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Women's 400 metres hurdles world record progression

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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone after setting her world record of 50.68 s, sitting next to the mascot of the 2022 World Athletics Championships

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 undergoes a ratification process that includes doping control.[1]

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-two 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 five 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, eight of ten records were set by athletes from the United States. The current world record of 50.65 seconds was set by Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the United States in 2024.

Progression[edit]

World records of the women's 400 metres hurdles
Athlete (Nation) Time in s Location Date Ref.
 Krystyna Kacperczyk (POL) 56.51 Augsburg, West Germany 13 July 1974 [2]
 Tatyana Storozheva (URS) 55.74 Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany 26 June 1977 [2]
 Karin Rossley (GDR) 55.63 Helsinki, Finland 13 August 1977 [2]
 Krystyna Kacperczyk (POL) 55.44 Berlin, West Germany 18 August 1978 [2]
 Tatyana Zelentsova (URS) 55.31 Podolsk, Soviet Union 19 August 1978 [2]
 Tatyana Zelentsova (URS) 54.89 Prague, Czechoslovakia 2 September 1978 [2]
 Marina Makeyeva (URS) 54.78 Moscow, Soviet Union 27 July 1979 [2]
 Karin Rossley (GDR) 54.28 Jena, East Germany 18 May 1980 [2]
 Anna Ambrazienė (URS) 54.02 Moscow, Soviet Union 11 June 1983 [2]
 Margarita Ponomaryova (URS) 53.58 Kyiv, Soviet Union 22 June 1984 [2]
 Sabine Busch (GDR) 53.55 Berlin, East Germany 22 September 1985 [2]
 Marina Stepanova (URS) 53.32 Stuttgart, West Germany 30 August 1986 [2]
 Marina Stepanova (URS) 52.94 Tashkent, Soviet Union 17 September 1986 [2]
 Sally Gunnell (GBR) 52.74 Stuttgart, Germany 19 August 1993 [2]
 Kim Batten (USA) 52.61 Gothenburg, Sweden 11 August 1995 [2]
 Yuliya Pechonkina (RUS) 52.34 Tula, Russia 8 August 2003 [2]
 Dalilah Muhammad (USA) 52.20 Des Moines, United States 28 July 2019 [3]
 Dalilah Muhammad (USA) 52.16 Doha, Qatar 4 October 2019 [4]
 Sydney McLaughlin (USA) 51.90 Eugene, United States 27 June 2021 [5]
 Sydney McLaughlin (USA) 51.46 Tokyo, Japan 4 August 2021 [6]
 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA) 51.41 Eugene, United States 25 June 2022 [7]
 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA) 50.68 Eugene, United States 22 July 2022 [7]
 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA) 50.65 P Eugene, United States 30 June 2024 [8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Competition Rules & Technical Rules" (PDF), World Athletics, 17 January 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009" (PDF). Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. 2009. pp. Page 644. Archived from the original (pdf) on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
  3. ^ "Ratified: Muhammad’s world 400m hurdles record and Anderson’s world U20 100m hurdles record", World Athletics, 11 September 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Ratified: world records for Crouser, McLaughlin, Knighton and Kosonen", World Athletics, 11 August 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Ratified: world records for Rojas, Warholm and McLaughlin in Tokyo", World Athletics, 29 September 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Ratified: world records for Amusan, Duplantis and McLaughlin", World Athletics, 20 September 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  8. ^ McCarvel, Nick (30 June 2024). "Sydney McLauglin-Levrone Sets New World Record in 400m Hurdles, Clocking 50.65 at U.S. Trials". Retrieved 1 July 2024.
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