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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 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-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 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 50.65 seconds was set by Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the United States in 2024. McLaughlin-Levrone has set a total of five world records in this event, more than any other athlete.[4]

Progression

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World records of the women's 400 metres hurdles
Date Athlete Nation Time in sTooltip Seconds Location Ref.
13 July 1974 Krystyna Kacperczyk  Poland 56.51 Augsburg, West Germany [2]
26 June 1977 Tatyana Storozheva  Soviet Union 55.74 Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany [2]
13 August 1977 Karin Rossley  East Germany 55.63 Helsinki, Finland [2]
18 August 1978 Krystyna Kacperczyk  Poland 55.44 West Berlin, West Germany [2]
19 August 1978 Tatyana Zelentsova  Soviet Union 55.31 Podolsk, Soviet Union [2]
2 September 1978 Tatyana Zelentsova  Soviet Union 54.89 Prague, Czechoslovakia [2]
27 July 1979 Marina Makeyeva[note 1]  Soviet Union 54.78 Moscow, Soviet Union [2]
18 May 1980 Karin Rossley  East Germany 54.28 Jena, East Germany [2]
11 June 1983 Anna Ambrazienė  Soviet Union 54.02 Moscow, Soviet Union [2]
22 June 1984 Margarita Ponomaryova  Soviet Union 53.58 Kyiv, Soviet Union [2]
22 September 1985 Sabine Busch  East Germany 53.55 East Berlin, East Germany [2]
30 August 1986 Marina Stepanova  Soviet Union 53.32 Stuttgart, West Germany [2]
17 September 1986 Marina Stepanova  Soviet Union 52.94 Tashkent, Soviet Union [2]
19 August 1993 Sally Gunnell  Great Britain 52.74 Stuttgart, Germany [2]
11 August 1995 Kim Batten  United States 52.61 Gothenburg, Sweden [2]
8 August 2003 Yuliya Pechonkina  Russia 52.34 Tula, Russia [2]
28 July 2019 Dalilah Muhammad  United States 52.20 Des Moines, Iowa, United States [6]
4 October 2019 Dalilah Muhammad  United States 52.16 Doha, Qatar [7]
27 June 2021 Sydney McLaughlin[note 2]}  United States 51.90 Eugene, Oregon, United States [9]
4 August 2021 Sydney McLaughlin[note 2]  United States 51.46 Tokyo, Japan [10]
25 June 2022 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone  United States 51.41 Eugene, Oregon, United States [11]
22 July 2022 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone  United States 50.68 Eugene, Oregon, United States [11]
30 June 2024 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone  United States 50.65 Eugene, Oregon, United States [12]

Notes

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  1. ^ Marina Makeyeva was the maiden name of Marina Stepanova.[5]
  2. ^ a b Sydney McLaughlin was the maiden name of Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Competition Rules & Technical Rules" (PDF), p. 42, 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 "Progression of IAAF World Records 2015 edition" (PDF), pp. 290–291, International Association of Athletics Federations, 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Competition Rules & Technical Rules" (PDF), pp. 25–27, 31, World Athletics, 17 January 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  4. ^ "World Record Progression of 400 Metres Hurdles", World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Marina Stepanova", Sporting-heroes.net. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Ratified: Muhammad’s world 400m hurdles record and Anderson’s world U20 100m hurdles record", World Athletics, 11 September 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ Natasha Dye, "Sydney McLaughlin and Andre Levrone Jr. Are Married! All About Their Romantic Vineyard Wedding", People, 6 May 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Ratified: world records for Crouser, McLaughlin, Knighton and Kosonen", World Athletics, 11 August 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  10. ^ "Ratified: world records for Rojas, Warholm and McLaughlin in Tokyo", World Athletics, 29 September 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Ratified: world records for Amusan, Duplantis and McLaughlin", World Athletics, 20 September 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  12. ^ "Ratified: world records for McLaughlin-Levrone, Duplantis, Kipyegon, Chebet, Alekna and Ngetich", World Athletics, 27 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
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