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Yep, and that = a low-mid 48 out of the blocks.
It was reported here as a 47.4 split:
http://www.dyestat.com/state/va/1out-3a-pearl.htmI was getting ready to say that a running start isn't worth 0.6 seconds...but I think it might be. Let's take a look at the Beijing 400 open times and 4x400 splits. We are looking for athletes who ran the 3rd and 4th legs for the 8 nations who made the finals. I'm ignoring the 1st two legs since those splits will only be estimates. Recall that the 4x400 was two days after the 400 final, so athletes should have been fresh for both races.
Wariner U.S. - open 44.74 (silver) / split 43.18 (1.56 seconds difference)
Neville U.S. - open 44.80 (bronze) / split 44.16 (0.64 seconds)
Brown Bahamas - open 44.84 (4th) / split 44.05 (0.79 seconds)
Rooney Great Britain - open 45.12 (6th) / split 43.73 (1.39 seconds)
Milburn Australia - 45.06 (semis) / split 44.28 (0.78 seconds)
This is enough, we can stop here. I know a sampling of five data points isn't enough for us to come up with a quantitative conclusion, but you can see the trend. Clearly a running start is significant. Yeah, I'd say Webb is 48-something out of the blocks.