{"id":7538,"date":"2025-09-18T17:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/sydney-mclaughlin-levrone-runs-second-fastest-time-ever-to-win-400-meter-world-title\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:45:52","slug":"sydney-mclaughlin-levrone-runs-second-fastest-time-ever-to-win-400-meter-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/sydney-mclaughlin-levrone-runs-second-fastest-time-ever-to-win-400-meter-world-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone runs second-fastest time ever to win 400-meter world title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who only started running the 400-meter flat this year after switching from the 400 hurdles, made the move pay off with a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin-Levrone set a world championships record with a time of 47.78 seconds &mdash; the fastest time in 40 years &mdash; to beat a charging Marileidy Paulino to the finish line on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s amazing, it&rsquo;s an honor,&rdquo; McLaughlin-Levrone said. &ldquo;I knew there were a lot of people doubting me with making the switch from 400-meter hurdles to the flat 400 meters, but ultimately, I had faith in my training. I knew I had it in me. It was just a matter of time. I knew this feeling was going to be amazing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone runs second-fastest time ever to win 400-meter world title<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who only started running the 400-meter flat this year after switching from the 400 hurdles, made the move pay off with a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships. McLaughlin-Levrone set a world championships record with a time of 47.78 seconds &mdash; the fastest time in 40 years &mdash; to beat a charging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/sydney-mclaughlin-levrone-runs-second-fastest-time-ever-to-win-400-meter-world-title\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone runs second-fastest time ever to win 400-meter world title&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}