Shaunae Miller-Uibo (born 15 April 1994)[1] is a Bahamiantrack and fieldsprinter who competes in the200 and400 metres. She is a two-time Olympic champion after winning the women's400 metres at the2016 Rio Olympics and again at the2020 Tokyo Olympics.
At theWorld Athletics Championships, Miller-Uibo won silver medals in the 400 m in2015 and2019, and a bronze at the 200 m in2017 when she also placed fourth at her longer distance. In 2022, she won her first worldoutdoor andindoor 400 m titles. She holdsNorth 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 theworld all-time list.[2] She holdsworld bests over the300 metres outdoors and indoors.
At 16 years old, she was the 400 m2010 World junior champion and took theWorld youth title a year later. At 19, Miller-Uibo placed fourth in the 200 m at the2013 World Championships, and then took her first senior medal (a bronze) at the2014 World Indoor Championships competing at 400 m. She was the2018 Commonwealth Games 200 m champion and won fourDiamond League titles, having secured the 200 m/400 m double in2017; she owns circuit records in both disciplines.
Miller-Uibo holds the world's fastest women's marks in straight races of150 m and200 m. Her personal best of 21.74 s for the 200 m is aBahamian national record. She won several national titles in both her disciplines and the NCAA Division I indoor title for theGeorgia Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs.
OfAfro-Bahamian heritage, Miller-Uibo was born in a Christian home to Mabelene and Shaun Miller inNassau, Bahamas, the granddaughter and niece of pastors, on 15 April 1994.[3] She has a personal faith and trust in God.[4] Her sister is Shauntae-Ashleigh Miller, Miss Universe Bahamas 2020.
She completed her high school education atSt. Augustine's College in Nassau and later attended theUniversity of Georgia.
Miller-Uibo competed inathletics from a very young age and won five medals at the2007 Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics in the under-14 category. Bronze medals inrelay races followed at the2009 CARIFTA Games and the2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.
She claimed the 400 m titles at the2010 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships and2010 CARIFTA Games, as well as four medals with the Bahamas in the4 × 100 metres relay and4 × 400 metres relay. Sixteen-year-old Miller-Uibo became the first Bahamian to be 400 m champion at the2010 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, denyingMargaret Etim, who finished second in 53.05 (this was the slowest winning time in the history of the event).[5]
In the following year, Miller-Uibo won the2011 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.[6] She returned to defend her 400 m title at the2011 CARIFTA Games, but was disqualified in the final. She also failed in her defence at the2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, trailing in fourth. However, she won 200 m and 4 × 400 metres relay silver medals at the2012 CARIFTA Games. In her last age category competition, she won three gold medals (200 m, 400 m, 4 × 100 metres relay) at the2013 CARIFTA Games and was given theAustin Sealy Award as the best athlete of the tournament.
At the2012 London Olympics, Miller-Uibo did not finishher 400 m heat. She turned professional in 2013, signing a sponsorship deal withAdidas.[7] She made her first global final that same year, taking fourth in the 200 m at the2013 World Championships in Athletics. The year after, Miller-Uibo won her first senior medal, finishing behindFrancena McCorory andKaliese Spencer in the 400 m at the2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships. She made the 200 m final at the2014 Commonwealth Games but ended the race in sixth.
The 2015 season marked her first impact at theDiamond League, as she won the 400 m at the top levelAthletissima andMemorial Van Damme meets. Miller-Uibo won the silver medal in the 400 m at the2015 World Championships that year. She also ran with the Bahamian women's4 × 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 thePrefontaine Classic 400 m race.[8]
At the2016 Rio Olympics, she won the gold medal in the 400 m, diving across the line to beatAllyson Felix by 0.07 seconds and record a personal best time of 49.44 seconds.[9][10] She was the flag-bearer for theBahamas at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[11] Miller-Uibo went on to win the gold medal again in the 400 m at the2020 Olympics, held inTokyo in 2021.[12]
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.[13] On 4 June 2017, she set the200 metres straight world record of 21.76 s, greatly improving the previous record of 22.55 s set byAllyson Felix.[14] At the2017 World Championships in London, she won the bronze medal in the200 m event and finished fourth in the400 m final. That same year, Miller-Uibo became the first Bahamian ever to win aDiamond League title as she claimed both the200 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 the2019 World Championships in Athletics inQatar, running the tenth fastest time in history, a national record of 48.37 seconds.[15][16] The winner of the event,Salwa Eid Naser, was provisionally suspended by theAthletics Integrity Unit in June 2020 for missing four anti-doping tests in 12 months, the last of which was in January 2020.[17]
On 13 February 2021, Miller-Uibo broke the NACAC indoor 400 m record with a time of 50.21 seconds, set at theNew Balance Indoor Grand Prix in New York.[1] 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 inClermont, Florida.[18]
In March 2022, she claimed her first world title as a senior, winning the women's400 m event at theWorld Indoor Championships inBelgrade with a time of 50.31 s, after her bronze indoor debut in 2014.[19] Later that year in July, Miller-Uibo went on to secure her first senior world outdoor title at the World ChampionshipsEugene 2022 in a time of49.11 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 possiblyheptathlon.[20][21]
Miller metMaicel Uibo, an Estoniandecathlete who won silver at the2019 World Championships in Georgia, and the pair married in 2017.[22] On 4 February 2023, she announced her first pregnancy viaInstagram.[23] The baby, a son named Maicel Uibo Jr, was born on 20 April 2023.[24]
| Type | Distance | Time (s) | Wind (m/s) | Venue | Date | Notes |
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| Outdoor | 100 metres | 10.98 | +1.4 | Clermont, FL, United States | 24 July 2020 | |
| 150 metres | 17.15 | -2.5 | Bradenton, FL, United States | 9 July 2020 | ||
| 200 metres | 21.74 | -0.4 | Zürich, Switzerland | 29 August 2019 | NR | |
| 300 metres | 34.41 | — | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 20 June 2019 | World best[25] | |
| 400 metres | 48.36 | — | Tokyo, Japan | 6 August 2021 | North American record, 6th all time | |
| Indoor | 200 metres | 22.40 | — | Fayetteville, AR, United States | 31 January 2021 | NR |
| 300 metres | 35.45 | — | New York, NY United States | 3 February 2018 | AB =World best[26] | |
| 400 metres | 50.21 | — | New York, NY United States | 13 February 2021 | =10th all time | |
| Other events | ||||||
| Outdoor | 150 m straight | 16.23 | -0.7 | Boston, MA, United States | 20 May 2018 | 1st all time[27][28] |
| 200 m straight | 21.76 | +0.5 | Boston, MA, United States | 4 June 2017 | 1st all time[29] | |
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Result |
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| 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)[note 1] | 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 | 22.77CR |
| 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 | 44.50Q[note 2] | |||
| 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 | 3:28.46NR | |||
| 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 | 22.09GR |
| 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 | 48.37AR |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 8th | 200 m | 24.00 |
| 1st | 400 m | 48.36AR | |||
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 1st | 400 m | 50.31SB |
| World Championships | Eugene, OR, United States | 1st | 400 m | 49.11WL | |
| 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 |
2017 (200 m & 400 m),2018 (200 m),2019 (200 m)
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| Preceded by | Women's 400 m North and Central American record holder 3 October 2019 – present | Succeeded by Incumbent |
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| Preceded by | Flagbearer for BahamasRio de Janeiro 2016 | Succeeded by |
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