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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has explained how different the 400-meter hurdles is different from the flat version.
Olympic 400m hurdles champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has broken her silence about the difficulty she faces when taking to the track in the 400m flat race.
The American who was named women’s track athlete of the year 2024 in December, was outstanding, twice lowered her own world 400m hurdles record and retained her Olympic title.
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While the 25-year-old four-time Olympic champion continues to write history, McLaughlin-Levrone has opened up about the pain she experiences on the track in the 400m flat. "The 400m flat almost hurts a bit more than the hurdles, to be honest. You’re going faster and you definitely feel that. But I think the open 400m is very helpful in terms of speed endurance, and it’s always very helpful to have those hurdles in your mind when you’re running it," McLaughlin-Levrone told World Athletics.
Even though Levrone who is a three-time World Champion has given a scathing assessment, the 2019 Diamond League champion plans to do more flat 400m races this year. “So they’re both great, and hopefully I will get some more opportunities to do some flat 400s," she added.
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McLaughlin-Levrone ran 47.71 on the second leg as the United States successfully defended the Olympic 4x400m title in 3:15.27, the second-fastest time in history.
McLaughlin-Levrone’s first world record of 2024 came at the US Olympic Trials which she won in 50.65, taking 0.03 off the world record she had set on the same track two years earlier in securing the world title.
In Paris, the day after her 25th birthday, she lowered that mark to 50.37 to add a second Olympic 400m hurdles gold to the one she had won four years earlier in Tokyo.
Aside from McLaughlin-Levrone, only three other women have ever broken the 52 second barrier, and only one other has broken 51. She holds six out of the ten fastest times on the world all-time list.
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