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Athletics (Track & Field) World Records



Women's 400m. Hurdles. World Record Progression

IAAF era:

 TIME     ATHLETE			     COUNTRY	  DATE	    VENUE
52.34   Yuliya Pechonkina       (RUS)   08 Aug 03   Tula
52.61 Kim Batten (USA) 10 Aug 95 Göthenberg
52.74 Sally Gunnell (GBR) 19 Aug 93 Stuttgart
52.94 Marina Stepanova (URS) 19 Sep 86 Tashkent
53.32 Marina Stepanova (URS) 30 Aug 86 Stuttgart
53.55 Sabine Busch (GDR) 22 Sep 85 Berlin
53.58 Margarita Ponomaryova (URS) 22 Jun 84 Kiev
54.02 Anna Ambraziene (URS) 11 Jun 83 Moscow
54.28 Karin Rossley (GDR) 18 May 80 Jena
54.78 Marina Makeyeva (URS) 27 Jul 79 Moscow
54.89 Tatyana Zelentsova (URS) 02 Sep 78 Praha
55.31 Tatyana Zelentsova (URS) 19 Aug 78 Podolsk
55.44 Krystyna Kasprzyk (POL) 18 Aug 78 Berlin
55.63 Karin Rossley (GDR) 13 Aug 77 Helsinki
55.74 Tatyana Storozheva (URS) 26 Jun 77 Karl-Marx-Stadt
56.51 Krystyna Kasprzyk (POL) 13 Jul 74 Augsburg Times achieved before the event was recognised for record purposes: 56.7 Danuta Piecyk (POL) 11 Aug 73 Warsaw
57.3 Maria Sykora (AUT) 23 Jun 73 Frankfurt
58.5 Maria Sykora (AUT) 16 Jun 73 Edinburgh
58.6 Maria Sykora (AUT) 27 May 73 Warley
59.08 Wendy Koenig (USA) 24 May 73 Phoenix
60.4 Judy Vernon (GBR) 21 Mar 73 London
60.7 Libus?e Macounová (TCH) 29 Sep 71 Praha
61.1 Sandra Dyson (GBR) 15 May 71 Bonn Womens 400m Hurdles World Records Progression Les progressions des records du monde d'athlétisme Récords Mundials de Atletismo Leichtathletik Weltrekorde Back To Top Of Page