Savannah Sutherland
Personal information
National teamCanada
Born7 August 2003 (2003-08-07) (age 20)
Borden, Saskatchewan
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
CountryCanada
SportAthletics
Event(s)Sprinting
Hurdling
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400 metres: 51.41 s (Geneva, 2023)
400m hurdles: 54.45 s (Austin, 2023)
Medal record
World U20 Championships
Bronze medal – third place2021 Nairobi400 m hurdles

Savannah Sutherland (born 7 August 2003) is a Canadian track and field athlete. She is the Canadian national record holder over 400m indoors.[1]

Early life

From Borden, Saskatchewan, where she was educated at Borden School before she finished her schooling at Bishop James Mahoney High School in Saskatoon. In 2021 she joined the University of Michigan.[2][3]

Career

Sutherland competed as a fifteen year-old at the Canadian under-20 national championships in Montreal in 2019, and won silver in the 100m hurdles and bronze in the 200m.[4] By 2021, Sutherland reportedly held the most provincial records in Saskatchewan track and field athletics history.[5] Competing at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships, Sutherland set a new personal best time of 57.27s to finish third in the Women's 400 metres hurdles.[6]

Sutherland won titles at national U-20 level in the 400m hurdles and also won gold for Saskatchewan at the 2022 Canada Summer Games in the 400m hurdles.[7][8]

In February 2023 she helped the Michigan Wolverines to win the Big 10 Championship.[9] Competing at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships, Sutherland set a new indoor 400m Canadian national record of 51.60s at the NCAA Indoor Championships on 11 March 2023.[10] In June 2023, Sutherland won the 400m hurdles at the NCAA Outdoors Championships in Austin, Texas, running 54.45 to upset favourite Britton Wilson.[11]

Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, she qualified for the semi-finals.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Savannah Sutherland". Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Savannah Sutherland". mgoblue.com. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  3. ↑ Cairns, John (24 September 2018). "Savannah Sutherland named August Athlete of the Month". Sasktoday.ca. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  4. ↑ Mitchell, Kevin (23 January 2020). "The kid can run: Borden's Savannah Sutherland, just 16, meets elite field at K of C Games". The Star Phoenix. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  5. ↑ McKay, Pat (8 June 2021). "Saskatoon teen athlete breaks Sask. hurdle record". ctvnews.ca. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  6. ↑ "Canadian Savannah Sutherland wins bronze in 400-metre hurdles at U20 World Athletics". cbc.ca. 22 August 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  7. ↑ Dickinson, Marley (24 March 2023). "Get to know Savannah Sutherland, 400m indoor Canadian record holder". Running Magazine. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  8. ↑ "Borden track star wins hurdles gold at Summer Games". Battlefordsnow. 20 August 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  9. ↑ Healy, Gabrielle (25 February 2023). "Big Ten Champs! Wolverine Women Claim First Indoor Title Since 2016". mgoblue.com. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  10. ↑ Snider-McGrath, Ben (12 March 2023). "Savannah Sutherland sets Canadian 400m record at NCAA Indoor Championships". Running Magazine.
  11. ↑ Battaglia, Joe (10 June 2023). "Michigan's Savannah Sutherland Stuns Britton Wilson In NCAA 400m Hurdles". Flotrack.org. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  12. ↑ "Women's 400m Hurdles Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 22 August 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2023.


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