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The women's 400 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in four rounds at the Stade de France in Paris, France, between 5 and 9 August 2024. This was the sixteenth time that the women's 400 metres was contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 48 athletes were able to qualify for the event by entry standard or ranking.
This article details the qualifying phase for athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics.More than 1,800 athletes, with an equal split between men and women, competed across forty-eight medal events (twenty-five in track, five in the road: marathon and racewalking, sixteen in the field, and two in combined) at the Games.
The Olympic record for the men's race was set in 2016, and the record for the women's race was set in 2024. Wayde van Niekerk holds the men's record of 43.03 seconds, breaking world and Olympic records that had been held by Michael Johnson since 1999 and 1996 respectively. Marileidy Paulino is the women's record holder at 48.17 seconds. The men ...
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified athletes in the women's 400 metres event if all athletes meet the entry standard or qualify by ranking during the qualifying period. (The limit of 3 has been in place since the 1930 Olympic Congress.) The qualifying standard is 51.35 seconds.
Getting the Olympic qualifying time was a confidence boost for Kazimierska, who will now compete against a field filled mostly with sub-4-minute women, including former Duck Jessica Hull of ...
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone had a crowning victory at the 2024 Paris Olympics. On Aug. 8, the sprinter, 25, defended her own world record — for the sixth time — when she completed the 400-meter ...
Dalilah Muhammad is attempting to become the first woman to win a second Olympic gold medal in the event. Led by a trio of Americans, the women's 400m hurdles will be one of the most-hyped races ...
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...