D.O.B: 10.16.78
N.O.C: United States
Height: N/A
Weight: N/A
Final Year of Competition: 1901
Years Top 10: 5
Personal bests
100y: 10.0 (United States 1900)
100m: 10.9 (United Kingdom 1900)
200m: 21.9 (Canada 1898)
400m: 47.5 (United States 1900)
Men’s 400m GREATEST OF ALL TIME Countdown…at No.2 it’s MAXEY LONG…✨🇺🇸⬇️
In many ways the 400m started with MAXEY LONG; a Trailblazer for the event…the FIRST-EVER Official WORLD RECORD HOLDER and winner of the second Olympic Games in 1900 [Paris], 125 years ago!!!🥇✊
Born MAXWELL LONG, he soon became known as “MAXEY” – he was a member of New York Athletic Club and studied at Columbia University…he’s also now quite rightly in the USA Track & Field HALL OF FAME [2021]!!!✨
The dominant athlete of his era – LONG’s 400m WORLD RECORD remained unsurpassed for almost 16 years!!!🔥 [HBM Note: in 1900 LONG ran 47.0 secs on a 400m straightaway at the Guttenberg Racetrack in North Bergen, New Jersey [USA] – that mark wasn’t bettered until 32 YEARS LATER!!!]
