2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
Records
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres

Section Title: Records
Table Section Text: Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record	Marita Koch (GDR)	47.60	Canberra, Australia	6 October 1985

Championship record	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	47.99	Helsinki, Finland	10 August 1983

World Leading	Anastasia Kapachinskaya (RUS)	49.35	Cheboksary, Russia	22 July 2011

African Record	Falilat Ogunkoya (NGR)	49.10	Atlanta, GA, United States	29 July 1996

Asian Record	Yuqin Ma (CHN)	49.81	Beijing, China	11 September 1993

North, Central American and Caribbean record	Sanya Richards-Ross (USA)	48.70	Athens, Greece	16 September 2006

South American record	Ximena Restrepo (COL)	49.64	Barcelona, Spain	5 August 1992

European Record	Marita Koch (GDR)	47.60	Canberra, Australia	6 October 1985

Oceanian record	Cathy Freeman (AUS)	48.63	Atlanta, GA, United States	29 July 1996

Sentence(s)

Russian champion Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, had run a 49.35 sec.

final_sentence: Russian champion Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, had run a 49.35 sec.