European Athletics Championships 2012/400 m men

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 27th (preliminary) June 28th (semi-finals) June 29th (final)
Medalist Pavel Maslák ( CZE )   Marcell Deák Nagy ( HUN )   Yannick Fonsat ( FRA )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men'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 European champion was the Czech Pavel Maslák . Silver went to the Hungarian Marcell Deák Nagy . The French Yannick Fonsat took third place.

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. The 45 second mark was not undercut.

Preliminary round

June 27, 2012

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

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  Yavuz Can was disqualified in his preliminary run

• 

  Brent LaRue - also disqualified

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Brian Gregan	Ireland	45.63
2	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	45.87
3	Kacper Kozłowski	Poland	46.30
4th	Mark Ujakpor	Spain	47.07
DSQ	Yavuz Can	Turkey
	Brent LaRue	Slovenia
	Ville Wendelin	Finland

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Richard Buck	Great Britain	45.83
2	Jānis Leitis	Latvia	45.92
3	Johan Wissman	Sweden	46.43
4th	Antoine Gillet	Belgium	46.62
5	Lorenzo Valentini	Italy	46.64
6th	Piotr Wiaderek	Poland	46.86
7th	Roberto Briones	Spain	47.20
8th	Kristijan Efremov	Macedonia	48.80

disqualified in the third heat: Samuel García

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Donald Sanford	Israel	45.90
2	Marcell Deák Nagy	Hungary	46.19
3	Krasimir Braikov	Bulgaria	46.20
4th	Daniel Němeček	Czech Republic	46.61
5	Halit Kılıç	Turkey	47.91
DSQ	Samuel García	Spain
	Luke Lennon-Ford	Great Britain

Forward 4

Trausti Stefánsson was clearly behind in his lead and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yannick Fonsat	France	45.92
2	Marco Vistalli	Italy	45.98
3	Eric Kruger	Germany	46.33
4th	Jente Bouckaert	Belgium	46.37
5	Jan Tesař	Czech Republic	46.75
6th	Sorin Vatamanu	Romania	47.50
7th	Trausti Stefánsson	Iceland	48.17

Forward 5

• 

  Hakim Ibrahimov missed the next round by one place

• 

  Teddy Venel - disqualified in the fifth run

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mehmet Güzel	Turkey	46.21
2	Marcin Marciniszyn	Poland	46.47
3	Nick Ekelund-Arenander	Denmark	46.78
4th	Lev Mossin	Russia	47.39
5	Hakim Ibrahimov	Azerbaijan	47.47
6th	Jonathon Lavers	Gibraltar	50.23
7th	Fabian Haldner	Liechtenstein	50.77
DSQ	Teddy Venel	France

Semifinals

June 28, 2012

From each of the three semi-finals, the first two 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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  Nick Ekelund-Arenander did not reach the final as fifth in his semi-final race

• 

  Jan Tesař stayed in the semifinals for over 47 seconds and was eliminated

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  Jente Bouckaert (here on the far left with the Belgian relay) was disqualified in the semifinals

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marcell Deák Nagy	Hungary	45.68
2	Donald Sanford	Israel	45.77
3	Yannick Fonsat	France	45.78
4th	Marcin Marciniszyn	Poland	45.88
5	Nick Ekelund-Arenander	Denmark	46.57
6th	Lorenzo Valentini	Italy	46.96
7th	Jan Tesař	Czech Republic	47.27
DSQ	Jente Bouckaert	Belgium

Run 2

Johan Wissman only missed the final by one place as third of his semi-final run

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marco Vistalli	Italy	46.01
2	Richard Buck	Great Britain	46.13
3	Johan Wissman	Sweden	46.35
4th	Piotr Wiaderek	Poland	46.45
5	Mehmet Güzel	Turkey	46.46
6th	Krasimir Braikov	Bulgaria	46.62
7th	Roberto Briones	Spain	47.56
DSQ	Daniel Němeček	Czech Republic

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	45.66
2	Brian Gregan	Ireland	45.76
3	Jānis Leitis	Latvia	45.88 NO
4th	Kacper Kozłowski	Poland	46.54
5	Eric Kruger	Germany	46.68
6th	Lev Mossin	Russia	46.77
7th	Antoine Gillet	Belgium	47.15
8th	Mark Ujakpor	Spain	47.27

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  Kacper Kozłowski did not reach the final as fourth in the third semi-final

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  Eric Krüger came in fifth in his semifinal race and was eliminated

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  Antoine Gillet (here as the leader in a relay race) failed in the semi-finals

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  Mark Ujakpor finished eighth in his semi-final run and was not in the final

final

European champion Pavel Maslák

June 29, 2012, 9:25 pm

The Italian Marco Vistalli stopped his run probably because of a cramp, but continued his race walking and reached the finish after more than four minutes.

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	45.24 s
2	Marcell Deák Nagy	Hungary	45.52 s
3	Yannick Fonsat	France	45.82 s
4th	Donald Sanford	Israel	45.91 s
5	Richard Buck	Great Britain	45.92 s
6th	Brian Gregan	Ireland	46.04 s
7th	Marcin Marciniszyn	Poland	46.46 s
8th	Marco Vistalli	Italy	4: 04.20 min

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  Donald Sanford reached number four

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  Richard Buck came in fifth

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  Brian Gregan finished sixth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed January 8, 2020
• Men 400m European Championship 2012 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed January 8, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 8, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 400m European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 510 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 8, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, 400 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on January 8, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 8, 2020

Video

• Pavel MASLÁK 45.24 - 400m European Athletics Championships Helsinki 2012 MIR-LA.com on youtube.com, accessed on January 8, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed January 8, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Men , p. 10 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on January 8, 2020