Title: Women 400m hurdles age bests
Re Ken Stone’s:
In addition, Sanda Farmer Patrick is set to run the 400 hurdles at Kansas.
She's 38, having been born August 8, 1962. The single-age world record for 38
is 62.82 by Leonie Louwrens of South Africa on 7-19-97. That's a soft record.
WAVA records in that event:
W35 52.94 Marina Stepanova(URS) 36 9/17/86
W40 62.08 Maria Sangous Espina(ESP) 40 6/22/95
Ken Stone
I have not had time to work out for sure what the age record for 38 is but it most definitely is not 62.82! Nor is the W40 record 62.08.
The British age-38 best was set by Gorwy Retchaken/Hodge (b. 21 June 1960) when she was 2nd in the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur on 18 Sep 1998 in 55.25.
Last year Gowry ran a world’s W40 best for 400mh of 58.3 at Hoo on 2 September 2000.
That was hand timed – but of course British hand timed, which means that it might well correspond to auto timing, British timekeepers being trained to stop their watches when they see the athlete cross the finish, rather than when ,as most of the rest of the world does, anticipate when an athlete crosses the finish.
Peter Matthews,
Editor International Athletics Annual, Co-publisher Athletics International,
Chairman NUTS.
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