European Athletics Championships 2002/400 m hurdles for men

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	29 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 8th (semi-finals) August 9th (final)
Medalist Stéphane Diagana ( FRA )   Jiří Mužík ( CZE )   Paweł Januszewski ( POL )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 2002 European Athletics Championships took place from August 7th to 9th, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

European champion was the French world champion in 1997 , vice world champion in 1999 and European championship third in 1994, Stéphane Diagana . He won ahead of the Czech Jiří Mužík . The Polish defending champion Paweł Januszewski won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	46.78 s	Kevin Young	OS Barcelona , Spain	August 6, 1992
European record	47.37 s	Stéphane Diagana	Lausanne , Switzerland	5th July 1995
Championship record	47.48 s	Harald Schmid	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

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

Preliminary round

August 7, 2002

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	49.17
2	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	49.20
3	Periklís Iakovákis	Greece	49.24
4th	Mikael Jakobsson	Sweden	49.59
5	José María Romera	Spain	49.70
6th	Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal	49.77
7th	Jindřich Šimánek	Czech Republic	50.60

Naman Keïta was only a few hundredths of a second missing from the final

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	49.76
2	Anthony Borsumato	Great Britain	49.93
3	Jaime Juan	Spain	50.20
4th	Naman Keïta	France	50.20
5	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	50.31
6th	Janne Mäkelä	Finland	50.32
7th	Henning Hackelbusch	Germany	51.37
8th	Zakar Nazaryan	Armenia	54.13

Jussi Heikkilä was eliminated as seventh in his preliminary run

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Diagana	France	49.52
2	Edivaldo Monteiro	Portugal	49.64
3	Štěpán Tesařík	Czech Republic	49.78
4th	Matthew Elias	Great Britain	50.18
5	Eduardo Iván Rodríguez	Spain	50.26
6th	Christian Duma	Germany	50.50
7th	Jussi Heikkilä	Finland	51.47

Fifth place in the fourth heat was not enough for Gianni Carabelli to advance

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	49.62
2	Christopher Rawlinson	Great Britain	49.73
3	Thomas Kortbeek	Netherlands	49.83
4th	Olivier Jean-Théodore	France	49.91
5	Gianni Carabelli	Italy	50.30
6th	Carlos Silva	Portugal	50.45
7th	Ari-Pekka Lattu	Finland	50.56

Semifinals

August 8, 2002

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	48.46
2	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	48.60
3	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	48.70
4th	Periklís Iakovákis	Greece	48.99
5	Anthony Borsumato	Great Britain	49.37
6th	Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal	49.60
7th	Olivier Jean-Théodore	France	50.21
8th	Jaime Juan	Spain	50.57

Run 2

Thomas Kortbeek finished sixth in his semi-final run and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Diagana	France	49.01
2	Christopher Rawlinson	Great Britain	49.48
3	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	49.54
4th	Štěpán Tesařík	Czech Republic	49.55
5	Edivaldo Monteiro	Portugal	49.75
6th	Thomas Kortbeek	Netherlands	50.74
7th	José María Romera	Spain	51.11
8th	Mikael Jakobsson	Sweden	51.77

Stéphane Diagana, world champion from 1997 , vice world champion from 1999 and European championship third from 1994 , became European champion

final

August 9, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Diagana	France	47.58
2	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	48.43
3	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	48.46
4th	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	49.05
5	Periklís Iakovákis	Greece	49.07
6th	Štěpán Tesařík	Czech Republic	49.41
7th	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	50.02
DNF	Christopher Rawlinson	Great Britain

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  Vice European Champion Jiří Mužík

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  Bronze medalist Paweł Januszewski

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  Periklís Iakovákis reached fifth place - he later won the World Cup bronze in 2003 and the European Championship title in 2006

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• Men 400m Hurdles European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed on October 27, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 27, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 400m Hurdles European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 482 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 27, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 400 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 27, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 27, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m hurdles men , accessed on October 27, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Hurdles Men , p. 18, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 27, 2019