Sydney McLaughlin

The 22-year-old from New Jersey left no doubt as she finished in 50.68 seconds at the track and field world championships.

McLaughlin has the athleticism to leap off either foot, and her strength and speed make her wickedly efficient. On her sixth and final throw, after exhorting the home crowd, Winger unleashed a throw of 64.05 meters (210 feet 1 inch) that catapulted her from fifth to second. In a display of their chemistry, Lyles led them afterward in an impromptu group rap of Meek Mill’s “Dreams and Nightmares.” “Bobby accepts people that want to come into the camp that know who they’re coming to deal with,” said Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who has become a mentor to McLaughlin. “He’s not going to change for any person. Moses viewed the course as an opportunity to make 31 mistakes — the start and then takeoff, flight and landing over all 10 hurdles. Already an Olympic gold medalist, McLaughlin is now a world champion and owner of a performance that NBC analyst Ato Boldon instantly hailed as the best he has ever seen. On Friday night at the world championships, McLaughlin radically reset the world record she has toyed with over the past year, separating herself even further from a pack that long lost sight of her. At the start of 2021, no woman had run once around a track and over 10 hurdles in faster than 52 seconds. EUGENE, Ore. — On Wednesday evening, Edwin Moses meandered to the warmup track as the women got ready for the semifinals of the 400-meter hurdles, the race that made him one of the most indomitable champions in track and field history. As McLaughlin further entrenched her status as a legend, another one made a surprise return. When the final turn came, she already had made it a blowout. Moses took the comment as a high compliment.

Sydney McLaughlin broke the 400m hurdles world record for a fourth time at the world track and field championships.

Both the U.S. men’s and women’s 4x100m relays advanced to Saturday’s finals. Winger, a 36-year-old who plans to retire after this season, moved from fifth to second on her sixth and final throw. 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. American Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu led the qualifiers into Sunday’s 800m final. Then, perhaps, a switch to the flat 400m. Norman, the world’s fastest 400m runner in the last Olympic cycle yet fifth in Tokyo, earned his first individual global medal.

For the third time in a calendar year, reigning Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin broke her own world record in the 400-meter hurdles — this time en route ...

"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 men are seeking to bounce back after a brutal performance at the Tokyo Games. "It could be (the 400 meters)," she said of her next event. "The time is absolutely amazing and the sport is getting faster and faster," McLaughlin said. The women's 400 hurdles, of course. Femke Bol of the Netherlands finished in second place, roughly 1.5 seconds behind McLaughlin, and reigning champion Dalilah Muhammad of the U.S. took bronze.

The U.S. Olympic gold medalist and Dunellen native ran a winning 50.68 in Friday's 400 hurdles final at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon – a new world ...

She’s the first woman in the world to crack the 51-second-mark. The N.J. High School Sports newsletter now appearing in mailboxes 5 days a week. Then came her gold medal 51.46 in Tokyo a little more than a month later followed by last June’s U.S. Track and Field Championships time of 51.41. To add your name, click here. Her first of four world records came at the U.S. Olympic Trials in June of 2021, where she hit a 51.9 to become the first woman to break 52 seconds in the event. The U.S. Olympic gold medalist and Dunellen native ran a winning 50.68 in Friday’s 400 hurdles final at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon – a new world record and the fourth time she has set one in the last 13 months.

Sydney McLaughlin shattered her world record by a whopping 0.73 seconds Friday, blazing through the 400-meter hurdles.

Muhammad — into a one-woman show for the time being. A minute later, the mascot, Legend the Bigfoot, photo bombed her while holding a sign saying: “World records are my favorite food.” On a clear, perfect, 72-degree night at Hayward Stadium, the New Jersey native left Bol and Muhammad behind by the 150-meter mark. Like McLaughlin, this was Miller-Uibo’s first world championship. More impressively, it marked the fourth straight major race in which she’s bettered the mark. “Honestly, I just wanted to run and go for it,” she said. Like McLaughlin, Miller-Uibo has dominated her race over the past year-plus. It was the first medal in any major competition for the eight-time national champion, who rigged up a cable-and-pulley system in her backyard to keep up with her training during the pandemic. The 400-hurdles record had sat on the books for 16 years when Muhammad lowered it to 52.20 at U.S. championships in Iowa in 2019. Sydney McLaughlin shattered her world record by a whopping 0.73 seconds Friday, blazing through the 400-meter hurdles in 50.68 seconds for her first career gold medal at the world championships. Femke Bol of the Netherlands finished second in 52.27 — that’s a 1.59-second difference — and defending world champion, Dalilah Muhammad finished third in 53.13 — a time that would’ve won the race going away a mere seven years ago. The 22-year-old obliterated the field in setting the first world record of these championships.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sydney McLaughlin shattered her world record by a whopping 0.73 seconds Friday, blazing through the 400-meter hurdles in 50.68 seconds ...

(51.41). Now, this — a 1.4% improvement on a four-week-old record and a maiden voyage into times in the 50s. Then, I saw the time and I thought, ‘Wow, that explains a lot.’” And then came McLaughlin. She and Muhammad upped the U.S. medals total to 26 through eight days. Muhammad — into a one-woman show for the time being. A minute later, the mascot, Legend the Bigfoot, photo bombed her while holding a sign saying: “World records are my favorite food.” On a clear, perfect, 72-degree night at Hayward Stadium, McLaughlin left Bol and Muhammad behind by the 150-meter mark. I think we’re pushing the boundaries of the sport, especially in our event.” “I haven't had a chance to watch it, so I'll have to do that and go back and talk to my coach,” McLaughlin said. This marked the fourth straight major race in which she's bettered the mark. 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.

McLaughlin became the second-youngest track and field athlete in history to own the three biggest accolades in an individual event.

July 23, 2022 July 23, 2022 July 23, 2022 SYDNEY MCLAUGHLIN IS UNREAL.— Twitter Sports (@TwitterSports) July 23, 2022 It was another gold medal added to the 22-year-old star’s collection of track accomplishments. SYDNEY MCLAUGHLIN‼️‼️‼️— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) July 23, 2022

American Sydney McLaughlin produced one of the greatest track performances of all time by shattering her own 400m hurdles world record.

It was the first world record broken at this year’s World Championships, the first on US soil, and a much-needed boost for the American women, who have excelled in the field events but had been shut out on the track. “Honestly, I have no clue.” “I definitely thought 50 was possible, and after that race I think 49 is possible – by Sydney,” laughed Muhammad. It was the sixth time in three years that the world record has been broken, after Russian Yulia Pechonkina’s mark of 52.34sec had stood for 16 years. “It could be the 400m. Like everyone else in Eugene, Coe was enthralled after a spectacular performance by the 22-year-old American, who has set world records at every age category since she was 14 and shows no signs of stopping.

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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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.