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Muhammad smashes women’s 400m hurdles world record
DES MOINES, United States, July 29, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Olympic champion
Dalilah Muhammad smashed the longstanding women’s 400m hurdles world record
here Sunday, clocking 52.20sec with a superb display at the US Track and
Field Championships.
Muhammad, gold medallist at the Rio de Janeiro Games, shattered the
previous best of 52.34 set by Russia’s Yuliya Pechonkina in 2003.
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