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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone broke the world document within the ladies’s 400-meter hurdle on Thursday in Paris, successful gold for the U.S. within the occasion for the second straight Olympics.
McLaughlin-Levrone, a New Brunswick, New Jersey, native, recorded a 50.37 time within the ultimate, breaking her personal world document, and setting the document for the sixth time. Earlier this summer time, she lowered the 400 hurdles world document for the fifth time since June 2021.
She beforehand received gold on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the place she set the world document with a 50.65.
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of Team United States crosses the end line to win the gold medal after competing within the ladies’s 400m hurdles ultimate on day 13 of the Paris Olympic Games at Stade de France on August 8, 2024, in Paris, France. (Hannah Peters/Getty Images)
Her efficiency on Thursday led the U.S. to a 1-2 sweep within the occasion, as fellow American Anna Cockrell took silver with a 51.87 — a full 1.5 seconds behind McLaughlin Levrone. The Netherland’s Femke Bol took bronze with 52.15.
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McLaughlin-Levrone has a long-running rivalry with Bol. In June, Bol grew to become the one different ladies’s 400 hurdler ever to interrupt the 51-second barrier.
At the Olympic trials, McLaughlin-Levrone mentioned “I think there’s something really exciting about figuring out how to improve upon history.”
The U.S.’ Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone celebrates after successful the ladies’s 400m hurdles ultimate of the athletics occasion on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 8, 2024. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP through Getty Images)
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McLaughlin-Lavrone sometimes prefers to avoid wasting herself for the worldwide championship meets. She beforehand took a one-year break from the 400-meter hurdles, embracing the problem of specializing in the open 400 for the primary time in her profession.
McLaughlin-Levrone has been one of many ascendant stars in American monitor and discipline since her mid-teens. As a 15-year-old, McLaughlin was the 2015 World youth champion. In 2016, she grew to become the youngest athlete since Denean Howard in 1980 to qualify for the U.S. Olympic monitor staff, having positioned third on the U.S. Olympic Trials, with the present world under-18 better of 54.15.
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