Meet Bahamian athlete set to compete at the World Championships five months post partum

ATHLETICS Meet Bahamian athlete set to compete at the World Championships five months post partum

Abigael Wafula 09:00 - 10.08.2023

She goes into the race as the defending champion after winning the 400m in 49.11 seconds during last year's edition of the event.

Five months after giving birth, Bahamian athlete Shaunae Miller-Uibo will be heading to the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, something that has shocked the masses.

The two-time Olympic champion announced her pregnancy news with her husband and Estonian athlete Maicel Uibo in February.

On April 20, she welcomed her first child, a son named Maicel Uibo Jr. She has since been included in the Bahamian team of 11 at the World Championships where she intends to compete in the 400m.

As reported by NBC Sport, a representative of the 29-year-old disclosed that she will race the 400m in Budapest, starting with the first round on August 20.

She goes into the race as the defending champion after winning the 400m in 49.11 seconds during last year's edition of the event. She joins a field that includes the 400m Hurdles world record holder and Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

Within three months, she returned to athletics and participated in the heptathlon event at the Bahamian Championship. Recently, she also competed in the 200m race in the Diamond League in Silesia, Poland.

Miller-Uibo is popularly known both as a 400m and 200m sprinter but she has achieved more honours in the 400m. In 2017, she won a bronze medal in the 200m event at the London World Championships.

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