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![400 meter world champ from South Africa](https://lane8.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/08.27.2015-11-570x428.jpg)
![Fastest 400 meter final ever](https://lane8.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/08.27.2015-13-570x428.jpg)
Ordinary is what we expect.
Yet extraordinary is happening constantly.
Yesterday was a special moment for South Africa and for the 400 meter race at the 2015 Track & Field World Championships in Beijing’s Birdnest stadium (home of the 2008 Olympic Games).
Never before have three runners in the same heat broken the 44-second barrier.
The winner ran the 4th fastest 400 meters ever, in the history of Track & Feld.
Michael Johnson holds the world record (since 1999) at 43.18.
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