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The 440 yard race distance used imperial measurements, which have been replaced by metric-distance races. The 400 metres (400 meter or 400 m race) is the successor to the 440 yard dash. [ 5 ] An athlete who competes in the 400 m may still be referred to as 'quarter-miler' though this rounded, metric distance is 2 1/3 meters shorter than a full ...
Prior to metrication, many tracks in the United States and the Commonwealth of Nations were constructed to the specifications of one quarter of a mile, 440 yards (402.336 m). Thus when the mile was run, the race was a four lap race.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1: 1: Edwin Carr Australia 48.6: Q 2: 1: Derek Pugh England 48.9: Q 3: 1: Dave Batten New Zealand 48.9: Q 4: 1: George Gedge Australia 49.0e: 1: Ezra Henniger Canada
Athletics at the 1934 British Empire Games; Track events; 100 yd: men: women: 220 yd: men: women: 440 yd: men: 880 yd: men: women: 1 mile: men: 3 miles: men: 6 miles ...
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Athletics at the 1930 British Empire Games; Track events; 100 yd: men: 220 yd: men: 440 yd: men: 880 yd: men: 1 mile: men: 3 miles: men: 6 miles: men: 120 yd hurdles ...
The men's 440 yards event at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 8 and 11 August 1966 at the Independence Park in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] It was the last time that the imperial distance was contested at the Games later replaced by the 400 metres.
These events have their roots in races of imperial measurements that later changed to metric: the 100 metres evolved from the 100-yard dash, [28] the 200 m distances came from the furlong (or 1/8 of a mile), [29] and the 400 m was the successor to the 440 yard dash or quarter-mile race.