Nobody saw it coming, yet Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone did it; she won the 400m World title. She completed the race in 47.78 seconds, setting a new championship record and securing the second-fastest time ever recorded in the event. This performance was only 0.18 seconds shy of the long-standing world record of 47.60 seconds set by Marita Koch in 1985. Yet she is still not the GOAT of the event; the track and field community does not consider her so. Why? Because she still does not have enough medals.

While sure if we talk of the fastest times in the 400m list, Sydney is right there at number 2 behind Marita Koch, but if we were to take a look at the medals in the list, the 400m World Champion is far, far below. In a Reddit post talking about who is the GOAT of women’s 400m , her name is a

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