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  2. 4 × 400 meter relay at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and ...

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    The imperial distance was held until 1983, while the metric distance has been run since 1984. Hand timing was used until 1975 and in 1980, while in all other years fully automatic timing was used. In 1986 and 1987, the 1 ⁄ 10 -mile track that the races were run on was 25 inches (640 mm) per lap short, making the actual race distance less than ...

  3. Distance medley relay at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and ...

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    The distance medley relay has been held at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships annually since 1967. Since 1997, the race consists of a 1200 meters leg followed by a 400 meters sprint, followed by an 800 meters leg and concluding with the 1600 meters anchor for a total distance of 4000 meters. Before 1997, the order of the ...

  4. Distance medley relay - Wikipedia

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    A distance medley relay is made up of a 1200-meter leg (three laps on a standard 400 meter track), a 400-meter leg (one lap), an 800-meter leg (two laps), and a 1600-meter leg (four laps) in that order. The total distance run is 4000 meters, or nearly 2.5 miles. Aside from the 400 meter segment, which is a sprint, all legs are a middle distance ...

  5. Hunter Woodhall wins 400-meter at Paralympics weeks after ...

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    American sprinter Hunter Woodhall won a gold medal in the 400-meter T62 event at the ... Woodhall completed the race in 46.36 seconds, 0.54 seconds faster than second-place finisher Johannes ...

  6. 400 metres - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Sprint medley relay - Wikipedia

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    The 1600 meters variation usually would be two 200 meters legs, a 400 meters leg and an 800 meters leg. It would be named numerically (2-2-4-8). [ 2 ] Some have done a 1000 meters variation, which does not fit into an even number of laps, running a 100 meters leg, a 200 meters leg, a 300 meters leg and a 400 meters leg.

  8. 4 × 400 metres relay - Wikipedia

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    Start lines are thus staggered over a greater distance than in an individual 400 metres race; the runners then typically move to the inside of the track. The slightly longer 4 × 440 yards relay , on an Imperial distance , was a formerly run British Commonwealth and American event, until metrication was completed in the 1970s.

  9. Men's 400 metres world record progression - Wikipedia

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    The first world record in the 400 m for men was recognized by the International Amateur Athletics Federation, now known as World Athletics, in 1912.The IAAF ratified Charles Reidpath's 48.2 s performance set at that year's Stockholm Olympics as a world record, but it also recognized the superior mark over 440 yards (402.336 metres) run by Maxie Long in 1900 as a world record.