TOKYO — Sydney McLaughlin shattered her own world record to win gold in Tokyo in the women's 400-meter hurdles on Wednesday. Fellow American Dalilah Muhammad broke the world record too en route to a silver medal.
McLaughin ran 51.46, to break her previous WR mark of 51.90. Muhammad ran in 51.58.
Let's try to put that in perspective and give an understanding of just how incredible that time is: of the 41 women who finished the women's flat 400m heats on Tuesday, only 18 ran faster than McLaughlin did — and she had 10 barriers in her path.