Sydney McLaughlin

Sydney McLaughlin
Personal information
Birth name Sydney Michelle McLaughlin
Nationality American
Born (1999-08-07) August 7, 1999
New Brunswick, New Jersey[1]
Residence Dunellen, New Jersey
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1]
Weight 132 lb (60 kg)
Sport
Sport track: hurdles, relays, sprints
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 400m hurdles: 52.75 (2018)
400m: 50.07 (2018)
60m hurdles: 8.17i (2015)
200m: 22.39 (2018)
100m: 11.07 (2018)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the  United States
World Youth Championships
2015 Cali400 m hurdles

Sydney McLaughlin (born August 7, 1999) is an American hurdler and sprinter who competes for the University of Kentucky.[2] McLaughlin holds a number of age group world bests and won the Gatorade National Girls Athlete of the Year trophy for both 2015–16 and 2016-17. She placed third in the 400-meter hurdles at the 2016 United States Olympic Trials, qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics. McLaughlin has a personal best of 50.07 in the 400m. She has run numerous times in different relays, sometimes running under 50 seconds.

Biography

McLaughlin belongs to an athletic family; her father Willie was a semi-finalist in the 400 meters at the 1984 Olympic Trials, her mother Mary was a runner in high school, and her older brother Taylor won silver in the 400-meter hurdles at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships.[3] A resident of Dunellen, New Jersey, she is a member of the class of 2017 at Union Catholic Regional High School in Scotch Plains, and has been successful academically.[3][4][5] McLaughlin took up running at an early age, following Taylor and their older sister Morgan.[3]

McLaughlin placed a close second behind Shamier Little in the 400-meter hurdles at the national junior (under-20) championships in 2014; her time of 55.63 was a national high school freshman record and a world age-14 best.[6][7] She would have qualified to represent the United States at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships, but was a year too young to be eligible.[8] McLaughlin also set a world age group best (13.34) in the 100-meter hurdles over 76.2 cm (2 ft 6 in) hurdles that summer.[7]

McLaughlin improved her 400-meter hurdles best to 55.28 at the 2015 national youth trials; the time was an age 15 world best, and ranked second on the all-time world youth list behind Leslie Maxie's world youth best (and national high school record) of 55.20 set in 1984.[8] She qualified for the 2015 IAAF World Youth Championships in Cali, Colombia, where she won gold in 55.94; she finished the year as the world youth and junior leader in the event.[9]

McLaughlin won the 400-meter hurdles in 54.46 at the 2016 New Balance national outdoor high school championships; the time broke Maxie's prep record and world youth best, as well as Lashinda Demus's American junior record of 54.70.[10] In addition, she ran on Union Catholic's team in the Swedish medley relay, running a fast 50.93 split for 400 meters as the team set a new high school record of 2:07.99.[10] McLaughlin won the USATF junior championship in 54.54 the following week; in recognition of her accomplishments, she was named Gatorade National Girls Athlete of the Year.[4][11]

McLaughlin won her heat (55.46) and semi-final (55.23) in the 400-meter hurdles at the 2016 United States Olympic Trials.[9][12] In the final she placed third in 54.15, setting a new world youth best and world junior record and qualifying for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[13] McLaughlin is the youngest athlete to make the American Olympic track and field team since Carol Lewis and Denean Howard qualified for the boycotted Moscow Olympics in 1980.[14] At the olympics she placed 5th in her semi-final heat, failing to advance to the finals.[15]

In November 2016, McLaughlin signed a National Letter of Intent to attend the University of Kentucky and compete for their track and field program.[16][17]

McLaughlin was part of an American Record quartet that broke the indoor distance medley relay world record with a time of 10:40.31, set at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on January 28, 2017. The splits for the four legs were: 3:18.40 (1,200m) by Olympic medalist Emma Coburn,52.32 (400m) by McLaughlin, 2:01.92 (800 m) by Brenda Martinez, and 4:27.66 (1600 m) by Olympic medalist and former world 1,500m champion Jenny Simpson.[18] Later that indoor season, McLaughlin lowered her own national 400 meter record to a 51.61 at the New Balance Nationals in New York City on March 12, 2017.[19]

In April 2017, McLaughlin continued the positive momentum from the 2017 indoor campaign by opening her outdoor season in style—breaking the 300m hurdles national high school record at the Arcadia Invitational running 38.90. The record was previously held by Lashinda Demus who ran 39.98 in 2001. The record was the first ever attempt over 300m hurdles for McLaughlin as high school track meets in New Jersey do not contest the 300m hurdles. Her time of 38.90 is considered to be a North American Record and number 2 all-time worldwide behind Zuzana Hejnova who ran 38.16 in 2013.[20] Later that month, McLaughlin ran the fastest ever high school girls (400m) relay split during the Championship of America high school girls 4x400 at the 123rd Penn Relays. After taking the baton at the back of an eight-team field, McLaughlin posted a split of 50.37, passing five teams to lead her Union Catholic relay team to a third-place finish in 3:38.92.[21] She bettered this mark at the New Balance Nationals Outdoor Meet on June 18, 2017. Taking the baton in 6th place on the final handoff, she passed five runners to lead Union Catholic to victory, posting a split of 49.85 seconds.[22]

In March 2018, McLaughlin set world junior 400 meter record in (50.36) at 2018 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships.

On May 13, 2018, McLaughlin broke the NCAA record in the 400 meter hurdles, running 52.75 to win the event in her first SEC championship appearance.[23]

Personal bests

SurfaceDistanceTimeDateLocationNote(s)
Outdoor 200 m22.39March 29, 2018Gainesville, Florida
400 m50.07March 30, 2018Gainesville, Florida
100 m hurdles13.34June 14, 2014Greensboro, North Carolina
300 m hurdles38.90April 9, 2017Arcadia, CaliforniaHSR
400 m hurdles52.75May 13, 2018Knoxville, TennesseeNJR, WJR

NCAA

Indoor 300 m36.12December 8, 2017Bloomington, Indiana[24]NJR, WJR
400 m50.36March 10, 2018College Station, TexasNJR, WJR
60 m hurdles8.17March 15, 2015New York, New York

References

  1. 1 2 "Sydney McLaughlin". United States Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Boylan-Pett, Liam (October 24, 2017). "The Track Phenom Who Chose College Over Riches". bleacherreport.com. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Track: Union Catholic siblings Taylor and Sydney McLaughlin were born to run". The Star-Ledger. January 29, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Konecky, Chad (June 27, 2016). "Sydney McLaughlin wins Gatorade National Track & Field Athlete of the Year". USA Today. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ Staff. "Union Catholic Track Star Will Be Youngest U.S. Track Star in Olympics", TAP Into Union, July 11, 2016. Accessed July 13, 2016. "Sydney McLaughlin a member of the Class of 2017 at Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains, set a high school and new world junior record in the women's 400 hurdles at the U.S. Olympic trails. 'All the pressure I put on myself,' McLaughlin, a resident of Dunellen, said in her post-race interview on NBC, which will air the games from Brazil next month."
  6. ↑ Mazzone, Stephen (July 14, 2014). "Sydney McLaughlin is Too Good to Be Only 14". MileSplit. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  7. 1 2 Butler, Mark (ed.). "IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 Statistics Handbook". IAAF Communications Department: 525.
  8. 1 2 Mulkeen, Jon (July 1, 2015). "McLaughlin, Hill and Lyles impress at US Youth Championships". Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  9. 1 2 Sydney McLaughlin at Tilastopaja (registration required)
  10. 1 2 "McLaughlin's record-shattering performances earn AOW honors". USA Track & Field. June 21, 2016. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  11. ↑ Jordan, Jason (July 13, 2016). "Gatorade Female Athlete of the Year Sydney McLaughlin has rare talents away from the track". USA Today. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
  12. ↑ Lambert, Jim (July 10, 2016). "Rio 2016: N.J. high school phenom McLaughlin aims to make Olympic Team on Sunday". NJ.com. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  13. ↑ Young, Dennis (July 10, 2016). "16-Year-Old Sydney McLaughlin Makes Olympic Team With World Junior Record". FloTrack. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  14. ↑ Lambert, Jim (July 10, 2016). "Rio 2016: N.J. HS phenom Sydney McLaughlin runs her way onto the Olympic team". NJ.com. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Olympic Track & Field Results: Sydney McLaughlin Doesn't Qualify In 400M Hurdles". NESN.com. 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  16. ↑ Lambert, Jim (November 14, 2016). "N.J. teen Olympian Sydney McLaughlin has picked her college. The winner is..." nj.com. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  17. ↑ "UKTF Signing Sydney McLaughlin Sweeps 2016 Awards". University of Kentucky. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  18. ↑ "Coburn, McLaughlin, Martinez, Simpson Break DMR World Record". FloTrack. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  19. ↑ http://www.milesplit.com/articles/204761-sydney-mclaughlin-lowers-own-national-record-to-5161
  20. ↑ http://www.flotrack.org/article/54447-sydney-mclaughlin-breaks-300m-hurdles-national-high-school-record#.WQQGZFMrKRs
  21. ↑ http://usatodayhss.com/?p=101192889
  22. ↑ http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=19684486
  23. ↑ https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/sydney-mclaughlin-sec-champs-400-hurdles-reco
  24. ↑ https://ukathletics.com/news/2017/12/8/track-field-sydney-mclaughlin-sets-world-junior-300m-record-in-uk-debut.aspx
Awards
Preceded by
Candace Hill		 USA Track & Field Youth Athlete of the Year
2016		 Succeeded by
TBA
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