Savannah Sutherland lowers NCAA and Canadian women's 400m hurdles marks in 4-record effort

Doug Harrison · CBC Sports

· Posted: Jun 15, 2025 11:55 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

University of Michigan hurdler Savannah Sutherland of Borden, Sask., acceptable 4 records Saturday connected the last time of contention astatine the NCAA outdoor way and tract championships successful Eugene, Ore.

The 21-year-old achieved marks for her school, NCAA, NCAA Championship conscionable and Canada, crossing the decorativeness enactment successful 52.46 seconds to bushed Akala Garrett (54.66) of Texas. Sutherland's erstwhile nationalist grounds clip of 53.26 stood since past June 8.

Saturday's show was astir 3-10ths of a 2nd faster than U.S. Olympic champion and satellite grounds holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's collegiate grounds of 52.75. Sutherland and McLaughlin-Levrone are the lone women's runners successful NCAA past to interruption 53 seconds.

Sutherland, who placed seventh successful the Paris Olympic last past Aug. 8, besides tied satellite champion Femke Bol for the satellite pb this season, down lone McLaughlin-Levrone (52.07).

On Friday, Sutherland started beardown and maintained her pb passim the race, extending her vantage successful the one-lap contention with each clearing of the 10 hurdles, for her 3rd consecutive top-two decorativeness successful the lawsuit astatine NCAA Championships.

She finished 4th successful her 2022 freshman year.

On May 18, Sutherland won her 3rd consecutive rubric astatine the Big Ten Championships successful Eugene, taking each circular by implicit 2 seconds.

The top-ranked NCAA jock successful women's 400m hurdles made past past summertime successful Paris.

At 21, Sutherland was the youngest subordinate of the Canadian way and tract squad to scope an idiosyncratic Olympic last and Canada's archetypal pistillate to scope a 400m hurdles last since the 1996 Atlanta Games.