Rafailia Spanoudaki was born on June 7, 1994, in Rhodes, Greece. She started training in athletics from an early age and proved as one of the leading sprinters in her country.

Rafailia Spanoudaki competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics but failed to reach the women’s 200m final.

At the Mediterranean Games 2018, she had won the silver medal. She has also numerous successes and distinctions in Panhellenic, Mediterranean, and Pan-European track and field events of 60, 100, and 200 meters respectively.

Rafailia Spanoudaki competed at the 2019 World Championships, 2019 European Indoor Championships, and 2021 European Indoor Championships.

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Georganne Rochelle Moline was born on March 6, 1990, in Missoula, Montana, the United States. She graduated from Thunderbird High School in Phoenix, Arizona. During her junior and senior years of high school, she was the 4A-1 State Champion in the 100-meter hurdles and 300-meter hurdles. Because of a stress fracture, Georganne Moline redshirted the outdoor season of her freshman year at the University of Arizona. At the University of Arizona, she anchored the 4×400 relay, setting indoor and outdoor school records in 2010. During the 2012 outdoor college season, Georganne Moline won the 400-meters hurdles title at the Pac-12 Championships. She was undefeated in every 400-meters hurdles event she entered that season until she fell in the preliminary round of the NCAA championship.

At the 2012 US Olympic trials, Georganne Moline placed second in 400-meters hurdles with a time of 54.33 to make the Olympic team. Georganne Moline made the Olympic team at age 22, after completing her junior year of college. At the Olympics, Georganne Moline won her 400-meters hurdles preliminary heat with a time of 54.31, a new personal best. She placed second in her semifinal to automatically qualify for the Olympic final. Georganne Moline finished fifth in the Olympic 400 meter hurdles final, again setting a personal best with a time of 53.92.

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Colleen Quigley was born on November 20, 1992, in St. Louis, Missouri, the United States. She started training from an early age and earned nine NCAA All-American honors while running for Florida State University.

Colleen Quigley signed professionally with the Bowerman Track Club in June 2015. Later that year, she finished third in the steeplechase in 9:24.92 at the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and finished 12th in the 3,000 meters steeplechase event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.

She ran 9:20.00 to place ninth in the Diamond League event, Meeting de Paris, 2016. Prior to that, Colleen Quigley had run a personal best time of 9:21.10 to place eighth in the 3,000 meters steeplechase at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Colleen Quigley had also run a personal best time of 9:21.29 to place third in the steeplechase behind Team USA teammates Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs at the 2016 United States Olympic Trials to qualify to represent the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics. On September 3, 2018, she lowered her steeplechase PR to 9:10.27 winning at ISTASF in Berlin, becoming the third-fastest American woman ever.

On June 30, 2019, Colleen Quigley ran 9:11.41 to place seventh, and third American, in the star-studded Diamond League steeple at the Prefontaine Classic held in Stanford, California. At the 2019 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, she finished first in the mile in 4:29.27 to become the 2019 Indoor Mile Champion.

On February 27, 2020, Colleen Quigley ran a personal best of 8:28.71 in the 3,000 meters at Boston University in a race made up of her Bowerman Track Club teammates Karissa Schweizer and Shelby Houlihan. This was faster than the previous American Record at this distance, 8:33.25 by Shalane Flanagan, but Quigley finished third behind her two teammates who also broke the record.

In a Bowerman Track Club inter-squad meet on July 31st, 2020, Quigley competed as a member of the 4 x 1500 meter relay team alongside Elise Cranny, Karissa Schweizer, and Shelby Houlihan. The team ran a time of 16:27.02 which broke the previous world record of 16:33.58 from Team Kenya by over 6 seconds.

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Ajla Del Ponte was born on July 15, 1996, in Locarno, Switzerland. She started training at an early age and developed her skills at the Lake Maggiore training facilities. She took part in the 2014 World Junior Championships and the 2015 European Junior Championships.

Ajla Del Ponte won the brone in the 4×100 m relay at 2017 European U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

In 2019, she won the gold medal in the 4×100 m relay and the silver in 100 m at the Universiade in Naples, Italy.

In 2021 she won the gold at European Indoor Championships in 60 m sprint with a time of 7.03 seconds.

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Anna Ryzhykova was born on November 24, 1989. She began her career in the sprinting events and represented Ukraine in the 200 meters at the Gymnasiade in 2006. She switched to the 400 m hurdles a year later and the move proved beneficial, as she won the national junior title and placed sixth in the event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She also helped the Ukrainian 4×400 meters relay team to win the silver medal behind the United States in national junior record time.

Anna Ryzhykova was eighth in the hurdles at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships and Ukraine came fourth in the relay. She won her first senior national title in the hurdles that year and improved her personal best time to 57.23 seconds. Further personal bests came at the 2010 Ukrainian championships, as she was runner-up in the 200 m and 400 m hurdles with times of 23.49 seconds and 55.60 seconds respectively. She gained selection for the 2010 European Athletics Championships but was eliminated in the semi-final of the competition.

Anna Ryzhykova ran a personal best of 54.77 seconds to win the hurdles gold at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships ahead of compatriot Hanna Titimets and the two later combined their efforts to claim the silver in the relay behind Russia. She won her second 400 m hurdles gold of season at the 2011 Summer Universiade. Anna Ryzhykova came in fourth in the 400m hurdles at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

In 2021, Anna Ryzhykova qualified for the finals at 400m hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics and finished fifth.

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Femke Bol was born on February 23, 2000, in Amersfoort, Netherlands. She showed her sprint talent already from a young age, winning Dutch competitions in her age category. She won nine national youth titles in 2015-19, eight in the 400 meters and one in the 400 m hurdles, setting Dutch youth records in both events.

Femke Bol won the 400m hurdles title at the 2019 European Junior Championships. At the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, she reached the semi-finals of the 400m hurdles and set a new European junior record of 55.32 seconds. She also reached the final of the 4×400 m relay, in which she finished in 7th place.

In July 2020, in Arnhem, Femke Bol set a new Dutch record. She won the 400m hurdles at the Bauhaus-Galan 2020, the second stage of the 2020 Diamond League.

On January 30, 2021, for her winter return to Vienna, she beats the old national indoor record of 400m. Femke Bol further improved the national record in the women’s indoor 400 meters at the national indoor championships in Apeldoorn on February 21.

In July 2021 in Stockholm, Femke Bol won the 400m hurdles in 52.37 seconds, setting a new national record for the discipline. She becomes the 4th best performer of all time.

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Viktoriya Tkachuk was born on November 8, 1994, in Pleshchin, Ukraine. She started training athletics in 2006 and from 2011 to 2014 she studied at the Donetsk Higher School of the Olympic Reserve.

Since 2013, Viktoriya Tkachuk has repeatedly won and won national competitions in the 400m and 400m hurdles, in 2015 she won a bronze medal at the European Team Championships in Cheboksary and in the same year took part in the World Championships in China.

In 2016, Viktoriya Tkachuk represented Ukraine at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In the 400m hurdles she reached the semifinals, where she took the last eighth place in her race.

In 2021, Viktoriya Tkachuk qualified for the finals of 400m hurdles in Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

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Sydney McLaughlin was born on August 7, 1999, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the United States. She took up running at an early age, following Taylor and their older sister Morgan.

Sydney McLaughlin won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships in the 400 m hurdles. She placed third in the 400 m hurdles at the 2016 US Olympic Trials, and was the youngest athlete to qualify for the US track and field team for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Sydney McLaughlin holds a number of age group world bests and won the Gatorade National Girls Athlete of the Year trophy for both 2015–16 and 2016–17.

In 2021, Sydney McLaughlin took part at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, winning the gold in the final of 400m hurdles.

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Gudaf Tsegay was born on January 23, 1997. She comes from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, and moved to the nation’s capital, Addis Ababa, to train.

Gudaf Tsegay represented her country at the 2014 and 2016 World Indoor Championships winning the bronze on the second occasion. She also won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships in the 1500 meters event and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 5,000 meters event.

In February 2021, Gudaf Tsegay broke the women’s 1,500 meters indoor world record at a meeting in Lievin, France. The former world record with 3:55.17 set by Genzebe Dibaba in 2014 was lowered by Tsegay to 3:53.09.

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Kristina Timanovskaya was born on November 19, 1996, in the city of Klimovichi, Mogilev Region, in Belarus. She was introduced to athletics at the Dynamo Specialized Children’s and Youth School of the Olympic Reserve. Kristina Timanovskaya is a master of Sports of the Republic of Belarus of international class.

She won silver medals in the 100m and 200m at the Belarusian Championship in Grodno in 2014 . In 2015 she became a member of the Belarusian national team, in the same disciplines, she started at the Junior European Championship in Eskilstuna and in the Super League of the European Team Championship in Cheboksary.

In 2017, in the 60-meter discipline, Kristina Timanovskaya reached the semifinals of the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade, while at the European Youth Championships in Bydgoszcz she won silver in the 100m distance and became fourth in the 200m distance. She took part in the Super League of the European Team Championship in Lille.

In 2018, Kristina Timanovskaya started in the 60-meter run at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, ran 100m and 200m at the European Championships in Berlin. At the same time, at the competitions in Minsk, she set her personal record in the 100m distance – 11.04 (with this result, according to the results of the season, she took 24th place in the world).

In 2019, in the 60-meter discipline, Kristina Timanovskaya finished seventh at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow. As a student, she represented Belarus at the Universiade in Naples – in the 100m she finished sixth, while in the 200m she surpassed all her rivals and won a gold medal. In addition, she became a silver medalist in the 100m discipline at the home European Games in Minsk, ran 200 meters at the World Championships in Doha.

At the 2020 Belarusian Championships in Minsk, she was the best in the 100m and 200m. In the 200m discipline, she met the qualification standard for participation in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, but due to the difficult situation with the pandemic of coronavirus infection in the world, the Games were postponed.

In 2021, Christina ran 60 meters at the European Indoor Championships in Torun.

In 2021, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was part of the Belarusian athletics team for the Tokyo Olympics. She was engaged in a giant scandal. She voiced fears for her safety as she refused an order to fly home early from the Olympics for criticizing her coaches. Krystsina Tsimanouskaya says she was forced to pack before being taken to the airport in Tokyo against her will. The 24-year-old says she sought police protection at the terminal so she would not have to board the flight. The sprinter, who was due to compete in the women’s 200m event on Monday, had complained in social media about being entered into another race at short notice.

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