Bobby Kersee explains why Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone withdrew from a meet in Monaco
1 year, 5 months ago

Bobby Kersee explains why Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone withdrew from a meet in Monaco

LA Times  

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone waves to the crowd after winning the women’s 400 meters during the U.S. track and field championships in Eugene, Ore. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone withdrew from her final 400-meter tune-up race before August’s world championships Friday after dealing with pain in a knee, her coach Bobby Kersee told The Times. McLaughlin-Levrone, the 23-year-old world record-holder in the 400-meter hurdles who won the U.S. championship in the open 400 earlier this month in 48.74 seconds, was set to race the 400 meters on Friday in Monaco at a meet on the Diamond League circuit against a field including Lieke Klaver, Rhasidat Adeleke and Natalia Kaczmarek, all of whom have also run under 50 seconds this season. Kersee, whose Los Angeles-based Formula Kersee training group includes McLaughlin-Levrone, termed the knee pain that led her to withdraw “nothing serious” but said she wouldn’t run out of caution given that less than one month remains before the world championships open in Budapest, Hungary. As the reigning world champion in the 400-meter hurdles McLaughlin-Levrone owned a bye into the world championship in that event, but earlier this month she and Kersee chose to contest the 400 meters at these championships instead, citing what Kersee called at the time the “challenge” of vying for a world title in a new event.

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