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Shaunae Miller-Uibo

Miller-Uibo at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha
Personal information
Birth name	Shaunae Miller
Born	(1994-04-15) 15 April 1994 (age 30) Nassau, Bahamas
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Spouse	Maicel Uibo (married 2017)
Sport
Country	The Bahamas
Sport	Athletics
Event	Sprint
College team	Georgia Bulldogs
Club	Pure Athletics Club
Coached by	Lance Brauman
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2016 Rio 400 m,  Gold 2020 Tokyo 200 m, 8th 400 m,  Gold
World finals	2013 Moscow 200 m, 4th 2015 Beijing 400 m,  Silver 2017 London 200 m,  Bronze 400 m, 4th 2019 Doha 400 m,  Silver 2022 Eugene 400 m,  Gold
Highest world ranking	1 (weeks 42)
Personal bests	100 m: 10.98 (Clermont 2020) 200 m: 21.74 NR (Zürich 2019) 300 m: 34.41 WB (Ostrava, 2019) 400 m: 48.36 AR (Tokyo 2021) Indoors 200 m: 22.40i NR (Fayetteville 2021) 300 m: 35.45i WB (New York 2018) 400 m: 50.21i NR (New York 2021)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing the  Bahamas Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m 2020 Tokyo 400 m World Championships 2022 Eugene 400 m 2015 Beijing 400 m 2019 Doha 400 m 2017 London 200 m World Indoor Championships 2022 Belgrade 400 m 2014 Sopot 400 m World Athletics Relays 2017 Nassau 4×400 m mixed Diamond League 2017 200 m 2017 400 m 2018 200 m 2019 200 m Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast 200 m NACAC Championships 2022 Freeport 400 m Continental Cup Representing the Americas 2018 Ostrava 200 m 2018 Ostrava 4×100 m relay 2018 Ostrava 4×400 m mixed World Junior Championships 2010 Moncton 400 m Pan American Junior Championships 2009 Port of Spain 4×400 m relay World Youth Championships 2011 Lille 400 m

Shaunae Miller-Uibo (born 15 April 1994) is a Bahamian track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. She is a two-time Olympic champion after winning the women's 400 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics and again at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

At the World Athletics Championships, Miller-Uibo won silver medals in the 400 m in 2015 and 2019, and a bronze at the 200 m in 2017 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 years old, she was the 400 m 2010 World junior champion and took 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 200 m champion and won four Diamond League titles, having secured the 200 m/400 m double in 2017; she owns circuit records in both disciplines.

Miller-Uibo holds the 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 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.

Youth and junior 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).

In the following year, Miller-Uibo won the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics with a time of 51.84, becoming the first athlete ever to 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. However, she won 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, Miller-Uibo did not finish her 400 m heat. She turned professional in 2013, signing a sponsorship deal with Adidas. She made her first global final that same year, taking fourth in the 200 m at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics. 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. 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 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 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 400 m race.

2016 Rio Olympic champion

At the 2016 Rio 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. 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.

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 world record of 21.76 s, greatly improving the previous record of 22.55 s set by Allyson Felix. At the 2017 World Championships in London, she won the bronze medal in the 200 m event and finished fourth in the 400 m final. That same year, Miller-Uibo became the first Bahamian ever to win a Diamond League 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 in Qatar, running the tenth fastest time in history, a national record of 48.37 seconds. 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 12 months, the last of which was in January 2020.

On 13 February 2021, Miller-Uibo broke the NACAC indoor 400 m record with a time of 50.21 seconds, set at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix 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.

In March 2022, she claimed her first world title as a senior, winning the women's 400 m event at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade 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 changing her main discipline to the 200 metres and possibly heptathlon.

Personal life

Miller met Maicel Uibo, an Estonian decathlete who won silver at the 2019 World Championships in Georgia, and the pair married in 2017. On 4 February 2023, she announced her first pregnancy via Instagram. The baby, a son named Maicel Uibo Jr, was born on 20 April.

Achievements

Personal bests

International competitions

Representing the  Bahamas

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result
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)	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
			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
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	1st	400 m	50.31 SB
	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	1st	400 m	49.11 WL
	NACAC Championships	Freeport, Bahamas	1st	400 m	49.40
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	37th (h)	400 m	52.65
2024	Olympic Games	Paris, France	26th (rep)	400 m	53.50

1. Miller competed in the under-20 (U20) category for the 4×400 m relay.
2. Miller ran for the Bahamian team in the semis and helped them qualify for the final, but she was replaced with another runner in the final; The squad that ran in the final finished 6th.

Circuit wins and titles

• Diamond League champion: 2017 (200 m & 400 m), 2018 (200 m), 2019 (200 m)

400 metres wins, other events specified in parentheses

• 2015 (2): Lausanne, Brussels
• 2016 (3): Shanghai, Eugene, London (WL)
• 2017 (4): Shanghai (WL), Rabat (MR), Zürich (200 m, NR), Brussels (WL SB)
• 2018 (6): Shanghai (200 m, MR SB), Eugene, Rabat (200 m, MR), Monaco (WL DLR NR}, Birmingham (200 m, MR), Brussels (200 m)
• 2019 (3): Monaco (200 m, SB), Birmingham (200 m), Zürich (200 m, WL DLR NR)
• 2021 (1): Monaco (200 m)
• 2022 (2): Paris, Monaco

National titles

• Bahamian National Championships
  • 200 m: 2017,2021
  • 400 m: 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021
  • High jump: 2018

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

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External links

• Shaunae Miller-Uibo at World Athletics
• Shaunae Miller-Uibo at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

Records
Preceded bySanya Richards-Ross	Women's 400 m North and Central American record holder 3 October 2019 – present	Succeeded byIncumbent

Olympic Games
Preceded byChris Brown	Flagbearer for  Bahamas Rio de Janeiro 2016	Succeeded byJoanna Evans Donald Thomas

v t e Diamond League champions in women's 200 metres

2010:  Allyson Felix (USA) 2011:  Carmelita Jeter (USA) 2012:  Charonda Williams (USA) 2013:  Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) 2014:  Allyson Felix (USA) 2015:  Allyson Felix (USA) 2016:  Dafne Schippers (NED) 2017:  Shaunae Miller-Uibo (BAH) 2018:  Shaunae Miller-Uibo (BAH) 2019:  Shaunae Miller-Uibo (BAH) 2020: not awarded 2021:  Christine Mboma (NAM) 2022:  Shericka Jackson (JAM) 2023:  Shericka Jackson (JAM) 2024:  Brittany Brown (USA)

v t e Diamond League champions in women's 400 metres

2010:  Allyson Felix (USA) 2011:  Amantle Montsho (BOT) 2012:  Amantle Montsho (BOT) 2013:  Amantle Montsho (BOT) 2014:  Novlene Williams-Mills (JAM) 2015:  Francena McCorory (USA) 2016:  Stephenie Ann McPherson (JAM) 2017:  Shaunae Miller-Uibo (BAH) 2018:  Salwa Eid Naser (BHR) 2019:  Salwa Eid Naser (BHR) 2020: not awarded 2021:  Quanera Hayes (USA) 2022:  Marileidy Paulino (DOM) 2023:  Marileidy Paulino (DOM) 2024:  Marileidy Paulino (DOM)

• 1994 births
• Living people
• Athletes from Nassau, Bahamas
• Bahamian Christians
• Bahamian female sprinters
• 21st-century Bahamian sportswomen
• Olympic female sprinters
• Olympic athletes for 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 Bulldogs women's 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
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• Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
• NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics