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World Athletics Championships 2022: USA's Sydney McLaughlin shatters 400m hurdle world record
Updated On: 23 July, 2022 12:13 PM IST | Eugene | IANS
This is the fourth time in her amazing 400m hurdles career the 22-year-old has broken the world record. "It's unreal," McLaughlin was quoted as saying by World Athletics. "I just wanted to run and go for it."
Sydney Mclaughlin celebrates with her medal after winning the women's 400m hurdles final and setting a new world record during the World Athletics Championships. Pic/ AFP
Sydney McLaughlin of the United States shattered the women's 400 hurdles world record in her victory at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday (IST). Double Olympic champion McLaughlin timed 50.68 seconds in the race, bettering her own world mark of 51.41 seconds set at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships on the same track in June.
Dutch runner Femke Bol finished runners-up in 52.27, and McLaughlin's compatriot Dalilah Muhammad took bronze in 53.13.
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