The Singular Beauty of the 400-Meter Hurdles

Photo: Maja Hitij/Getty Images There is no Olympic event quite like the 400-meter hurdles. The flat 400-meter race is already considered to be one of the most punishing events in track and field, since it’s impossible to sprint all out for the entire distance. The hurdles make it even harder. There are ten of them, spaced 35 meters apart at a height of two and a half feet for women and three feet for men.

The men’s race is primarily a duel between American Rai Benjamin, a 24-year-old from Mount Vernon, New York, and Warholm, 25. Benjamin comfortably won the U.S. Olympic trials in June in 46.83 seconds, a time that missed Kevin Young’s 1992 world record by .05 seconds; five days after Benjamin’s near miss, Warholm ran it in 46.70 seconds to break Young’s record. When the two faced each other competitively for the first time, in 2019, Warholm won by .06 of a second.

When Muhammad set her first world record in 2019, she ran the first eight hurdles using 15 strides between each hurdle and switched to 16 strides for the final two hurdles. When a runner adds a step to their stride pattern, two risks come into play. First, adding a step can slow down a runner. Additionally, it means that the runner will have to take the next hurdle on their non-dominant leg. This too could lead to a loss of time.

“It depends on the conditions,” Alnes, Warholm’s coach, said. “It depends on the opening speed.” Warholm, like Muhammad, is known for going out very fast at the start of his races. Alnes said, “Karsten has gone 13 all the way in several races, but then he needs to overstride at the end. He has been criticized for opening too fast. I totally disagree. I think he finishes too slow.” It’s likely that Dos Santos will continue using 12 steps for part of the race.

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