Sydney McLaughlin set another world record while winning gold in the women’s 400-meter hurdles. Competing in the World Athletics Championships final in Oregon, McLaughlin ran a super-human 50.68 in the first-ever recorded time under 51 seconds.
The 22-year-old USA track star and former Kentucky Wildcat absolutely obliterated her past best and previous world record of 51.41 seconds, more than a half-second slower than Friday night’s gold medal race. It’s McLaughlin’s first individual gold medal at the World Championships.
McLaughlin was so fast, that her 400-meter hurdle time would’ve finished seventh in the flat 400-meter at the 2020 Olympics.