The 400m hurdles world record holder and two-time Olympic distance champion will compete over the 200m and 400m events in the Belgian capital.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levron will compete in the 200m and 400m at the Brussels Diamond League (September 13-14).
It will be the first time the 25-year-old, who ran 50.37 to break her own 400m hurdles record at the Paris Olympics, will compete after the Games.
McLaughlin-Levron won her second Olympic gold medal in the 400m hurdles in the French capital and was also part of the US women’s 4x400m team that stood atop the podium.
The quartet of Shameier Little, McLaughlin-LeVron, Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes clocked 3:15.27 at the Stade de France, the second fastest time in history behind the Soviet Union’s 3:15.17 in 1988.
McLaughlin-Levron’s 47.71 split was the fourth-fastest in the 4x400m all-time and showed off her incredible speed over one lap.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levron (Getty)
He will now get another chance to show that in the 200m and 400m at the Van Damme Memorial in Brussels.
Although she’s focused mostly on the hurdles when it comes to the majors, McLaughlin-LeVron is also the second-fastest U.S. female athlete in a lap, thanks to a 48.74 she ran at Hayward Field last July.
It also currently puts McLaughlin-Levron 12th on the all-time 400m list, and if she goes any faster, Sania Richards-Ross’s US record of 48.70 will surely come to an end.
McLaughlin-Levron has a time of 22.07 in the 200m, and she set that in Los Angeles back in May.
As Brussels is the last of the Diamond Leagues this season, it means the event will take place over two days.
That gives McLaughlin-Levron and other athletes the ability to double up on certain events during the weekend.
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