<p>Sydney McLaughlin has done it again. For the fourth time in her remarkable 400m hurdles career, the 22-year-old has broken the world record, obliterating her previous best with 50.68 at the <strong>World Athletics Championships Oregon22</strong> on Friday (22).</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s unreal,&rdquo; she said trackside, with the Hayward Field crowd looking on in awe. &ldquo;I just wanted to run and go for it.&rdquo;</p>
<p>She certainly went for it. Shaving 0.73 from her previous world record, set on the same track less than a month earlier, she left her rivals &ndash; including two of the three fastest hurdlers the world has ever seen &ndash; with no response as she won her first world title in the event by more than a one-and-a-half seconds.</p>
<p>Netherlands&rsquo; Olympic bronze medallist Femke Bol &ndash; No.3 on the all-time list &ndash; followed her over the finish line in 52.27 to equal her season&rsquo;s best, while USA&rsquo;s former world record-holder Dalilah Muhammad &ndash; No.2 all time &ndash; clocked 53.13 for bronze.</p>
<p>It is the third world record that McLaughlin has set at Hayward Field. Her first came at the 2021 US Olympic Trials, when she clocked 51.90 to improve on the 52.16 global mark that Muhammad had achieved when winning the 2019 world title ahead of her compatriot.</p>
<p>Just over a month later, McLaughlin ran 51.46 to win the Olympic title in Tokyo, and she broke the record for a third time at this year&rsquo;s US Championships in Eugene on 25 June, clocking 51.41.</p>
<p>Such is the standard, this latest world record time would put McLaughlin 19th on this season&rsquo;s top list for the 400m flat. Yet the US hurdles star achieved it with 10 barriers in the way.</p>
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<p><br />She reached the first of those barriers at roughly the same point as Muhammad made hers, and they remained pretty evenly matched at the second hurdle. But from that point on, the race looked like it would only be going one way.</p>
<p>With Muhammad to her right and Bol to her left, McLaughlin caught her compatriot along the back straight and blazed past her heading into the curve. By the time she left the bend, it was McLaughlin against the clock and time seemed to stand still as she surged ever closer.</p>
<p>Behind her, Bol drew level and then overtook Muhammad as they entered the home straight, McLaughlin striding away in the distance.</p>
<p>The question wasn&rsquo;t whether McLaughlin was going to break the world record, but by just how much. With the crowd on their feet, the answer soon came as the scoreboard showed 50.68.</p>
<p>Since 2019 &ndash; in less than three years &ndash; the world record has been improved by almost two seconds. That mark of 52.34 had stood for 16 years before Muhammad took it to 52.20 and then 52.16. On 27 June 2021, McLaughlin began her reign.</p>
<p>Now that previous world record mark of 52.34 is just 14th on the world all-time list.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The time is absolutely amazing and the sport is getting faster and faster,&rdquo; McLaughlin said of her latest performance. &ldquo;Just figuring out what barriers can be broken. I only get faster from here.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I executed the race the way Bobby (Kersee, her coach) wanted me to. I knew coming home that if I just kept my cadence and stayed on stride pattern, we could do it and it happened.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The level in the 400m hurdles is certainly improving. We have a full group of girls that are willing to push our bodies to the next level and we are seeing times drop.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In line with World Athletics&rsquo; commitment to further advance gender equality in the sport, the women&rsquo;s world record programme in Oregon is being supported by World Athletics as part of its International Women&rsquo;s Day #WeGrowAthletics pledge, and this saw McLaughlin receive a cheque for US$100,000 along with her gold medal.</p>
<p>Securing silver after a strong finish was Bol, and the 22-year-old was delighted to go one better than her Olympic bronze.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I ran against the best in the world, Sydney is just very strong,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;She was so far in front at the end, so I was always doubting if I really had a good race because it felt very good. Then I saw the time and I was like: &lsquo;Wow&rsquo;. It is amazing to be a part of it and to come out second in such a race.&rdquo;</p>
<p>For Muhammad, it is a fourth world 400m hurdles medal and she has now completed the set after gold in 2019, silver in 2013 and 2017 and now bronze in 2022.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I'm having mixed emotions, to be honest,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;It's great to get a medal but I came into these championships on the strength of having always gotten a medal at any championships, despite any injuries. But as a competitor, you always want more.&rdquo;</p>
<p>US athletes filled four of the top five spots, with 2015 world silver medallist Shamier Little fourth in 53.76 and Britton Wilson fifth in 54.02.</p>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Sydney McLaughlin 🇺🇸 USA</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Femke Bol 🇳🇱 NED</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">52.27 =SB</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Dalilah Muhammad 🇺🇸 USA</td>
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World Athletics Championships, Oregon 2022

US hurdles superstar becomes the first to go sub-51 seconds in the event

McLaughlin obliterates world 400m hurdles record with 50.68 in Oregon

<p>Global champions Dalilah Muhammad, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Jacob Kilpimo are among the latest stars who have confirmed their participation at the Gyulai Memorial &ndash; a <strong>World Athletics Continental Tour Gold</strong> meeting &ndash; in Szekesfehervar on 6 July.</p>
<p>Muhammad, who will be in action at the US Olympic Trials later this week, is the world and Olympic champion at 400m hurdles and the world record-holder. Having finished seventh in 2015, third in 2017 and second in 2018, Muhammad will be seeking her first Szekesfehervar victory when she takes on US compatriot Shamier Little, Dutch record-holder Femke Bol, Jamaica&rsquo;s Janieve Russell, USA&rsquo;s Ashley Spencer, Switzerland&rsquo;s Lea Sprunger and Ukraine&rsquo;s Anna Ryzhykova.</p>
<p>Olympic 400m champion Miller-Uibo, who holds the Gyulai Memorial meeting records at 200m and 400m, will contest the shorter of those events this time. The Bahamian sprinter will line up against two-time world champion Dafne Schippers and world bronze medallist Mujinga Kambundji.</p>
<p>World indoor champion and recently crowned US Trials winner Kendra Harrison will also return to Szekesfehervar. She set a Hungarian all-comers&rsquo; record of 12.28 there in 2017 and won again in 2019. The world silver medallist will face world leader Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, USA's Sharika Nelvis, Bahamian record-holder Devynne Charlton and European champion Elvira Herman.</p>
<p>The men&rsquo;s sprint hurdles is similarly competitive and features Olympic silver medallist Orlando Ortega, world bronze medallist Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, African record-holder Antonio Alkana and US duo Devon Allen and Daniel Roberts.</p>
<p>Elsewhere in the sprints, Tokyo-bound Wadeline Jonathas will take on European champion Justyna Swiety-Ersetic and USA&rsquo;s Lynna Irby over 400m, while world and Olympic medallist Blessing Okagbare will contest the 100m.</p>
<p>World half marathon champion Jacob Kiplimo will step down in distance to the 3000m &ndash; an event in which he holds the Ugandan record of 7:26.64 &ndash; to race against two-time world 5000m champion Muktar Edris, Telahun Haile Bekele, Ethiopian 10,000m champion Berihu Aregawi and Kenya&rsquo;s 2015 world U18 champion Richard Yator.</p>
<p>The field events in Szekesfehervar will feature several global medallists, none more so than the men&rsquo;s discus.</p>
<p>Daniel Stahl will be joined by the two men who preceded him as world champion &ndash; Lithuania&rsquo;s Andrius Gudzius and Poland&rsquo;s Piotr Malachowski &ndash; as well as Olympic champion Christoph Harting. World silver medallist Fedrick Dacres and Sweden&rsquo;s Simon Pettersson are also in the high-quality line-up.</p>
<p>In the men&rsquo;s hammer, four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek will take on arch rival Wojciech Nowicki, the European champion, along with world bronze medallist Bence Halasz and Ukraine&rsquo;s Mykhaylo Kokhan.</p>
<p>Two-time Olympic champion and world record-holder Anita Wlodarczyk, continuing her comeback, stars in the women&rsquo;s hammer. She&rsquo;ll face 2017 world bronze medallist Malwina Kopron and 2015 world bronze medallist Alexandra Tavernier.</p>
<p>World leader Maria Andrejczyk, who moved to second on the world all-time list earlier this year, will compete in the javelin alongside Germany&rsquo;s European champion Christin Hussong, 2016 European champion Tatsiana Khaladovich and European bronze medallist Liveta Jasiunaite.</p>
<p>Three members of the exclusive 18-metre club will clash in the men&rsquo;s triple jump as world indoor record-holder Hugues Fabrice Zango takes on world indoor champion Will Claye and Cuba&rsquo;s Pedro Pablo Pichardo.</p>
<p>In other events, world bronze medallist Ferguson Rotich, Wesley Vazquez and Elliot Giles are confirmed for the men&rsquo;s 800m; world silver and bronze medallists Mikhail Akimenko and Ilya Ivanyuk take on 2016 world indoor champion Gianmarco Tamberi, Ukraine&rsquo;s Andriy Protsenko, Australian record-holder Brandon Starc and 2007 world champion Donald Thomas in the high jump; and the men&rsquo;s shot put line-up includes European indoor shot put champion Tomas Stanek, 2016 world indoor bronze medallist Filip Mihaljevic, Poland&rsquo;s Konrad Bukowiecki and Nigeria&rsquo;s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi.</p>

Global champions Dalilah Muhammad, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Jacob Kilpimo are among the latest stars who have confirmed their participation at the Gyulai Memorial – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – in Szekesfehervar on 6 July.

Muhammad, Miller-Uibo and Kiplimo confirmed for Szekesfehervar

<p>Dina Asher-Smith and Sha'Carri Richardson will meet in the 200m, while a 400m hurdles field featuring Dalilah Muhammad and Femke Bol has been announced for the Bauhaus-Galan, a <strong>Wanda Diamond League</strong> meeting, in Stockholm on 4 July.</p>
<p>Britain&rsquo;s world 200m champion Asher-Smith ran 22.06 in her second 200m race of the season at the Diamond League in Florence, while the USA&rsquo;s Richardson opened with a time of 22.11 in Florida in April, and they will go head-to-head in Stockholm following their 100m clash in Gateshead where Asher-Smith claimed the win in wet and windy conditions &ndash; 11.35 to 11.44.</p>
<p>Bol broke the Dutch 400m hurdles record with 53.44 in Florence, a time which puts her third on this season&rsquo;s world rankings behind Sydney McLaughlin and Shamier Little. The 21-year-old will be looking to build on that as she goes up against world record-holder Muhammad, two-time world champion Zuzana Hejnova and European champion Lea Sprunger in Stockholm.</p>
<p>The women&rsquo;s long jump field also looks set to be strong, with home favourite Khaddi Sagnia taking on world champion Malaika Mihambo, world indoor champion Ivana Spanovic and world silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk.</p>
<p>The women&rsquo;s high jump so far features world champion Mariya Lasitskene and world silver medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh plus Sweden&rsquo;s Erika Kinsey and Erika Kinsey, while in the shot put Valerie Adams and Fanny Roos have been announced.</p>
<p>Joining Sweden&rsquo;s already-announced world record-holder Mondo Duplantis in the pole vault will be Sam Kendricks, Renaud Lavillenie, Piotr Lisek, KC Lightfoot and Chris Nilsen, while the discus is set to include Simon Pettersson, Daniel Stahl, Fedrick Dacres and Lukas Weisshaidinger.</p>
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Dina Asher-Smith and Sha'Carri Richardson will meet in the 200m, while a 400m hurdles field featuring Dalilah Muhammad and Femke Bol has been announced for the Bauhaus-Galan, a Wanda Diamond League meeting, in Stockholm on 4 July.

Top head-to-heads set for Stockholm

<p>Dina Asher-Smith and Sha'Carri Richardson will meet in the 200m, while a 400m hurdles field featuring Dalilah Muhammad and Femke Bol has been announced for the Bauhaus-Galan, a&nbsp;<strong>Wanda Diamond League</strong>&nbsp;meeting, in Stockholm on 4 July.</p>
<p>Britain&rsquo;s world 200m champion Asher-Smith ran 22.06 in her second 200m race of the season at the Diamond League in Florence, while the USA&rsquo;s Richardson opened with a time of 22.11 in Florida in April, and they will go head-to-head in Stockholm following their 100m clash in Gateshead where Asher-Smith claimed the win in wet and windy conditions &ndash; 11.35 to 11.44.</p>
<p>Bol broke the Dutch 400m hurdles record with 53.44 in Florence, a time which puts her third on this season&rsquo;s world rankings behind Sydney McLaughlin and Shamier Little. The 21-year-old will be looking to build on that as she goes up against world record-holder Muhammad, two-time world champion Zuzana Hejnova and European champion Lea Sprunger in Stockholm.</p>
<p>The women&rsquo;s long jump field also looks set to be strong, with home favourite Khaddi Sagnia taking on world champion Malaika Mihambo, world indoor champion Ivana Spanovic and world silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk.</p>
<p>The women&rsquo;s high jump so far features world champion Mariya Lasitskene and world silver medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh plus Sweden&rsquo;s Erika Kinsey and Erika Kinsey, while in the shot put Valerie Adams and Fanny Roos have been announced.</p>
<p>Joining Sweden&rsquo;s already-announced world record-holder Mondo Duplantis in the pole vault will be Sam Kendricks, Renaud Lavillenie, Piotr Lisek, KC Lightfoot and Chris Nilsen, while the discus is set to include Simon Pettersson, Daniel Stahl, Fedrick Dacres and Lukas Weisshaidinger.</p>
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<p>Jamaica's double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah is among the large field of world-class athletes listed for action at the inaugural North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) New Life Invitational on Saturday (5).</p>
<p>The&nbsp;<strong>World Athletics Continental Tour&nbsp;Silver</strong> meeting will be staged at the Ansin Sports Complex in Miramar, Florida, USA.</p>
<p>Thompson-Herah is entered in the women&rsquo;s 100m and 200m, with the 100m field also including her fellow Jamaicans Natasha Morrison and Briana Williams, Bahamian Tynia Gaither, Trinidad and Tobago&rsquo;s Kelly-Ann Baptiste and the USA's Tianna Bartoletta.</p>
<p>Thompson-Herah is second on the 2021 world rankings at 10.78, trailing only the USA's sprint sensation Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson (10.72). Morrison is fourth with a 10.87 run, while Williams is 11th at 10.98. Gaither is also in the top 20, her 11.02 clocking placing her at number 13.</p>
<p>In the longer sprint, Thompson-Herah will be challenged by Williams, Gaither, Great Britain&rsquo;s Jodie Williams and the USA's Brittany Brown, the 2019 world silver medallist.</p>
<p>Bartoletta, the 2016 Olympic long jump gold medallist, is also on the entry list for her specialist event. Bartoletta will face strong challenges from fellow American Malaina Payton, Jamaica&rsquo;s Chanice Porter, Briton Lorraine Ugen and Canadian Christabel Nettey.</p>
<p>In the 400m hurdles, Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad takes on 2021 world leader Shamier Little (53.12). The two Americans are not set to have things all their own way, however, as the list of challengers includes in-form Jamaicans Rhonda Whyte and Shiann Salmon.</p>
<p>The women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles is also packed with quality, including Jamaica&rsquo;s 2015 world champion Danielle Williams, Nigerian Tobi Amusan and American Christina Clemons.</p>
<p>Among the men that will feature at the NACAC New Life Invitational are US sprint star Trayvon Bromell, the world 100m leader at 9.88, and Samoan discus thrower Alex Rose.</p>
<p>Jamaican Chrisann Gordon-Powell and American Wadeline Jonathas go head-to-head in the women&rsquo;s 400m. American Aje&eacute; Wilson is expected to dominate the women&rsquo;s 800m and in the women&rsquo;s triple jump, Dominican Republic&rsquo;s Ana Tima is one to watch.</p>
<p>Some 200 athletes from 27 countries are expected to be on show at the event which starts at 2pm (Eastern Daylight Time).</p>
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Jamaica's double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah is among the large field of world-class athletes listed for action at the inaugural North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) New Life Invitational on Saturday (5).

Thompson-Herah, Bromell and Muhammad headline New Life Invitational

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<p><br />Dalilah Muhammad's world 400m hurdles record of 52.16 and Yaroslava Mahuchikh's world U20 high jump records of 2.02m and 2.04m, all set at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019, have now been ratified, along with Joshua Cheptegei's world 10km record of 26:38* and Edward Cheserek's 5km world record-equalling run of 13:29.</p>
<p>Muhammad, the Olympic champion, broke the 400m hurdles world record twice in 2019, but it was her second, on 4 October which propelled her to her first world title, that will prove most memorable.</p>
<p>In one of the most eagerly anticipated match-ups of the 2019 World Championships, Muhammad faced Diamond League champion Sydney McLaughlin in a race that didn't disappoint. Both went out hard, running virtually even after the first 200 metres. Muhammad built a narrow lead midway through the final bend to enter the final straight with a two-metre lead.</p>
<p>McLaughlin fought back but Muhammad held her off in the waning stages to shave a further 0.04 seconds from the mark she set at the US Championships on 28 July. Muhammad's performance earned her a US$100,000 bonus as part of the world record programme supported by QNB. She was later named World Athlete of the Year.</p>
<p>The women's high jump in Doha was nearly as dramatic as Mahuchikh twice broke the world U20 record with leaps of 2.02m and 2.04m on 30 September to take surprise silver behind defending champion Mariya Lasitskene. With her stellar performance, Mahuchikh bettered the previous world U20 mark of 2.01m held by USSR&rsquo;s Olga Turchak and Germany&rsquo;s Heike Balck from 1986 and 1989 respectively. The rising Ukrainian star also became the youngest ever World Athletics Championships field event medallist.</p>
<p>Cheptegei capped one of the most sensational all-around distance running seasons in recent years with his commanding run at the 10K Valencia Trinidad Alfonso on 1 December where he clipped six seconds from the previous record of 26:44 set by Leonard Patrick Komon in 2010.</p>
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<p>Kenya's Cheserek, who won a staggering 17 NCAA titles while a student at the University of Oregon, clocked 13:29 at the Carlsbad 5000 in Carlsbad, California USA on 7 April 2019 to equal the record set by Julien Wanders on 17 February 2019 in Monaco.</p>
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Dalilah Muhammad's world 400m hurdles record of 52.16 and Yaroslava Mahuchikh's world U20 high jump records of 2.02m and 2.04m, all set at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019, have now been ratified, along with Joshua Cheptegei's world 10km record of 26:38* and Edward Cheserek's 5km world record-equalling run of 13:29.

Ratified: Muhammad's world 400m hurdles record, Mahuchikh's world U20 high jump records and Cheptegei's world 10km record

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<p><br />Our end-of-year reviews continue with a look back at 2019&rsquo;s top action in the hurdles events.</p>
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<h3>Men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles</h3>
<p>The World Championships may have signalled a changing of the guards in this event.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s possibly still too early to make a definitive call on that, but the way USA&rsquo;s Grant Holloway handled himself in Doha was impressive. Despite being new on the international scene, the 21-year-old performed like a seasoned veteran, delivering three smooth runs in the Qatari capital where his victories never were in doubt.</p>
<p>His World Championships triumph came four months after the conclusion of a long and exhausting collegiate season, culminating in early June with winning the NCAA title in a world-leading 12.98 which made him one of the youngest sub-13 runners in history. His 2019 campaign had started back in January and he had a break of just 20 days between his indoor and outdoor seasons.</p>
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<p>Behind Holloway in the World Championships final, some of the event&rsquo;s most experienced exponents battled for the other medals. Olympic champion Omar McLeod looked well on his way to the silver when he started to hit some hurdles, tumbling into the next lane and blocking the fast-finishing Diamond League winner Orlando Ortega. This in turn opened the way for 2015 world champion Sergey Shubenkov to take silver.</p>
<p>McLeod was disqualified and, after long deliberations, the jury of appeal made the unique decision to award a bronze medal not only to third-place finisher Pacal Martinot-Lagarde but also to the impeded Ortega, who had crossed the line in fifth place.</p>
<p>For much of the first half of the year, Holloway was frequently pushed by Daniel Roberts, six months Holloway&rsquo;s junior. In their five outdoor encounters before Doha, Roberts actually had the upper hand: 3-2. Their sixth match-up &ndash; in Doha &ndash; unfortunately never materialised as Roberts was disqualified in his heat for inadvertently knocking down a hurdle in an adjacent lane.</p>
<h3><br />Women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles</h3>
<p>It was an exciting season in the women&rsquo;s hurdles with different athletes excelling at different points of the season.</p>
<p>It became apparent that the 2017 world title would not be retained in Doha, as Australia&rsquo;s Sally Pearson announced her retirement in August, having had six injuries during 2019. The 33-year-old, who won the 2011 and 2017 world titles as well as the 2012 Olympic gold medal, had been in good form earlier in the season, clocking 12.70 in Osaka in May.</p>
<p>The fastest athlete of the early season was 21-year-old Janeek Brown. She clocked 12.40 to equal the Jamaican record when winning at the NCAA Championships in June. She was not in the same form in Europe later, but fellow Jamaican Danielle Williams took over the mantle. The 27-year-old set a 12.32 national record when winning at the Diamond League meeting in London in July and was convincing in the World Championships heats and semifinals, easily making it to the final.</p>
<p>World record-holder Kendra Harrison was also in promising form, clocking a 12.43 season&rsquo;s best to win in Monaco in July and then winning the US Championships later that month in 12.44 into a headwind. She, too, won her heat and semifinal in Doha.</p>
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<p>There was a slight surprise in the final, though, as Nia Ali emerged as the winner in a 12.34 personal best. The 31-year-old US sprint hurdler, who had won world indoor 60m hurdles titles in 2014 and 2016, had only run 12.55 before Doha, but she clocked a 12.44 personal best in the semifinals and then crowned her career with a great run in the final.</p>
<h3><br />Men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles</h3>
<p>The brilliant performances from Abderrahman Samba, Karsten Warholm and Rai Benjamin last year led to great expectations for 2019.</p>
<p>Even though the number of head-to-head encounters between the trio remained small &ndash; mainly because Samba sustained a hip injury mid-season &ndash; 2019 did indeed become a year for the history books.</p>
<p>This was, to a large extent, thanks to the undefeated Warholm who competed seven times between late May and early October, running sub-47.50 on all occasions but one (his season opener on a cold evening at the Stockholm Diamond League where he ran 47.85).</p>
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<p>Warholm&rsquo;s seasonal record proved to be the best ever in the event. Of the 17 sub-47.50 runners of all time, only four have done it more than four times &ndash; in their whole careers, let alone in one season. Even legends such as Edwin Moses and Kevin Young never had more than three in one season.</p>
<p>The all-time list of top-five seasonal average is as follows:<br /> 1 Warholm 47.210 (2019)<br /> 2 Benjamin 47.322 (2019)<br /> 3 Samba 47.332 (2018)<br /> 4 Young 47.366 (1992)<br /> 5 Moses 47.402 (1981)</p>
<p>This also underlines how exceptional the current leading trio is; in the past two years, they have produced the three best seasons in the history of the 400m hurdles. It&rsquo;s also worth noting that Young and Moses reached their peak at the age of 26, while Warholm (23), Benjamin (22) and Samba (24) are a few years younger.</p>
<p>There are younger talents emerging, too. Brazilian teenager Alison Dos Santos is on a steep upward trajectory; after earning bronze at the World U20 Championships last year in 49.78, he chipped away at his PB throughout 2019 and produced a 48.29 clocking to finish seventh in the World Championships final.</p>
<h3><br />Women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles</h3>
<p>It was clear from early in the season that the 2019 campaign in the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles would be a duel between two US athletes.</p>
<p>Twenty-year-old Sydney McLaughlin had run 52.75 as an U20 athlete last year, while Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad started well following a solid but unspectacular 2018 season.</p>
<p>McLaughlin came out on top in their first head-to-head battle of the year, winning in Oslo in 54.16 to Muhammad&rsquo;s 54.35. But the real bomb was dropped at the US Championships where Muhammad broke Yuliya Pechonkina&rsquo;s world record of 52.34, which had stood for almost 16 years. Muhammad clocked 52.20 with McLaughlin running 52.88 for second place.</p>
<p>The tables were turned in Z&uuml;rich in late August, however, when McLaughlin won the Diamond League final in dominant fashion in a season&rsquo;s best of 52.85 with Muhammad way back in third place in 54.13.</p>
<p>But while McLaughlin appeared to be timing her peak well, Muhammad was by no means finished. Pushed all the way by her younger teammate, Muhammad held on for victory in the World Championships final, setting her second world record of the season with 52.16. McLaughlin closed the gap in the final stages to finish just 0.07 behind Muhammad in 52.23, becoming the second-fastest athlete ever.</p>
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<p>Muhammad may have ended the season at the top of the world lists, but McLaughlin made a bit of history by becoming the first woman in history to produce three sub-53-second performances in one season.</p>
<p>As they had been for most of the season, the other World Championships finalists finished well behind the US duo in Doha. Jamaica&rsquo;s Rushell Clayton had not broken 55 seconds before this season, but made good progress throughout year and took bronze in 53.74 in Doha, while Lea Sprunger set a Swiss record of 54.16 for fourth place.</p>
<p>Aside from McLaughlin, the only other athlete to defeat Muhammad this year was Shamier Little, but a fourth-place finish at the competitive US Championships meant the 2015 world silver medallist didn&rsquo;t make the team for Doha.</p>
<p><strong><br />Mirko Jalava (women&rsquo;s events) and A Lennart Julin (men&rsquo;s events) for World Athletics</strong></p>

Our end-of-year reviews continue with a look back at 2019’s top action in the hurdles events.

2019 review: hurdles

<p><br />A deluge of world records have been posted in 2019. We highlight five (well, okay, seven) of the best during an unforgettable calendar year for the sport.</p>
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<h3>Samuel Tefera</h3>
<p><strong>Indoor 1500m</strong></p>
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Samuel Tefera wins the 1500m at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Birmingham</div>
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<p>The Ethiopian teenager produced a sensational performance to trim 0.14 from Hicham El Guerrouj&rsquo;s 22-year-old world indoor 1500m in Birmingham.</p>
<p>At the same British venue where Tefera was crowned world indoor 1500m champion 11 months earlier, pacemakers Bram Som went through 400m in 55.69 and Jordan Williamsz hit the 1000m mark in 2:21.27.</p>
<p>Tefera kicked past his compatriot Yomif Kejelcha at the bell and raced on to history, recording a stunning time of 3:31.04.</p>
<h3><br />Julien Wanders</h3>
<p><strong>Road 5km</strong></p>
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Julien Wanders clocks 13:29 in Monaco</div>
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<p>Less than 18 hours after Tefera&rsquo;s blistering performance in Birmingham, Som returned to pace a second world record in successive days, helping Julien Wanders set a road 5km mark of 13:29 at the Herculis 5km.</p>
<p>On the streets of Monaco, the Kenya-based Swiss athlete survived an untimely bout of flu in the lead up to the event to shave one second from Bernard Kibet&rsquo;s pending inaugural world record mark. The 5km road distance was introduced as a world record event in November 2017.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I was a bit worried because I knew 13:30 was the old record and at the finish I saw 13:30,&rdquo; said Wanders. &ldquo;But then then they told me, &lsquo;no, it was 13:29&rsquo;, so I was very happy.&rdquo;</p>
<h3><br />USA</h3>
<p><strong>Mixed 4x400m relay </strong></p>
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Mixed 4x400m relay team members Wilbert London, Allyson Felix, Courtney Okolo, and Michael Cherry at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019</div>
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<p>Remarkably, the USA smashed the mixed 4x400m world record twice in as many days at the World Athletics Championships in Doha with entirely different quartets.</p>
<p>In the heats, Tyrell Richard, Jessica Beard, Jasmine Blocker and Obi Igbokwe posted a world record time of 3:12.42 in the fledgling event. Then in the final, the team of Wil London, Allyson Felix, Courtney Okolo and Michael Cherry blitzed around the four-lap distance in a benchmark 3:09.34 to grab gold ahead of Jamaica.</p>
<p>The performance also secured Felix, the second leg runner, a record-breaking 12th world title.</p>
<h3><br />Dalilah Muhammad</h3>
<p><strong>400m hurdles</strong></p>
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Dalilah Muhammad in the 400m hurdles at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019</div>
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<p>The Olympic champion set not one but two world 400m hurdles records to take the event to a new realm.</p>
<p>The 29-year-old sliced 0.14 from the 16-year-old world record to record 52.20 at the US Championships in Des Moines before running even faster in Doha. In one of the highlights of the World Championships, the New York native blasted around the 400m oval in 52.16 to hold off her charging 20-year-old US teammate Sydney McLaughlin by just 0.07 to strike gold.</p>
<p>&ldquo;This means so much,&rdquo; she said in the wake of winning world gold and setting a world record. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s difficult to describe. I just wanted the world title so much but to break the world record again is fantastic.&rdquo;</p>
<h3><br />Brigid Kosgei</h3>
<p><strong>Marathon</strong></p>
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<p>On an iconic weekend for road running, the Kenyan marathon runner dismantled Paula Radcliffe&rsquo;s 16-year-old world record by a staggering 81 seconds with a dazzling performance on the streets of Chicago.</p>
<p>The 25-year-old defending champion had triumphed at April&rsquo;s London Marathon in a PB of 2:18:20 but few would have predicted a performance of this magnitude.</p>
<p>Hitting the halfway mark in 1:06:59 suggested a finishing time of about 2:14 &ndash; and she went on to deliver, stopping the clock in a breath-taking 2:14:04 to erase the longest standing marathon world record in the modern era.</p>
<p>The previous day in Vienna, Eliud Kipchoge had made history by becoming the first person in history to cover the marathon distance within two hours, albeit in an unratified race.</p>
<p><strong><br />Steve Landells for World Athletics</strong></p>

A deluge of world records have been posted in 2019. We highlight five (well, okay, seven) of the best during an unforgettable calendar year for the sport. 

Fab five: world records set in 2019

<p><br />Dalilah Muhammad admits that ending 2019 as the World Athlete of the Year wasn&rsquo;t something she expected at its outset. Certainly not in mid-July, when a freak accident during a routine training session nearly ended her season just as it was getting underway.</p>
<p>Muhammad was running some speed drills, she said, when a minor misstep dropped her head-first on to to the track. She landed with a hard, heavy thud.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I bumped my head pretty hard but I jumped right back up,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I just walked into the bathroom and I looked at myself in the mirror. My coach came in there with me, asking, 'Are you ok?&rsquo; I said, 'Yeah, I'm fine.&rsquo; But the second I stepped back out into the light, I had absolutely no idea where I was. I was asking him and my training partners, 'Where are we?' And at that point they knew something was clearly wrong."</p>
<p>She was rushed to a hospital where she was diagnosed with a minor concussion. That was ten days before the opening round of the 400m hurdles at the national championships where she needed to finish in the top three to earn her way on to the team bound for the World Championships in Doha.</p>
<h3>Quick recovery</h3>
<p>But she recovered quickly. Eleven days later she smashed the world record with a stunning 52.20 run at those championships, eclipsing the 52.34 mark Yulia Pechonkina set in 2003 when Muhammad was just a 13-year-old middle schooler in Queens, New York.</p>
<p>As it turned out, that race was just the prelude to her sensational season.<br /><br /></p>
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Dalilah Muhammad on her way to a 400m hurdles world record at the US Championships</div>
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<p>Just over two months later at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019, Muhammad again reset the record book, breaking her own mark with a spectacular 52.16 performance to edge rising star Sydney McLaughlin in one of the most eagerly-anticipated finals. The last time the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles world record was broken twice in the same season was in 1986.</p>
<p>It was also Muhammad&rsquo;s first world title, following up silver medal-winning runs in 2013 and 2017 &ndash; finally a global gold to place beside the Olympic gold she won in Rio three years ago.</p>
<p>&ldquo;This year I was working my hardest and it's so nice to have it recognised and appreciated on such a grand scale,&rdquo; she said, briefly glancing at the Athlete of the Year trophy that will likely rest somewhere near those medals.</p>
<p>The two world records certainly loom large when she looks back on her 2019 accomplishments, but so too does the training and sweat that laid the foundation for them.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Everyday I was being pushed to the max. It was a hard year, and we got through it and we got world records, and now this. So it's been a good one.&rdquo;<br /><br /></p>
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Dalilah Muhammad in the 4x400m at the IAAF World Championships Doha 2019</div>
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<h3>World record target</h3>
<p>Many athletes will say that they don't intentionally target world records. Muhammad isn't among those.</p>
<p>She didn&rsquo;t say if the journey towards those records began after she won the 2007 world U18 title in Ostrava, or nine years later, when she raced to the Olympic title in Rio. But it was a long time coming.</p>
<p>"Every year I've been able to take a little bit off my time. I definitely had my heart set on the world record, my sights set on the world record."</p>
<p>Brutal competition helps, too, something in ample supply in the US where national team selection battles routinely rewrite the all-time lists.</p>
<p>Despite Muhammad&rsquo;s resume, much of the event&rsquo;s spotlight this year fell on McLaughlin, the prodigy who made the US Olympic team at 16 and was already, at barely 20, one of the best one-lap hurdlers in the world. The young upstart drew first blood this season, running down Muhammad at Oslo&rsquo;s Bislett Games in June, the pair&rsquo;s first meeting of the year. Muhammad returned the favor in a big way in Des Moines where McLaughlin watched from behind as the Olympic champion shattered the record. But McLauglin struck back at the Diamond League final in Zurich, winning in 52.85. Muhammad finished a well-beaten third in 54.13 to set the stage for what was to be an epic showdown in Doha. There, Muhammad once again illustrated what a champion she&rsquo;s become.<br /><br /></p>
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Dalilah Muhammad en route to the world record in the 400m hurdles at the IAAF World Championships Doha 2019</div>
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<p>&ldquo;Competition definitely motivates you,&rdquo; said Muhammad, who capped her Doha campaign with another gold medal, this one in the 4x400m. &ldquo;It definitely pushes you to be at your very best. (But) the world record was definitely something I was aiming towards this year regardless of the field. It was something I was aiming for because of the field. I knew that the field would be strong and that this would be a great year, and a great opportunity to push for the world record.&rdquo;</p>
<h3>Tokyo looms</h3>
<p>Looking ahead, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo loom large, where Muhammad is aiming to become the first woman to win a second Olympic 400m hurdles title.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I definitely would love to (successfully) defend my title,&rdquo; she said, but if it comes, it&rsquo;ll be as part of a more balanced approach to life and sport.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think, for me, I'm really going to enjoy the year. This will be my eighth year as a professional athlete and I'd really just like to see the places we get to visit and enjoy track and field as it comes. But of course I'll be working hard to defend the title.&rdquo;</p>
<p>And to get there, she&rsquo;&rsquo;ll travel the same familiar road that led to her appearance on a glittering Monaco stage last night.<br /><br /></p>
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US 400m hurdler Dalilah Muhammad in Monaco</div>
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<p>Nothing has changed for me,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;It's just the beginning. I'll be the same person on that track and I&rsquo;ll approach each race the same way. Running is something I truly do love &ndash; for me it's what gets me up everyday. I love the training aspect. I love the process of running. The meets are just secondary to me.&rdquo;</p>
<p>She also firmly believes she can go even faster.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think I have things that I can improve on. I think the other women have things that they can improve upon. There's definitely still room for growth.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Bob Ramsak for World Athletics</strong></p>

Dalilah Muhammad admits that ending 2019 as the World Athlete of the Year wasn’t something she expected at its outset. Certainly not in mid-July, when a freak accident during a routine training session nearly ended her season just as it was getting underway.

Muhammad on her stellar 2019 campaign: 'It's just the beginning'

<p><br />Eliud Kipchoge and Dalilah Muhammad have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the <strong>World Athletics Awards 2019</strong>, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Saturday (23).&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kipchoge, the winner of the award last year, added to his phenomenal marathon CV in 2019. In April he captured his fourth victory at the London Marathon with a 2:02:37 course record, the third fastest performance of all time. The 35-year-old Kenyan followed up in October by blasting through the distance's two-hour barrier with a 1:59:40.2 performance at the Ineos159 Challenge in Vienna.</p>
<p>Muhammad, 29, broke the world record in the 400m hurdles twice this year, first with a 52.20 performance at the US Championships in July to eclipse a mark which had stood since 2003. Muhammad broke it again at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019, clocking 52.16 in one of the championships' most eagerly-awaited finals to claim the world title for the first time. Muhammad also won world gold in the 4x400m relay and won five of her seven races.</p>
<h3>Male Rising Star - Selemon Barega</h3>
<p>Barega, 19, was the silver medallist in the 5000m at the World Championships, and finished fifth in the senior race at the World Cross Country Championships Aarhus 2019. The Ethiopian also produced world U20 leads at both the 5000m and 10,000m with 12:53.04 and 26:49.46, respectively.</p>
<h3>Female Rising Star - Yaroslava Mahuchikh</h3>
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2019 Rising Star Award winner Yaroslava Mahuchikh with World Athletics Senior Vice President Sergey Bubka</div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mahuchikh, the 2017 world U18 champion, continued her ascension into the high jump elite at the World Championships where she twice broke the world U20 record, first with a leap of 2.02m and again with a clearance of 2.04m to secure the silver medal. The 18-year-old also won the European U20 title.</p>
<h3>Coaching Achievement - Brother Colm O'Connell</h3>
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Coaching Achievement Award recipient Brother Colm O'Connell with Wilson Kipketer</div>
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<p>During a coaching career that has spanned more than four decades, O'Connell, an Irish missionary who has lived in Iten, Kenya, since 1976, has coached 25 world champions and four Olympic gold medallists, including Wilson Kipketer and David Rudisha, the World Athletes of the Year in 1997 and 2010, respectively. Kipketer presented him with his award.</p>
<h3>Fair Play Award - Braima Suncar Dabo</h3>
<p>Dabo, a distance runner from Guinea-Bissau, made headlines around the world after he helped fellow runner, Jonathan Busby of Aruba, to the finish line during their opening round heat of the 5000m at the World Championships. Busby was near collapse with about 200 metres left in the race, when Dabo stopped to help his distressed fellow competitor.&nbsp;</p>
<h3>President's Award - Vikki Orvice</h3>
<p>Orvice, a long-time British athletics journalist for The Sun, passed away last February after a long battle with cancer. Orvice served as chairperson of the British Athletics Writers Association (BAWA) between 2003 and 2005, the first woman to be appointed the role. She was also vice-chair of the Football Writers Association, one of the directors of Women In Football and a member of the IAAF Press and Media Operations Advisory Group.</p>
<h3>Woman of the Year - Derartu Tulu</h3>
<p>The Ethiopian distance running legend who won Olympic 10,000m titles in 1992 and 2000, Tulu has served as acting president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation since November 2018. She is also a Council member of the African Athletics Confederation and vice president of the East Africa Athletics Region.</p>
<h3>Athletics Photograph of the Year - Felix Sanchez Arrazola</h3>
<p>The Spanish photographer&rsquo;s image of a jubilant Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce moments after winning her fourth world 100m title was judged to be the winner from this year&rsquo;s shortlist of three photographs. Arrazola also won the award in 2018.</p>
<p><strong>World Athletics</strong></p>

Eliud Kipchoge and Dalilah Muhammad have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2019, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Saturday (23). 