{"id":2874,"date":"2026-04-19T21:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:49:22","slug":"sprinter-samuel-vessat-becomes-the-third-frenchman-under-45-seconds-in-the-400-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"Sprinter Samuel Vessat becomes the third Frenchman under 45 seconds in the 400 meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>Sprinter Samuel Vessat became the third Frenchman to go under 45 seconds over 400 m, completing the lap yesterday in 44&#8217;94&#8221; during a university competition in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States. For his return to the distance, the 23-year-old athlete, who studies and trains at Purdue University in Indiana, joins, with this time, Leslie Djhone (44&#8217;46&#8221; in 2007) and Marc Raquil (44&#8217;79&#8221; in 2003). This is the first time since 2010 that a Frenchman has gone under 45 seconds over 400 m.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Comment un poing lev\u00e9 il y a 50 ans a chang\u00e9 l'Histoire du sport\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimedia.com\/deliver\/generic\/iframe\/mdtk\/01357940\/zone\/1\/src\/m5rq8s\/showtitle\/1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Vessat, who only really started athletics in 2024 after shining in basketball, is experiencing meteoric progress. He had already made a name for himself this winter by repeatedly lowering the French indoor discipline record to bring it to 45&#8217;30&#8221; and take 6th place in the final of the first division of the very tough NCAA university championships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprinter Samuel Vessat became the third Frenchman to go under 45 seconds over 400 m, completing the lap yesterday in 44&#8217;94&#8221; during a university competition in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States. For his return to the distance, the 23-year-old athlete, who studies and trains at Purdue University in Indiana, joins, with this time, Leslie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}