Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s 2024: A Year in Numbers for the World Track Athlete of the Year

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was named women’s track athlete of the year at the World Athletics Awards 2024 in Monaco after a season in which she twice lowered her own world 400m hurdles record and retained her Olympic title.

At this summer’s Paris Games, she also helped the United States make a successful defence of the women’s 4x400m title.

McLaughlin-Levrone’s first world record of the year came at the US Olympic Trials which she won in 50.65, taking 0.03 off the world record she had set on the same track two years earlier in securing the world title.

In Paris, the day after her 25th birthday, she lowered that mark to 50.37 to add a second Olympic 400m hurdles gold to the one she had won three years earlier in Tokyo.

She followed up by running the second leg for a US 4x400m relay team that won gold in a North American record of 3:15.27, the second-fastest time in history and just 0.10 shy of the long-standing world record.

Speaking on stage with her award at the Theatre Princess Grace, McLaughlin-Levrone commented: “It’s an honour to come here to have the season that the team have had together be recognised. We are always going to find something we can improve.

“It was an amazing year. I’m so grateful being able to be healthy coming back after last year. The ultimately glory goes to God. I am so super-honoured to be here.

Asked about her targets for next year, she replied with a smile: “I honestly don’t really know! Mondo’s already training. Maybe I should be!”