Dalilah Muhammad, 2016 Olympic gold medalist and a former world record holder in the hedges of the 400m, believes that it will be his last season on the track.
“It's going to be for me this year. I think it will be that,” She said Thursday On the eve of the beginnings of the Grand Chelem in Kingston, Jamaica (Friday, 6 p.m. he, Peacock). “I haven't really made any advertisement or known publicly, but yes, I think one and done.”
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Muhammad, 35, previously declared in 2023 and 2024 that she would run her last Olympic trials in 2024, but did not know how far in the 2028 Olympic cycle, she would go before retiring.
Muhammad, who grew up in Jamaica, Queens, in New York, finished fifth in the 400m hurdles during her last NCAA championships for the USC in 2012. Twenty days later, she was sixth in her heat in the first round at the Olympic tests.
She stayed in sport, without broadcasting and in Los Angeles, supported financially by her parents. Maman Nadirah worked as a specialist in child protection. Father Askia was a Muslim chaplain of the New York Correction Department and auxiliary professor of Islamic Studies at the New York Theological Seminary.
In 2013, she ran her first Diamond League meeting, wearing shorts and a tank top that she bought on the count at Ross Dress for less.
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During this season, Muhammad lowered his best personal time to the 400m hurdles from 56.04 to 53.83 and won the American title. She then made money at the 2013 world championships, picking up Nike sponsorship with him.
She went to the 2016 Olympic Games having the best time in the world for the year of 1.08 seconds compared to her next competitor in Rio. She experienced an overwhelming favorite status, winning by 42 comfortable hundredths.
“Gold was so far from my mind; it was certainly not the goal in 2016,” she said. “I just wanted to obstruct 400m.”
Then in 2019, Muhammad broke a world record for almost 16 years in the event, with 52.20 at the United States outdoor championships. Two months later, she lowered the record again – to 52.16 – to win the world title.
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She took money from the Tokyo Games behind Countrywoman Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. The two went under the existing world record.
Muhammad is currently the third fastest woman in history behind McLaughlin-Levrone and Femke Bol in the Netherlands.
“At a young age, you never know where it will take you,” Muhammad said on Thursday. “I think I always had this little something that I just wanted to continue. I wanted to push these limits and move forward.”
Muhammad was disputed by an injury to the Olympic cycle in Paris. She ranked sixth in the 2024 Olympic tests. Anna Cockrell, trial finalist and silver medalist in Paris, used His television interview after the race To rent Muhammad.
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“You have revolutionized this event,” she said. “The impact you have on sport goes beyond the medals, goes beyond records. Your grace, your balance, your competitors, your mentoring of me. I cannot say thank you enough.”
Thursday, McLaughlin-Levrone echoes this when he was sitting next to Muhammad.
“Dalilah, you really changed the game for all of us,” she said. “I think you just see this world record after so long, it has inspired us all. It is really because of the incredible talent that you have that we are where we are now.”
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