European Athletics Championships 2014/400 m women

22nd European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Zurich
Competition location	Letzigrund Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (preliminary) August 13th (semi-finals) August 15th (final)
Medalists Libania Grenot ( ITA )   Olha Semljak ( UKR )   Indira Terrero ( ESP )

The Letzigrund stadium in Zurich

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

European champion was the Italian Libania Grenot . Silver went to Olha Semljak from Ukraine . The Spaniard Indira Terrero took third place.

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 had existed since 1982 , remained in place even after these European championships.

Preliminary round

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

August 12, 2014, 6:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Indira Terrero	Spain	51.62
2	Bianca Răzor	Romania	51.77
3	Marie Gayot	France	51.80
4th	Tatiana Weschkurowa	Russia	52.06
5	Chiara Bazzoni	Italy	52.19
6th	Gunta Latiševa-Čudare	Latvia	53.37
7th	Modesta Morauskaitė	Lithuania	55.87

Forward 2

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  As fourth of their prelim, Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz missed the semifinals by one place

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  Her fifth place in the second run was not enough for Cátia Azevedo to take part in the semi-finals

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  Iveta Putalová was eliminated in sixth of her preliminary run

August 12, 2014, 6:07 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christine Ohuruogu	Great Britain	51.40
2	Libania Grenot	Italy	51.90
3	Xenija Sadorina	Russia	52.57
4th	Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz	Poland	52.73
5	Cátia Azevedo	Portugal	52.87
6th	Iveta Putalová	Slovakia	53.25
7th	Tara Marie Norum	Norway	54.89

Forward 3

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  Adelina Pastor was fifth in her run and was eliminated

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  For Katri Mustola, with her time of over 53 seconds, there was no chance of advancing

August 12, 2014, 6:14 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Natalija Pyhyda	Ukraine	51.95
2	Małgorzata Hołub	Poland	52.00
3	Agnė Šerkšnienė	Lithuania	52.42
4th	Floria Gueï	France	52.42
5	Adelina pastor	Romania	53.30
6th	Katri Mustola	Finland	53.41
7th	Amaliya Sharoyan	Armenia	56.49
8th	Hristina Risteska	Macedonia	57.47

Forward 4

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  Maria Enrica Spacca failed as seventh of her race in the preliminary round

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  Line Kloster - Seventh place in their preliminary run and thus eliminated

August 12, 2014, 6:21 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olha Semljak	Ukraine	51.16
2	Aauri Bokesa	Spain	51.86
3	Esther Cremer	Germany	51.98
4th	Justyna Święty	Poland	52.43
5	Tamara Marković	Serbia	53.41
6th	Maria Enrica Spacca	Spain	53.41
7th	Line monastery	Norway	54.27

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

August 13, 2014, 7:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Indira Terrero	Spain	52.07
2	Christine Ohuruogu	Great Britain	52.56
3	Małgorzata Hołub	Poland	52.58
4th	Natalija Pyhyda	Ukraine	52.70
5	Floria Gueï	France	52.82
6th	Esther Cremer	Germany	52.83
7th	Chiara Bazzoni	Italy	53.50
DNS	Xenija Sadorina	Russia

Runners eliminated in the first semifinals:

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  Natalija Pyhyda - fourth place in 52.70 s

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  Floria Gueï - fifth place in 52.82 s

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  Esther Cremer - sixth in 52.83 s

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  Xenija Sadorina - walked over

Run 2

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  Agnė Šerkšnienė (far left) missed a tenth of a second to take part in the final with her 52.32 seconds

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  Justyna Święty failed as seventh of her race with 52.85 s in the semifinals

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  Tatjana Weschkurowa (right) , 2006 Vice European Champion, retired in 52.93 seconds in eighth place in her semi-final run

August 13, 2014, 7:17 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olha Semljak	Ukraine	51.24
2	Libania Grenot	Italy	51.47
3	Aauri Bokesa	Spain	51.84
4th	Marie Gayot	France	52.11
5	Bianca Răzor	Romania	52.22
6th	Agnė Šerkšnienė	Lithuania	52.32
7th	Justyna Święty	Poland	52.85
8th	Tatiana Weschkurowa	Russia	52.93

final

Libania Grenot (right) and Olha Semljak in the target curve of the 400 m final

August 15, 2014, 7:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Libania Grenot	Italy	51.10
2	Olha Semljak	Ukraine	51.36
3	Indira Terrero	Spain	51.38
4th	Christine Ohuruogu	Great Britain	51.38
5	Małgorzata Hołub	Poland	51.84
6th	Bianca Răzor	Romania	51.95
7th	Marie Gayot	France	52.14
8th	Aauri Bokesa	Spain	52.39

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  European champion Libania Grenot

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  Vice European Champion Olha Semljak

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  Bronze medalist Indira Terrero

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  The two-time world champion ( 2007 / 2013 ) and Olympic Champion 2008 Christine Ohuruogu were missing on their fourth place only thousandths of a second for bronze medal

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  Małgorzata Hołub came in fifth

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  Bianca Răzor came in sixth place

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  Marie Gayot came in seventh

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  Aauri Bokesa placed eighth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Zurich 2014 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 12, 2020
• Women 400m European Championship 2014 Zurich on todor66.com, accessed on February 12, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2014 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 12, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2014, 400 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on February 12, 2020
• 22nd European Athletics Championships 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on February 12, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m women , accessed February 11, 2020