BUDAPEST, Hungary — It could have been seen as a setback when Shiann Salmon finished fourth in the women’s 400m hurdles at the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) championships in July.

After all, it ruled her out of the women’s 400m hurdles team for the World Athletics Championships that gets going this weekend in Budapest.

Despite running a season’s best 53.97 seconds, Salmon had finished fourth behind Janieve Russell, Andrenette Knight and Rushell Clayton in one of the most competitive events of the four-day championships.

But she pivoted to the 400m where she made the relay team and is ready to remind people of her prowess over the quarter mile.

How does she feel about not running the 400m hurdles after making it to the last two World Championships semi-finals and winning a silver in the Commonwealth Games last year?

“I feel normal,” the 2018 world Under-20 silver medallist told the Jamaica Observer following a training session in Budapest on Wednesday.

“It seems like a lot of persons have forgotten that I am also a quarter-miler, like the flat 400m runner, and I guess this is going to remind them that I am also good in the 400m,” said Salmon, who ran her personal best 51.22 in the first round of the 400m at this summer’s national championships.

She added: “But rest assured that I am much faster than that now.”

The former Hydel High runner said she was not bothered by only being on the women’s 4x400m relay team.

“At the end of the day, the aim for the season is to find a way to make the team. And plan A did not work out, which was the hurdles, and I settled down and rallied back with plan B and here I am, I can’t put all my eggs in one basket.”

Salmon issued a reminder the naysayers.

“A lot of persons have also forgotten that I did split of 50.8 in high school for the World Under-20 Championships, so a 50-point split is no stranger to me,” she pointed out.

“I’m going to put my best foot forward, let us see what comes with that.”