In the final event at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials, a world record was toppled.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set a new women’s 400m hurdles world record for an incredible fifth time, qualifying for her third Olympic Games. The defending Olympic champion finished the women’s 400m hurdles final in 50.65 seconds to break the record she last set in 2022.
“I was not expecting that,” McLaughlin-Levrone told Lewis Johnson of NBC Sports moments after finishing. “I’m just amazed, baffled and in shock.”
Her time was so fast, in fact, that four of the nine runners in last week’s 400m flat final were slower than McLaughlin-Levrone was with hurdles.
McLaughlin-Levrone advanced to Paris alongside Anna Cockrell and Jasmine Jones in the women’s 400m hurdles. That final concluded the last night of the U.S. Trials, which also featured victories for Rai Benjamin, Nikki Hiltz and Grant Fisher, among others.
The night was historic for more than just McLaughlin-Levrone, as U.S. Trials records were set in all six track finals, plus one in the field courtesy of Maggie Malone-Hardin, who topped the women’s javelin final.
See below for event recaps, highlights and more. U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials results by event.