National records in the 400 metres hurdles

The following table is an overview of national records in the 400 metres hurdles.

Country	Time	Athlete	Date	Place	Ref.
Norway	45.94	Karsten Warholm	3 August 2021	Tokyo	^[1]
United States	46.17	Rai Benjamin	3 August 2021	Tokyo	^[2]
Brazil	46.29	Alison dos Santos	19 July 2022	Eugene	^[3]
Qatar	46.98	Abderrahman Samba	30 June 2018	Paris	^[4]
Antigua and Barbuda	47.02^[a] 49.82	Rai Benjamin	8 June 2018 10 June 2016	Eugene Eugene	^[2]
British Virgin Islands	47.08	Kyron McMaster	3 August 2021	Tokyo	^[5]
Zambia	47.10	Samuel Matete	7 August 1991	Zurich	^[6]
Nigeria	47.11	Ezekiel Nathaniel	19 September 2025	Tokyo	^[7]^[8]
Senegal	47.23	Amadou Dia Bâ	25 September 1988	Seoul	^[9]
Dominican Republic	47.25	Félix Sánchez	29 August 2003	Saint-Denis	^[10]
Jamaica	47.34	Roshawn Clarke	21 August 2023	Budapest	^[11]
France	47.37	Stéphane Diagana	5 July 1995	Lausanne	^[12]
Germany	47.48	Harald Schmid	8 September 1982 1 September 1987	Athens Rome	^[13]
Italy	47.50	Alessandro Sibilio	11 June 2024	Rome	^[14]
Saudi Arabia	47.53	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	27 September 2000	Sydney	^[15]
South Africa	47.66	L. J. van Zyl	25 February 2011 31 May 2011	Pretoria Ostrava	^[16]
Trinidad and Tobago	47.69	Jehue Gordon	15 August 2013	Moscow	^[17]
Puerto Rico	47.72	Javier Culson	8 May 2010	Ponce	^[18]
Kenya	47.78	Boniface Tumuti	18 August 2016	Rio de Janeiro	^[19]
Turkey	47.81	Yasmani Copello	9 August 2018 3 August 2021	Berlin Tokyo	^[20]
Uganda	47.82	John Akii-Bua	2 September 1972	Munich	^[21]
Great Britain	47.82	Kriss Akabusi	6 August 1992	Barcelona	^[22]
Greece	47.82	Periklis Iakovakis	6 May 2006	Osaka	^[23]
Estonia	47.82	Rasmus Mägi	14 June 2022	Turku	^[24]
Panama	47.84	Bayano Kamani	7 August 2005	Helsinki	^[25]
Japan	47.89	Dai Tamesue	10 August 2001	Edmonton	^[26]
Belarus	47.92	Aleksandr Vasilyev	17 August 1985	Moscow	^[27]
Cuba	47.93	Omar Cisneros	13 August 2013	Moscow	^[28]
Sweden	47.94	Carl Bengtström	11 June 2024	Rome	^[29]
Ireland	47.97	Thomas Barr	18 August 2016	Rio de Janeiro	^[30]
Zimbabwe	48.05	Ken Harnden	29 July 1998	Saint-Denis	^[31]
Serbia	48.05	Emir Bekrić	15 August 2013	Moscow	^[32]
Russia	48.05	Denis Kudryavtsev	25 August 2015	Beijing	^[33]
Ukraine	48.06	Oleh Tverdokhlib	10 August 1994	Helsinki	^[34]
Costa Rica	48.11	Gerald Drummond	6 May 2023	San José	^[35]
Poland	48.12	Marek Plawgo	28 August 2007	Osaka	^[36]
Switzerland	48.13	Marcel Schelbert	27 August 1999	Seville	^[37]
Bahamas	48.17	Jeffery Gibson	25 August 2015	Beijing	^[38]
Canada	48.24	Adam Kunkel	27 July 2007	Rio de Janeiro	^[39]
Slovenia	48.25	Matic Ian Guček	8 August 2025	Banská Bystrica	^[40]
Czechia	48.27	Jiří Mužík	3 August 1997	Athens	^[41]
Australia	48.28	Rohan Robinson	31 July 1996	Atlanta	^[42]
Netherlands	48.36	Nick Smidt	2 July 2023	La Chaux-de-Fonds	^[43]
Algeria	48.39	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	28 September 2019	Doha	^[44]
Hungary	48.45	Dusán Kovács	3 August 1997	Athens	^[45]
Kazakhstan	48.46	Yevgeniy Meleshenko	31 August 2001	Beijing	^[46]
Bulgaria	48.48	Toma Tomov	11 August 1986	Budapest	^[47]
El Salvador	48.56	Pablo Andrés Ibáñez	6 May 2023	San José	^[48]
Moldova	48.61	Vadim Zadoinov	29 August 1990	Split	^[49]
Finland	48.61	Antti Sainio	19 July 2025	Bergen	^[50]
Chinese Taipei	48.62	Peng Ming-yang	4 August 2023	Chengdu	^[51]
Uruguay	48.65	Andrés Silva	2 August 2014	São Paulo	^[52]
Belgium	48.66	Julien Watrin	2 September 2022	Brussels	^[53]
Botswana	48.76	Kemorena Tisang	18 May 2024	Gaborone	^[54]
Portugal	48.77	Pedro Rodrígues Carlos Silva	10 August 1994 11 August 1999	Helsinki Zurich	^[55] ^[56]
Uzbekistan	48.78	Aleksandr Kharlov	20 June 1983	Moscow	^[57]^[58]
China	48.78	Xie Zhiyu [de]	4 August 2023	Chengdu	^[59]
Barbados	48.79	Rasheeme Griffith	9 May 2024	Gainesville	^[60]
India	48.80	Dharun Ayyasamy	16 March 2019	Patiala	^[61]
Morocco	48.82	Saad Hinti	21 March 2024	Accra	^[62]
Syria	48.87	Zid Abou Hamed	20 February 1999	Sydney	^[63]
Spain	48.87	Sergio Fernández	16 August 2016	Rio de Janeiro	^[64]
Belize	48.88	Jonathan Williams	14 July 2007	San Salvador	^[65]
Ivory Coast	48.94	René Mélédjé	13 August 1986	Zurich	^[66]
Slovakia	48.94	Jozef Kucej	21 June 1989	Prague	^[67]^[58]
Lebanon	48.95	Marc Anthony Ibrahim [de]	9 August 2025	Oordegem	^[68]^[69]
Tajikistan	48.98	Nikolay Ilchenko [ru]	18 September 1986	Tashkent	^[70]^[58]
Philippines	48.98	Eric Cray	23 June 2016	Moratalaz, Madrid	^[71]
Mozambique	49.02	Kurt Couto	11 June 2012	Prague	^[72]
Namibia	49.05	Willie Smit [de]	17 March 2001 5 April 2002	Roodepoort Germiston	^[73]
Kuwait	49.13	Bader Abdul Rahman Al-Fulaij	18 May 2002	Hyderabad	^[74]
Mali	49.13	Ibrahima Maïga	28 April 2007	Dakar	^[75]
Tunisia	49.13	Ziad Azizi	29 June 2018	Tarragona	^[76]
Venezuela	49.18	Antonio Smith	14 July 1991	Caracas	^[77]
Romania	49.22	Alejandro Argudín-Zaharia	4 September 1997	Antananarivo	^[78]
Burkina Faso	49.25	Bienvenu Sawadogo	29 August 2019	Rabat	^[79]
Cape Verde	49.26	Jordin Andrade	11 June 2016	Kingston	^[80]
Mexico	49.27	Guillermo Campos [de]	11 May 2024	Cuiabá	^[81]
Argentina	49.28 A	Guillermo Ruggeri	7 June 2018	Cochabamba	^[82]
Bahrain	49.31	Ahmed Hamada	30 September 1986	Seoul	^[83]
Austria	49.33	Thomas Futterknecht	30 August 1985	Kobe	^[84]
New Zealand	49.33	Cameron French	27 January 2018	Canberra	^[85]
Iran	49.33	Mehdi Pirjahan	28 August 2019 2 October 2020	Lucknow Tehran	^[86]
Kyrgyzstan	49.42	Aleksey Pogorelov	31 May 2008	Bishkek	^[87]
Sri Lanka	49.44	Harijan Ratnayake	31 August 2000	Jakarta	^[88]
Grenada	49.51	Shane Charles	14 May 2006	Eugene	^[89]
Madagascar	49.53	Yvon Rakotoarimiandry	23 July 2001	Ottawa	^[90]
Liberia	49.55	O'Neil Wright	14 May 2005	Atlanta	^[91]
Latvia	49.60	Viktors Lācis	1 June 2001	Eugene	^[92]
Chile	49.62 A	Alfredo Sepúlveda	7 June 2018	Cochabamba	^[93]
Cyprus	49.66 49.5 h #	Stavros Tziortzis	2 September 1972 28 June 1972	Munich Piraeus	^[94]^[58] ^[95]
United Arab Emirates	49.66	Ali Shirook	30 April 2009 26 July 2009	Qatif Zeulenroda	^[96]
Egypt	49.74	Ahmed Ghanem	12 August 1985	Cairo	^[97]
Thailand	49.76	Chanond Keanchan	12 December 1995	Chiang Mai	^[98]
Ecuador	49.76	Emerson Alejandro Chala	28 November 2013	Trujillo	^[99]
South Korea	49.80	Hwang Hong-cheol	10 June 1990	Seoul	^[100]
Sudan	49.82	Mohamed Shaib	4 July 2017	Castellón	^[101]
Seychelles	49.82	Ned Azemia	19 May 2018	El Dorado	^[102]
U.S. Virgin Islands	49.83	Leslie Murray [pl]	11 June 2009	Fayetteville	^[103]
Israel	49.87^[b]	Aleksey Bazarov	11 September 1991	Koblenz	^[104]^[58]
Croatia	49.88	Darko Juričić	18 August 1998	Budapest	^[105]
Colombia	49.90 49.7 h #	Yeison Rivas	19 November 2015 12 July 2008	Cali Cali	^[106]
Pakistan	49.90	Mohamed Amin	11 October 1994	Hiroshima	^[107]
Mauritius	49.94	Gilbert Hashan	29 July 1996	Atlanta	^[108]
Iraq	49.95	Talib Faizal Al-Saffar	22 August 1977	Sofia	^[109]
Guyana	49.95	Paul Tucker	13 August 2000	La Chaux-de-Fonds	^[110]
Haiti	49.99	Alie Beauvais	17 May 2009	Princeton	^[111]
Azerbaijan	50.00	Aleksandr Karasyov [ru]	30 May 1976	Munich	^[112]^[58]
Denmark	50.01	Nicolai Hartling	10 August 2019	Varaždin	^[113]
Vietnam	50.05	Quách Công Lịch	22 August 2017	Kuala Lumpur	^[114]
Guatemala	50.16	Allan Ayala	12 June 2009	Guatemala City	^[115]
Libya	50.21	Hamza Deyaf	3 July 2009	Pescara	^[116]
Papua New Guinea	50.37	Mowen Boino	21 March 2006	Melbourne	^[117]
Lithuania	50.39	Silvestras Guogis	21 July 2012	Jessheim	^[118]
Ghana	50.40	Keith Nkrumah	5 May 2012	Greensboro	^[119]
Singapore	50.43	Calvin Quek	2 August 2023	Chengdu	^[120]
Albania	50.46^[c]	Eusebio Haliti	12 June 2011	Naples	^[121]^[58]
Benin	50.48 50.0 h #	Abdoualaye Cherif Issa	25 April 2006 24 April 2007	Ouagadougou Ouagadougou	^[122]
Andorra	50.59	Daniel Gómez	3 September 2000	Barcelona	^[123]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	50.65	Sharim Hamilton	25 May 2024	Emporia	^[124]
Guinea-Bissau	50.68^[d]	Edivaldo Monteiro	20 June 1998	Lisbon	^[125]^[58]
Ethiopia	50.71 A 50.5 h #A	Gadisa Bayu Yobsen Biru	25 May 2018 1 April 2022	Asella Hawassa	^[126] ^[127]
Central African Republic	50.77	Lucien Pandjikola	4 July 2008	Marseille	^[128]
Armenia	50.79 50.6 h #	Rudik Matevosian	5 August 1984 13 July 1985	Moscow Kaunas	^[129]
Guinea	50.81	Amadou Sy Savane	23 May 1998	Atlanta	^[130]
Indonesia	50.81	Halomoan Edwin Binsar [de; id]	10 December 2019	New Clark City	^[131]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	50.84	Duško Milutinović	13 August 1989	Serres	^[132]^[58]
Hong Kong	50.88	Chan Ka Chun	16 April 2016	Walnut	^[133]
French Polynesia	50.90	Robert Tupuhoé	11 April 1987	Pīraʻe	^[134]
Luxembourg	50.94	Jacques Frisch	30 June 2013	Chambéry	^[135]
Iceland	51.17	Bjorgvin Vikingsson	24 May 2008	Rehlingen	^[136]
Tanzania	51.20	Morris Okinda	12 August 1985	Cairo	^[137]
Chad	51.23	Ali Faudet	24 June 1994	Besançon	^[138]
Cayman Islands	51.23	Junior Hines	25 May 2012	Marion	^[139]
Malaysia	51.26	Muhammad Fakhrul Afizur	6 June 2023	Yeocheon City	^[140]
Georgia	51.40	Arkadiy Bronnikov	18 May 1986	Sochi	^[141]^[58]
Oman	51.54	Abdullah Said Al-Haidi	20 September 2010	Aleppo	^[142]
Fiji	51.67	Jovesa Naivalu	9 June 1999	Santa Rita	^[143]
Saint Vincent	51.70	Fitz-Allen Crick	19 July 2003	Bloomington	^[144]^[58]
Dominica	51.74	Dennick Luke	10 February 2024	Spanish Town	^[145]
Comoros	51.79	Maoulida Darouèche	6 July 2013	Aubagne	^[146]
Cameroon	51.80 51.89	Emmanuel Youmékoué	23 July 2005 24 July 2005	Yaoundé	^[147] ^[58]
Bangladesh	51.87	Abdur Rahim Nayeem	25 December 1993	Dhaka	^[148]
Congo Republic	51.87	Emmanuel Tamba Elenga	22 June 2024	Douala	^[149]
Turkmenistan	51.89	Oleg Podmaryov	18 September 1986	Tashkent	^[150]
Angola	51.95	Wilson André	28 July 1995	Lisbon	^[58]^[151]
Tonga	52.02	Paeaki Kokohu	5 May 1996	Sacramento	^[152]
Myanmar	52.07	Htay Win	2 December 1991	Manila	^[153]
San Marino	52.12	Andrea Ercolani Volta	3 June 2023	Marsa	^[154]
Sierra Leone	52.18	Benjamin Grant	31 May 1992	Birmingham	^[58]
Peru	52.20	Mauro Mina	1 November 1992	Lima	^[58]
Niger	52.33	Nasser Dan Matta	13 December 2005	Niamey	^[58]
North Macedonia	52.33	Jovan Stojoski	19 June 2024	Maribor	^[155]
Saint Lucia	52.45	Alva Henry	6 May 2018	Kearny	^[58]
Paraguay	52.78 A	Francisco Rojas Soto	13 October 1975	Mexico City	^[58]
Vanuatu	52.94	David Benjimen	21 June 2011	Apia	^[58]
Bermuda	53.03	Clarence Saunders	24 June 1994	Dedham	^[58]
Nepal	53.23	Asha Ram Chaudhari	25 December 1993	Dhaka	^[58]
Togo	53.27	Lankantien Lamboni	18 May 2013	Bamako	^[58]
North Korea	53.30	Choi Chang-Sun	2 June 1985	Sofia	^[58]
Yemen	53.34	Nasim Ahmed Mansour	16 April 2016	Manama	^[58]
Aruba	53.49	Freddy Burgos	9 June 1984	Leiden	^[58]
Jordan	53.62	Hassan Abou Najem	27 September 1993	Latakia	^[58]
São Tomé and Príncipe	53.69	Arlindo Pinheiro	21 July 2001	Lisbon	^[58]
Burundi	53.99	Christophe Bigirimana	23 September 1991	Cairo	^[156]^[58]
Mongolia	54.00	Tsendsuren Erdene-Munkh [pl]	20 June 1990	Bratislava	^[58]
South Sudan	54.08	Joseph Akoon	26 July 2020	Maebashi	^[58]
Montenegro	54.17	Milan Vuković	28 June 1998	Belgrade	^[58]
Afghanistan	54.19	Said Gilani	10 June 2017	Göttingen	^[58]
Rwanda	54.36	Faustin Butéra	3 August 1984	Los Angeles	^[58]
Samoa	54.46	Kuripitone Betham	14 December 2002	Christchurch	^[58]
Malta	54.53	Jordan Pace	29 May 2025	Andorra la Vella	^[157]
Congo DR	54.55	Tino Ngoy	22 April 2005	Ypsilanti	^[58]
Laos	54.59	Anousone Xaysa	1 December 2022	Phonsavan	^[158]
Brunei	54.64	Kaderi Bujang	30 November 1993	Manila	^[58]
Lesotho	54.65	Relebohile Mosito	20 March 2010	Durban	^[58]
Gambia	54.66	Demba Sanyang	5 September 2020	Madrid	^[58]
Bolivia	54.71	Ignacio Novarro	26 May 1995	Manaus	^[58]
Nicaragua	54.74	Lenín Vanegas	19 April 2010	Panama City	^[58]
Gabon	55.32	Daniel Ololo	22 July 1978	Algiers	^[58]

Country	Time	Athlete	Date	Place	Ref.
United States	50.65	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone	30 June 2024	Eugene	^[159]
Netherlands	50.95	Femke Bol	14 July 2024	La Chaux-de-Fonds	^[160]
Russia	52.34	Yuliya Pechonkina	8 August 2003	Tula	^[161]
Jamaica	52.42	Melaine Walker	20 August 2009	Berlin	^[162]
Canada	52.46	Savannah Sutherland	15 June 2025	Eugene	^[163]
Panama	52.66	Gianna Woodruff	17 September 2025	Tokyo	^[164]
Great Britain	52.74	Sally Gunnell	19 August 1993	Stuttgart	^[165]
Greece	52.77	Fani Chalkia	22 August 2004	Athens	^[166]
Czechia	52.83	Zuzana Hejnová	15 August 2013	Moscow	^[167]
Cuba	52.89	Daimí Pernía	25 August 1999	Seville	^[168]
Morocco	52.90	Nezha Bidouane	25 August 1999	Seville	^[169]
Ukraine	52.96	Anna Ryzhykova	4 July 2021	Stockholm	^[170]
Slovakia	53.00	Emma Zapletalová	19 September 2025	Tokyo	^[171]
Bahrain	53.09	Kemi Adekoya	24 August 2023	Budapest	^[172]
Belarus	53.11	Tatyana Ledovskaya	29 August 1991	Tokyo	^[173]
Australia	53.17	Debbie Flintoff-King	28 September 1988	Seoul	^[174]
Trinidad and Tobago	53.20	Josanne Lucas	20 August 2009	Berlin	^[175]
France	53.21	Marie-José Pérec	16 August 1995	Zurich	^[176]
Germany	53.24	Sabine Busch	21 August 1987	Potsdam	^[177]
Romania	53.25	Ionela Târlea	7 July 1999	Rome	^[178]
Barbados	53.36	Andrea Blackett	25 August 1999	Seville	^[179]
Denmark	53.55	Sara Slott Petersen	18 August 2016	Rio de Janeiro	^[180]
Belgium	53.65	Naomi Van den Broeck	17 September 2025	Tokyo	^[181]
Bulgaria	53.68	Vanya Stambolova	5 June 2011	Rabat	^[182]
South Africa	53.74	Myrtle Bothma	18 April 1986	Johannesburg	^[183]
Poland	53.86	Anna Jesień	28 August 2007	Osaka	^[184]
Italy	53.89	Ayomide Folorunso	22 August 2023	Budapest	^[185]
Norway	53.91	Line Kloster	3 July 2022	La Chaux-de-Fonds	^[186]
China	53.96	Han Qing Song Yinglan	9 September 1993 17 November 2001	Beijing Guangzhou	^[187] ^[188]
Lithuania	54.02	Ana Ambrazienė	11 June 1983	Moscow	^[189]
Hungary	54.02	Judit Szekeres	23 January 1998	Roodepoort	^[190]
Switzerland	54.06	Lea Sprunger	4 October 2019	Doha	^[191]
Sweden	54.15	Ann-Louise Skoglund	30 August 1986	Stuttgart	^[192]
Ireland	54.31	Susan Smith-Walsh	12 August 1998	Zurich	^[193]
Spain	54.34	Sara Gallego	25 June 2022	Nerja	^[194]
Iceland	54.37	Guðrún Arnardóttir	5 August 2000	Crystal Palace, London	^[195]
Nigeria	54.40	Muizat Ajoke Odumosu	6 August 2012	London	^[196]
Finland	54.40	Viivi Lehikoinen	6 June 2023	Huelva	^[197]
Uzbekistan	54.43 54.34^[e]	Tatyana Zubova	22 June 1984 2 August 1985	Kyiv Leningrad	^[198] ^[199]
Kazakhstan	54.50	Natalya Torshina-Alimzhanova	27 May 2000	Santo António	^[200]
Portugal	54.65	Fatoumata Binta Diallo	10 June 2024	Rome	^[201]
Senegal	54.75	Mame Tacko Diouf	16 June 1999	Athens	^[202]
Cyprus	54.76	Androula Sialou	4 July 2004	Heraklion	^[203]
Colombia	54.80	Melissa Gonzalez	3 June 2022	Bydgoszcz	^[204]
Sudan	54.93	Muna Jabir Adam	22 July 2007	Algiers	^[205]
Puerto Rico	55.03	Yvonne Harrison	29 June 2003	Poznań	^[206]
Turkey	55.09	Nagihan Karadere	31 July 2011	Ankara	^[207]
Cameroon	55.09	Linda Angounou	8 August 2024	Saint-Denis	^[208]^[209]
Mexico	55.11	Zudikey Rodríguez	31 July 2018	Barranquilla	^[210]
Brazil	55.15	Chayenne da Silva	25 June 2021	São Paulo	^[211]
Vietnam	55.30	Quách Thị Lan	27 August 2018	Jakarta	^[212]
Japan	55.34	Satomi Kubokura	26 June 2011	Osaka	^[213]
India	55.42	P. T. Usha Vithya Ramraj	8 August 1984 2 October 2023	Los Angeles Hangzhou	^[214] ^[215]
New Zealand	55.44	Portia Bing	5 March 2022	Hastings	^[216]
Latvia	55.46	Lana Jēkabsone	9 June 1996	Tallinn	^[217]
Burkina Faso	55.49	Aïssata Soulama	22 July 2007	Algiers	^[218]
Liberia	55.55	Kou Luogon	1 May 2009	Baie-Mahault	^[219]
Turks and Caicos	55.58	Yanique Haye-Smith	8 June 2019	Montverde	^[220]
Bahamas	55.69	Katrina Seymour	10 April 2018	Gold Coast	^[221]
Chinese Taipei	55.71	Hsu Pei-chin	17 December 1998	Bangkok	^[222]
Philippines	55.72	Lauren Hoffman	27 April 2024	Des Moines	^[223]
Kenya	55.7 h A 55.84	Rose Tata-Muya Francisca Koki Manunga	13 August 1988 14 August 2014	Nairobi Marrakesh	^[224] ^[225]
Argentina	55.88	Fiorella Chiappe	8 July 2018	Brussels	^[226]
Austria	55.94	Lena Pressler [de; es]	16 July 2023	Espoo	^[227]
Slovenia	55.96	Agata Zupin	23 July 2017	Grosseto	^[228]
U.S. Virgin Islands	55.96	Michelle Smith	31 May 2024	Atlanta	^[229]
Croatia	56.01	Natalija Švenda	9 August 2025	Oordegem	^[230]
Malaysia	56.02	Noraseela Mohd Khalid	17 June 2006	Regensburg	^[231]
Israel	56.09^[f]	Irina Lenskiy	18 June 2000	Kyiv	^[232]
Moldova	56.11	Natalia Dudina	5 July 1988	Tallinn	^[233]
Costa Rica	56.15	Daniela Rojas	19 July 2025	Madrid	^[234]
Kyrgyzstan	56.16	Galina Pedan	15 July 2004	Almaty	^[235]
Thailand	56.25	Reawadee Watanasin	12 October 1994	Hiroshima	^[236]
Uruguay	56.30	Déborah Rodríguez	23 August 2015	Beijing	^[237]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	56.31	Reanda Richards	24 May 2019	Jacksonville	^[238]
Ivory Coast	56.39	Marie Womplou	12 July 1994	Bondoufle	^[198]^[239]
Sri Lanka	56.45	Christine Sonali Merrill	8 June 2013	Chula Vista	^[240]
Albania	56.48	Klodiana Shala	29 June 2005 30 June 2005	Almería Almería	^[241]
Madagascar	56.49	Cendrino Razaiarimalala [de]	1 July 2001	Saint-Étienne	^[242]
Ecuador	56.50	Lucy Jaramillo	23 June 2012	Cali	^[243]
Estonia	56.56	Maris Mägi	28 July 2013	Tallinn	^[244]
Zimbabwe	56.63	Ashley Miller [de]	26 April 2024	Austin	^[245]
Venezuela	56.65	Magdalena Mendoza	13 June 2015	Lima	^[246]
Algeria	56.66	Houria Moussa [fr]	22 June 2006	Algiers	^[247]
Benin	56.66	Bimbo Miel Ayedou	24 July 2011	Ouagadougou	^[248]
Haiti	56.87	Jessica Gelibert	29 May 2014	Jacksonville	^[249]
Syria	56.89	Ghofrane Al-Mohamed	5 July 2016	Almaty	^[250]
Uganda	57.02	Ruth Kyalisima	6 August 1984	Los Angeles	^[251]
Dominican Republic	57.08 A	Yolanda Osana	26 October 2011	Guadalajara	^[252]
British Virgin Islands	57.21	Lakeisha Warner	24 May 2019	Jacksonville	^[253]
Gambia	57.24^[g]	Nusrat Ceesay [de]	20 April 2012	Azusa	^[254]
Sierra Leone	57.25	Aisha Naibe-Wey	15 June 2018	Ried im Innkreis	^[255]
South Korea	57.34	Jo Eun-ju [fr]	3 May 2013	Ansan	^[256]
Belize	57.43	Lydia Troupe	23 May 2024	Lexington	^[257]
North Macedonia	57.53	Drita Islami	19 June 2021	Limassol	^[258]
Chile	57.53	Violeta Arnaiz	30 June 2024	Brussels	^[259]
Serbia	57.55	Mila Andrić	26 July 2009	Novi Sad	^[260]
Ethiopia	57.60 A	Zewde Hailemariam	9 May 2019	Nairobi	^[261]
Saint Vincent	57.62	Odeshia Nanton	25 May 2024	Emporia	^[262]
Tunisia	57.69	Hend Kebaoui	28 July 1995	Lindau	^[263]
Botswana	57.96	Oarabile Babolayi [de; no]	30 August 2019	Rabat	^[264]
Comoros	57.97	Salhate Djamalidine	26 July 2003	Narbonne	^[265]
Armenia	57.97 56.15^[h]	Amaliya Sharoyan Lilit Harutyunyan	12 August 2013 29 May 2016	Moscow Artashat	^[266] ^[267]
Papua New Guinea	58.02	Betty Burua	29 March 2015	Brisbane	^[268]
Peru	58.04	Kimberly Cardoza [de]	6 August 2019	Lima	^[269]
Zambia	58.07^[i]	Busiwa Asinga	30 April 2021	Normal, IL	^[272]^[198]
Georgia	58.20	Zhorena Onyashvili	11 June 1983	Moscow	^[273]
El Salvador	58.29	Veronica Quijano	4 December 2002	San Salvador	^[274]
Guyana	58.29	Andrea Foster	23 April 2022	Columbia	^[275]
Angola	58.34	Delfina Joaquim	11 July 1999	Lisbon	^[276]
Montenegro	58.36	Sanja Tripković	28 June 1998	Belgrade	^[277]
Grenada	58.37	Kishara George	29 May 2004	Baton Rouge	^[278]
Turkmenistan	58.47	Merjen Ishankuliyeva	14 June 2009	Almaty	^[279]
Tajikistan	58.47	Kristina Pronzhenko	12 June 2019	Tashkent	^[280]
Vanuatu	58.68	Mary Estelle Kapalu	28 July 1996	Atlanta	^[281]
Namibia	58.68	Lilianne Klaasman [de]	17 September 2015	Brazzaville	^[282]
Iran	58.86	Nazanin Fatemeh [de]	26 April 2024	Dubai	^[283]
Singapore	58.93	Dipna Lim Prasad	26 August 2018	Jakarta	^[284]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	58.99	Gorana Cvijetić	4 July 2007	Sofia	^[285]
Bermuda	59.03	Shianne Smith	10 June 2016	Colmar	^[286]
Congo Republic	59.03	Flora Kouvoutoukila	25 June 2024	Douala	^[287]
Ghana	59.13	Ruky Abdulai	4 June 2006	Abbotsford	^[288]
Luxembourg	59.19	Kim Reuland	23 July 2016	Ninove	^[289]
Samoa	59.27	Kim Peterson	20 January 1990	Auckland	^[290]
United Arab Emirates	59.33	Mariam Kareem	26 April 2024	Dubai	^[291]
Myanmar	59.38	Cherry	13 September 2001	Kuala Lumpur	^[292]
French Polynesia	59.42	Katia Sanford	9 July 1989	Créteil	^[293]
Lebanon	59.57	Rasha Badrani	23 May 2024	Emporia	^[294]
Andorra	59.60	Duna Viñals	8 August 2025	Tampere	^[295]^[296]
Indonesia	59.64	Melissa Hetharie Viera	14 November 2011	Palembang	^[297]
Guatemala	59.79	Larissa Soto Midena	26 July 1991	Xalapa	^[198]
Bolivia	1:00.06 A	Alison Mariana Sánchez Delfin	20 May 2012	Sucre	^[298]
Mauritius	1:00.08	Sandra Govinden [fr]	27 June 1992	Belle Vue Harel	^[198]
Iraq	1:00.15	Dina Saadoun	15 November 1989	New Delhi	^[299]
Pakistan	1:00.35 A	Najma Parveen	6 December 2019	Kathmandu	^[300]
Monaco	1:00.51	Marie-Charlotte Gastaud [no]	5 July 2024	Cannes	^[301]
Saint Lucia	1:00.62	Kassandra Pierre	14 May 2015	High Point, NC	^[302]
Azerbaijan	1:00.66	Tatyana Averiyanova	18 September 1986	Tashkent	^[303]
Suriname	1:00.78^[i]	Busiwa Asinga	14 May 2023	Normal, IL	^[272]
Mali	1:00.90	Oumou Keïta	15 July 2012	Reims	^[304]^[198]
Egypt	1:01.00	Malak Ahmed Fathy	30 June 2024	Ismailia	^[305]
Fiji	1:01.01	Ana Kaloucava	19 July 2019	Apia	^[306]
Hong Kong	1:01.04	Wan Kin Yee	17 May 1997	Busan	^[307]
Togo	1:01.0 h	Sandrine Thiébaud-Kangni	19 May 2002	Saint-Étienne	^[308]^[198]
Cape Verde	1:01.19	Neuza Reis	7 July 2013	Fátima	^[198]
Nicaragua	1:01.31	Ariana Rivera	24 June 2018	Greensboro	^[198]
São Tomé and Príncipe	1:01.36	Inicia Fonseca Coelho	1 July 1997	Mataró	^[198]
North Korea	1:01.39	Kim Ji-Ok	25 November 1982	New Delhi	^[309]
Libya	1:01.54	Najla Aqdeir Ali Salem	14 June 2015	Rieti	^[310]
Paraguay	1:01.89	Fatima Amarilla [de]	24 June 2017	Asunción	^[311]
San Marino	1:01.96	Beatrice Berti	8 July 2023	Modena	^[312]
Guinea-Bissau	1:02.09	Graciela Martins	25 January 2014	Bambolim	^[313]^[198]
Antigua and Barbuda	1:02.21	Barbara Selkridge	6 August 1988	Syracuse	^[314]^[198]
Mozambique	1:02.34	Cecilia Guambe [de]	2 June 2024	Maputo	^[315]
Seychelles	1:02.55	Mirenda Francourt	16 September 1992	Seoul	^[316]^[198]
Jordan	1:03.13	Rania al-Qebali [de]	28 August 2008	Amman	^[317]^[198]
Central African Republic	1:03.14	Mireille Bara’ang	7 July 1991	Dreux	^[198]
Guam	1:04.00	Christina Francisco	30 April 2016	Corvallis	^[318]
Liechtenstein	1:04.08	Claudia Fantina	6 September 1992	Colombier	^[319]
Mongolia	1:04.0 h A	Baatar Hurelceceg	22 August 1984	Ulaanbaatar	^[320]
Malawi	1:04.26	Ambwene Simukonda	5 June 2011	Swansea	^[198]

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National records in the 400 metres hurdles

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