Report04 Aug 2021
Day after epic men’s race, women hurdlers make own history
Sydney McLaughlin breaks the world 400m hurdles record to get Olympic gold in Tokyo (© Getty Images)
Whatever the men can do, the women can, too.
Just 24 hours after Karsten Warholm and Rai Benjamin ran a race for the ages in the men’s 400m hurdles, US rivals Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad
McLaughlin overtook Muhammad in the final straight to win the gold medal in 51.46, smashing the world record of 51.90 she set a few weeks earlier. Muhammad, the defending Olympic champion, also ran under the world record, clocking 51.48 to take silver.
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