NJ's Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Shatters World Record In 400-Meter Hurdles

UNION COUNTY, NJ — She did it again! Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, a 2017 graduate of Union Catholic Regional High School, has once again set a new world record in the women's 400-meter hurdles at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

McLaughlin-Levrone set the record and won the gold medal on Thursday in the 400-meter hurdle finals. She ran the race with a new time of 50.37 seconds, a new world record.

"50.37 - a new world record for perhaps the greatest women's hurdler ever, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone!" according to Olympics. "Remarkable."

She has now broken this record six times.

With her gold medal win in Paris, McLaughlin-Levrone "becomes the first American to defend gold in an individual track event since Michael Johnson’s back-to-back 400m golds in 1996 and 2000," according to the Guardian.

McLaughlin-Levrone, 25, was born in New Brunswick and grew up in Dunellen. She graduated from Union Catholic Regional High School in 2017, and that's where she first rose to worldwide fame in sprinting and hurdles.

This is now the sixth time McLaughlin-Levrone has set a world record in the 400-meter hurdles, the race she won the gold medal for. Her previous best time was 50.65.

McLaughlin-Levrone will be competing for her third Olympic gold in the 4x400m relay set for later this week.

— With reporting by Carly Baldwin

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