Brazil’s Alison dos Santos won gold in the 400m hurdles at the 18th World Championships in Athletics in Eugene, USA.

Dos Santos finished the race with a time of 46.29 seconds, setting a World Championship record, beating the previous record of 47.18 seconds held by American Kevin Young since the German version of Stuttgart in 1993.

Dos Santos, who won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, outpaced Americans Ray Benjamin, the last runner-up in Doha 2019 and the Tokyo Olympics (46.89 seconds), and Trevor Bassett (47.39 seconds).

Norwegian star Karsten Warholm, Olympic champion, world champion and world record holder, finished in seventh place with a time of 48.42 seconds.

This is the first race that Warholm has lost since September 2018 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. It has since gone on an 18-race winning streak along with four other qualifying races for the 2019 World Championship and the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Warholm wowed audiences when he broke the world record for a 29-year-old rider last summer on his way to an Olympic title, clocking 45.94 seconds, beating American Kevin Young’s record of 46.78 seconds since August 6, 1992 in Barcelona. .

But at the Diamond League Ligament meeting in early June, 26-year-old Warholm suffered a torn hamstring despite insisting he would race 100%.