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Main > Women, 400 m Hurdles > World Championships Records Progression

All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated   • 56.43 Yekaterina Fesenko URS Helsinki Aug 08, 1983 • 56.30 Anna Ambraziene URS Helsinki Aug 08, 1983 • 55.77 Petra Pfaff GDR Helsinki Aug 09, 1983 • 55.18 Anna Ambraziene URS Helsinki Aug 09, 1983 • 54.14 Yekaterina Fesenko URS Helsinki Aug 10, 1983 • 53.62 Sabine Busch GDR Rome Sep 03, 1987 • 53.11 Tatyana Ledovskaya URS Tokyo Aug 29, 1991 • 52.74 Sally Gunnell GBR Stuttgart Aug 19, 1993 • 52.61 Kim Batten USA Göteborg Aug 11, 1995 • 52.42 Melaine Walker JAM Berlin Aug 20, 2009 • 52.16 Dalilah Muhammad USA Doha Oct 04, 2019   50.68 Sydney McLaughlin USA Eugene, OR Jul 22, 2022