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Men    Women 100 y 100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 1 Mile 5000 m 10000 m Marathon 110 m Hurdles 400 m Hurdles 3000 m Steeplechase High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Discus Throw Hammer Throw Javelin Throw Decathlon 4 x 400 m Mixed

Men, 400 m All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated          •   - Then World Record Manual Timing   54.0y* Frank Brown USA New Haven Oct 24, 1877     52.2y William Wilmer USA Mott Haven, NY Jul 04, 1878     54.0y Graeme M. Hammond USA Mott Haven, NY May 05, 1879     49.2y Lawrence Myers USA Mott Haven, NY Sep 20, 1879 •   48.6y Lawrence Myers USA Birmingham Jul 16, 1881 • • 47.8y Maxie Long USA New York Sep 29, 1900 • • 47.4y Ted Meredith USA Cambridge May 27, 1916 •   47.4y Binga Dismond USA Evanston Jun 03, 1916 • • 47.0 Emerson Spencer USA Palo Alto May 12, 1928 • • 46.4y Benjamin Eastman USA Palo Alto Mar 26, 1932 • • 46.2 William Carr USA Los Angeles Aug 05, 1932 • • 46.1 Archibald Williams USA Chicago Jun 19, 1936 • • 46.0* Grover Klemmer USA Philadelphia Jun 29, 1941 • • 45.4 Louis Jones USA Mexico City Mar 18, 1955 • • 45.2 Louis Jones USA Los Angeles Jun 30, 1956 • • 44.9 Otis Davis USA Rome Sep 06, 1960 • • 44.9y Adolph Plummer USA Tempe May 25, 1963 • • 44.9 Mike Larrabee USA Los Angeles Sep 12, 1964 • • 44.5 Tommie Smith USA San José May 20, 1967 •   44.1* Lee Evans USA Echo Summitt Sep 14, 1968 • • 44.1 Larry James USA Echo Summitt Sep 14, 1968 • • 43.8 Lee Evans USA Mexico City Oct 18, 1968 • Electronic Timing   44.19 Larry James USA Echo Summit Sep 14, 1968 • • 43.86 Lee Evans USA Mexico City Oct 18, 1968 • • 43.29 Harry Reynolds USA Zürich Aug 17, 1988 • • 43.18 Michael Johnson USA Sevilla Aug 26, 1999 •