In the world of obstacles before Sydney McLaughlin, it took years to shave the second record faction, and the winner of the race does not always mean rewriting history.
This once -in -a -lifetime athlete eliminates the mindset as fast as he destroys the records he set again and again.
For the fourth time in 13 months, 22 -year -old McLaughlin scored a world record. On Friday, he carried out a 400 meter obstacle at the World Championship in 50.68 seconds. He destroyed his old sign with 0.73 seconds, the silly amount for this distance race and the amount of time, in the world before Mclaghlin, it took 33 years to be trimmed.
He beat Finisher in second place Femke Bol from the Netherlands with 1.59 seconds. McLaughlin's main rival, Dalilah Muhammad, finished third in 53.13 seconds, the time to win the world title easily was only seven years ago.
However, when Mclaughlin concluded his Takeaways from that night-a night where he gave birth in a race he had turned into one of the track events that must be seen-he was far from being ready to declare he had carried out the perfect race.
"I don't have the opportunity to watch it, so I have to do that and return and talk to my coach," Mclaughlin said. "But I think there are always things that must be improved. I think we encourage sports limits, especially at our event."
After Mclaughlin received his gold medal and listened to "The Star-Spangled Banner," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe handed over $ 100,000 to him to break the record at Worlds. This marks the fourth large competition in a row in which he improves the target.
On a clear 72 degree night, perfect, at the Hayward Stadium, McLaughlin left Bol and Muhammad behind with a 150 meter sign. When Americans reach the last curve, obviously this will be a race against time.
"That's crazy," Bol said. "He was very far ahead at the end, I almost doubted if I really had a good race. Then, I saw time and I thought, 'Wow, it explains many things.'"
When McLaughlin was finished, he bowed to the ground, looked at the scoreboard and said, "That's good, that's good." He gripped his knees and smiled. A minute later, mascot, bigfoot legend, bombing photos while holding a sign that says: "World Notes are my favorite food."
Note 400-Brocess 52.34, held by Yuliya Pechonkina from Russia, had been sitting in a book for 16 years when Muhammad, not Mclaughlin, decreased it to 52.20 in the U.S. Championship. at Iowa in 2019.
At that time, coach Muhammad, Boogie Johnson, said he had long thought that Russian records looked "a little soft" and mature for the takeover. Muhammad broke it again, at 52.16, at the World Championship in 2019.
It was only 0.07 McLaughlin's race, and what made him change.
Since connected to coach Bobby Kersee, he has broken the record in the Olympic test last year (51.90), the Olympics (51.46) and Nationals last month. (51.41). Now, this is an increase of 1.4% in a four-week-old record and its first cruise is the time in the 50s.
"I really think it is possible," Muhammad said. "And after the race, I thought 49 maybe."
McLaughlin has set three of his four recordings on this track at the Hayward Stadium. He has changed what used to be the one-to-one dispute in the Muhammad-VS-VS-paths to one woman's performance for now.
Big Question: How?
Some answers lies in a better mixture of track surfaces, new technology in a surge that escapes from Edwin Moses compared to "Having trampoline in your shoes," and new training regimens used by kersee, which have worked with almost all American great, approaching Last year's Olympics.
"It only applies everything you have done in exercise to the race to the point where you only let your body do what it does," Mclaughlin said.
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