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| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 September 1997 | ||||||||||||||
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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: 11.36 (Baton Rouge, 2024) 100m hurdles: 12.60 (Paris, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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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 had both short hurdle (60m, 80m, and 100m hurdle) as well as long hurdle (200m, 300m and 400m hurdle) experience since her youth, but she focused her efforts on the long hurdle events. Abdul-Rashid earned her scholarship to the University of Texas with the intention of focusing on the 400m hurdles event. However, her 400m hurdle results in University did not meet her expectations. upon graduating from Texas in 2019, she made the bold switch to commit to the 100m hurdles event. She left Texas with a time of 13.23 in the 100m hurdles, and in 2024, after only a few years of full-time 100m hurdle training, qualified for her first Olympic team in her new event. https://worldathletics.org/athletes/canada/mariam-abdul-rashid-14405301
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]
She won the 100 metres hurdles at the 2025 Canadian Track and Field Championships in 12.84 seconds. [17] She placed fourth overall in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2025 NACAC Championships in Freeport, The Bahamas in 13.07 seconds (-1.1). [18] She subsequently competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [19]
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. [20]
