourse or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games. Relay races are common in runni ...
s 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
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indivi ...
and
4 × 400 metres relay
The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, th ...
. 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).
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.
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 London Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
Miller-Uibo did not finish
her 400 m heat. She turned professional in 2013, signing a sponsorship deal with
Adidas
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. She made her first global final that same year, taking fourth in the 200 m at the
2013 World Championships in Athletics
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. The year after, Miller-Uibo won her first senior medal, finishing behind
Francena McCorory and
Kaliese Spencer in the 400 m at the
2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was the fifteenth edition of the international indoor track and field competition, organised by the IAAF. The event was held between 7–9 March 2014 at the Ergo Arena in Sopot, Poland.
Pre ...
. She made the 200 m final at the
2014 Commonwealth Games
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, 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
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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 m 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
The Prefontaine Classic, an Oregon Track Club event, is one of the premier track and field meets in the United States, held in Eugene, Oregon. Every year it draws a world caliber field to compete at Hayward Field on the campus of the University o ...
400 m race.
At the 2017 Prefontaine Classic, Miller-Uibo became the first Bahamian woman to run under 22 seconds in the 200 m, improving her own national record to 21.91 seconds. On 4 June 2017, she set the
200 metres straight
The 200 metres straight is a track and field outdoor event of 200 metres on a straight track.
In the 1960s, the straight 200 metres was a separate world record event for men until IAAF deleted this variation from its list of official records. Th ...
world record of 21.76 s, greatly improving the previous record of 22.55 s set by
Allyson Felix
Allyson Michelle Felix (born November 18, 1985) is a retired American track and field athlete who competed in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters. She specialized in the 200 meters from 2003 to 2013, then gradually shifted to the 400 met ...
.
At the
2017 World Championships in London, she won the bronze medal in the
200 m event. She finished fourth in the
400 m final. In the same year, Miller-Uibo became the first Bahamian to ever win a
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 ...
title as she claimed both the
200 m and 400 m titles.
Having dominated the 200 m during 2018 and 2019, and clocking a world-leading time in the 400 m in 2018, Miller-Uibo won the 400 m silver medal at the
2019 World Championships in Athletics
The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held bet ...
in
Qatar
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, running the tenth fastest time in history, a national record of 48.37 seconds.
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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.
On 13 February 2021, Miller-Uibo broke a NACAC record in the indoor 400 m with a time of 50.21 seconds, set at the
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
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in New York.
On 4 April, she 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
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.
In March 2022, she claimed her first global title as a senior, winning the women's
400 m event at the
World Indoor Championships in
Belgrade
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with a time of 50.31 s, after her bronze indoor debut in 2014. Later that year in July, Miller-Uibo went on to secure her first senior world outdoor title at the World Championships
Eugene 2022 in a time of
49.11 s, winning by nearly half a second in leading a Caribbean sweep. Afterwards, she revealed that she is looking forward to change her main discipline to the 200 metres and possibly
heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...
.
Olympic champion
At the
2016 Rio Olympics she won the gold medal in the 400 m, diving across the line to beat
Allyson Felix
Allyson Michelle Felix (born November 18, 1985) is a retired American track and field athlete who competed in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters. She specialized in the 200 meters from 2003 to 2013, then gradually shifted to the 400 met ...
by 0.07 seconds and record a personal best time of 49.44 seconds. She was the flag-bearer for the
Bahamas at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Miller-Uibo went on to win the gold medal again in the 400 m at the
2020 Olympics, held in
Tokyo in 2021.
Statistics
Information from
World Athletics
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profile unless otherwise noted.
Personal bests
International competitions
Circuit wins and titles
*
Diamond League
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champion:
2017
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(200 m & 400 m),
2018
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(200 m),
2019
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(200 m)
:: 400 metres wins, other events specified in parenthesis
:*
2015
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(2):
Lausanne,
Brussels
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:*
2016
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(3):
Shanghai
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,
Eugene,
London
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()
:*
2017
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(4): Shanghai (),
Rabat
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(),
Zürich
, neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon
, twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco
Zü ...
(200 m, ), Brussels (WL )
:*
2018
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(6): Shanghai (200 m, MR SB), Eugene, Rabat (200 m, MR),
Monaco (WL NR},
Birmingham
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(200 m, MR), Brussels (200 m)
:*
2019
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(3): Monaco (200 m, SB), Birmingham (200 m), Zürich (200 m, WL DLR NR)
:*
2021
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(1): Monaco (200 m)
:*
2022
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(2):
Paris
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, Monaco
National titles
*Bahamian National Championships
** 200 m: 2017,2021
** 400 m: 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021
** High jump: 2018
Personal life
Miller met
Maicel Uibo, an Estonian
decathlete
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄ ...
who won silver at the 2019 World Championships, at Georgia and the pair married in 2017.
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
This is a list of Bahamians, who are identified with The Bahamas through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability.
Business people
* Pauline Allen-Dean first woman to become manager of a comme ...
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200 metres at the World Championships in Athletics
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400 metres at the Olympics
*
Bahamas at the Olympics
References
External links
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1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Nassau, Bahamas
Bahamian Christians
Bahamian female sprinters
Olympic female sprinters
Olympic athletes of the Bahamas
Olympic gold medalists for the Bahamas
Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for the Bahamas
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for the Bahamas
World Athletics Championships medalists
Georgia Lady Bulldogs track and field athletes
Diamond League winners
IAAF Continental Cup winners
Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
World Athletics U20 Championships winners
World Athletics Indoor Championships winners