{"id":18311,"date":"2026-09-03T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/record-on-watch\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:44:38","slug":"record-on-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/record-on-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"The 400m record that stood for forty years is on watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two runners have gone under 43.5 this season. The track, the shoes and the schedule all say why, and none of them is the runner.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"the-track\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The track<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both times came on the same surface \u2014 a harder, thinner track laid for this season that returns more energy on the bend than anything the record was set on.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/stadiumDay-1024x682.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumDay-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumDay-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumDay-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumDay-1536x1023.webp 1536w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumDay.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The home straight where both sub-43.5s were run.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 id=\"the-shoes\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The shoes<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spikes with a plate, legal since the rule change, worth somewhere between a tenth and a quarter of a second over a lap depending on who is measuring.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"anps-statband wp-block-sportpulse-stat-band\"><div class=\"anps-sechead\"><p class=\"anps-sechead__kicker\">\/\/ The record in numbers<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-statband__grid anps-statband__grid--inline\" style=\"--anps-statband-cols:3\"><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">43.29<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">The mark<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">40<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Years it has stood<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">2<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Runners inside 43.5 this year<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"the-schedule\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The schedule<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three meets in nine days on the same track, which is either a coincidence or the most obvious record attempt ever organised.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two runners have gone under 43.5 this season. 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