| Nikkita Holder | |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Sport: | 100 m hurdles |
| Birth Date: | 1987 5, df=y |
| Birth Place: | East York, Ontario |
| Height: | 1.70 m[1] |
| Weight: | 59 kg |
| Pb: | 100 m hurdles: 12.80 Calgary, 2012 |
Nikkita Holder (born May 7, 1987 in East York, Ontario) is a Canadian track and field athlete of Barbadian descent who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles. Holder won the bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in her home country and city in Toronto.
Holder competed at the 2015 Pan American Games. This event took place just one month after her father's death, in the finals she ran toward a bronze setting a season's best at 12.85. After the race she said "Since he’s passed, right before I race I kind of have this moment when I get teary-eyed. It kind of lets me know that he’s here. Getting this medal is a confirmation of my training, how hard I’ve worked emotionally and physically. I’m pretty pleased with myself."[2]
In July 2016 she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team.[3]
She was married to fellow national track and sprinter Justyn Warner, together they have one child.[4]
In 2012 Holder was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.[5]
| Representing | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | World Junior Championships | Beijing, China | 12th (sf) | 100m hurdles | 13.94 (wind: -1.6 m/s) | |
| 2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 6th | 100 m hurdles | 12.93 | |
| 2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 6th | 60 m hurdles | 8.09 | |
| 2015 | Beijing, China | 16th (sf) | 100 m hurdles | 13.00 | ||
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 20th (h) | 100 m hurdles | 12.921 | |