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Encyclopedia > 400 m

400 m is a common track running event. It is the longest common sprint distance. On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly once around the track in the inside lane. This is the longest distance that is usually run in lanes all the way round. A successful runner will need an efficient stride and superior speed, and a small amount of non-fast twitch muscles to be competitive. For career 400 m runners this becomes a prolonged high speed sprint. Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... Sprints are races in which the runner tries to go as fast as humanly possible. ...


The current men's world record is held by Michael Johnson, with a time of 43.18 seconds. The world indoor record holder is Kerron Clement, in 44.57 seconds. The reigning Olympic champions are Jeremy Wariner and Tonique Williams-Darling. Michael Johnson at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. ... Kerron Clement (born 31 October 1985, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is an American sprinter who holds the indoor world record for the 400m sprint. ... Jeremy Wariner (born January 31, 1984 in Irving, Texas) is an American track athlete. ... Tonique Williams-Darling (born January 17, 1976) is a Bahamian sprint athlete. ...

Contents
1 Famous 400 m runners

1.1 Men
1.2 Top ten all time athletes on the 400 meters - men
1.3 Women
1.4 Top ten All time athletes on the 400 meters - women

Famous 400 m runners

Men

Roger Anthony Black (born March 31, 1966) is a former Olympic athlete and now works as a television presenter and motivational speaker. ... Michael Johnson at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. ... Eric Liddell (January 16, 1902 – February 21, 1945) was a Scottish athlete, rugby international and the winner of the Mens 400 metres at the Olympic Games of 1924 held in Paris. ...

Top ten all time athletes on the 400 meters - men

Updated by June 10th, 2005

Rank Res. Athlete (Nat) Date Place
1. 43.18 Michael Johnson (USA) 26.08.1999 Sevilla
2. 43.29 Harry Reynolds (USA) 17.08.1988 Zürich
3. 43.50 Quincy Watts (USA) 05.08.1992 Barcelona
4. 43.81 Danny Everett (USA) 26.06.1992 New Orleans
5. 43.86 Lee Evans (USA) 18.10.1968 Ciudad de México
6. 43.87 Steve Lewis (USA) 28.09.1988 Seoul
7. 43.97 Larry James (USA) 18.10.1968 Ciudad de México
8. 44.00 Jeremy Wariner (USA) 23.08.2004 Athens
9. 44.09 Alvin Harrison (USA) 19.06.1996 Atlanta
9. 44.09 Jerome Young (USA) 21.06.1998 New Orleans

Michael Johnson at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. ... Butch Reynolds was a 1988 Olympic Gold medalist in the Mens 4x400 meter relay for the United States. ... Quincy D. Watts (born June 19, 1970) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics. ... Danny Everett was a 1988 Olympic Gold medalist in the Mens 4x400 meter relay for the United States. ... Lee Evans is a British stand-up comedian and actor. ... Steve Lewis (March 19, 1896 - c 1941?) was a jazz pianist and composer. ... George Lawrence Larry James (born November 6, 1947) is a former American athlete. ... Jeremy Wariner (born January 31, 1984 in Irving, Texas) is an American track athlete. ... Alvin Harrison was a 1996 and 2000 Olympic Gold medalist in the Mens 4x400 meter relay for the United States. ... Jerome Young (born: August 14, 1976) in Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America, is a sprint athlete. ...

Women

Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman (born February 16, 1973) is an Australian athlete. ... Marita Koch (b. ... Marie-José Perec (born May 9, 1968) is a French athlete, specialised in the 200 and 400 m, and triple Olympic champion. ... Irena Szewińska (born 24 May 1946) is a Polish sprinter who dominated womens athletics for nearly two decades. ...

Top ten All time athletes on the 400 meters - women

Updated by June 10th, 2005

400m Mark Athlete (Nat) Date Place
1. 47.60 Marita Koch (GDR) 06.10.1985 Canberra
2. 47.99 Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH) 10.08.1983 Helsinki
3. 48.25 Marie-José Pérec (FRA) 29.07.1996 Atlanta
4. 48.27 Olga Vladykina-Bryzgina (UKR) 06.10.1985 Canberra
5. 48.59 Tatána Kocembová (TCH) 10.08.1983 Helsinki
6. 48.63 Cathy Freeman (AUS) 29.07.1996 Atlanta
7. 48.83 Valerie Brisco-Hooks (USA) 06.08.1984 Los Angeles
8. 48.89 Ana Guevara (MEX) 27.08.2003 Paris Saint-Denis
9. 49.05 Chandra Cheeseborough (USA) 06.08.1984 Los Angeles
10. 49.07 Tonique Williams-Darling (BAH) 12.09.2004 Berlin

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Thorpe, Ian - MSN Encarta (622 words)
He won the 400 m freestyle event in a world record time of 3 min 41.83 sec, and followed it up the next day with a world record swim in a semi-final race of the 200 m freestyle.
He finished the championships with wins in the 200 m freestyle, 400 m freestyle, and 4 x 200 m freestyle relay.
In the much-touted “race of the Games” (the 200 m) he beat the six times gold medallist Michael Phelps of the United States and Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands.
ARS | Publication request: Concordance and Discordance Between Two Measures of Lower Extremity Function: 400 Meter ... (380 words)
Interpretive Summary: The 400 meter self-paced walk (400-m W) is a newly developed test measuring physical functioning in older adults.
Technical Abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess the concurrent validity of the newly developed 400 meter self-paced walk test (400-m W) against the commonly used Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB).
Partial correlations and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to determine the concurrent validity of the 400-m W, and unpaired t-tests were used to examine discordance between the functional tests.
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