European Athletics Championships 2002/400 m hurdles for women

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 8th (final)
Medalists Ionela Târlea ( ROM )   Heike Meißner ( GER )   Anna Olichwierczuk ( POL )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The women's 400-meter hurdles at the 2002 European Athletics Championships took place on August 7th and 8th, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

The Romanian defending champion Ionela Târlea became European champion . She won ahead of the German Heike Meißner . Bronze went to Anna Olichwierczuk from Poland , later Anna Jesień.

Existing records

World record	52.61 s	Kim Batten	Gothenburg , Sweden	August 11, 1995
European record	52.74 s	Sally Gunnell	WM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	19th August 1993
EM record	53.32 s	Marina Stepanova	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 30, 1986

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 7, 2002

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. With only twenty participants, the semi-finals were skipped, the preliminary round was followed directly by the final on the next day.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ionela Târlea	Romania	55.57
2	Heike Meissner	Germany	55.67
3	Monika Niederstätter	Italy	56.05
4th	Tasha Danvers	Great Britain	56.55
5	Marjolein de Jong	Netherlands	57.00
6th	Alena Rücklová	Czech Republic	57.91

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anna Olichwierczuk	Poland	55.93
2	Sinead Dudgeon	Great Britain	56.91
3	Tetjana Debela	Ukraine	56.93
4th	Ann Mercken	Belgium	57.02
5	Nadja Petersen	Sweden	57.09
6th	Maria Carmo Tavares	Portugal	57.90
7th	Lara Rocco	Italy	58.05

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ekaterina Bachvalova	Russia	56.15
2	Małgorzata Pskit	Poland	56.31
3	Sylvanie Morandais	France	57.04
4th	Benedetta Ceccarelli	Italy	57.24
5	Tracey Duncan	Great Britain	57.54
6th	Miriam Hrdlicková	Slovakia	57.88
7th	Erica Mårtensson	Sweden	58.49

final

Bronze medalist Anna Olichwierczuk, later Anna Jesień (right) - in 2007 she won bronze at the World Championships

August 8, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ionela Târlea	Romania	54.95
2	Heike Meissner	Germany	55.89
3	Anna Olichwierczuk	Poland	56.18
4th	Monika Niederstätter	Italy	56.34
5	Ekaterina Bachvalova	Russia	56.39
6th	Małgorzata Pskit	Poland	56.78
7th	Tasha Danvers	Great Britain	56.94
8th	Sinead Dudgeon	Great Britain	59.39

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  Małgorzata Pskit came in sixth

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  Tasha Danvers, who was eliminated in the semi-finals in 1998 , came in seventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• Women 400m Hurdles European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed on November 1, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 1, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 400m Hurdles European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 487 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 400 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 1, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m hurdles women , accessed on November 3, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 56 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on November 3, 2019