400 metres

Quality:

400 metres - sprint running event. Article “400 metres” in English Wikipedia has 59.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 88 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.61 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “400 metres” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “400 metres”, its content was written by 352 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1527 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16350 times in English Wikipedia (1103^rd place) and cited 48767 times in all languages (3256^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #226 in August 2016
• Global: #246 in August 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #714 in August 2024
• Global: #807 in August 2024

There are 36 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) 400 metres		59.5188
2	French (fr) 400 mètres		49.1684
3	Greek (el) Δρόμος 400 μέτρων		47.6666
4	Serbian (sr) Трка на 400 метара		37.4818
5	Hebrew (he) ריצת 400 מטר		35.0971
6	Portuguese (pt) 400 metros rasos		34.9457
7	Estonian (et) 400 meetri jooks		34.5299
8	Spanish (es) 400 metros		33.4504
9	Italian (it) 400 metri piani		33.012
10	Polish (pl) Bieg na 400 metrów		31.7863

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 400 metres		6 451 610
2	Japanese (ja) 400メートル競走		1 545 323
3	Spanish (es) 400 metros		1 482 301
4	German (de) 400-Meter-Lauf		799 088
5	French (fr) 400 mètres		732 929
6	Polish (pl) Bieg na 400 metrów		626 610
7	Italian (it) 400 metri piani		622 547
8	Portuguese (pt) 400 metros rasos		396 522
9	Russian (ru) Бег на 400 метров		333 943
10	Dutch (nl) 400 meter (atletiek)		322 633

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 400 metres		18 814
2	Japanese (ja) 400メートル競走		8 807
3	Spanish (es) 400 metros		2 536
4	German (de) 400-Meter-Lauf		2 089
5	Polish (pl) Bieg na 400 metrów		1 685
6	Italian (it) 400 metri piani		1 489
7	Chinese (zh) 400米赛跑		1 369
8	French (fr) 400 mètres		1 345
9	Russian (ru) Бег на 400 метров		1 123
10	Czech (cs) Běh na 400 metrů		901

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 400 metres		352
2	French (fr) 400 mètres		150
3	German (de) 400-Meter-Lauf		134
4	Japanese (ja) 400メートル競走		110
5	Italian (it) 400 metri piani		90
6	Spanish (es) 400 metros		87
7	Dutch (nl) 400 meter (atletiek)		84
8	Polish (pl) Bieg na 400 metrów		55
9	Norwegian (no) 400 meter		47
10	Czech (cs) Běh na 400 metrů		42

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) 400 mètres		3
2	Japanese (ja) 400メートル競走		3
3	English (en) 400 metres		2
4	Dutch (nl) 400 meter (atletiek)		2
5	Polish (pl) Bieg na 400 metrów		2
6	Bulgarian (bg) 400 метра бягане		1
7	German (de) 400-Meter-Lauf		1
8	Russian (ru) Бег на 400 метров		1
9	Chinese (zh) 400米赛跑		1
10	Arabic (ar) 400 متر		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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