Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone nearly broke the longest-standing world record in sprinting in winning her first world title in the flat 400m after legendary success in the hurdles. McLaughlin-Levrone ...

US track star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ran the second fastest time ever to win a stunning gold in the women's 400 metres at the world championships on Thursday. The 26-year-old American clocked ...

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone shattered a 19-year-old American record in the 400m in the semifinals of the World Track and Field Championships. McLaughlin-Levrone, the two-time Olympic champion and ...

There are world records in athletics and then there are certain landmarks from the 1980s that plenty of good judges have considered eternal. Florence Griffith Joyner in the women’s 100 metres and 200m ...

On September 16, 2006, track and field legend Sanya Richards-Ross ran 48.70 to break the American record in the 400-meter dash in Athens, Greece. Today in Tokyo, Japan, at the World Athletics Outdoor ...

McLaughlin-Levrone finished with a time of 47.78 seconds, besting Tuesday's time of 48.29 seconds, which had broken the previous American record of 48.70 set by Sanya Richards-Ross in 2006. Thursday's ...

Quincy Wilson ran 44.10 seconds for 400 metres at the Ed Murphey Classic in Memphis to break the under-18 world’s best mark for the fourth time. Wilson, who turned 17 this January, beat a field ...

Karsten Warholm of Norway is the new world record-holder in the men's 400m hurdles, toppling from track and field's all-time bests pedestal a performance run by American Kevin Young at the 1992 ...

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set a new women's 400-meter American record during a semifinal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Tuesday. McLaughlin-Levrone finished with a time of 48.29 ...