After reigning in hurdles, she's now a sprinter
“The greats always push themselves,” McLaughlin-Levrone said on the CNBC telecast. “I want to be one of them so I push myself and get out of my comfort zone.”— the record-setting 400-meter hurdler — is learning the 400 meters on the fly this season, and she made it look easy by cruising across the line in a meet-record time of 48.74 seconds. She almost broke the American record of 48.70 set by Sanya Richards-Ross in 2006.
Britton Wilson couldn’t quite close the gap on McLaughlin-Levrone and took second. Talitha Diggs wound up third. McLaughlin-Levrone, who was born in New Brunswick and competed at Union Catholic, could compete in the open 400 and the 400 hurdles next month at world championships in Budapest, Hungary. She has a bye into the 400 hurdles courtesy of her record-setting win at worlds last summer on the same Hayward Field track where she breezed Saturday.
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