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8 unusual facts about 400 metres


Andrew Rock

In the 2005 World Championships in the Helsinki, he competed in 400m and won a silver medal, setting a new personal best of 44.35.

2005: World Outdoor 400m silver medalist, World Outdoor 4x400m gold medalist, ranked #2 in the United States and #3 in the World

Anja Pollmächer

Anja Pollmächer (born 29 July 1985 in Riesa) is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.

Betty Judge

In the national championships, at Perth in 1940, Judge won the 880-yd event and was placed second in the 440-yd sprint.

Isabelino Gradín

He was also a four-time South American athletics champion in the 400 and 200 metres sprint.

John Steffensen

John William Steffensen, born 30 August 1982 in Perth, Western Australia to South African immigrant parents, is an Australian athlete, who specialises in 200 and 400 metres.

Josanne Lucas

Born in Scarborough, Tobago, Lucas' first success was a win at the national championships in the 400 metres in 2005, but she focused on hurdling instead.

Matawan Regional High School

Erison Hurtault (born 1984, class of 2003), Olympic sprinter who competed in the 400 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics representing Dominica.


Anderson Henriques

He won the gold medal in the 400 metres at the 2011 South American Junior Championships in Athletics in Medellín, Colombia.

Aurélie Kamga

Aurélie Kamga (born 18 June 1985 in Béziers, France) is a French sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres and 400 metres.

Ellen Streidt

Ellen Streidt, née Stropahl (born July 27, 1952 in Wittstock, Brandenburg) is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Hermann Köhler

Hermann Köhler (born 12 January 1950 in Niedermarsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Ingrid Yahoska Narvaez

Ingrid Yahoska Narvaez (born 15 February 1994 in Tola) is a Nicaraguan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.

Ivory Coast at the Olympics

Only once has the country won an Olympic medal: Gabriel Tiacoh, who won a silver medal in the men's 400 metres in 1984.

Katrin Schreiter

Katrin Schreiter (born February 24, 1969 in Arnstadt) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Kehler FV

Sprinter Georg Nückles was the European 400m indoor champion in 1972 and German indoor 400m champion in 1972 and 1973.

Kirsten Emmelmann

Kirsten Emmelmann, née Siemon (April 19, 1961 in Warnemünde, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), is a former German track and field athlete who represented East Germany in the 1980s in the 400 meter sprint.

Korinna Fink

Korinna Fink (born 6 April 1981 in Teterow) is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.

Lewis Banda

Lewis Simon Banda (born 16 September 1982 in Tshabalala) is a Zimbabwean sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.

Ma Yuqin

Ma Yuqin (born 11 September 1972 in Xingtai) is a Chinese sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Nikolay Chernetskiy

He trained at Armed Forces sports society in Moscow and set his personal best (46.67 s) in the 400 metres on 1978-07-07 at a meet in Berkeley, California.

Rico Lieder

Rico Lieder (born 25 September 1971 in Burgstädt) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Sandra Myers

Sandra Myers (born 9 January 1961 in Little River, Kansas) is a retired 400 metres sprinter who represented Spain after switching from the United States.

Saul Weigopwa

Saul Weigopwa (born June 14, 1984 in Song, Nigeria) is a Nigerian athlete, who specializes in the 400 m, where his personal best is 45.00s (a result he has achieved twice).

Sebastian Gatzka

Sebastian Gatzka (born 19 May 1982 in Rotenburg an der Fulda) is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.

Shanta Ghosh

Shanta Ghosh-Broderius (born 3 January 1975 in Neunkirchen, Saarland) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Turun Toverit

Most famous TuTo-athlete of all-time is Voitto Hellstén, the 400 metres bronze medalist at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Waltraud Dietsch

Waltraud Dietsch, née Birnbaum (born 26 November 1950 in Staßfurt) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Yousef Masrahi

Yousef Ahmed Masrahi (Arabic:يوسف مسرحي) (born 31 December 1987 in Najran) is a Saudi Arabian track and field athlete, who specialises in the 400 metres sprint.


see also

Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres

In the UK TV show Little Britain, character Denver Mills is credited as having won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1984 Olympics.

Bharia people

The Bharias live in Patalkot, which is completely isolated valley some 400 metres below Tamia in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh.

Cardiff Saracens RFC

The club's ground is at Roath Park Recreation Ground and their clubhouse (The Tavistock Hotel) is also based in the Roath District of Cardiff about 400 metres from Cardiff city centre.

Dana Hussain

In 2011 Athletics at the 2011 Pan Arab Games Abdul-razak won Gold for 100 metres event of 11.88 which she won Silver in a 200 metres sprint on 24.61 and in 400 metres sprint she won Bronze of 55.48.

Dennis Blake

Blake set his personal best in the men's 400 metres (45.68) on 2000-06-18 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Dockrillia wassellii

Dockrillia wassellii or the Furrowed Pencil Orchid (previously, Dendrobium wassellii), is found only in the Iron Range and McIlwraith Range on Cape York Peninsula, Australia, at 100-400 metres altitude.

Dominican Republic at the Olympics

On the same night, Luguelín Santos won silver in the 400 metres to become the youngest ever Olympic medallist in the event.

Enrico Saraceni

As a Masters athlete after turning 40 in 2004, he won the European Masters Championships at Aarhus, Denmark, winning both the 200 metres and 400 metres, setting the record at 47.82.

Ernst Schultz

Ernst Ludvig Emanuel Schultz (May 15, 1879 – June 20, 1906), born in Horsens, was an early twentieth century Danish athlete who specialised in the 400 metres.

Glencree

The River Dargle flows down the valley, which rises to a height of about 400 metres (1,312 feet).

Helga Seidler

Helga Seidler (née Fischer born August 5, 1949 in Oberneuschönberg) is a former East German athlete who mainly competed in the women's 400 metres event.

Hildegard Falck

In the 4 x 400 metres where she joined with her team mates Anette Rückes, Inge Bödding and Rita Wilden she added a bronze medal to her tally for the Games.

Hollenfels Castle

The first mention of Hollenfels was in 1129 when Ludolf, Lord of Hollenfels, was given the water rights of the abbey of Marienthal which lies just 400 metres away.

Isabelino Gradín

He followed up his 1919 success at the 1920 South American Championships in Athletics by successfully defending both his 200 and 400 metres titles.

Joachim Büchner

Born in Altenburg, he competed for Germany in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 400 metres where he won the Bronze medal.

John Wrighton

He won two gold medals at the 1958 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden: in the men's individual 400 metres and in the 4x400 metres relay, alongside Edward Sampson, John MacIsaac, and John Salisbury.

Marie-Louise Bévis

Her personal best times are 11.89 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in September 2003 in Saint-Florentin; 23.95 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Lisbon; and 52.06 seconds in the 400 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Nogent-sur-Marne.

Martin Jellinghaus

Martin Jellinghaus (born 26 October 1944 in Lauf an der Pegnitz, Bayern) is a West German former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.

Mawsynram

Mawsynram is located at 25° 18' N, 91° 35' E, at an altitude of about 1,400 metres (4,600 ft), 16 km west of Cherrapunji, in the Khasi Hills in the state of Meghalaya (India) .

Mercy Kuttan

Mercy is married to Murali Kuttan, a former 400 metres National champion and is the mother of two sons Suraj Kuttan and Sujith Kuttan.

Michelle Scutt

Competing for Wales at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, she won a silver medal in the 400 metres, behind Australia's Raelene Boyle.

New Zealand Derby

The New Zealand Derby is a set-weights Thoroughbred horserace for three-year-old, run over a distance of 2,400 metres (12 furlongs) at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland, New Zealand.

Prix de Malleret

It is run at Saint-Cloud over a distance of 2,400 metres (about 1½ miles), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late June.

Prix Jean de Chaudenay

It was run at Saint-Cloud over a distance of 2,400 metres (about 1½ miles), and it was scheduled to take place each year in May or June.

River Ember

The two rivers then flow side by side approximately north east and merge 400 metres before joining the River Thames at the eastern end of East Molesey opposite Hampton Court Palace on the south side of the last non-tidal reach, which is above Teddington Lock.

Rudisha

Daniel Rudisha (born 1945), Kenyan 400 metres runner and Olympic medalist (father of David)

Sandra Douglas

She competed for Great Britain in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Phyllis Smith, Jennifer Stoute and Sally Gunnell.

Solen Désert-Mariller

Her personal best times are 23.02 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Lamballe; and 51.42 seconds in the 400 metres, achieved in August 2007 in Niort.

SP350

SP-350 Denise, a small submarine designed to hold two people capable of exploring depths of up to 400 metres invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Şureanu Mountains

The mountains, located north of Romania's Jiu Valley, are primarily characterized as a highland with meadows and pastures, with very large forested area throughout the surrounding 1,200-1,400 metres high mountains.

Symphora Béhi

Her personal best times are 11.74 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2004 in her birth city Paris; 23.70 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Montgeron; and 52.38 seconds in the 400 metres, achieved in June 2009 in Strasbourg.

Ute Thimm

Ute Thimm, née Finger (born 10 July 1958 in Bochum) is a German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.

With the German 4 x 400-metres-relay she finished fourth in the Finals of the 1988 Summer Olympics in 3'2249 with her colleagues Helga Arendt, Andrea Thomas and Gudrun Abt.

Virginie Michanol

Her personal best 400 metres time is 51.83 seconds, achieved in July 2008 in Reims.

Zuzana Hejnová

In early March 2008 Hejnová competed in the 400 metres at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships and reached the semi finals but did not qualify to reach the final.