Wednesday, 30 June 2021
Eighteen-year-old Namibian Christine Mboma produced a startling performance at tonight’s Irena Szewińska Memorial meeting in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz as she won the women’s 400 metres by half the length of the finishing straight in 48.54sec - a world under-20 record and the fastest run so far this year.
It marked another dizzying step up for Mboma, who set a personal best of 50.97 on March 27 this year and trimmed it with a Namibian record and unofficial world under-20 record of 49.24 on April 11, breaking the mark of 49.42 set in 1991 by East Germany’s Gritt Breuer.
A week later she lowered her best to 49.22, and her latest effort takes her above Rio 2016 champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo, who clocked 49.08 in April, in the 2021 world rankings.
Namibia's Mboma sets world under-20 400m record of 48.54sec in Bydgoszcz
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