In the highly watched athletics event of the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, the biggest breakthrough was the men's 400-meter hurdles, in the final, Norway's Walholm broke through the 46 second mark with a time of 45.94 seconds, refreshing the 46.70 seconds world record he set and held a month ago, once again breaking through himself and winning the gold medal. It is worth mentioning that the silver and bronze medalists In this final, Rye Benjamin and Alison dos Santos also broke the world record of 46.78 seconds set by Kevin Young 29 years ago with excellent results of 46.17 seconds and 46.70 seconds, respectively.
One final, the top three in history. It's even the greatest game ever. The breakthrough was comparable to Bolt's 9.58 seconds that year. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt, together with Tyson Guy and Asaf Powell, staged a flying man battle for the world audience, Bolt greatly improved the world record in 9.58 seconds, Gay 9.71 was equally stunning, and Powell also won the only single major medal of his career at 9.83 seconds, pushing the excitement of the men's 100m event to the highest peak in history. Reached unprecedented heights. Today, 12 years later, the men's 400m hurdles are just as exciting!
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, American Kevin Young shocked the international athletics world with a time of 46.78 seconds, and 29 years later, Benjamin ran the second best time in history at the American Olympic Trials at the end of June, and then Walholm ran 46.70 seconds in the Diamond League in early July, breaking the world record. And the most exciting Tokyo final, when three athletes broke Kevin Young's world record in succession, surprised everyone's crazy imagination.
Equally exciting is the fact that this year's women's 400m hurdles also have a big breakthrough, in the final, the United States' Sydney McLaughlin set a world record of 51.46 seconds, breaking the world record of 51.90 seconds he set more than a month ago and winning the gold medal. The bronze medal-winning American Mohammed ran 51.58 to surpass his previous world record of 52.16 seconds at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, and the bronze medalist Bor of the Netherlands ranked third in the history of the women's 400m hurdles with a personal best of 52.03 seconds.
Coincidentally, the top three in history. It was another game of groundbreaking in the history of human movement. In 2003, Russia's Yulia Pechokina set a stunning record of 52.34 seconds in the women's 400m hurdles, which had not been broken until 2019; in July 2019, the United States' Mohammed ran 52.20 seconds at the National Championships, a world record that had been maintained for 16 years, and three months later, Muhammad raised the record to 52.16 seconds. In the final of the Tokyo Olympic Games, this record was refreshed again by three women's heroes, and the women's 400-meter hurdles entered a new era, a day they waited for 17 years. They have fought for the honor of their respective countries, and they have created a new glorious history for mankind!
Since then, the limits of human beings have once again been raised to new peaks, and the greatness of mankind has once again been written in the prelude to the Tokyo Olympic Games. Let us look forward to the next Olympic Games together, and believe that athletes from all over the world will show their more amazing achievements to the world.