The new world record is an incredible 50.68 seconds. – It is simply otherworldly. She is a phenomenon of her own. It is one of the most extreme things I have seen on an athletics track. That was completely wild, says news expert Vebjørn Rodal. – A time out of another world. She would place seventh in the 400 meters final – less than a second behind the bronze medal. – It is a race for eternity, says news commentator Jann Post. Julija Petsjonkina’s world record of 52.34 was allowed to stand untouched for 18 years. In the last three years, it has been lowered six times. The last four by McLaughlin. Joanna Hayes coached McLaughlin from 2018 to 2020 and was there when she won World Cup silver in Doha in 2019. She explains the phenomenon like this: DNA. There is no one like her. She can run anything from 100 meters to 800 meters with hurdles in between. She is built differently, says Joanna Hayes to news. Hayes won the Olympic gold in the 100m hurdles in Athens in 2004. She is also the coach of the World Cup silver winner in the 400m hurdles, Rai Benjamin, and Michael Norman, the recent world champion in the 400m. Before the race, she predicted a time of 50.90. That prediction was unbelievably put to shame. Part of the reason is how she passes the hurdles. – She cuts hedges like a short-hedge runner. Usually they jump more over the hurdles than the 400 meter hurdles, but she goes over them like a short hurdler, Christina Vukicevic Demidov explained live. Femke Bol took the silver with a time of 52.27. Dalilah Muhammad, who held the world record between 2019 and 2021, took the bronze in 53.13.
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