{"id":149,"date":"2021-06-28T13:46:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T08:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=117414"},"modified":"2021-06-28T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T08:16:02","slug":"sydney-mclaughlin-sets-a-new-world-record-in-the-womens-400m-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/sydney-mclaughlin-sets-a-new-world-record-in-the-womens-400m-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney McLaughlin sets a new world record in the women\u2019s 400m hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the final of the US Olympic athletics trials on Sunday, Sydney McLaughlin set a new world record in the women\u2019s 400m hurdles with a timing of 51.90 seconds.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The 21-year-old, who qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, took the lead around the final curve and into the home stretch, powering home to smash Dalilah Muhammad\u2019s previous best of 52.16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin and Muhammad, who have dominated the 400m hurdles in previous seasons, engaged in another epic clash.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">After a fantastic tactical battle against reigning Olympic and world champion Muhammad, the 21-year-old star became the first woman to break the 52-second barrier.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sydney McLaughlin (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoSydGo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GoSydGo<\/a>), just SMASHED the women\u2019s world record in the 400m Hurdles. The first *ever* under 52 seconds! Simply amazing! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y653NeQRFl\">pic.twitter.com\/Y653NeQRFl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmanuelAcho\/status\/1409368815826128897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis season, working with my new coach and just my new support system, it\u2019s truly just faith and trusting the process and I couldn\u2019t ask for anything more,\u201d said McLaughlin who works with the same coach, Bob Kersee, Allyson Felix, a six-time Olympic gold medalist.<\/p>\n<p>31-year-old Muhammad, whose pre-season was disrupted after contracting Covid-19 earlier this year finished second in 52.42 at Eugene, Oregon\u2019s Hayward Field and will face McLaughlin in the upcoming Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s simply been such a lengthy season,\u201d Muhammad explained. \u201cIn Tokyo, there will undoubtedly be a battle.\u201d <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Anna Cockrell, 23, qualified for the Games as well, placing third in 53.70 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the final of the US Olympic athletics trials on Sunday, Sydney McLaughlin set a new world record in the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":23292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1526,389,272],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-world-record"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}