American Rai Benjamin received the lads’s 400m hurdles in a world-leading 46.64 seconds on the Los Angeles Grand Prix on Saturday as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone posted a powerful 200m victory.
Benjamin, the 400m hurdles Olympic silver medallist, clocked the ninth-fastest time ever, revving up expectations for a Paris Video games showdown with Norway’s Karsten Warholm and Brazilian Alison dos Santos — who received gold and bronze in a scintillating Tokyo Olympics remaining.
McLaughlin-Levrone, world record-holder and Olympic champion within the girls’s 400m hurdles, clocked a private greatest 22.07sec, (wind -0.3m/sec) to win the 200m, the second-fastest time on the planet this 12 months.
In her first aggressive 200m since 2018, McLaughlin-Levrone beat fellow American Abby Steiner by 25-hundredths of a second.
Gabby Thomas, the world silver and Olympic bronze medallist, was sixth in 22.68sec.
American McKenzie Lengthy has the world’s quickest 200m this 12 months at 22.03sec. Jamaican Shericka Jackson, who received the world title final August in 21.41 has but to race a 200m in 2024.
In different occasions, American Michael Norman received the 400m in 44.53sec, beating 2012 Olympic gold medallist Kirani James of Grenada, who clocked 44.85.
American Kyree King received the lads’s 100m in 10.11sec, edging world silver medallist Letsile Tebogo of Botswana by two-hundredths of a second.