SYDNEY MCLAUGHLIN

The U.S. team finished with 33 medals, including 13 gold, in its best performance ever. The atmosphere in Eugene made it the most vibrant international track event in years.

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan set a world record in the semifinals, then ran an even faster, wind-aided time in the final Sunday to take the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles at world championships. The record time of 12.12 seconds came on the first race of the final evening, one of three semifinals that set up the eight-woman gold-medal race. About 90 minutes later, she ran 12.06 to beat Jamaica's Britany Anderson by 0.17.

She ran the 400-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in 50.68 seconds, shattering her old mark by 0.73 seconds.

Allyson Felix was named to her 10th world championships team, where she will have a chance to run in the mixed relay event and add to her record medal collection.

Allyson Felix was named to her 10th world championship team, where she will have a chance to run in the mixed relay event and add to her record medal collection. Felix, whose 18 medals are the most in world-championship history, has announced that this will be her final season in track. The world championships run July 15-24 in Eugene, Oregon.

Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin broke her own world record in the 400-meter hurdles as the U.S. outdoor track and field championships on Saturday.

American Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin is engaged to former National Football League player Andre Levrone Jr.

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The gold medal for U.S. star Allyson Felix brings her Olympic medal total up to 11, surpassing the record from U.S. track legend Carl Lewis.

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Games keep producing some of the fastest moments the world has ever seen on the track. Muhammad’s time of 51.58 also would have been a world record. Kenya’s Emmanuel Korir won gold in the 800 meters to stretch his country’s dominance in the event to four consecutive Olympics. The U.S. plays on Thursday night against South Korea, which lost to Japan 5-2, for a berth in this weekend’s gold medal game. CYCLING RECORDSItaly broke its own world record to win the gold medal in men’s team pursuit cycling.

Sydney McLaughlin of the United States broke her world record Wednesday and won the Olympic 400-meter-hurdles gold.

American Sydney McLaughlin obliterated her own 400m hurdles world record from U.S. Trials by nearly a half-second in 51.46, unseating defending Olympic champion teammate Dalilah Muhammad for gold at the Tokyo Olympics.

Sydney McLaughlin has been in the spotlight for five years, ever since making the Olympic team in 2016 as a 16-year-old. But now, as a gold medalist, it’s going to be an entirely different level.

McLaughlin and Muhammad have been trading off setting world records in the women's 400-meter hurdles.

TOKYO (AP) — Sydney McLaughlin broke her world record Wednesday and won the Olympic 400-meter hurdles gold, finishing in 51.46 seconds in yet another close victory over U.S. teamate Dalilah Muhammad. Muhammad’s time of of 51.58 also beat McLaughlin’s old record of 51.9, set at Olympic trials last month. Amazing as it was, this world record didn’t really surprise anyone. McLaughlin broke that record earlier this summer at Olympic trials, running her 51.90 to become the first woman to crack 52 seconds. The day before, Karsten Warholm crushed his old world record, finishing the men’s race in 45.94, and runner-up Rai Benjamin’s 46.17 also beat the old mark.

This event pitted the world record holder against the defending gold medalist. Both are U.S. athletes. Both beat the previous world record.

Despite a torrential downpour, Sydney McLaughlin outclassed the field in her race while Muhammad comfortably won to both make the final, McLaughlin's first.

Simone Biles will at last return to Olympic competition Tuesday on Day 11 of the Tokyo Games.

Sydney McLaughlin is moving on to the semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics after an impressive prelim victory.

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Sydney McLaughlin turns 22 three days after the final of the 400-meter hurdles, in which she might win Olympic gold and may even lower her current world record. “Try and find a cupcake and then blow out the candles by myself,” McLaughlin said. Welcome to the no-fun Olympics, where celebrations and camaraderie will be muted by stringent rules and regulations due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Bookended by and including two world records, these are the top moments from a phenomenal, historic U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in 2021.

Both make their second Olympic teams and head to Tokyo as the clear favorites to battle for gold.

Sydney McLaughlin set a world record in the 400-meter hurdles at the U.S. track and field trials, running the event in 51.90 seconds.

Finals in men's 200m, women's 400m hurdles, men's 1500m and women's 800m; heptathlon 800m; and more from Day 10 of U.S. Track & Field Trials at Hayward Field.

Hurdler Sydney McLaughlin’s knee was bloody.