Alysia Montano Did Not Win The US Nationals While Pregnant
The Claim
Alysia Montano won the US nationals while she was five months pregnant.
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A social media user posted that U.S. athlete Alysia Montano won 800 meters at the U.S. nationals while she was five months pregnant. The post was liked over 500,000 times and retweeted over 50,000 times.
Misbar’s Analysis
We discovered the picture shared on social media was of the elite runner Alysia Montano and she was pregnant while she was competing. However, in the photo shared recently on social media, Montano was eight months pregnant at the 2014 USA Track and Field Championships and she did not win.
Three years later, Montano competed again pregnant, this time she was only five months along.
Montano joins a long list of female athletes who have competed pregnant. Serena Williams won her seventh Australian Open title while she was expecting. Kerri Walsh Jennings won her third Olympic gold in beach volleyball at the London Olympics when she was five weeks pregnant. Malaysian shooter Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi also competed in the Olympic games pregnant.
