European Athletics Championships 2014/400 m hurdles for men

22nd European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	36 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Zurich
Competition location	Letzigrund Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (preliminary) August 13th (semi-finals) August 15th (final)
Medalist Kariem Hussein ( SUI )   Rasmus Mägi ( EST )   Denis Kudryavtsev ( RUS )

The Letzigrund stadium in Zurich

The 400-meter hurdles of the men at the 2014 European Athletics Championships was from 12 to 15 August, 2014 at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich held.

The Swiss Kariem Hussein became European champion . The Estonian Rasmus Mägi won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Russian Denis Kudrjawzew .

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 EM record, which has existed since 1982 , was also unmatched at these European championships.

The clear fastest time of 48.54 s was achieved in the third semifinal race by the later European runner-up Rasmus Mägi from Estonia . In this run, two new national records and one U23 national record were set.

doping

In this competition there was a doping-related disqualification:

The Moldovan Alexei Crawcenco , who was eliminated in the preliminary run , tested positive and was disqualified. It was the first doping case discovered at these European Championships.

Preliminary round

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

August 12, 2014, 11:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Denis Kudryavtsev	Russia	49.05
2	Varg royal marrow	Germany	49.46
3	Yoann Décimus	France	49.60
4th	Michal Brož	Czech Republic	49.90
5	Stef Vanhaeren	Belgium	49.98
6th	Jussi Kanervo	Finland	50.35
7th	Jonathan Puemi	Switzerland	51.40

Forward 2

Tim Rummens was eliminated as seventh of his preliminary run

August 12, 2014, 11:08 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Thomas Barr	Ireland	49.79
2	Felix Franz	Germany	50.23
3	Máté Koroknai	Hungary	50.33
4th	Oleg Mironov	Russia	50.78
5	Tim Rummens	Belgium	50.80
6th	Nicolai Hartling	Denmark	51.15
7th	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	52.67

Forward 3

As sixth of his heat, Tibor Koroknai did not reach the final

August 12, 2014, 11:16 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia	49.72
2	Patryk Dobek	Poland	49.73
3	Sebastian Rodger	Great Britain	49.88
4th	Leonardo Capotosti	Italy	50.45
5	Stanislav Melnykov	Ukraine	50.72
6th	Tibor Koroknai	Hungary	50.84
7th	Yann Senjaric	Croatia	52.14

Forward 4

Thomas Kain failed in the preliminary round as sixth of his race

August 12, 2014, 11:24 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Niall Flannery	Great Britain	49.77
2	Emir Bekrić	Serbia	49.82
3	Timofei Tschaly	Russia	49.92
4th	Oskari Mörö	Finland	49.97
5	Denys Nechyporenko	Ukraine	50.63
6th	Thomas Cain	Austria	50.90
DOP	Alexei Crawcenco	Moldova

Forward 5

Michaël Bultheel (left) and Kariem Hussein in the finish curve of the fifth heat

August 12, 2014, 11:32 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	49.70
2	Michaël Bultheel	Belgium	50.18
3	Tom Burton	Great Britain	50.47
4th	Jānis Baltušs	Latvia	50.89
5	Sergio Fernández	Spain	50.89
6th	Øyvind Kjerpeset	Norway	51.23
7th	Jason Harvey	Ireland	51.91
8th	Jacques Frisch	Luxembourg	52.06

Semifinals

Patryk Dobek was only five
hundredths of a second short of being one of the fastest in the final

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

August 13, 2014, 6:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Denis Kudryavtsev	Russia	49.09
2	Varg royal marrow	Germany	49.12
3	Patryk Dobek	Poland	49.13
4th	Sebastian Rodger	Great Britain	49.47
5	Leonardo Capotosti	Italy	50.21
6th	Michal Brož	Czech Republic	50.39
7th	Stanislav Melnykov	Ukraine	50.60
8th	Jānis Baltušs	Latvia	50.96

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  Sebastian Rodger was eliminated in the semifinals as fourth of his race

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  Leonardo Capotosti was fifth in his semifinal run and not in the final

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  Stanislav Melnykov - seventh in the third semifinals and eliminated

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  With a time of just under 51 seconds, Jānis Baltušs had no chance

Run 2

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  Thomas Barr missed the final by one place as third of the second semifinals

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  Yoann Décimus - fourth place in his semi-final run and thus eliminated

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  Stef Vanhaeren failed to finish sixth in his race in the semi-finals

August 13, 2014, 6:36 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	49.16
2	Emir Bekrić	Serbia	49.21
3	Thomas Barr	Ireland	49.30
4th	Yoann Décimus	France	49.71
5	Tom Burton	Great Britain	50.47
6th	Stef Vanhaeren	Belgium	50.63
7th	Oleg Mironov	Russia	50.69
8th	Máté Koroknai	Hungary	50.95

Michaël Bultheels sixth place in the third semi-final was not enough to make it into the final

Run 3

August 13, 2014, 6:42 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia	48.54 EL / NR
2	Timofei Tschaly	Russia	48.69 NU23R
3	Felix Franz	Germany	48.96
4th	Oskari Mörö	Finland	49.08 NO
5	Michaël Bultheel	Belgium	49.62
6th	Niall Flannery	Great Britain	50.15
7th	Oleg Mironov	Russia	50.35
DNS	Jussi Kanervo	Finland

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  On the back straight the field of runners was still pretty close together

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  On the podium (from left to right): Rasmus Mägi, Kariem Hussein, Denis Kudrjawzew

final

August 15, 2014, 8:52 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	48.98
2	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia	49.06
3	Denis Kudryavtsev	Russia	49.16
4th	Timofei Tschaly	Russia	49.56
5	Felix Franz	Germany	49.83
6th	Emir Bekrić	Serbia	49.90
7th	Varg royal marrow	Germany	49.91
8th	Oskari Mörö	Finland	50.14

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  European champion Kariem Hussein

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  Silver medalist Rasmus Mägi

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  Bronze medalist Denis Kudryavzew

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  Emir Bekrić (right) finished sixth

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  Varg Königsmark reached number seven

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  Oskari Mörö finished eighth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Zurich 2014 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 4, 2020
• Men 400m Hurdles European Championship 2014 Zurich on todor66.com, accessed on February 4, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2014 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 4, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2014, 400 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on February 4, 2020
• 22nd European Athletics Championships 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on February 4, 2020

Video

• Rasmus Mägi in Zurich (2014 European Athletics Championships) on youtube.com, accessed on February 4, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles men , accessed on February 4, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Hurdles Men , p. 18, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on February 4, 2020
3. ↑ First doping case discovered at European Athletics Championships South German September 30, 2014, accessed on February 4, 2020