What does Dalilah Muhammad do?

Dalilah Muhammad is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 meters hurdles. She competed in various track and field events at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, including the hurdles, sprints, and high jump and while there, she won the 2008 New York State and Nike Outdoor Nationals titles in the 400 m hurdles.

She enrolled at the University of Southern California in 2008 on a sports scholarship, majoring in business.

In her second year at USC, she was a runner-up at the Pac-10 championships but narrowly missed out on the NCAA final.

However, the 2011 outdoor season saw her repeat her Pac-10-second place, and a personal record of 56.04 seconds in the NCAA semi-finals led to a sixth-place finish in the 400 m hurdles final.

In 2012, she set personal records in the sprint hurdles events, running 8.23 seconds for the 60-meter hurdles and 13.33 seconds for the 100 m hurdles. She also ranked fifth in the latter event at the Pac-12 meet, where she placed third in the 400 m hurdles.

After graduating from USC, she chose to compete professionally in the 400 m hurdles and thus far, her achievements have been nothing short of awe-inspiring.

Her achievements include;

1. 2016 Rio Olympics champion and
2. 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, becoming at the latter the second-fastest woman of all time in the event with her personal best of 51.58 seconds.

She was also second at both the 2013 and 2017 World Championships to take her first gold in 2019, setting the former world record of 52.16 s.

She is only the second female 400 m hurdler in history, after Sally Gunnell, to have won the Olympic, World titles and broken the world record.

She missed the USA Track & Field(USATF) Outdoor Champs in June 2022 due to a harmstring injury.