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The first world record in the 400 m for men was recognized by the International Amateur Athletics Federation, now known as World Athletics, in 1912.The IAAF ratified Charles Reidpath's 48.2 s performance set at that year's Stockholm Olympics as a world record, but it also recognized the superior mark over 440 yards (402.336 metres) run by Maxie Long in 1900 as a world record.
The current men's world record and Olympic record is held by Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa; his time of 43.03 seconds is the fastest 400 m ever run, in either an open 400 m or a relay. While Michael Johnson holds the fastest 400 m relay split with a time of 42.94, relay splits are typically faster because athletes have a running start and ...
4 × 400 m relay: 2:57.74 Emmanuel Bamidele Jacory Patterson Jevaughn Powell 44.94 Ryan Willie 44.28: University of Florida: June 9, 2023 NCAA Division I Championships: Austin, Texas [27] 2:58.53 Jacory Patterson 44.4 Ryan Willie 44.5 Jacob Miley 46.0 Champion Allison 43.6: University of Florida: April 16, 2022 Tom Jones Invitational ...
"y" denotes time for 440 yards (402.34 m) which was ratified as a world record in this event. The "Time" column indicates the ratified mark; the "Auto" column indicates a fully automatic time that was also recorded in the event when hand-timed marks were used for official records, or which was the basis for the official mark, rounded to the 10th of a second, depending on the rules then in place.
Norway's Karsten Warholm needed a world record to beat Rai Bejamin in the men's 400m hurdles.
His 42.91 second split time in the 4 × 400 m relay remains the fastest 400 meters in history. [2] At the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, Johnson won his first 200 m and 400 m "double". No elite-level male track athlete had accomplished this in a major meet in the 20th century. [8] At the end he made it a "triple" by adding another ...
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the world's top 400-meter hurdler, wins the 400-meter dash at U.S. nationals in 49.74 seconds, 10th-fastest time in history.
American sprinter Hunter Woodhall won a gold medal in the 400-meter T62 event at the Paralympics on Friday, joining his wife as a fellow gold medalist.