.jpg) McLaughlin-Levrone at the 2022 World Athletics Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Sydney Michelle McLaughlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Sydney Michelle McLaughlin-Levrone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 7, 1999 New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 134 lb (61 kg)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Andre Levrone Jr. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| College team | Kentucky Wildcats (2017–2018)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 1 (weeks 75, 400 m hurdles) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sydney Michelle McLaughlin-Levrone (/məˈɡlɒklɪn ləvˈroʊni/ mə-GLOK-lin ləv-ROH-nee; née McLaughlin; born August 7, 1999)[7] is an American hurdler and sprinter who competes in the 400 meters hurdles and is the world record holder in that event. She has won gold in the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2022 World Athletics Championships. She set a world record time of 50.37 seconds at the 2024 Summer Olympics on August 8, 2024, breaking her own old world record of 50.65 seconds. She is the first track athlete to break four world records in the same event; setting four world records during 13 months, she was the first woman to break the 52-second (June 2021) and 51-second (July 2022) barriers in the 400 m hurdles.[8] She won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. At all four competitions, she also took gold as part of a women's 4 × 400 m relay team.
As a 15-year-old, McLaughlin was the 2015 World youth champion. In 2016, she was the youngest athlete since Denean Howard in 1980 to qualify for the U.S. Olympic track team, having placed third at the U.S. Olympic Trials, with the current world under-18 best of 54.15 seconds, then also the world U20 record.[9] She holds the current world U20 record of 53.60 seconds, having achieved a junior personal best of 52.75 s (not ratified), with both marks set in 2018. Aside from McLaughlin-Levrone, only three other women have ever broken the 52 second barrier, and only one other has broken 51. She holds six out of the ten fastest times on the world all-time list. She was the 2019 Diamond League champion.
In 2022, McLaughlin-Levrone was voted World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year.[10]
- ^ "Sydney McLaughlin". United States Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
- ^ "Sydney McLaughlin's Age". sportskeeda.com. Sportskeeda. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
- ^ "Sydney Mclaughlin Kentucky". Track & Field Results Reporting System (TFRRS). Retrieved January 21, 2020.
- ^ Boylan-Pett, Liam (October 24, 2017). "The Track Phenom Who Chose College Over Riches". Bleacher Report. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
- ^ Cherry, Gene (January 25, 2019). "Athletics: McLaughlin set to start pro career but not in hurdles". Reuters. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
- ^ Schad, Tom; Dragon, Tyler (June 28, 2021). "Sydney McLaughlin breaks world record in 400-meter hurdles to win U.S. Olympic trials". USA Today. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
- ^ "MCLAUGHLIN-LEVRONE Sydney". Paris 2024 Olympics. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Greif, Andrew (August 22, 2022). "After shattering hurdle record, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone considers new challenge: more events". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
- ^ "Sydney McLaughlin Biography, Olympic Medals, and Age". Olympics.com. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
- ^ Mulkeen, Jon (December 6, 2022). "From anonymity to award-winner, McLaughlin-Levrone plots future path". World Athletics. Retrieved December 6, 2022.