The Paris Olympic 400m silver medallist and 2019 world champion recorded the quickest ever 400m in March
Salwa Eid Naser has laid down a giant marker for the outside season after working 48.94 over 400m on the Felix Sanchez Basic in Bayaguana, Dominican Republic (March 29).
The Bahraini athlete gained the race by nearly two seconds, with Cuba’s Roxena Gomez second in 50.77.
Naser adopted up her 400m run with victory within the 200m, clocking a private greatest of twenty-two.45 over half a lap.
The 26-year-old’s efficiency may have little question caught the eye of her rivals on the upcoming inaugural Grand Slam Observe in Kingston, Jamaica (April 4-6).
Salwa Eid Naser and Marileidy Paulino (Getty)
Naser is down as a Racer within the ladies’s lengthy sprints class, that means she is going to compete over 200m and 400m in Kingston, Miami, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
She is going to go up in opposition to Marileidy Paulino, Alexis Holmes, Nickisha Pryce, Dina Asher-Smith, Gabby Thomas, Talitha Diggs and Stacey Ann Williams over each half and a full lap at Independence Park.
Naser secured the silver medal within the 400m ultimately summer season’s Paris Olympics and positioned behind Paulino on the rostrum.
The Bahraini athlete clocked 48.53 on the Stade de France, with Paulino working an Olympic document of 48.17 to win the gold medal.
Salwa Eid Naser (Getty)
Naser’s private greatest within the 400m is 48.14, which at the moment has her third on the all-time record – and he or she recorded that in Doha when she grew to become world champion over the space six years in the past.
Nonetheless, lower than a 12 months after her triumph in Qatar, Naser was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit for one submitting failure and three missed exams in a 12-month interval.
A disciplinary panel subsequently dismissed the fees however the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport upheld appeals made by World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Company. In consequence, Naser was handed a two-year ban from June 2021 to February 2023 over missed drug exams.
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