Women's 400 metres hurdles world record progression
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The women's 400 metres hurdles is an outdoor track event over a distance of 400 metres with ten hurdles at the height of 76.2 cm (30 inches).[1] The world records of this women's event have been recognised by World Athletics (called the International Association of Athletics Federations until 2019) since 1974.[2] Every world record is fully automatically timed and undergoes a ratification process that includes doping control.[3]
The first world record of 56.51 seconds was set by Krystyna Kacperczyk of Poland in 1974. Since then, the world record has been broken twenty-three times: six times in the 1970s, six times in the 1980s, two times in the 1990s, one time in the 2000s, two times in the 2010s, and six times in the 2020s. Each improvement was 0.03 seconds (1985, 2024) to 0.77 seconds (1977) faster than the previous record. Up to the 1980s, eight of thirteen records were set by athletes from the Soviet Union, while since the 1990s, nine of eleven records were set by athletes from the United States. The longest-standing world record of 52.34 seconds was set by Yuliya Pechonkina of Russia in 2003 and stood for almost 16 years until 2019. The current world record of 50.37 seconds was set by Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the United States in 2024. McLaughlin-Levrone has set a total of six world records in this event, more than any other athlete.[4]
Progression
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Date | Athlete | Nation | Time in sTooltip Seconds | Location | Ref. |
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13 July 1974 | Krystyna Kacperczyk | ![]() | 56.51 | Augsburg, West Germany | [2] |
26 June 1977 | Tatyana Storozheva | ![]() | 55.74 | Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany | [2] |
13 August 1977 | Karin Rossley | ![]() | 55.63 | Helsinki, Finland | [2] |
18 August 1978 | Krystyna Kacperczyk | ![]() | 55.44 | West Berlin, West Germany | [2] |
19 August 1978 | Tatyana Zelentsova | ![]() | 55.31 | Podolsk, Soviet Union | [2] |
2 September 1978 | Tatyana Zelentsova | ![]() | 54.89 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | [2] |
27 July 1979 | Marina Makeyeva[note 1] | ![]() | 54.78 | Moscow, Soviet Union | [2] |
18 May 1980 | Karin Rossley | ![]() | 54.28 | Jena, East Germany | [2] |
11 June 1983 | Anna Ambrazienė | ![]() | 54.02 | Moscow, Soviet Union | [2] |
22 June 1984 | Margarita Ponomaryova | ![]() | 53.58 | Kyiv, Soviet Union | [2] |
22 September 1985 | Sabine Busch | ![]() | 53.55 | East Berlin, East Germany | [2] |
30 August 1986 | Marina Stepanova | ![]() | 53.32 | Stuttgart, West Germany | [2] |
17 September 1986 | Marina Stepanova | ![]() | 52.94 | Tashkent, Soviet Union | [2] |
19 August 1993 | Sally Gunnell | ![]() | 52.74 | Stuttgart, Germany | [2] |
11 August 1995 | Kim Batten | ![]() | 52.61 | Gothenburg, Sweden | [2] |
8 August 2003 | Yuliya Pechonkina | ![]() | 52.34 | Tula, Russia | [2] |
28 July 2019 | Dalilah Muhammad | ![]() | 52.20 | Des Moines, Iowa, United States | [6] |
4 October 2019 | Dalilah Muhammad | ![]() | 52.16 | Doha, Qatar | [7] |
27 June 2021 | Sydney McLaughlin[note 2] | ![]() | 51.90 | Eugene, Oregon, United States | [9] |
4 August 2021 | Sydney McLaughlin[note 2] | ![]() | 51.46 | Tokyo, Japan | [10] |
25 June 2022 | Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone | ![]() | 51.41 | Eugene, Oregon, United States | [11] |
22 July 2022 | Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone | ![]() | 50.68 | Eugene, Oregon, United States | [11] |
30 June 2024 | Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone | ![]() | 50.65 | Eugene, Oregon, United States | [12] |
8 August 2024 | Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone | ![]() | 50.37 | Paris, France | [13] |
Notes
- ^ Marina Makeyeva was the maiden name of Marina Stepanova.[5]
- ^ a b Sydney McLaughlin was the maiden name of Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.[8]
References
- ^ "Competition Rules & Technical Rules" (PDF), p. 42, World Athletics, 17 January 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Progression of IAAF World Records 2015 edition" (PDF), pp. 290–291, International Association of Athletics Federations, 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "Competition Rules & Technical Rules" (PDF), pp. 25–27, 31, World Athletics, 17 January 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "World Record Progression of 400 Metres Hurdles", World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Marina Stepanova", Sporting-heroes.net. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Ratified: Muhammad’s world 400m hurdles record and Anderson’s world U20 100m hurdles record", World Athletics, 11 September 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Ratified: Muhammad's world 400m hurdles record, Mahuchikh's world U20 high jump records and Cheptegei's world 10km record", World Athletics, 30 January 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ Natasha Dye, "Sydney McLaughlin and Andre Levrone Jr. Are Married! All About Their Romantic Vineyard Wedding", People, 6 May 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Ratified: world records for Crouser, McLaughlin, Knighton and Kosonen", World Athletics, 11 August 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Ratified: world records for Rojas, Warholm and McLaughlin in Tokyo", World Athletics, 29 September 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ a b "Ratified: world records for Amusan, Duplantis and McLaughlin", World Athletics, 20 September 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Ratified: world records for McLaughlin-Levrone, Duplantis, Kipyegon, Chebet, Alekna and Ngetich", World Athletics, 27 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Women's 400m Hurdles Final Results".
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