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Everything you need to know ahead of the event in Budapest
The women's 400 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place in three rounds at the Commonwealth Arena in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on 1 and 2 March 2024. This was the nineteenth time that the women's 400 metres was contested at the World Athletics Indoor Championships. Twenty-four athletes from nineteen different nations ...
The current women's championship record stood as the women's world record for two years and remains the only time that feat has been accomplished at the championships. Michael Johnson is the most successful athlete of the World Championships 400 m, having won four straight titles from 1993 to 1999.
Álvaro Martín, Olympic gold medallist, two-time World Champion in racewalking. [56] Andrew Pozzi, 2018 world indoor champion in the 60 m hurdles. [57] Christian Taylor, two-time Olympic champion and four-time world champion in the triple jump. [58] David Storl, two-time world champion in the shot put. [59]
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.
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 ...
PARIS (Reuters) -American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone obliterated her own 400 metres hurdles world record with a time of 50.37 seconds to retain her Olympic title on Thursday. Anna Cockrell made it ...
The defending champion, Michael Norman, was unable to return due to injury, opening up the field.In the semi-finals, Antonio Watson ran his personal best of 44.13 to lead the field and pulling veteran Vernon Norwood to his personal best of 44.26 in the first semi.