Sydney McLauGhlin-Levrone responds after winning 400 meters of women’s finals at the US Athletics Championship in Eugene, Ore., Saturday, August 2, 2025. When you investigate the Résumé Sydney McLauglf-Levrone in 400m obstacles, you would think that it had smirked every field. The American is a double Olympic champion at this event, and she has also won gold at the 2022 World Championship in Eugene, even the world record never seems safe to be part of the field. During the 13-month-old range (2021-22) McLAughlin-Levrone four times the fastest in history and became the first woman to break the 52-second and 51-second barriers. Last year she even defended her Olympic title in Paris in the new world record time (50.37 s). So it is the case “there was that it would be done”, you think, in 26 years you decide to switch your attention to 400m apartment at the World Championship 2025 in Tokyo? Not completely.“I mean, there is even more that I would like to achieve in obstacles,” said McLaughlin-levrone to reporters during a call on Thursday. “That’s a funny thing on the track and the field is that there is always something you can do better, so I don’t think it’s not at all.”400m apartment is by no means a new experiment in the case of McLauGlf-levrone. In June 2023, she operated her first professional 400m race at the Diamond League meeting in Paris, where she completed a runner for a Dominican runner Marileida Paulino. But with a badly timed knee injury, she forced her to step out of the world of 2023 in Budapest, just had to give another shot.
Sydney McLauGhlin-Levrne wins the final of 400 meters of women at the American Athletics Championship in Eugene, Ore., Saturday, August 2, 2025.
“I do love to challenge Myself in Different Ways. In 2023, I Didn’t Get To Fully Fulfill That Challenge to Myself Because of my Knee Injury of Stepping Out into Different Event, Challenging MySelf, Pushing Myself, Seeing IF I Can Be the Best Well Rounded Athlete I Can Before I Hang Up My Spikes. This differs from obstacles.Not only no competitor. This is the athletic prowess McLauGhlin-legging that the times that the clock in 400m obstacles make it by the force, which is to be included in the 400m apartment. Asked how she felt about the transition to an event where the world record (47,60s) was set by Marita Koch in East Germany during the era of systematic doping by East German athletes, McLAughlin-Levrone preference to focus on expectations of his own performances. “Yeah, it’s definitely a long -term sprint record, a very fast time,” she said. “Over the past few years, she has created a performance that we have deployed, a desire for records whenever I enter the track, which is fair to some extent. But they also come when they come.”
Sydney McLauGhlin-Levrne wins the final of 400 meters of women at the American Athletics Championship in Eugene, Ore., Saturday, August 2, 2025.
“I think especially an event like 400, it takes time, it requires a lot of event learning. There is always a question when I run:” It breaks something today? Is an American record? Or what is for sport and for people, I think it’s exciting.As for the plan of its home Olympic Games in Los Angeles in three years, McLauGhlin-Levrone keeps its opponents guessed.“400 obstacles, 400, are so different in many ways. But I think it will be the decision we make when we approach,” she said.
