Marileidy Paulino is the clear favourite to win the World Championship gold medal
Lining up in lane four, all the top medal contenders to her outside, she may well need to improve on that lifetime best of 49.20 to make the podium. Either way it promises to be thrilling and close.
A devout Christian, Paulino first showed her talent as a young teenager growing up in the small village of Don Gregorion in the Dominican Republic, the eastern half of the Caribbean island shared with Haiti. Looking formidable in her semi-final, winning in 49.54 . Currently employed as a corporal in the Dominican Air Force, effectively allowing her to train full-time, she’ll start in lane seven.
Adeleke qualified as the equal-fourth fastest from the semi-finals, her lifetime best of 49.20 set in June the second fastest of the lot; at 20 she’s also the youngest. On world rankings she is 10th.
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