Sydney McLaughlin

Dalilah Muhammad is known for going out hard. It's a tactic that has worked for her in the past: She's the reigning World champion in this event.

“I’ve been given a gift and a platform but it’s not for my own glory.” “It’s not about me,” she said. Today, her 400 time over hurdles would’ve placed her seventh in the open 400 meter final. Motionless. She mouthed, “Thank you God, thank you God.” And then she sat there. When she won the Olympics in Tokyo last summer, Muhammad was on her shoulder even into the finish. It’s the only World Record to fall, but McLaughlin is also massively popular. I just wanted to soak it all in.” McLaughlin finished in 50.68, a massive improvement to her own World Record. The people Hayward Field were louder than they’ve been all week. The race finished and Syd sat on the track. It appeared that McLaughlin was trying a new strategy; it’s more characteristic of her to run a very strong final 100. But today Sydney McLaughlin beat her to the first hurdle. It’s hard to tell the position of the athletes until they all reach the final 100.

McLaughlin, 22, became the second-youngest track and field athlete in history to own the three biggest accolades in an individual event — Olympic gold, world ...

Both the U.S. men’s and women’s 4x100m relays advanced to Saturday’s finals. Kara Winger extended a historic meet for U.S. women’s throwers, becoming the first American to win a world championships medal in the women’s javelin. Winger, a 36-year-old who plans to retire after this season, moved from fifth to second on her sixth and final throw. American Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu led the qualifiers into Sunday’s 800m final. “This was more than I ever could have imagined,” said Winger, who came back from ACL tear surgeries in 2012 and 2020 and 2015 left shoulder surgery. Norman, the world’s fastest 400m runner in the last Olympic cycle yet fifth in Tokyo, earned his first individual global medal. Then, perhaps, a switch to the flat 400m. “A lot of relief right now,” Norman said. Anything under 51 was a win for us.” I follow what he says.” Only Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele held all three at a younger age. “It could be [the flat 400m]. Anything is possible.

American runner Sydney McLaughlin broke her own 400-meter hurdles world record to take gold on Friday night at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, ...

"She was so far in front at the end, so I was always doubting if I really had a good race because it felt very good. "The level in the 400m hurdles is certainly improving. But as a competitor, you always want more." "I executed the race the way Bobby (Kersee, her coach) wanted me to. Then I saw the time and I was like, 'Wow.' It is amazing to be a part of it and to come out second in such a race," Bol added. "The time is absolutely amazing and the sport is getting faster and faster," she said after the race, according to the World Athletics website

She ran the 400-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in 50.68 seconds, shattering her old mark by 0.73 seconds.

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In a consummate display of front-foot running, McLaughlin left a loaded field for dead from the gun, haring through the tape in an astonishing 50.68 seconds ...

"I didn't want to take too many jumps," said Duplantis, who set a world outdoor record of 6.16m in Stockholm last month. That would be nice but the gold is the most important for me now." Also qualifying for Saturday's final are Britain, reigning world champions Jamaica, Germany, Spain, Nigeria, Italy and Switzerland. That race was won by two-time Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas. It sliced more than half a second off her previous world mark of 51.41sec set last month. That is the most important thing. It sliced more than half a second off her previous world mark of 51.41sec set last month. The time is absolutely amazing and the sport is getting faster and faster. Sweden's Mondo Duplantis made his first appearance at Hayward Field, easily qualifying for Sunday's pole vault final. I only get faster from here." In a consummate display of front-foot running, McLaughlin left a loaded field for dead from the gun, haring through the tape in an astonishing 50.68 seconds. In a consummate display of front-foot running, McLaughlin left a loaded field for dead from the gun, haring through the tape in an astonishing 50.68 seconds.

After a drastic technique change, the 22-year-old dropped her 400-meter hurdles time to a blazing 50.68 at the world championships, a feat so remarkable ...

She even admitted that during her romp through the 400-meter hurdles she could feel the lactic acid in her legs. “She’s gonna be like FloJo,” Joyner says, comparing McLaughlin to his late and legendary wife. “She can definitely crossover,” she says. By the final turn, a semi-truck could have fit between her and her nearest competitor. “There’s never been a weapon as strong as she is,” he says. From 1984 to 2020, he coached at least one gold medal-winning athlete, and that’s just in the Olympics. But his mission, to beat Moses, meant he still wanted more. He didn’t share technical details with his wife, and Al’s sister, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, but as one of the greatest-ever women athletes, she understood McLaughlin’s ceiling: becoming the face of U.S. track and field. “Crazy people run this race,” Moses says, citing the combination of pure speed, different movements and strategy. At the start, for instance; on each turn; and with each hurdle, both on jumping and landing. “Because you have a lot of men that can’t even run a 50.6 with no hurdles.” Until 2019, no woman hurdler had run faster than 52.34. In the three years since, two Americans—McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad—have topped that mark six times. There’s a warm-up area right next to the stadium, and he stood there, watching Sydney McLaughlin, herself a star American hurdler and best in this event since, well, since him.

A closer look at Sydney McLaughlin's jaw-dropping record-breaking performance Friday night in the 400-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in ...

Dalilah Muhammad, the previous world record holder and an Olympic and world champion, was left in the dust in Friday’s race, finishing a distant third. Two of the most formidable records were set during the Cold War era by East Germany’s Marita Koch and Czechoslovakia’s Jarmila Kratochvilova. In 1985, Koch set a record in the 400-meter dash of 47.60 that no one has come close to challenging. McLaughlin is a sensation, the Secretariat of track and field. In 1983, Kratochvilova set a record in the 800-meter run of 1:53.28 that also has been unapproachable. Point values are assigned to every possible time in the running events and to every possible mark in the field events. The Netherlands’ Femke Bol, a graceful 6-foot tall strider and history’s third-fastest ever, finished second with a time of 52.27 — a time that would’ve been considered sensational 13 months ago. And she didn’t just set a world record; she set one from decades in the future. Let’s look at it another way: McLaughlin would’ve beaten two women in Friday’s 400-meter dash final at the world championships — and they didn’t have hurdles to clear. She didn’t just win the 400 hurdles at the world championships; she set a world record. On Friday she became the first to break 51 seconds and she crushed it. Track and field has a points system so that performances in one event can be compared to performances in other events. We just know there’s more to push and there’s more to be taken off of that.”

Sydney McLauglin was a broken woman after winning gold at Tokyo. She rebuilt herself through faith in god and hard toil to take the gold in a dreamy run at ...

But in the sport, at the age of 21, to be a two time Olympian and a world record holder, I would just like a little bit of respect. She didn’t like staying at the Games Village and she would be in her room alone and wonder what she was doing there. She didn’t want to run but her parents promised a candy and she won that 100m. “There’s so many things I just don’t understand about the world, about our sport, about our culture. She decided to change her mindset, just like she did when she was 7 and ran in a school race for a chocolate bar. That uneasiness stayed through her at the Rio Olympics where she would be eliminated in the semifinals. “Everybody was warming up and I thought I can’t do it.” She was 16. The toxicity of fame is perhaps one of the reasons she has turned to faith in a big way. I was like even if I wanted to catch up with her, I probably couldn’t.” She would start her run but, in a blink, realise Dalilah Muhammad, who won the bronze on Saturday, was too far out. “Not even three days ago I literally achieved one of my life’s dreams of breaking the world record, and I’m going to be honest, a lot of the people around me did not respond how I thought they would … I felt like the people I thought would be the most excited for me literally almost didn’t even care. I pray for healing and I really hope that people can, like, say that they don’t have to live in this world of just hate.

It's been a memorable month of July for the U.S. at the World Athletics Championships. Last week, Allyson Felix earned a bronze medal in her final world ...

Her 50.68 finish on Friday broke her previous world record of 51.41 set at the 2022 U.S. Championships, which had broken her record of 51.46 at the Tokyo Olympics, and 51.90 at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials. You’ve heard this before. It’s been a memorable month of July for the U.S. at the World Athletics Championships.

Sydney McLauglin was a broken woman after winning gold at Tokyo. She rebuilt herself through faith in god and hard toil to take the gold in a dreamy run at ...

But in the sport, at the age of 21, to be a two time Olympian and a world record holder, I would just like a little bit of respect. She didn’t like staying at the Games Village and she would be in her room alone and wonder what she was doing there. She didn’t want to run but her parents promised a candy and she won that 100m. “There’s so many things I just don’t understand about the world, about our sport, about our culture. She decided to change her mindset, just like she did when she was 7 and ran in a school race for a chocolate bar. That uneasiness stayed through her at the Rio Olympics where she would be eliminated in the semifinals. The toxicity of fame is perhaps one of the reasons she has turned to faith in a big way. “Everybody was warming up and I thought I can’t do it.” She was 16. She would start her run but, in a blink, realise Dalilah Muhammad, who won the bronze on Saturday, was too far out. “Not even three days ago I literally achieved one of my life’s dreams of breaking the world record, and I’m going to be honest, a lot of the people around me did not respond how I thought they would … I felt like the people I thought would be the most excited for me literally almost didn’t even care. Absurdly, she thinks the best is yet to come. I pray for healing and I really hope that people can, like, say that they don’t have to live in this world of just hate.

Sydney McLaughlin shattered her world record by a whopping 0.73 seconds, blazing through the 400-meter hurdles in 50.68 seconds for her first title at world ...

Then, I saw the time and I thought, ‘Wow, that explains a lot.’" (51.41). Now, this — a 1.4% improvement on a four-week-old record and a maiden voyage into times in the 50s. So, the sky’s the limit for sure." And then came McLaughlin. She and Muhammad upped the U.S. medals total to 26 through eight days. "At some point, we could do maybe the 4, or maybe the 100 hurdles. Muhammad — into a one-woman show for the time being. On a clear, perfect, 72-degree night at Hayward Stadium, McLaughlin left Bol and Muhammad behind by the 150-meter mark. This marked the fourth straight major race in which she's bettered the mark. I think we’re pushing the boundaries of the sport, especially in our event." On Friday, she ran the 400-meter hurdles at world championships in 50.68 seconds. She shattered her old mark by 0.73 seconds, a ridiculous number for a race of this distance and an amount of time that, in the world before McLaughlin, it had taken 33 years to trim. She beat second-place finisher Femke Bol of the Netherlands by 1.59 seconds.

Sydney McLaughlin beat her previous record time of 51.41 seconds from the US Championships trials last month as she sprinted to victory in Eugene, Oregon on ...

"The level in the 400m hurdles is certainly improving. "Other people are going to peak at different times. Literally and figuratively," McLaughlin said at the time. McLaughlin has broken her records four times in the past year, CNN reports. "I executed the race the way Bobby (Kersee, her coach) wanted me to. Anything under 51 was a win for us."

The 22-year-old broke her own 400-meter hurdles world record to win the World Athletics Championship on Friday.

As noted by Shalise Manza Young of Yahoo Sports, McLaughlin's 400-meter hurdle time in Oregon would have put her in seventh place in the women's open 400-meter event. At this point, her own records are providing more competition than the field. Her race included 10 barriers to clear.

Sydney McLaughlin broke the world record at the World Athletic Championships, marking her fourth world record in the 400 meter hurdles in just over a year.

But there’s more to the sport and there’s more I want to try.” McLaughlin said to NBC Sports in a post-race video. McLaughlin now has two Olympic gold medals (one in the 400-meter hurdles, the other in the 4x400-meter relay), a world championship title in her hurdling event, and a world record she’s improved upon four times. “Me and Bobby are going to go back after the season, decide if this [400m hurdles] is still an event I even want to do, or if we’re going to find something else because I think we’ve accomplished so much in it. In 2022, her streak continued, as she broke her own mark at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships in June, a result she improved upon once again this week at Worlds. While this may not seem like a lot, it’s actually a ridiculous amount of time for a race that’s only a quarter-mile long. I don’t love it, but I've grown to like it,” she said.

Sydney McLaughlin took the last victorious lap of an All-American world championships Sunday, pulling away in the 4x400-meter relay to close a U.S. runaway ...

With Fred Kerley and Noah Lyles leading the way, the men swept the sprints earlier in the week, and Ryan Crouser led a sweep in shot put. The U.S. won in 2:56.17 for a 2.41-second margin over Jamaica. The 4x100 silver-medal relay team was messy -- nothing new there -- but it was a blip. Her medal-race time was actually faster -- 12.06 -- but the wind was too strong, so that mark doesn't go in the books. "And thank God I won gold.'' And the 5,000-meter title went to Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway, who finished in 13:09.24 in a special race. "We're a family, we stick together,'' McLaughlin said. She finishes her career with a record 20 world medals, overall. Nigeria's Tobi Amusan opened the evening by setting the record for the 100-meter hurdles in the semifinals: 12.12 seconds. Other records fell, too -- in the very first and very last action of the last session at hot-and-sunny Hayward Stadium, the 25,000-seat gem built at University of Oregon to bring the worlds to Eugene. This one was especially sweet, as it also marked the 14th and final world gold for 36-year-old Allyson Felix, who came out of retirement to run in the preliminary of the 4x400 and, so, gets a medal. America's burgeoning speed star turned a close 4x400-meter relay into a laugher on the anchor leg Sunday, putting the final stamp on the first worlds held in the U.S. and delivering America's record 33rd medal of the meet.