--- title: Alysia Montaño Races Pregnant Again and Beats Her Old Time description: Olympic runner Alysia Montaño this week raced while she was five months pregnant and in 100-degree heat — and beat her old time. canonical: https://time.com/4830114/alysia-montano-races-pregnant/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-23T15:48:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:44.969Z og:title: Alysia Montaño Raced While Pregnant Again. 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Rich Pedroncelli—AP by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Jun 23, 2017 3:48 PM UTC Olympic runner Alysia Montaño this week raced while she was five months pregnant and in 100-degree heat — and she beat her time for the last Championship she raced while pregnant. Montaño ran at the U.S.A. Track & Field Outdoor Championships on Thursday in Sacramento, for the Summer Champions Series. Three years ago, she competed in the same race when she was eight months pregnant. Montaño, clad in a Wonder Woman top, was able to take 10 seconds off her 800-meter time from 2014. “People were like, oh, you’re going to run faster than you did last time because you’re less pregnant,” [Montaño told LetsRun.com.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P1IxFkJsIo) “I was like, I’m still pregnant.” Montaño isn’t the only athlete to [compete while pregnant.](http://motto.time.com/4757244/female-athletes-competing-winning-while-pregnant/) In January, [Serena Williams](http://time.com/4746572/serena-williams-pregnant-twitter-reactions/) played in the Australian Open and won the title. Montaño said she was inspired after learning that [Gal Gadot](http://time.com/4814808/gal-gadot-twitter-wonder-woman/) filmed half of _Wonder Woman_ while she was five months pregnant. “I saw _Wonder Woman_, and I was like, I for sure am signing up for USA Nationals,” Montaño said. “I already was thinking I was going to do it.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4830114/alysia-montano-races-pregnant/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4830114/alysia-montano-races-pregnant/"},"headline":"Alysia Montaño Raced While Pregnant Again. 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