World Indoor Tour Gold 2024: Shortly After Destroying US Champion, 22YO Athlete Registers Fresh Record

For track and field athletes, the window of maintaining their peak performance is relatively smaller than others. With such a short time to establish themselves as elite stars, it can be a daunting task to dish out mesmerizing performances week after week continuously. However, for the Bahamas hurdle racer Devynne Charlton, breaking records is becoming a regular habit as the World Indoor Tour Gold 2024 stood witness.

Only days ago, Charlton made it to the headlines by setting a new world record at the Millrose Games. In the women’s 60m hurdles race, Charlton cruised past American track and field athletes to register 7.67 on the clock, making it a new world record. And now, the former Purdue Boilermakers athlete has once again stunned the crowd at the World Indoor Tour Gold 2024.

The World Indoor Tour Gold 2024 bears witness to history

In a post on X, the official World Athletics account shared Charlton’s latest feat at the Spanish capital. “@DevynneCharlton is THE moment,” reads the ecstatic post as a brief video clip shows her incredible spell taking over all her opponents. “7.68 60m hurdles meeting record in Madrid” elaborates the post further as the video captures Devynne’s emotions perfectly as she crosses the finish line ahead of the others.

At the women’s 60m hurdles final race, Charlton looked determined to retain her winning ways from a few weeks earlier. During the last few hurdles, Charlton seems to shift gears, literally, and edges past the others without breaking much of a sweat. Her incredible run also sends the commentator into a frenzy, and he sounds convinced that Charlton matched her world-record-setting performance.

However, the official time ended up being 7.68 seconds, a record for Charlton at World Indoor Tour Gold 2024. However, it’s not only Charlton who is at the center of all the attention at the event.

A legend returns, along with the Indoor Gold 2024

Making a comeback five years after retirement, Teddy Tamgho of Kenya is also marking a return at this year’s World Indoor Tour Gold. The 34-year-old hopes to make one last crack at Olympics glory, and the Spanish event is the perfect stepping stone for the big occasion. Tamgho has been hinting at a return for almost a year, and his high-jumping skills are here once again to thrill the fans.

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With the Gold event returning to Madrid for the fourth time since its inception in 2016, all eyes will be locked on the European metropolitan area as highlights of the day, with the Olympics shining at the end of the tunnel. Now, it waits to be seen if success at Madrid offers an extra boost to the systems for the track and field stars as they start their preparation for the ultimate rumble in July.