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The first world record in the 400 m for women was recognized by the International Amateur Athletics Federation, now known as the World Athletics, in 1957. To June 21, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 27 world records in the event. Their 2009 record progression list, however, lists 26 records. [1]
The current women's world record is held by Marita Koch, with a time of 47.60 seconds. Marileidy Paulino is the current women's world champion and women’s Olympic champion, and holds the Olympic record in a time of 48.17 seconds. Femke Bol holds the women's world indoor record at 49.17 (2024).
A month later at the World Championships, also at Hayward Field, she broke her own world record again with a time of 50.68 s and becoming the first woman to run the 400 m hurdles in under 51-seconds. [51] She also won gold as part of the Women's 4×400 m relay, running on the final leg. [52]
The men's world record has been broken at the competition on one occasion and Johnson's championship record remains the world record as of 2015. [1] The current women's championship record stood as the women's world record for two years and remains the only time that feat has been accomplished at the championships. Michael Johnson is the most ...
Kratochvílová's world record on an indoor track—49.59—stood until 19 February 2023 when the 400-meter indoor world record was broken by Femke Bol from the Netherlands with a time of 49.26. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Koch and Kratochvílová are the only women who have broken the 48-second barrier in a laned 400-metre outdoor race. [ 6 ]
The women's 400 metres hurdles is an outdoor track event over a distance of 400 metres with ten hurdles at the height of 76.2 cm (30 inches). [1] The world records of this women's event have been recognised by World Athletics (called the International Association of Athletics Federations until 2019) since 1974. [2] Every world record is fully ...
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
Christian Coleman breaking the 60 m world record. In 2023, World Athletics decided to introduce the new term 'short track' to replace the previous term 'indoor' to describe events and performances that are set on a 200m track. [170] For track and combined events, the term "indoor world records" were changed to "short track world records".