All-time women's best 400 hurdles

mixed race

        1      53.65A     Myrtle Bothma                  RSA     18.02.64           Pretoria                 12.03.1990
        2      54.37      Kim Batten                     USA     29.03.69           Tallahassee              16.03.1996

performances annulled due to doping offense

        1      53.38      Jiang Limei                    CHN     70                 Shanghai                 22.10.1997
        2      54.47      Guo Yue                        CHN     23.01.69           Beijing                  09.09.1993
        3      54.54      Peng Yinghua                   CHN     21.02.79           Shanghai                 22.10.1997
        4      54.74      Han Qing                       CHN     04.03.70    1      Hiroshima                14.10.1994
        5      54.87      Jiang Limei                    CHN     70          h3     Shanghai                 22.10.1997