MOSCOW, Jul 23 American Sydney McLaughlin wins 400m sprint barriers at the World Championships in Athletics, which takes place in the American Eugene. The two-time champion of the Games in Tokyo showed a result of 50.68 seconds, updating her own world record set in June at the US Championships. The competition also took place in Eugene, her result was 51.41 seconds. Femke Bol of the Netherlands (52.27) became the silver medalist of the World Championships, the American Dalaila Muhammad, two-time Olympic champion, won the bronze medal (53.13). further on the podium were the representative of Grenada Kirani James (44.48) and the Briton Matthew Hudson-Smith (44.66). In women at this distance, for the first time, two-time Olympic winner Shona Miller-Uibo (49.11) from the Bahamas became the world champion became Marileydi Paulino (49.60) from the Dominican Republic, the third — Sada Williams (49.75) from Barbados. In the javelin throw among women, the Australian Kelsey-Lee Barber (66.91 meters) became the two-time world champion, the second place was taken by the American Kara Winger (64.05), the third is Japanese Haruka Kitaguchi (63.27). The World Championships in Athletics will end on July 24. The Council of the World Athletics Association (World Athletics) on March 1, against the backdrop of events in Ukraine, suspended Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating in international tournaments, including the World Championships in Eugene. Prior to that, due to a doping scandal, since 2015, the Russians had the right to play in a neutral status.
