European Athletics Championships 2016/400 m women

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	31 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 6th (preliminary) July 7th (semi-finals) July 8th (final)
Medalists Libania Grenot ( ITA )   Floria Gueï ( FRA )   Anyika Onuora ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

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

The Italian defending champion Libania Grenot became European champion . She won in front of the French Floria Gueï . Bronze went to the British anyika onuora .

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 safe even after these European Championships.

doping

There was a doping case in this competition.

In a doping test on July 5, 2016 of the Ukrainian Olha Semljak , who was eliminated in the semi-finals, a testosterone concentration was found to be significantly too high . Since she had previously been proven to have been doping fraud, she was suspended for not four but eight years from July 5, 2016 to July 4, 2024, and all of her results since the positive doping test were canceled.

Since Olha Semljak, as one of the eleven strongest athletes on the European annual best list, only entered the competition in the semifinals, she hadn't deprived anyone of the right to start the semifinals in the preliminary round. So at least there were no serious disadvantages for other athletes.

execution

For this discipline, a new competition mode was used for the first time. The eleven 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 carried out in three 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

July 6, 2016, 1:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christine Ohuruogu	Great Britain	52.69
2	Gunta Latiševa-Čudare	Latvia	53.36
3	Aauri Lorena Bokesa	Spain	53.46
4th	Maria Benedicta Chigbolu	Italy	53.51
5	Iveta Putalová	Slovakia	53.96
6th	Sanda Belgyan	Romania	54.33
7th	Claire Mooney	Ireland	55.66

Forward 2

Laura Bueno only missed the second round by three hundredths of a second

July 6, 2016, 1:16 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Nicky van Leuveren	Netherlands	52.45
2	Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz	Poland	52.79
3	Adelina pastor	Romania	53.03
4th	Benedicte Hauge	Norway	53.13
5	Ánna Vasilíou	Greece	53.98
6th	Laura Bueno	Spain	54.01
7th	Vijona Kryeziu	Kosovo	56.04

Forward 3

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  Ilona Ussowitsch did not reach the semi-finals with her 54.58 seconds

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  Indira Terrero ended her lead early

July 6, 2016, 1:22 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lisanne de Witte	Netherlands	52.84
2	Iríni Vasilíou	Greece	53.86
3	Sinead Denny	Ireland	53.95
4th	Ilona Ussowitsch	Ukraine	54.58
5	Marta Milani	Italy	55.85
DNF	Indira Terrero	Spain

Semifinals

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

Run 1

Olha Bibik fell by the wayside with 53.02 seconds in the semi-finals

July 7, 2016, 5:35 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Floria Gueï	France	51.01
2	Christine Ohuruogu	Great Britain	51.35
3	Nicky van Leuveren	Netherlands	52.02
4th	Justyna Święty	Poland	52.34
5	Maria Benedicta Chigbolu	Italy	52.69
6th	Olha Bibik	Ukraine	53.02
7th	Gunta Latiševa-Čudare	Latvia	53.11
8th	Ánna Vasilíou	Greece	53.72

Run 2

July 7, 2016, 5:42 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anyika Onuora	Great Britain	51.84
2	Tamara Salaški	Serbia	52.27
3	Lisanne de Witte	Netherlands	52.37
4th	Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer	Germany	52.40
5	Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz	Poland	52.92
6th	Iveta Putalová	Slovakia	54.04
7th	Benedicte Hauge	Norway	55.50
DOP	Olha Semljak	Ukraine

Runners eliminated in the second semifinals:

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  Lisanne de Witte - third place in 52.37 s

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  Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer - fourth place in 52.40 s

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  Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz - fifth place in 52.92 s

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  Iveta Putalová - sixth in 54, ß4 s

Run 3

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  Cátia Azevedo failed with 51.46 s as fourth of their semi-finals

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  Adelina Pastor did not make it into the final with 52.90 seconds

July 7, 2016, 5:49 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Libania Grenot	Italy	50.43
2	Małgorzata Hołub	Poland	51.67
3	Aauri Lorena Bokesa	Spain	52.39
4th	Cátia Azevedo	Portugal	52.46
5	Yuliya Olishevska	Ukraine	52.54
6th	Iríni Vasilíou	Greece	52.58
7th	Adelina pastor	Romania	52.90
8th	Sinead Denny	Ireland	53.27

final

The runners in the 400 m final on the back straight

July 8, 2016, 8:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Libania Grenot	Italy	50.73
2	Floria Gueï	France	51.21
3	Anyika Onuora	Great Britain	51.47
4th	Christine Ohuruogu	Great Britain	51.55
5	Małgorzata Hołub	Poland	51.89
6th	Justyna Święty	Poland	51.96
7th	Tamara Salaški	Serbia	52.23
8th	Nicky van Leuveren	Netherlands	52.76

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  European champion Libania Grenot was able to defend her title

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  Vice European Champion Floria Gueï

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  Bronze medalist Anyika Onuora

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  Christine Ohuruogu, including Olympic champion in 2008 , Olympic silver medalist from 2012 and two-time world champion ( 2007 / 2013 ), finished fourth

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  Małgorzata Hołub finished fifth

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  Justyna Święty came in sixth

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  Tamara Salaški came in seventh place

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  Eighth place for Nicky van Leuveren

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on March 4, 2020
• Women 400m European Championship 2016 Amsterdam on todor66.com, accessed March 4, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 4, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on March 4, 2020

Video

• 204 Libania Grenot 400m FINAL Women's European Athletics Championships Amsterdam 2016 HD on youtube.com, accessed on March 4, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m women , accessed March 4, 2020
2. ↑ Olha Zemlyak (W) on dopingsanctions.com (English), accessed on March 4, 2020
3. ↑ Ukrainian sprinters fail in bid to get drugs bans overturned at CAS on insidethegames.biz March 29, 2019 (English), accessed on March 4, 2020