Olympics 2020

Warholm annihilates own 400m hurdles world record, wins gold in epic showdown

Karsten Warholm of Team Norway reacts after winning the gold medal in the Men's 400m Hurdles Final on day eleven of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

By NBC Olympics

Published August 2, 2021 8:42 PM

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In one of the greatest hurdling races in history, Karsten Warholm of Norway obliterated his own world record by three-quarters of a second while Rai Benjamin broke a 29-year-old American record.

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