Reigning Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone could have an opportunity to defend her 400m hurdles gold medal on Thursday after qualifying for the ultimate occasion in a semifinals the place she ran away from the pack.
McLaughlin-Levrone had a semifinal qualifying time of 52.13 seconds, greater than a second and a half forward of the quantity two qualifier in her warmth.
McLaughlin-Levrone received gold for the ladies’s 400m hurdles and the ladies’s 4x400m relay within the 2020 Olympics. The Workforce USA star is a favourite to return to the highest of the rostrum.
Workforce USA’s Jasmine Jones (53.83) and Anna Cockrell (52.90) additionally certified for Thursday’s last.
McLaughlin-Levrone presently holds the 400m hurdles world file of fifty.65 seconds set on the U.S. Olympic Trials in Oregon and the Olympic file of 51.46 seconds from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
McLaughlin-Levrone is 24-year-old however will have fun her birthday on Aug. 7 in the course of competitors in Paris.
Paris is her third Olympics. She additionally competed in Rio in 2016, the place she made her Olympic debut on the age of 17, the youngest U.S. Olympian in monitor and discipline since 1972. She misplaced within the semi-finals that yr.
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When is the ladies’s 400m hurdles last?
Thursday, Aug. 8 – The ladies’s 400m hurdles last will happen at 3:25 p.m. ET/12:25 a.m. PT on Thursday, Aug. 8.
| Occasion | Day | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Girls’s 400m hurdles last | Thursday, Aug. 8 | 3:25 p.m. ET |
How can I watch Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone on TV? What channel is the ladies’s 400m hurdles finals on?
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s races, together with the ladies’s 400m finals, will likely be proven dwell and reair on NBC and Peacock.
People Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (53.60), Anna Cockrell (53.91) and Jasmine Jones (53.60) dominated within the 400m ladies’s hurdles, all successful their respective heats and qualifying for Monday’s repechage spherical.
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Which occasions will Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone compete in on the Olympics?
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is anticipated to compete within the ladies’s 400m hurdles and the ladies’s 4x400m relay, the occasions she and the USA are defending gold medalists in coming into Paris.
How does the 4x400m relay work?
4 athletes from the identical nation run in a relay format with every racing 400 meters.
For the primary 1.25 laps, every county should keep in their very own lane, however can converge on the within lane on the again stretch of the second lap.
Runners have 20 meters to cross the baton.
Athletes might be disqualified for dropping the baton, for passing the baton out of the designated change/takeover zone, or for crossing into one other lane.
At most, 16 nations will qualify for the primary spherical after which eight groups will compete within the finals.
The U.S. has received seven straight Olympic gold medals within the ladies’s 4×400 relay and is hoping to make it eight in a row.
When did Sydney McLaughlin turn out to be Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone?
Sydney McLaughlin married Andre Levrone Jr. in Could 2022 after changing into engaged in August 2021.
The place is Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone from?
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is initially from Dunellen, New Jersey.