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400 Metres World Leads by Year

For each year, name the 400 metres runner who scored the fastest time.
Only includes times posted after IAAF's accuracy requirement of one hundreth of a second in 1977
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Year
Men
Time
Country
2017
Wayde van Niekerk
43.62
South Africa
2016
43.03
2015
43.48
2014
Kirani James
43.74
Grenada
2013
LaShawn Merritt
43.74
United States
2012
Kirani James
43.94
Grenada
2011
LaShawn Merritt
44.35
United States
2010
Jeremy Wariner
44.13
United States
2009
LaShawn Merritt
44.06
United States
2008
43.75
2007
Jeremy Wariner
43.45
United States
2006
43.62
2005
43.93
2004
44.00
2003
Tyree Washington
44.33
United States
2002
Leonard Byrd
44.45
United States
2001
Tyree Washington
44.28
United States
2000
Michael Johnson
43.68
United States
1999
43.18
1998
43.68
1997
43.75
1996
43.44
1995
43.39
1994
43.90
1993
43.65
1992
Quincy Watts
43.50
United States
1991
Michael Johnson
44.17
United States
1990
Danny Everett
44.06
United States
1989
Antonio Pettigrew
44.27
United States
1988
Harry Reynolds
43.29
United States
1987
44.10
1986
Gabriel Tiacoh
44.30
Cote d'Ivoire
1985
Michel Franks
44.47
United States
1984
Alonzo Babers
44.27
United States
1983
Erwin Skamrahl
44.50
West Germany
1982
Sunder Nix
44.68
United States
1981
Bert Cameron
44.58
Jamaica
1980
Viktor Markin
44.60
Soviet Union
1979
Harald Schmid
44.92
West Germany
1978
Alberto Juantorena
44.27
Cuba
1977
44.65
Year
Women
Time
Country
2017
Allyson Felix
49.65
United States
2016
Shaunae Miller
49.44
Bahamas
2015
Allyson Felix
49.26
United States
2014
Francena McCorory
49.48
United States
2013
Amantle Montsho
49.33
Botswana
2012
Antonina Krivoshapka
49.16
Russia
2011
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
49.35
Russia
2010
Debbie Dunn
49.64
United States
2009
Sanya Richards
48.83
United States
2008
Christine Ohuruogu
49.62
United Kingdom
2007
Sanya Richards
49.27
United States
2006
48.70
2005
48.92
2004
Tonique Williams-Darling
49.07
Bahamas
2003
Ana Guevara
48.89
Mexico
2002
49.16
2001
Katharine Merry
49.59
United Kingdom
2000
Cathy Freeman
49.11
Australia
1999
Falilat Ogunkoya
49.62
Nigeria
1998
Charity Opara
49.29
Nigeria
1997
Cathy Freeman
49.39
Australia
1996
Marie-José Pérec
48.25
France
1995
49.28
1994
49.77
1993
Ma Yuqin
49.81
China
1992
Marie-José Pérec
48.83
France
1991
49.32
1990
Grit Breuer
49.50
Germany
1989
Ana Fidelia Quirot
50.01
Cuba
1988
Olga Bryzgina
48.65
Soviet Union
1987
49.38
1986
Marita Koch
48.22
East Germany
1985
47.60
1984
48.16
1983
Jarmila Kratochilová
47.99
Czechoslovakia
1982
Marita Koch
48.16
East Germany
1981
Jarmila Kratochilová
48.61
Czechoslovakia
1980
Marita Koch
48.88
East Germany
1979
48.89
1978
48.94
1977
Irena Szewinska
49.52
Poland
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