Mums Who Won Gold at the 2019 IAAF World Championships
4 Mums Won Gold at Track and Field Worlds, and "Badass" Doesn't Even Begin to Cover It
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Nia Ali stunned an impressive field of 100-metre hurdlers to take her first international gold medal in this event. She did it in a personal-best time of 12.34 seconds and with her two (adorable) children, Yuri and Titus, watching from the stands. Balancing life as a mother and a professional hurdler has made things busy for Nia; over the last few months, she travelled back and forth from her European training base in Germany to Jacksonville, FL, for her son's parent-teacher conferences. It all came together as Nia upset the field and took gold on Oct. 6. Andre De Grasse, Nia's partner and the father of her daughter Yuri, also came away with some hardware: a silver in the 200-metre and a bronze in the 100-metre!