2024 Track & Field, Women’s 400m Hurdles
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
It simply couldn’t have gone better for Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. The American track star not only successfully defended her gold medal in the women’s 400m hurdle, she annihilated the world record in the process (beating her own). Here’s an eye-popping stat, as noted by Yahoo Sports’ Jeff Eisenberg: McLaughlin-Levrone’s blazingly fast time of 50.37 seconds was better than 16 of the 24 women running in the 400m open semifinals – a race where you don’t have to also, you know, jump over things. Fellow American Anna Cockrell took silver and defending world champion Femke Bol of the Netherlands took bronze.
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