March 18, 2023 12:48 am | Updated 12:48 am ISTOnly a few athletes in track and field’s long history have dominated their event in the manner in which Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has monopolised the 400m hurdles. In the hurdles world before McLaughlin-Levrone, it took years to shave fractions of seconds off records, and winning races didn’t always mean rewriting history. And in an astonishing 13-month period between June 2021 and July 2022, she broke the world record on four occasions! Jaw-dropping runMcLaughlin-Levrone hared through to the tape in a stunning 50.68 seconds, demolishing her world mark of 51.41s, set a month earlier. Turning pointThe 400m hurdles final at the 2019 World Championships was a turning point.

Source: The Hindu March 17, 2023 21:04 UTC