European Athletics Championships 2016/400 m hurdles of men

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	39 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 6th (preliminary) July 7th (semi-finals) July 8th (final)
Medalist Yasmani Copello ( TUR )   Sergio Fernández ( ESP )   Kariem Hussein ( SUI )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 2016 European Athletics Championships was held from July 6th to 8th, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam .

European champion who was Turk Yasmani Copello . He won ahead of the Spaniard Sergio Fernández . Bronze went to the defending champion Kariem Hussein from Switzerland .

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 since 1982 existing EM -record was not in danger even at these European Championships.

The clear fastest time of 48.42 s was achieved by future European champion Yasmani Copello in the second semifinal race, who set a new Turkish national record.

execution

For this discipline, a new competition mode was used for the first time. The twelve strongest athletes on the European annual best list did not have to compete in the preliminary round, but only entered in the semi-finals.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first two 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

July 6, 2016, 5:05 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Thomas Barr	Ireland	50.17
2	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	50.54
3	Robert Bryliński	Poland	50.74
4th	Vít Müller	Czech Republic	50.80
5	Øyvind Kjerpeset	Norway	51.05
6th	Denys Nechyporenko	Ukraine	51.53
7th	Dany Brand	Switzerland	51.60

As sixth of his prelim with a time of over 53 seconds, Arnaud Ghislain had no chance of participating in the semi-finals

Forward 2

July 6, 2016, 5:11 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tobias Giehl	Germany	50.30
2	Mattia Contini	Italy	51.26
3	Nicolai Trock Hartling	Denmark	51.49
4th	Paul Byrne	Ireland	53.12
5	Arnaud Ghislain	Belgium	53.65
DNF	Anatoliy Synyanskyy	Ukraine

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  Tibor Koroknai (left) was eliminated fourth in his prelude

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  Dominik Hufnagl (left) was fifth in the third run and thus did not reach the next round

Forward 3

July 6, 2016, 5:17 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Patryk Adamczyk	Poland	51.00
2	Mario Lambrughi	Italy	51.06
3	Felix Franz	Germany	51.21
4th	Tibor Koroknai	Hungary	51.32
5	Dominik Hufnagl	Austria	51.88
6th	Javier Delgado	Spain	52.15
7th	Jussi Kanervo	Finland	52.35

Forward 4

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  Last run: Stanislav Melnykov (left) and Martin Kučera in the finish curve

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  His sixth place in the fourth heat was not enough for Jānis Baltušs to advance

July 6, 2016, 5:23 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Martin Kučera	Slovakia	49.56
2	Oskari Mörö	Finland	50.37
3	Stanislav Melnykov	Ukraine	50.57
4th	Michal Brož	Czech Republic	50.83
5	Jānis Baltušs	Latvia	51.26
6th	Maor Seged	Israel	52.52
7th	Jakub Smoliński	Poland	53.27

Semifinals

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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  José Reynaldo Bencosme (right) - sixth

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  Patryk Adamczyk - seventh place

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  Vít Müller - eighth place

July 7, 2016, 4:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Karsten Warholm	Norway	48.84 NR / NU23R
2	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	48.87
3	Jack Green	Great Britain	48.98
4th	Martin Kučera	Slovakia	49.08
5	Tobias Giehl	Germany	49.50
6th	José Reynaldo Bencosme	Italy	49.77
7th	Patryk Adamczyk	Poland	50.12
8th	Vít Müller	Czech Republic	50.20

Run 2

July 7, 2016, 4:22 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	48.42 NO
2	Rhys Williams	Great Britain	49.22
3	Mamadou cash register Hann	France	49.28
4th	Mario Lambrughi	Italy	49.60
5	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	49.65
6th	Michaël Bultheel	Belgium	49.72
7th	Stanislav Melnykov	Ukraine	51.06
DNF	Mark Ujakpor	Spain

Runners eliminated in the second semifinals:

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  Mamadou cash desk Hann (right) - third, only six hundredths of a second away from second

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  Michaël Bultheel - sixth place

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  Stanislav Melnykov - seventh place

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  Mark Ujakpor - not on target

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  For the 2014 European Championship runner-up, Rasmus Mägi, the competition was over after the semi-finals despite being third in his race

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  Robert Bryliński's sixth place in the last semifinals was not enough to make it into the final

Run 3

July 7, 2016, 4:29 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sergio Fernández	Spain	49.20
2	Oskari Mörö	Finland	49.37
3	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia	49.50
4th	Tom Burton	Great Britain	49.71
5	Thomas Barr	Ireland	50.09
6th	Robert Bryliński	Poland	50.42
7th	Mattia Contini	Italy	50.78
8th	Michal Brož	Czech Republic	50.85

final

European champion Yasmani Copello

July 8, 2016, 7:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	48.98
2	Sergio Fernández	Spain	49.06
3	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	49.10
4th	Oskari Mörö	Finland	49.24
5	Rhys Williams	Great Britain	49.63
6th	Karsten Warholm	Norway	49.82
7th	Martin Kučera	Slovakia	49.82
DNF	Jack Green	Great Britain

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  Bronze for defending champion Kariem Hussein

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  Oskari Mörö finished fourth

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  Rhys Williams, 2012 European Champion, 2010 Vice European Champion and 2006 European Championship third. finished fifth this time

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  Karsten Warholm could not repeat his excellent performance from the semifinals - Norwegian national record in 48.84 s - and reached sixth place

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  Jack Green did not finish in the final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 26, 2020
• Men 400m Hurdles European Championship 2016 Amsterdam on todor66.com, accessed on February 26, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 26, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on February 26, 2020

Video

• 400m Hurdles Men's Final - European Athletics Championships 2016 on youtube.com, accessed February 26, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles men , accessed on February 26, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Hurdles Men , p. 18, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on February 26, 2020