Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Details Her Plan To Retire From Track

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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is not already thinking about her retirement from track and field. However, the 25-year-old hurdler and sprinter does not plan to be around for another decade.

You won’t have to let her out to pasture because she will already be there. Hypothetically speaking…

Nobody in track and field can touch McLaughlin-Levrone when it comes to the 400 hurdles right now. She is not too far off from that same status in the 400 flat even though she has yet to compete in the event at the World Championships or the Olympics.

To say Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is just now hitting her prime is a crazy thing to say because of how dominant she has been for so long already, but it is an accurate assessment of her current fitness and form. Unfortunately, as is with anything, the American superstar will one day start to decline.

She is going to hang it up once it reaches that point. Hopefully not soon!

McLaughlin-Levrone recently detailed her plans to retire before the age of 35 during an appearance on the Ready Set Go podcast. You will not see her on the track in 11 years! A decade more is more than enough.

There is an end point. I don’t think I’m one of the athletes where you’re gonna have to be like, “dude, it’s time for you…” I think I’m going to know for myself.

— Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, via Ready Set Go

The goal is to keep having fun.

I want to enjoy the rest of my career. The front has been so fulfilling. It’s been beautiful. We’ve accomplished some great things and obviously there’s still more that I am still striving towards.

— Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, via Ready Set Go

However, there is more to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone than just track.

[I am in] this latter-half of [my career], because I just don’t see myself running for ten more years. We’ve accomplished quite a bit and I think there’s still more to be done, but I do feel like track and field is not everything for me. And I think the more time that passes, the more content I am with what the Lord has allowed us to do.

— Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, via Ready Set Go

This does not mean the 400-meter superstar is going to slow down any time soon.

I’m going to strive and work until the day I do hang up my spikes.

— Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, via Ready Set Go

It just means that there is an end in sight. The end is way off in the distance but it exists. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is not going to run herself into the ground. Of course, this outlook could change over the next decade, but you won’t see her on the track at 35 running against girls half of her age. She is going to retire at some point. She is done as soon as it no longer starts to feel good.