4 × 400 metres relay 4 × 400 metres relay The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 metres is run in lanes. Start lines are thus staggered over a greater distance than in an individual 400 metres race; the runners then typically move to the inside of the track. Relay race runners typically carry a relay baton which they must transfer between teammates. Runners have a
Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles as world record. Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles The men's 400 metres hurdles event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Sunday, July 6, 1924 and on Monday, July 7, 1924. As for all other races the track was 500 metres in circumference. Twenty-three hurdlers from 13 nations competed. These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1924 Summer Olympics. "(*)" not ratified as he knocked over a hurdle Morgan Taylor won the U.S. trials in a