400 metres hurdles
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The 400 metres hurdles is a hurdling event in track and field. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women.
Women's 400m hurdles at the 2005 GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, Finland
Home straight during a women's final at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Sydney McLaughlin right after her block start in 2019
Géo André jumps over a barrier during the 400 metres hurdles in 1922.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
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Sydney Michelle McLaughlin-Levrone is an American hurdler and sprinter who holds the world record for the 400 meters hurdles and the American record for the flat 400 meters. She won gold in the 2020 a
400 metres hurdles
…as touching them during the race slows runners down. The current men's and women's world record holders are Alison dos Santos with 45.80 seconds and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone with 50.37 seconds. Compared to the 400 metres run, the hurdles race takes the men about three seconds longer and the women four seconds longer. Men…
McLaughlin-Levrone at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
McLaughlin-Levrone at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials
McLaughlin-Levrone with then-high school 800 m record holder Mike Granville in 2017
At the 2019 World Championships held in Doha, 29-year-old Dalilah Muhammad held off 20-year-old McLaughlin-Levrone by 0.07 seconds