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After bursting off the turn and widening the gap between herself and the field around her, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone once again demonstrated her range by cruising to 200m victory at the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, on Saturday (18).
Her plan for the season, however, revolves around focusing on just one event, one she calls “what I’m most comfortable with” – the 400m hurdles.
While McLaughlin-Levrone dropped down in distance to test her speed in Los Angeles, her US compatriot Rai Benjamin raced his specialism and was rewarded with a world-leading 46.64 – the ninth-fastest performance of all time – on his 400m hurdles season opener.
McLaughlin-Levrone makes a statement
One year after producing the second-fastest 400m in US history (48.74), only to later withdraw from the World Championships because of a knee injury, McLaughlin-Levrone said she had not given much thought to attempting a 400m and 400m hurdles double at the Paris Olympics before ultimately deciding to focus solely on the hurdles, the event in which she most recently smashed the world record two years ago en route to the 2022 world title.
Doubling is “definitely a possibility in the future, but just wanting to come back after last season, stick to one event and try to do it the best I can,” said McLaughlin-Levrone, the Tokyo Olympic gold medallist. “Be healthy, which we are, and I’m very happy about that and just keep it that way.”
SOURCE: WORLD ATHLETICS
