All-time world record in the men’s 400 m race after Quincy Hall wins Olympic gold

Quincy Hall’s final push in the 400-meter final on August 7 at the Stade de France at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris earned the 26-year-old the gold medal.

Hall, who won bronze at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, became the first American to win the 400 meters since LaShawn Merritt at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Hall restores the U.S. team’s dominance in the event after the Americans won gold in the men’s 400 meters at every Olympic Games from 1984 to 2008.

But America had kept a clean sheet in the event at two of the last three Olympics. Merritt’s bronze medal in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 is the only medal the U.S. team had won during that time before Hall’s performance in the 400-meter final.

Hall’s sprint is the fourth fastest of all time and the third fastest by an American.

Here is the current world record in the 400-meter run.

All-time world record over 400 meters

Rank/grade/competitor/nat/date

1. 43.03 Wayde VAN NIEKERK RSA 14.August 2016
2. 43.18 Michael JOHNSON USA 26 August 1999
3. 43.29 Butch REYNOLDS USA 17 August 1988
4. 43.40 Quincy HALL USA 7 August 2024
5. 43.44 Matthew HUDSON-SMITH GBP 7 August 2024
6. 43.45 Jeremy WARINER USA 31 August 2007
7. 43.45 Michael NORMAN USA 20 April 2019
8. 43.48 Steven GARDINER BAH 04 October 2019
9. 43.5 Quincy WATTS USA 05.08.1992
10. 43.64 Fred KERLEY USA 27 July 2019

All-time American record over 400 meters

1. 43.18 Michael JOHNSON USA 26 August 1999
2. 43.29 Butch REYNOLDS USA 17 August 1988
3. 43.40 Quincy HALL USA 7 August 2024
4. 43.45 Jeremy WARINER USA 31 August 2007
5. 43.45 Michael NORMAN USA 20 April 2019

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