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| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 September 1997 Ajax, Ontario | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60m: 6.37 (Saskatoon, 2024) 60m hurdles: 7.99 (Glasgow, 2024) 100m: 11.61 (Toronto, 2023) 100m hurdles: 12.82 (Toronto, 2022) | ||||||||||||||
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Mariam Abdul-Rashid (born 21 September 1997) is a Canadian track and field athlete who competes as a sprint hurdler. [1]
From Oshawa, she started training in athletics when she was six years old. [2] She attended Eastdale Collegiate school and trained with the Speed Academy in Pickering, Ontario prior to signing a letter of intent at 17 years-of-age to run with a scholarship at the University of Texas. [3] [4] [5]
Initially just a sprinter, she started to compete in hurdles in 2014. She won three gold medals at the Canadian youth championships in 2014 and finished fifth in the 400m hurdles at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics. [3] [4] [5]
Abdul-Rashid finished 8th in 400m hurdles at 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Poland. [6] [7]
She was a bronze medalist in the 100m hurdles at the 2019 NACAC U18 and U23 Championships in Athletics in Querétaro, Mexico. [8] [9]
Abdul-Rashid finished second in the 100m hurdles at the Canadian Track and Field Championships in July 2023, running 12.83 seconds, 0.01 of a second behind winner Michelle Harrison. [10] She was subsequently selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in August 2023. [11] Competing in Budapest, she finished sixth in her heat in a time of 13.04 seconds. [12] [13]
She ran a personal best time of 8.01 seconds to in the women's 60m hurdles in Clemson, South Carolina in February 2024. Abdul-Rashid was selected as part of the Canadian team for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow to compete in the 60 metres hurdles, where she qualified for the semi-finals and set a new personal best time of 7.99 seconds. [14] [15]
She competed in the 100m hurdles at the 2024 Paris Olympics, reaching the semi-finals. [16]
Abdul-Rashid has earned a Masters degree in Communications & Media Studies from the University of East London, and a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts & Sciences from the University of Texas. [17]
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