Louis Van Zyl of South Africa, just broke the national record in the 400m hurdles with a blazing time of 47.66! http://www.athleticsafrica.com/www2/news/2011/02/26/south_african_lj_van_zyl_breaks_11_year_old_national_400m_hurdles_record_pretoria/685.html Just to give you some idea about the time....in 2010, it would have been 5th fastest time in the world, and 3rd fastest performer. I thought his best days were behind him, but glad to see they are right now. Let's hope this is a great year for him.
Just checking out the 2011 European Top 10 in the 400m Hurdles. It's amazing how the British dominate the list - 6 out of the top 10, and all very young. Also, all of them are white, except Woodward (mostly white). Incredible too for such a small island; and equally incredible that there are no white US hurdlers who could make this list time-wise. Obviously, white talent in the US is pushed away from the sprints/hurdles/jumps, as is well documented here. But happy to see this event is so strongly represented in the UK. 1/48.24David GreeneGBR 2/49.06NURNathan WoodwardGBR 3/49.06NURJack GreenGBR 4/49.50Georg FleischhauerGER 5/49.59Rhys WilliamsGBR 6/49.62Stanislav MelnykovUKR 7/49.68Aleksandr DerevyaginRUS 8/49.76Niall FlanneryGBR 9/49.78Jorge PaulaPOR 10/49.78Thomas PhillipsGBREdited by: jacknyc
yep, lots of good Brits. They have a history of really good 400 runners in the last 2 decades so these guys seem to have incorporated the hurdles into the equation. There are of course 60 million of them on that island LOL
