LeShawn Merritt competes. (Photo credit: Mark Dadswell/Getty Images)
(BEIJING, August 21) -- LeShawn Merritt has won the Men's 400m gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, running smoothly in a time of 43.75 seconds, his personal best.
The silver medal goes to Jeremy Wariner, the race favorite who lagged well back at 44.74s, while David Neville finished strong and dove across the finish line to record 44.80s.
The current world record held by all-time Athletics great Michael Johnson is 43.18 seconds set in Seville in 1999, just under his Olympic record 43.49s from Atlanta 1996.
Athletics legend Johnson had also owned the 200m record for 12 years until Usain Bolt shaved it by 2 one-hundredths in the Beijing 2008 200m final.
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