Video: Kevin Young's Olympics 400 metres hurdles record Barcelona 1992 "I'd never had anybody be that far ahead of me going into the last stretch," Graham, who won the silver medal, said. It exhausted me right there. Bronze-medal winner Kriss Akabusi of Britain said he thought he was running fast until "Kevin came flying past - and I mean flying." Young, from Watts, California, even beat the time he had plastered so optimistically on the wall of his room - and 20 years later his mark of 46.78sec remains unsurpassed. "The world record has been destroyed," an American TV commentator said as Young crossed the line, "not sliced, not shaved - it has been destroyed."