Salwa Eid Naser

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Salwa Eid Naser

Naser at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha
Personal information
Birth name	Ebelechukwu Agbapuonwu
Citizenship	Bahraini
Born	(1998-05-23) 23 May 1998 (age 26) Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria
Years active	2014–present
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Sport
Country	Bahrain
Sport	Track and field
Event	400 metres
Coached by	Jose Rubio (2017–), John Obeya (2015–17)
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m, 8th (sf)
World finals	2017 London 400 m,  Silver 2019 Doha 400 m,  Gold 4x400 m mixed,  Bronze
Personal bests	100 m: 11.24 (2019) 200 m: 22.51 NR (2019) 400 m: 48.14 AR (2019)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Bahrain World Championships 2019 Doha 400 m 2017 London 400 m 2019 Doha 4×400 m mixed Diamond League 2018 400 m 2019 400 m Asian Games 2018 Jakarta 400 m 2018 Jakarta 4×100 m relay 2022 Hangzhou 4×400 m relay 2022 Hangzhou 4×400 m mixed 2018 Jakarta 4×400 m relay 2022 Hangzhou 400 m Asian Championships 2019 Doha 200 m 2019 Doha 400 m 2019 Doha 4×400 m relay 2019 Doha 4×400 m mixed 2019 Doha 4×100 m relay Asian Indoor Championships 2016 Doha 4×400 m relay Military World Games 2015 Mungyeong 400 m 2019 Wuhan 400 m 2015 Mungyeong 4×400 m relay 2019 Wuhan 4×100 m relay Islamic Solidarity Games 2017 Baku 400 m 2017 Baku 4×100 m relay 2017 Baku 4×400 m relay Arab Championships 2019 Cairo 200 m 2019 Cairo 400 m 2019 Cairo 4×100 m relay Youth Olympic Games 2014 Nanjing 400 m World Youth Championships 2015 Cali 400 m Asian Youth Championships 2015 Doha 400 m Arab Junior Championships 2014 Cairo 200 m 2014 Cairo 400 m Representing Asia-Pacific Continental Cup 2018 Ostrava 400 m
Updated on 5 October 2023

Salwa Eid Naser (née Ebelechukwu Agbapuonwu, born 23 May 1998)^[1] is a Nigerian-born Bahraini sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. She was the 2019 World champion with the third fastest time in history of 48.14 seconds, becoming the youngest-ever champion in the event and also the first woman representing an Asian nation to win that event at a World Championships. The mark places her only behind contested results of Marita Koch (47.60; 1985) and Jarmila Kratochvílová (47.99; 1983). Over the distance, at only 19, Naser was the 2017 World silver medallist. She has also won, as a member of Bahraini mixed-gender 4x400 m relay team, the 2019 World Championships bronze medal.

Eid Naser was in her signature event the 2014 Youth Olympic silver medallist and 2015 World Youth champion, before taking her first senior medal which was gold at the 2015 Military World Games. The then 18-year-old skipped the 2016 World U20 Championships, in which a winning time was 51.32 s, to compete directly with the world's best 400 m sprinters at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she placed injured equal ninth in the semi-finals in 50.88 s. She is multiple medallist of Asian Games, Asian Championships, as well as other top-level military and pan-regional competitions, both individually and on relays. A two-time 400 m Diamond League champion, as of December 2022, she held the eight fastest Asian results of all time, nine marks in the top 10, and 18 in the top 20.^[2]

On 30 June 2021, it was announced that Salwa Eid Naser had been banned until February 2023 due to three whereabouts failures. She tested negative for doping 19 times between 12 April and 24 November 2019 (no publicly available data on her out-of competition tests before/after).^[3] She was first provisionally suspended in June 2020 and then cleared by AIU Disciplinary Tribunal in October. CAS upheld appeal from WA (and WADA).^[4] It was reported that one of three panel members was against the decision.^[5]