European Athletics Championships 2002/400 m men

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (preliminary) August 7th (semi-finals) August 8th (final)
Medalist Ingo Schultz ( GER )   David Canal ( ESP )   Daniel Caines ( GBR )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The men's 400-meter run at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held from August 6th to 8th, 2002 in Munich's Olympic Stadium.

The European champion was the German vice world champion from 2001 Ingo Schultz . The Spaniard David Canal took second place . The Briton Daniel Caines won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	43.18 s	Michael Johnson	World Cup Seville , Spain	August 26, 1999
European record	44.33 s	Thomas Schönlebe	World Cup Rome , Italy	3rd September 1987
EM record	44.52 s	Ivan Thomas	EM Budapest , Hungary	August 21, 1998

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

Preliminary round

August 6, 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	Marc Raquil	France	45.70
2	David Canal	Spain	45.75
3	Bastian Swillims	Germany	46.20
4th	Radek Zachoval	Czech Republic	46.25
5	Yuri Borsakovsky	Russia	46.28
6th	Alessandro Attene	Italy	46.54
7th	David McCarthy	Ireland	47.30
8th	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	47.40

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ingo Schultz	Germany	45.79
2	Paul McKee	Ireland	46.03
3	Timothy Benjamin	Great Britain	46.15
4th	Stilianós Dimótsios	Greece	46.46
5	Christian Birk	Denmark	46.64
6th	Matija Šestak	Slovenia	46.97
7th	Yevgeny Lebedev	Russia	47.08

Forward 3

With seventh place in his race, the preliminary round was the final destination for Anastásios Goúsis

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marek Plawgo	Poland	45.97
2	Cédric Van Branteghem	Belgium	46.23
3	Andrei Semenov	Russia	46.54
4th	Sean Baldock	Great Britain	46.62
5	Rob Daly	Ireland	46.67
6th	Dmitrijs Miļkevičs	Latvia	46.87
7th	Andrea Barberi	Italy	47.18

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Karel Bláha	Czech Republic	46.03
2	Daniel Caines	Great Britain	46.06
3	Zsolt Szeglet	Hungary	46.23
4th	Piotr Rysiukiewicz	Poland	46.44
5	Ioan Vieru	Romania	46.54
6th	Marco Salvucci	Italy	46.70
7th	Anastásios Goúsis	Greece	46.94

Semifinals

• 

  Juri Borsakowski was eliminated in seventh place in the first semi-final run - he was actually successful on the 800-meter course , especially with his 2004 Olympic  victory

• 

  Marc Raquil could not finish his race in the second semi-final

August 7, 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	Daniel Caines	Great Britain	45.35
2	Ingo Schultz	Germany	45.49
3	Marek Plawgo	Poland	45.83
4th	Zsolt Szeglet	Hungary	45.84
5	Paul McKee	Ireland	45.92
6th	Stilianós Dimótsios	Greece	45.98
7th	Yuri Borsakovsky	Russia	46.04
8th	Radek Zachoval	Czech Republic	46.24

• 

  Piotr Rysiukiewicz missed the final by just a few hundredths of a second

• 

  Bastian Swillims (second from right) also failed to reach the final four tenths of a second behind Rysiukiewicz

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	David Canal	Spain	45.86
2	Cédric Van Branteghem	Belgium	45.94
3	Timothy Benjamin	Great Britain	46.07
4th	Karel Bláha	Czech Republic	46.15
5	Piotr Rysiukiewicz	Poland	46.15
6th	Bastian Swillims	Germany	46.19
7th	Andrei Semenov	Russia	46.51
DNF	Marc Raquil	France

final

Ingo Schultz, 2001 vice world champion, became European champion

August 8, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ingo Schultz	Germany	45.14
2	David Canal	Spain	45.24
3	Daniel Caines	Great Britain	45.28
4th	Marek Plawgo	Poland	45.40
5	Zsolt Szeglet	Hungary	45.74
6th	Cédric Van Branteghem	Belgium	45.95
7th	Karel Bláha	Czech Republic	46.21
DNS	Timothy Benjamin	Great Britain

• 

  Marek Plawgo reached fourth place

• 

  Cédric Van Branteghem (far left) came in sixth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• Men 400m European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed 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 European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 480f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 27, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 400 m 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

Video

• 2002 European Championships, Munich Tizproba 400m Kurtosi Zsolt on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 27, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed October 27, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Men , p. 10 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on October 27, 2019