She shaves 0.03 seconds off what seemed like an untouchable mark from 2022.
The last race of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials resulted in a world record. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone led from the start and was never challenged en route to winning her second-straight Olympic Trials 400-meter hurdles title. Her time, 50.65, lowered her own world record from 2022 by 0.03 seconds. “I was not expecting that,” McLaughlin-Levrone said on NBC after the race. “I’m amazed, baffled, and in shock.”Anna Cockrell placed second in 52.64.
75, is the fastest time in the world so far this year. She should be in at least one and possibly two relays for Team USA in Paris. McLaughlin-Levrone didn’t contest the 400 hurdles last year due to a knee injury. In her absence, Dutch star Femke Bol, the 2021 Olympic bronze medalist, won the 2023 world title. At the 2022 world championships, McLaughlin-Levrone set what at the time seemed to be an otherworldly world record of 50.68, until she bettered it. Bol finished 1.
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