On the ultimate day of the U.S. Olympic Observe and Discipline Trials in Eugene, Ore., Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone made a press release to the world within the 400m hurdles, breaking the world document for the fifth time within the final three years. McLaughlin-Levrone ran 50.65 seconds within the hurdles closing, reducing her earlier world document by three-hundredths of a second.
McLaughlin-Levrone’s profitable time is almost two seconds quicker than anybody who has run the 400m hurdles this 12 months, together with 2023 world champion Femke Bol. Her time, over hurdles, was additionally quicker than 4 of the 9 runners within the girls’s 400m finals on the U.S. Trials final weekend.
The 24-year-old was in disbelief when she appeared on the clock and noticed 50.65 seconds, kneeling on the observe and masking her mouth in shock.
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That is solely her fourth 400m hurdles race of the 2024 season. Her season’s greatest heading into Sunday’s closing was 52.48 seconds. 4 of her 5 world document marks have now come at Hayward Discipline in Eugene, Ore. In an occasion that was once determined by steps or slivers, McLaughlin-Levrone received by two seconds over Anna Cockrell and Jasmine Jones, who each recorded private greatest performances of 52.64 and 52.77, respectively.
NEW WORLD RECORD 🚨
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ran a 50.65 within the 400m hurdles and it’s solely the trials 😳 pic.twitter.com/qk1qbNJnLY
— ESPN (@espn) July 1, 2024
With lower than a month till the beginning of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, McLaughlin-Levrone will likely be a serious storyline for Group USA and the favorite to win gold within the girls’s 400m hurdles occasion.
