About Salwa Eid Naser
Salwa Eid Naser (née Ebelechukwu Agbapuonwu, born 23 May 1998) is a Nigerian-born Bahraini sprinter who specialises in the 400 meter race. She was the 2019 World champion, with the fifth-fastest time in history of 48.14 seconds, becoming the youngest-ever champion in the event and the first woman representing an Asian nation to win it at a World Championships. At the time, the time placed her only behind the contested results of Marita Koch (47.60; 1985) and Jarmila Kratochvílová (47.99; 1983). At 19, Naser was the 2017 World 400 metre silver medallist. As a member of the Bahraini mixed-gender 4 × 400 m relay team, she also won the 2019 World Championships bronze medal. In the 400 metre sprint, Eid Naser was the 2014 Youth Olympic silver medallist and 2015 World Youth champion. At the 2015 Military World Games, she won her first senior medal, gold. At 18, she skipped the 2016 World U20 Championships, in which the winning time was 51.32 seconds, to compete with the world's best 400m sprinters at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she placed equal ninth in the semi-finals with a time of 50.88 seconds. She is a multiple medallist of Asian Games, Asian Championships, and other top-level military and pan-regional competitions, both individually and in relays. A two-time 400 m Diamond League champion, as of December 2022, she held the eighth-fastest Asian results of all time, nine marks in the top 10, and 18 in the top 20. Eid Naser served a competition ban from 30 June 2021 to February 2023 due to an anti-doping rule violation relating to whereabouts failures. Her mother had competed as a 100 m and 200 m sprinter at school, and Eid Naser soon discovered her own sprinting abilities. In her first competitive school race at age 11, she won the 100 m and 400 m sprints.
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