McLaughlin-Levrone Impresses with 400 Metres Outing

Olympic Champion and world record holder in the 400-metre hurdles Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone competed in the 400-metre flat at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme on Friday night. The American recorded the seventh fastest time of the season and proved faster than the winner of the Wanda Diamond League final, which was run 15 minutes later.

With a gold medal and fabulous world record of 50.37 in the 400-metre hurdles and gold in the 4×400 metres with Team USA, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone crowned herself the athletics queen of the Olympics. After Paris, she took a well-earned break before returning to action at one more meeting: the Allianz Memorial Van Damme.

The 400 metres run by McLaughlin-Levrone on Friday night was a so-called invitational race. Her time of 49.11 set the seventh-fastest time of 2024 and would have placed her first in the Wanda Diamond League final of the 400 metres, which was run later in the evening.

In that race – which was won in 49.45 by Olympic Champion Marileidy Paulino – the ‘Queen of Paris’ could not take part as she had not participated in the Wanda Diamond League qualifying meets.

On Saturday, McLaughlin-Levrone will run the 200 metres in Brussels, her last race of the season.