2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on 6–9 August.[1]

Men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2017 World Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	6 August (heats) 7 August (semifinal) 9 August (final)
Competitors	39 from 28 nations
Winning time	48.35
Medalists
Karsten Warholm    Norway   Yasmani Copello    Turkey   Kerron Clement    United States

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Summary

Karsten Warholm led the final from start to finish. At the final hurdle, Abderrahman Samba, in second place and seemingly gaining on Warholm, stumbled and struggled to maintain his balance, dropping to seventh. From the last hurdle to the finish line Warholm increased his speed again, winning by a comfortable margin, while Yasmani Copello overtook Kerron Clement on the final run in to gain silver.[2][3][4]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[5]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	46.78	Kevin Young	USA	6 Aug 1992	Barcelona, Spain
Championship	47.18	Kevin Young	USA	19 Aug 1993	Stuttgart, Germany
World leading	47.80	Kyron McMaster	IVB	20 May 2017	Kingston, Jamaica
African	47.10	Samuel Matete	ZAM	7 Aug 1991	Zürich, Switzerland
Asian	47.53	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	KSA	27 Sep 2000	Sydney, Australia
NACAC	46.78	Kevin Young	USA	6 Aug 1992	Barcelona, Spain
South American	47.84	Bayano Kamani	PAN	7 Aug 2005	Helsinki, Finland
European	47.37	Stéphane Diagana	FRA	5 Jul 1995	Lausanne, Switzerland
Oceanian	48.28	Rohan Robinson	AUS	31 Jul 1996	Atlanta, United States

The following records were set at the competition:[6]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
Argentine	49.69	Guillermo Ruggeri	ARG	6 Aug 2017

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 49.35.[7]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows:[8]

Date	Time	Round
6 August	11:05	Heats
7 August	20:20	Semifinals
9 August	21:33	Final

Results

Heats

The first round took place on 6 August in five heats as follows:[9]

Heat	1	2	3	4	5
Start time	11:05	11:13	11:22	11:31	11:41
Photo finish	​	​	​	​	​

The first four in each heat ( Q ) and the next four fastest ( q ) qualified for the semifinals. The overall results were as follows:[10]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	8	Yasmani Copello	Turkey (TUR)	49.13	Q
2	4	9	Juander Santos	Dominican Republic (DOM)	49.19	Q
3	5	2	Mamadou Kassé Hanne	France (FRA)	49.34	Q
4	2	4	TJ Holmes	United States (USA)	49.35	Q
5	3	9	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar (QAT)	49.39	Q
6	5	7	Márcio Teles	Brazil (BRA)	49.41	Q
7	5	4	Patryk Dobek	Poland (POL)	49.42	Q
8	1	5	Kerron Clement	United States (USA)	49.46	Q
9	3	4	Ludvy Vaillant	France (FRA)	49.49	Q
10	4	4	Karsten Warholm	Norway (NOR)	49.50	Q
11	5	5	Aron Koech	Kenya (KEN)	49.55	Q
12	5	3	Jack Green	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	49.55	q
13	5	8	Eric Futch	United States (USA)	49.57	q
14	1	3	Takatoshi Abe	Japan (JPN)	49.65	Q
15	4	3	Guillermo Ruggeri	Argentina (ARG)	49.69	Q, NR
16	2	9	Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica (JAM)	49.72	Q
17	2	5	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria (ALG)	49.78	Q
18	2	6	Thomas Barr	Ireland (IRL)	49.79	Q
19	3	2	José Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon	Italy (ITA)	49.79	Q
20	1	6	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia (EST)	49.81	Q
21	4	7	Ricardo Cunningham	Jamaica (JAM)	49.91	Q
22	1	8	Kemar Mowatt	Jamaica (JAM)	50.00	Q
23	4	5	Victor Coroller	France (FRA)	50.00	q
24	3	7	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland (SUI)	50.12	q
25	1	4	Hederson Estefani	Brazil (BRA)	50.22
26	3	5	Jordin Andrade	Cape Verde (CPV)	50.32
27	1	2	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico (PUR)	50.33
28	2	3	Yusuke Ishida	Japan (JPN)	50.35
29	2	2	Lorenzo Vergani	Italy (ITA)	50.37
30	5	9	Sergio Fernández	Spain (ESP)	50.38
31	4	6	Ryo Kajiki	Japan (JPN)	51.36
32	3	6	Creve Armando Machava	Mozambique (MOZ)	51.71
33	1	7	José Luis Gaspar	Cuba (CUB)	51.82
34	5	6	Mehboob Ali	Pakistan (PAK)	52.24
35	2	7	Ephraim Lerkin	Papua New Guinea (PNG)	52.36
36	1	9	Pablo Andrés Ibáñez	El Salvador (ESA)	52.72
	4	2	Michael Stigler	United States (USA)	DQ	R 168.7(a)
	2	8	Kyron McMaster	British Virgin Islands (IVB)	DQ	R 163.3(a)
	4	8	Eric Cray	Philippines (PHI)	DQ	R 162.7
	3	3	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia (EST)	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals took place on 7 August in three heats as follows:[11]

Heat	1	2	3
Start time	20:20	20:30	20:40
Photo finish	​	​	​

The first two in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:[12]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	7	Kerron Clement	United States (USA)	48.35	Q
2	1	5	Karsten Warholm	Norway (NOR)	48.43	Q
3	1	4	Juander Santos	Dominican Republic (DOM)	48.59	q, PB
4	1	3	Kemar Mowatt	Jamaica (JAM)	48.66	q
5	3	6	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar (QAT)	48.75	Q
6	3	4	Yasmani Copello	Turkey (TUR)	48.91	Q
7	2	6	TJ Holmes	United States (USA)	49.12	Q
8	2	2	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland (SUI)	49.13	Q
9	3	2	Eric Futch	United States (USA)	49.30
10	1	8	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria (ALG)	49.33
11	1	6	Patryk Dobek	Poland (POL)	49.40
12	2	7	Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica (JAM)	49.75
13	2	3	Jack Green	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	49.93
14	2	4	Takatoshi Abe	Japan (JPN)	49.93
15	3	5	Ludvy Vaillant	France (FRA)	49.95
16	3	8	José Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon	Italy (ITA)	50.29
17	2	5	Mamadou Kassé Hanne	France (FRA)	50.35
18	2	9	Aron Kipchumba Koech	Kenya (KEN)	50.40
19	2	8	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia (EST)	50.43
20	3	3	Ricardo Cunningham	Jamaica (JAM)	50.54
21	1	2	Victor Coroller	France (FRA)	55.69
	3	7	Márcio Teles	Brazil (BRA)	DNF
	3	9	Guillermo Ruggeri	Argentina (ARG)	DQ	R 163.3(a)
	1	9	Thomas Barr	Ireland (IRL)	DNS

Final

The final took place on 9 August at 20:34. The results were as follows (photo finish):[13]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Karsten Warholm	Norway (NOR)	48.35
	8	Yasmani Copello	Turkey (TUR)	48.49
	4	Kerron Clement	United States (USA)	48.52
4	3	Kemar Mowatt	Jamaica (JAM)	48.99
5	7	TJ Holmes	United States (USA)	49.00
6	2	Juander Santos	Dominican Republic (DOM)	49.04
7	6	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar (QAT)	49.74
8	9	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland (SUI)	50.07

References

1. Start list
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