Personal information | |
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National team | Canada |
Born | 7 August 2003 Borden, Saskatchewan | (age 20)
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) |
Sport | |
Country | Canada |
Sport | Athletics |
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 |
Savannah Sutherland (born 7 August 2003) is a Canadian track and field athlete. She is the Canadian national record holder over 400m indoors.[1]
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]
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]