Two short-lived World Records

30,000 fans saw how delighted Poland’s Krystyna Kacperczyk was with her world record time of 55.44 seconds for the 400m hurdles. Ulrike Bruns of the GDR set the second record of the meeting, running 2:32.0 for 1,000m. The East German Bruns had won Olympic bronze over 1500m in Montreal two years previously. Within 48 hours both times were overhauled but that did nothing to detract from the world records in Berlin.