By this point, Wang Yi had also reached his limit. As lactic acid rapidly built up, his arms and legs were already aching.
But he gritted his teeth and endured it.
Because the guy behind him was Korean.
He didn't just want to beat the Korean. He wanted to crush him.
Absolutely crush him!
So he had to give everything he had to finish those 30 meters.
As a result, the distance between them quickly widened again. In just 30 meters, Wang Yi had opened up another 10-meter lead.
By the time Wang Yi crossed the finish line, the gap between them had widened to a staggering 40 meters.
Everyone at the scene stared in stunned disbelief.
Wang Yi's final time was 39.99 seconds.
He hadn't just broken the world record—he'd improved it by more than three seconds!
Naturally, 39.99 seconds set a new record for the human 400 meters.
In track and field, records in every event had already reached the limits of the human body.
So even when records were broken, they were generally improved by only a few hundredths of a second.
Forty-three seconds was considered the current limit for the human 400 meters.
People predicted that no one would break that barrier for at least 30 years.
Yet Wang Yi had not only broken it—he'd raised the limit by three seconds and gone under 40 seconds.
That was downright inhuman.
Everyone in the stadium looked at Wang Yi as if he were some kind of alien monster.
In fact, while Wang Yi had relied mostly on his physical ability to dominate the first half of the race, he had felt tremendous pressure over the final 50 meters.
With lactic acid building up and his body starved of oxygen, his heart and lungs and his body itself