European Athletics Championships 2012/400 m women

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 27th (preliminary) June 28th (semi-finals) June 29th (final)
Medalists Moa Hjelmer ( SWE )   Xenija Sadorina ( RUS )   Olha Semljak ( BLR )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's 400-meter run at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held from June 27 to 29, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

The Swedish Moa Hjelmer became the European champion . The Russian Xenija Sadorina came in second place . The Belarusian Olha Semljak won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	47.60 s	Marita Koch	Canberra , Australia	October 6, 1985
European record
EM record	48.16 s		EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

The European Championship record, which has existed since 1982 , was not in danger at these European championships either.

doping

There were two doping cases by Turkish runners in this competition:

• Pınar Saka , who initially qualified for the semifinals and was eliminated there, was banned for three years until May 23, 2015 in 2013 due to abnormalities in her biological passport . All of their results as of June 18, 2012 have been retrospectively canceled.
• Meliz Redif , who had already retired, was banned for three years due to abnormalities in her Biological Passport - March 31, 2015 to March 30, 2018. All of her results from 2009 to 2013 were retrospectively canceled.

The Romanian Sanda Belgyan suffered . She would have been eligible to start in the semi-finals during her time, but could not take part there.

Preliminary round

Kelly Massey was eliminated sixth in her preroll

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

Forward 1

June 27, 2012, 5:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Xenija Sadorina	Russia	52.18
2	Moa Hjelmer	Sweden	52.33
3	Darja Prystupa	Ukraine	53.16
4th	Aauri Bokesa	Spain	53.23
5	Magdalena Gorzkowska	Poland	53.74
6th	Kelly Massey	Great Britain	54.44
7th	Anita Banović	Croatia	55.50
8th	Birsen Engin	Turkey	55.82

Meliz Redif, last in the second run, was subsequently disqualified for violating the doping regulations

Forward 2

June 27, 2012, 5:58 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olha Semljak	Ukraine	52.48
2	Esther Cremer	Germany	52.76
3	Agnė Šerkšnienė	Lithuania	52.89
4th	Libania Grenot	Italy	53.09
5	Agata Bednarek	Poland	53.22
6th	Sanda Belgyan	Romania	53.32 actually qualified for the semi-finals
DOP	Meliz Redif	Turkey

Forward 3

June 27, 2012, 6:06 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marie Gayot	France	52.46
2	Lee McConnell	Great Britain	52.58
3	Maria Enrica Spacca	Italy	53.26
4th	Olesea Cojuhari	Moldova	53.52
5	Justyna Święty	Poland	53.68
6th	Adelina pastor	Romania	54.34
DSQ	Maris Mägi	Estonia	IAAF Rule 163.3a - Crossing the Track
DOP	Pinar Saka	Turkey	admitted to the semifinals

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  Justyna Święty did not reach the final after finishing fifth in the third heat

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  Sixth place in her preliminary run was too little for Adelina Pastor to be in the final

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  Maris Mägi was disqualified in her preliminary run for violating the track

Forward 4

June 27, 2012, 6:14 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ilona Ussowitsch	Belarus	51.98
2	Muriel Hurtis	France	52.11
3	Jitka Bartoničková	Czech Republic	53.15
4th	Chiara Bazzoni	Italy	53.92
5	Ella Räsänen	Finland	54.52
6th	Josefin Magnusson	Sweden	55.01
DSQ	Joanne Cuddihy	Ireland	IAAF Rule 163.3a - Crossing the Track

Semifinals

From the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

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  Marie Gayot only missed the final by two hundredths of a second

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  Aauri Bokesa was eliminated in sixth place in the first semi-final run

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  Seventh place was not enough for Maria Enrica Spacca to take part in the final

June 28, 2012, 5:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Xenija Sadorina	Russia	51.35
2	Moa Hjelmer	Sweden	51.48 NO
3	Lee McConnell	Great Britain	51.98
4th	Darja Prystupa	Ukraine	52.15
5	Marie Gayot	France	52.17
6th	Aauri Bokesa	Spain	52.47
7th	Maria Enrica Spacca	Italy	53.02
DOP	Pinar Saka	Turkey

Run 2

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  Esther Cremer narrowly failed as fifth in the second semifinals

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  Jitka Bartoničková (right) - sixth in her semifinal run and thus eliminated

June 28, 2012, 5:23 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Libania Grenot	Italy	52.02
2	Olha Semljak	Ukraine	52.10
3	Ilona Ussowitsch	Belarus	52.10
4th	Muriel Hurtis	France	52.13
5	Esther Cremer	Germany	52.77
6th	Jitka Bartoničková	Czech Republic	52.78
7th	Agnė Šerkšnienė	Lithuania	53.07
DSQ	Agata Bednarek	Poland	IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

final

European champion Moa Hjelmer

June 29, 2012, 10:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Moa Hjelmer	Sweden	51.13 NO
2	Xenija Sadorina	Russia	51.26
3	Ilona Ussowitsch	Belarus	51.94
4th	Olha Semljak	Ukraine	52.01
5	Lee McConnell	Great Britain	52.20
6th	Libania Grenot	Italy	52.57
7th	Darja Prystupa	Ukraine	53.03
8th	Muriel Hurtis	France	54.50

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  Vice European Champion Xenija Sadorina

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  Bronze medalist Ilona Ussowitsch

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  Olha Semljak finished fourth

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  Fifth place Lee McConnell

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  Libania Grenot came in sixth

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  Bronze medalist Ilona Ussowitsch

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  After switching to the longer sprint distance, Muriel Hurtis was eighth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 22, 2020
• Women 400m European Championship 2012 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed January 22, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 22, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 400m European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 515 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 22, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, 400 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on January 22, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 22, 2020

Video

• Moa Hjelmer Wins 400m in European Championships 2012 1500m Women Final European Athletics Championships Helsinki 2012 MIR-LA.com on youtube.com, accessed on January 22, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m women , accessed January 22, 2020
2. ↑ Pınar Saka, Turkish sprinter on peoplepill.com (English), accessed on January 22, 2020
3. ↑ Doping Irregularities at the Olympics on sports-reference.com (English), accessed on January 22, 2020
4. ↑ Meliz Redif (W) on dopingsanctions.com (English), accessed January 22, 2020
5. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules , page 91 PDF (4364KB), accessed on January 22, 2020
6. ↑ IAAF competition rules , page 71 PDF (4364KB), accessed on January 22, 2020