A good 400m is 1:00 for men and 1:13 for women. A great 400m is 56 seconds for men and 1:05 for women. A good time beats about 75% of the CrossFitters who posted a 400 on a Games profile, and a great time beats about 90%. The median is 1:07 for men and 1:22 for women.
The 400 is one lap. The men’s world record is 43.03 seconds. The women’s is 47.60. The medians below sit 24 seconds and 34 seconds behind those marks.
Where these times come from
This is the same CrossFit Games profile scrape as the Fran post: athlete IDs 1 through 299,999. Of 60,843 men and 34,241 women, 10,866 men and 2,931 women had typed in a 400. I kept times from 45 seconds to 2:00, which leaves 10,451 men and 2,799 women. The other entries include 0:01 and 60:00.
An earlier version of this post used 299 men and 88 women from a smaller 2014 scrape, described in Gathering CrossFit data: the methodology. The times below replace those.
About 18% of the men and 9% of the women on these profiles posted a 400, a lower rate than for Fran. People who know the time and enter it are a selected group. A time that looks ordinary here can still be quick for someone who races once in a while.
How the times are spread
For men, the mean is 1:10 and the median is 1:07. The standard deviation is 13 seconds, so a lot of the men land between about 57 seconds and 1:23. The busiest 10 seconds is 1:00 to 1:10. A 1:00 beats about 75% of the men, a 56-second time beats about 90%, and 54 seconds beats about 95%. Each bar below is 10 seconds, so the 1:00 bar is 1:00 up to 1:10.
Show the numbers
| Time | Athletes |
|---|---|
| <0:50 | 129 |
| 0:50 | 1,954 |
| 1:00 | 3,865 |
| 1:10 | 2,406 |
| 1:20 | 1,110 |
| 1:30 | 557 |
| 1:40 | 266 |
| 1:50 | 164 |
For women, the mean is 1:24 and the median is 1:22. The standard deviation is 15 seconds. The busy stretch is 1:10 to 1:30. A 1:13 beats about 75% of the women, a 1:05 beats about 90%, and 1:01 beats about 95%. At the median, the women are about 22% slower than the men, 1:22 against 1:07.
Show the numbers
| Time | Athletes |
|---|---|
| <1:00 | 86 |
| 1:00 | 387 |
| 1:10 | 689 |
| 1:20 | 694 |
| 1:30 | 483 |
| 1:40 | 290 |
| 1:50 | 170 |
The table is the lookup. Each percentage is the share of posted times slower than the time in the first column. A man who runs 1:05 has beaten 54.6% of the men here. A woman who runs 1:05 has beaten 89.2%.
| Time | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
| 0:50 | 98.1% | 99.8% |
| 0:55 | 91.9% | 99.1% |
| 1:00 | 74.4% | 95.6% |
| 1:05 | 54.6% | 89.2% |
| 1:10 | 38.4% | 80.2% |
| 1:15 | 26.4% | 68.7% |
| 1:20 | 17.1% | 54.1% |
| 1:25 | 12.0% | 42.1% |
| 1:30 | 7.5% | 29.4% |
Age
The headline numbers mix every age. In the individual division, ages 18-34, the median is 1:05 for men and 1:20 for women. The time that beats about 75% of that division is 59 seconds for men and 1:11 for women. From there the median slows by a few seconds every five years, and then a bit more after 45. The men’s rows run from 6,038 athletes aged 18-34 to 102 aged 60+. The women’s rows run from 1,661 to 91 at ages 50-54. Teens are barely in the scrape, and the women’s rows past 54 are under 30 athletes, so those groups are left out. The 75th column beats about 75% of that age group, and the 50th column is the median.
| Age | 75th | 50th |
|---|---|---|
| 18-34 | 0:59 | 1:05 |
| 35-39 | 1:01 | 1:06 |
| 40-44 | 1:04 | 1:10 |
| 45-49 | 1:06 | 1:14 |
| 50-54 | 1:07 | 1:15 |
| 55-59 | 1:12 | 1:18 |
| 60+ | 1:15 | 1:25 |
| Age | 75th | 50th |
|---|---|---|
| 18-34 | 1:11 | 1:20 |
| 35-39 | 1:15 | 1:24 |
| 40-44 | 1:17 | 1:25 |
| 45-49 | 1:19 | 1:28 |
| 50-54 | 1:20 | 1:31 |
Next to high school sprinters
Oregon publishes a concrete version of a state-meet standard. For 2026, the boys’ 400 qualifying marks, a four-year average of fourth place, run from 49.47 seconds in the largest class to 52.44 in a smaller one. The girls’ marks run from 57.23 to 1:02.82. The sheet is Oregon’s 2026 qualifying standards.
54 seconds beats about 95% of the men here, and it is slower than every one of those boys’ standards. 129 men in this set, about 1%, are under 50 seconds. On the women’s side, 1:01 beats about 95% and sits near the slower end of the Oregon girls’ standards. The largest-class girls’ mark is 57.23. The medians, 1:07 and 1:22, are a different race from a state meet.
The fast tail of these profiles reaches high school varsity. The middle of the distribution is athletes who posted a 400 alongside a lot of other training.