Video: Rai Benjamin On His 47.16 Pre Classic Win

THE 21-YEAR-OLD 400 hurdles star burnished his credentials with the No. 8 all-time clocking, returning to the fast-closing race pattern he used to run 47.02 at the ’18 NCAA Champs.

Sieg Lindstrom is Track & Field News's Editor. He fell in love with the sport as a high school distance runner, and has covered 9 editions of the Olympics and 16 outdoor World Championships. In a feverish effort to brush up his résumé before he was hired, he also attended the ’84 Olympics and ’87 Worlds as a fan.