Aug 3, 2021 - Sports

Sydney McLaughlin sets world record to win Olympic gold in 400m hurdles

Anya van Wagtendonk

USA's Sydney Mclaughlin (C) wins the women's 400m hurdles final setting a new world record during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 4 — Team USA's Sydney Mclaughlin (C) wins the women's 400m hurdles final setting a new world record during the Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Tuesday. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. hurdler Sydney McLaughlin clinched an Olympic gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles final at the 2020 Tokyo Games — breaking her own world record to finishing in 51.46 seconds on Wednesday morning local time.

The big picture: McLaughlin edged into silver teammate Dalilah Muhammad, who was defending her own gold from the 2016 Rio Games. The Netherlands' Femke Bol took Bronze.

McLaughlin was the first woman to break 52 seconds in this event, at the U.S. trials in July.
Along with McLaughlin and Muhammad, a third American, Anna Cockrell, was in the race, after all advanced from a rainy semifinal race on Monday.
But Cockrell was disqualified for apparently running outside of her lane.

Editor's note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.

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