{"id":204006,"date":"2025-08-05T03:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mclaughlin-levrone-wins-400m-to-seal-world-championship-berth\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T03:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:16:11","slug":"namibia-mclaughlin-levrone-wins-400m-to-seal-world-championship-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mclaughlin-levrone-wins-400m-to-seal-world-championship-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mclaughlin-Levrone Wins 400m to Seal World Championship Berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone booked her place at the World Championships on Saturday after storming to victory in the 400m at the US trials.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">McLaughlin-Levrone, the golden girl of US athletics and the greatest women&#8217;s 400m hurdler in history, powered home in 48.90secs at Eugene&#8217;s Hayward Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The 25-year-old two-time Olympic 400m hurdles champion and world record holder raised eyebrows this year by electing to take on a new challenge in the shape of the 400m flat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">McLaughlin-Levrone told reporters&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508040702.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone booked her place at the World Championships on Saturday after storming to victory in the 400m at the US trials. McLaughlin-Levrone, the golden girl of US athletics and the greatest women&#8217;s 400m hurdler in history, powered home in 48.90secs at Eugene&#8217;s Hayward Field. The 25-year-old two-time Olympic 400m hurdles champion and world record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[39719,258,256,15118,6843,52031,4706,724,257,5120,254,6552,5093],"class_list":["post-204006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-400m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-berth","tag-championship","tag-mclaughlinlevrone","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-seal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}