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World record Wayde van Niekerk (RSA) 43.03: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 14 August 2016 Championship record Michael Johnson (USA) 43.18: Seville, Spain: 26 August 1999 World Leading Steven Gardiner (BAH) 43.74: Székesfehérvár, Hungary: 18 July 2023 African Record Wayde van Niekerk (RSA) 43.03: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 14 August 2016 Asian Record
Women's 400 m winner: Natalia Kaczmarek; 1500 winners: Federico Riva (m) / Freweyni Hailu (f) Women's 100 m hurdles winner: Sarah Lavin; Men's 110 m hurdles winner: Milan Trajković; 400 m hurdles winners: Matheus Lima (m) / Nikoleta Jíchová (f) Men's shot put winner: Leonardo Fabbri; Women's throw winner: Paweł Fajdek
Antonio Pettigrew, the 1991 champion, was the first have his results annulled due to doping, although this ban affected his finalist placings from 1997 to 2001 only. His fellow American Jerome Young became the first and thus far only 400 m athlete to be stripped of their world title. His ban covered his 2003 win, a 2001 semi-finalist placing ...
Brazilian Alison Dos Santos prevailed in a race that was supposed to be a duel between Olympic gold medalist Karsten Warholm and American star Rai Benjamin.
Norway's Karsten Warholm completed a perfect season by blazing to world championship gold in the 400 meters hurdles on Monday while Abderrahman Samba finally gave the hosts something to cheer by ...
The semi-final took every athlete who broke 45 seconds into the final. By contrast, in 2015, sixteen athletes broke 45 in the semi-final round. 2015 was the second World Championships for two of the finalists, both former champions, Kirani James and world record holder Wayde van Niekerk. After what should have been a career-ending knee injury ...
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 ...
The American was still well adrift heading into the last 30 metres but somehow found the energy to drive past everyone and become the fourth-fastest man over the distance, behind world record ...