2026-09-04
400 m and 1,500 m: keep year and size group apart
How HumanoidPodium lists Games 400 m and 1,500 m clockings without merging 2025 minutes into 2026 seconds or large-group with small-group.
Sprint and middle-distance rows look dense on social media and thin in the ledger. That is intentional. We only store clockings that already appear in a public report with a clickable source_url.
For 400 m, World Humanoid Robot Games 2025 still shows Unitree H1 at 1:28.03 (minutes:seconds). Games 2026 large-group times sit in another band: Tiangong Ultra 38.15 s, with Lightning Zhuifeng and Lightning Jinghong behind. Small-group Omni at 45.66 s is a separate discipline label. A claimed Honor test time is marked as test, not a final ranking.
For 1,500 m, 2025 Unitree and Tiangong Ultra times around six-plus minutes stay on 2025 rows. 2026 podium clockings around 2:21 to 2:30 are not rewritten onto the older board. Same event family name, different year and often different reporting context.
We do not publish one "fastest humanoid 400 m of all time" list across years. Open the event pages or filter rankings by year. Empty cells mean no sourced URL yet.