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Nia Ali

Basic Information

  • Gender: Female
  • Born: 10/23/1988
  • Status: Active

Residences

  • Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
  • High School: West Philadelphia Catholic High School
  • College: University of Southern California

Athlete Info

  • Event: Indoor Track & Field, Outdoor Track & Field
  • Coach: Stuart McMillan
  • Agent: Paul Doyle
  • Sponsor: Nike

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World Athletics Championships

  • 2019 IAAF Outdoor Championships, gold (110mH)
  • 2017 IAAF World Outdoor Championships, eighth (100mH)
  • 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships, gold (60mH)
  • 2015 IAAF World Indoor Championships, gold (60mH)

Olympic Games

  • 2016 Rio Olympic Games, silver (100mH)

Other Career Highlights

  • 2019 Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships, silver (100mH)
  • 2017 USATF Outdoor Championships, silver (100mH)
  • 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, bronze (100mH)
  • 2014 USATF Indoor Championships, gold (60mH)
  • 2013 USATF Indoor Championships, gold (60mH)
  • 2011 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships, gold (100mH)
  • 2011 World University Games, gold (100mH)

Personal

Nia Ali is the daughter of the late Aleem Ali and Melita Johnson...She has three siblings, Kalenna, Ameer, and Aatiqah...She has a son named Titus Maximus, born in 2015, and a daughter named Yuri Zen, born in 2018...She gave birth to her son Titus just fifteen months before the Rio Olympics...Ali announced via Nike Women on May 19, 2021 that she is pregnant with her third child...Erik Kynard, a 2012 Olympic silver medalist and 2016 Olympian, is the godfather of Ali’s son Titus.
 
Ali is the 2011 NCAA outdoor champion of the 100m hurdles...She ran track at the University of Tennessee before transferring to the University of Southern California...Her running career began when she was only six years old and participated in cross country and distance running...It wasn’t until her senior year of high school that Ali first tried out hurdling.

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