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USA’s Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone made a stupendous and successful defence of her Olympic 400m hurdles title at the Paris 2024 Games on Thursday (8) as she took 0.28 off her own world record* with 50.37.
Her Dutch rival Femke Bol, who had steered her nation to gold in the mixed 4x400m six days earlier, clocked 52.15 for a second successive Olympic bronze after being overtaken in the closing stages by McLaughlin-Levrone’s teammate Anna Cockrell, who claimed silver in a personal best of 51.87 that moves her to fourth on the world all-time list.
“Grateful to God for this opportunity, grateful to be celebrating my 25th birthday like this. It was yesterday, just a super opportunity, you can’t even imagine,” said McLaughlin-Levrone.
“It’s amazing to see our sport continue to grow, for people to want to watch the 400m hurdles. I knew it was going to be a tough race. An amazing competition all the way round.”
SOURCE: WORLD ATHLETICS
