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This is a list of NCAA Division I outdoor champions in the 400 meters or its imperial equivalent 440 yard dash. For men, the imperial distance was contested until 1975 excepting Olympic years starting in 1932. Metrication occurred in 1976, so all subsequent championships were at the metric distance.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone underlined her status as one of the best athletes in the world with a dominant 400-meter performance at the US track and field championships.
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.
With her victory in 2012, she became the second American woman to win the 400 meters at the Olympic Games and the first American woman to earn multiple global 400-meter titles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] At this distance, Richards-Ross is also a six-time U.S. national champion ( 2003 , 2005 , 2006 , 2008 , 2009 , and 2012 ).
Those would be scholastic dual meets, high-school-only invitationals and championship meets up through the individual state championships. Track and Field News (T&FN) has tracked records by any American high school students, in any competition until they enter college. These records include marks made in open competition against higher-level ...
In many [clarification needed] countries, athletes previously competed in the 440-yard dash (402.336 m)—which is a quarter of a mile (1,760 yards) and was referred to as the "quarter-mile"—instead of the 400 m (437.445 yards), though this distance is now obsolete. Like other sprint disciplines, the 400 m involves the use of starting blocks.
Muhammad broke the 400-meter hurdles world record at the 2019 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 52.20 seconds, improving Yuliya Pechonkina's 16-year-old record of 52.34 (2003). [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Muhammad was only the second woman in the history of the 400m hurdles, after Sally Gunnell , to have won the Olympic title and ...
[53] In the 400 m final on 10 June, Adeleke took silver in a new Irish record (49.07 s), just behind the winner, Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek (48.98 s). [54] In the final of the women's 4 by 400 relay on 12 June, Adeleke ran the second leg to help power Ireland to a silver medal in a new national record (3.22.71 s) behind the Netherlands (3.22.95 s).