Chantz Sawyers Gets His Third North Carolina State Record in the Indoor 400!



Chantz Sawyers was already the indoor 500 state record holder with a 1:02.10 and the outdoor 400 state record holder with a mark of 46.35.  On Saturday Sawyers broke Lamarr Davis' (East Wake) indoor 400 state record of 47.57 from 2007.  


Sawyers raced at Marshall University's over sized 300m oval at the Marshall High School Invitational where second place was 4 and a half seconds behind him.  Sawyers clocked a 47.16 breaking his own meet record of 47.99 from a year ago.  Sawyers also moved to NC#7 All-Time Indoors in the 200 later that day breaking former teammate Daniel Estrada's meet record running 21.57.

Sawyers sat at NC #3 All-Time prior to Saturday with his 47.88 at New Balance Indoor Nationals a year ago.  He will return to that event in just a few weeks and look to improve on his current state record.  Sawyers has a great shot at becoming the first North Carolina boy under 47 seconds indoors.

Below list the top 25 all-time performances in the indoor 400m dash.

Boys 400 (Full Boys Indoor All-Time Top 25)

Rank

Name

School

Time

Year

1

Chantz Sawyers

Platinum Sports

47.16

2017

2

Lamarr Davis

East Wake

47.57

2007

3

Anthony Hendrix

New Bern

47.73

2009

4

Karjuan Williams

New Bern

47.99

2006

5

Dave Adair

Garinger

48.06

1991

6

Andrew Hendrix

New Bern

48.15

2009

7

Andre Steele

Salisbury

48.27

1990

8

Marquavious Johnson

Knightdale

48.33

2013

9

Chris Wylie

Myers Park

48.36

1996

10

Brett Wilson

Northeast Guilford

49.00

2001

11

Bobby Grier

West Charlotte

49.02

2008

12

Jamaree Murray

Southeast Raleigh

49.08

2014

13

Shane Bechtold

Forsyth Country Day

49.16

2000

14

Kokayi Cobb

Christ School

49.19

2017

15

Handy Dawes

Nash Central

49.29

2007

16

Kwame Donyinah

Myers Park

49.37

2013

17

Jarrod Wiley

Mount Tabor

49.38

2002

18

Jayon Woodard

Southeast Raleigh

49.45

2016

19

Lamont Jackson

R.J. Reynolds

49.46

2009

20

Xavier Jones

Ragsdale

49.51

2012

21

Marcus Gladden

North Rowan

49.70

1990

22

Saadiq Sweezer

Eastern Alamance

49.82

2014

23

Demari Boswell

Ben L. Smith

49.90

2011

24

Jalen Buxton

Wakefield

49.92

2014

25

Eric Winfrey

Byrd

49.92

2010