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On Thursday, at the post-race press conference Femke Bol admitted that during the women’s 400-metre hurdles, she went out too fast and faded. Her bronze medal-winning finish time was more than a second slower than her personal best. American Anna Cockrell took silver and teammate Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone broke her own and sixth world record for the gold.
Bol of The Netherlands and McLaughlin-Levrone were together at 200m.
McLaughlin-Levrone clocked a finish time of 50.37. Her previous best was from July 2022 when she won the Paris Olympic Trials in June in the time of 50.65.
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“Every race is you against 10 hurdles,” McLaughlin-Levrone said. “…my focus, me trying to be as efficient as I could over the 10 hurdles, trying to lower that time every time.”
Bol aims to come back and be a part of the group of hurdlers who continue to make the event popular and push toward a 49-second run, which both she and McLaughlin-Levrone believe will happen.
Cockrell, battling personal issues overcame struggles and has focused her lifestyle and training toward being the best athlete and person that she can be. It paid off with a 51.87 personal best performance.
McLaughlin-Levrone now has three Olympic and three World Championships gold medals. The 25-year-old has broken her own world record a number of times. This was Bol’s second bronze medal in successive Olympic Games. Her personal best from July 2024 is 50.95.
Bol now has two bronze and one gold medal from the Olympics and two silver and two gold from the World Championships.
For Cockrell, it was a PB performance at 51.87. The silver is her first medal at a global championship. However, she did earn two gold medals at the 2016 U20 World Athletics Championships.
Results
Pos | Athlete | Nat | Mark | Rt |
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1 | Sydney MCLAUGHLIN-LEVRONE | USA | 50.37 WR | 0.139 |
2 | Anna COCKRELL | USA | 51.87 PB | 0.158 |
3 | Femke BOL | NED | 52.15 | 0.165 |
4 | Jasmine JONES | USA | 52.29 PB | 0.157 |
5 | Rushell CLAYTON | JAM | 52.68 | 0.142 |
6 | Shiann SALMON | JAM | 53.29 | 0.207 |
7 | Savannah SUTHERLAND | CAN | 53.88 | 0.157 |
8 | Louise MARAVAL | FRA | 54.53 | 0.166 |