Shaunae Miller

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, 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.

Miller-Uibo races the 200 m at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London. 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.

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 2023.

Achievements Women's 200 m podium at the 2017 World Championships in London (L–R): Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Dafne Schippers and Shaunae Miller-Uibo. Women's 400 m podium at the 2019 World Championships in Doha (L–R): Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Salwa Eid Naser and Shericka Jackson. Miller-Uibo (R) claimed her first senior world title with a 400 m victory at the 2022 World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade.

Personal bests Type Distance Time (s) Wind (m/s) Venue Date NotesOutdoor 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 300 metres 34.41 Ostrava, Czech Republic 20 June 2019 World best 400 metres 48.36 Tokyo, Japan 6 August 2021 North American record, 6th all timeIndoor 200 metres 22.40 Fayetteville, AR, United States 31 January 2021 300 metres 35.45 New York, NY United States 3 February 2018 =World best 400 metres 50.21 New York, NY United States 13 February 2021 =10th all timeOther eventsOutdoor 150 m straight 16.23 -0.7 Boston, MA, United States 20 May 2018 1st all time 200 m straight 21.76 +0.5 Boston, MA, United States 4 June 2017 1st all time

International competitions

Circuit wins and titles

400 metres wins, other events specified in parentheses 2015 (2): Lausanne, Brussels 2016 (3): Shanghai, Eugene, London 2017 (4): Shanghai , Rabat , Zürich (200 m, ), Brussels (WL ) 2018 (6): Shanghai (200 m, MR SB), Eugene, Rabat (200 m, MR), Monaco (WL 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