European Athletics Championships 2016/400 m men

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 6 (Heats) July 7 (semifinals) July 8 (Finale)
Medalist Martyn Rooney ( GBR )   Pavel Maslák ( CZE )   Liemarvin Bonevacia ( NED )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The men'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 .

British defending champion Martyn Rooney became European champion . Second place went to the Czech Pavel Maslák . Bronze went to Liemarvin Bonevacia from the Netherlands .

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.

execution

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

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

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  First run (from left to right): Julien Watrin, Jarryd Dunn, Alexander Gladitz, Joel Burgunder

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  Giuseppe Leonardi was eighth in his lead and was eliminated

July 6, 2016, 1:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jarryd Dunn	Great Britain	46.05
2	Julien Watrin	Belgium	46.10
3	Alexander Gladitz	Germany	46.28
4th	Vitaly Butrym	Ukraine	46.77
5	Joel Burgundy	Switzerland	46.98
6th	Batuhan Altıntaş	Turkey	47.23
7th	Craig Lynch	Ireland	47.61
8th	Giuseppe Leonardi	Italy	47.68

Forward 2

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  Jewhen Huzol's fifth place in his prelim was not enough to advance

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  Jonathan Borlée was eliminated in sixth of his preliminary run

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  David Gillick (in green) - eighth in the second heat and thus out of the race

July 6, 2016, 1:41 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lucas Búa	Spain	47.00
2	Jakub Krzewina	Poland	47.09
3	Thomas Jordier	France	47.14
4th	Johannes Trefz	Germany	47.32
5	Yevhen Huzol	Ukraine	47.35
6th	Jonathan Borlée	Belgium	47.45
7th	David Gillick	Ireland	47.81

Forward 3

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  Third prerun (from left to right): Aljaksandr Linnik, Martyn Rooney, Luca Flück, Brian Gregan

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  Danylo Danylenko's seventh place in his preliminary run was not enough to make it to the semifinals

July 6, 2016, 1:47 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Martyn Rooney	Great Britain	46.57
2	Mame-Ibra Anne	France	46.73
3	Mateo Ružić	Croatia	46.89
4th	Łukasz Krawczuk	Poland	46.94
5	Brian Gregan	Ireland	47.02
6th	Aljaksandr Linnik	Belarus	47.09
7th	Danylo Danylenko	Ukraine	47.49
8th	Luca Flück	Switzerland	47.97

Semifinals

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

Run 1

First semifinals (from left to right): Aljaksandr Linnik, Pavel Maslák, Kevin Borlée, Samuel García

July 7, 2016, 4:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kevin Borlée	Belgium	45.26
2	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	45.31
3	Aljaksandr Linnik	Belarus	45.80
4th	Łukasz Krawczuk	Poland	45.86
5	Johannes Trefz	Germany	46.07
6th	Vitaly Butrym	Ukraine	46.07
7th	Brian Gregan	Ireland	46.37
8th	Samuel García	Spain	46.42

Runners eliminated in the first semi-final:

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  Aljaksandr Linnik - third place

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  Łukasz Krawczuk - fourth place

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  Johannes Trefz (right) - fifth place

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  Brian Gregan - seventh place

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  Samuel García - eighth place

Run 2

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  As fifth of his race, Yavuz Can failed in the semi-finals

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  Julien Watrin did not reach the final as seventh in the second semifinals

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  Mateo Ružić - seventh in his semifinals and eliminated

July 7, 2016, 4:52 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Martyn Rooney	Great Britain	45.04
2	Matteo Galvan	Italy	45.12
3	Rafał Omelko	Poland	45.14
4th	Mame-Ibra Anne	France	45.39
5	Yavuz Can	Turkey	45.51
6th	Julien Watrin	Belgium	45.76
7th	Mateo Ružić	Croatia	47.19
8th	Joel Burgundy	Switzerland	47.23

Run 3

July 7, 2016, 4:59 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Luka Janežič	Slovenia	45.63
2	Liemarvin Bonevacia	Netherlands	45.68
3	Donald Blair-Sanford	Israel	45.90
4th	Jarryd Dunn	Great Britain	46.00
5	Thomas Jordier	France	46.24
6th	Lucas Búa	Spain	46.26
7th	Jakub Krzewina	Poland	46.50
8th	Alexander Gladitz	Germany	46.57

Runners eliminated in the third semifinals:

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  Donald Blair-Sanford - third place

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  Jarryd Dunn - fourth place

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  Thomas Jordier - fifth place

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  Lucas Búa - sixth place

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  Jakub Krzewina (right) - seventh place

final

Home stretch of the 400 m final

July 8, 2016, 7:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Martyn Rooney	Great Britain	45.29
2	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	45.36
3	Liemarvin Bonevacia	Netherlands	45.41
4th	Kevin Borlée	Belgium	45.60
5	Luka Janežič	Slovenia	45.65
6th	Rafał Omelko	Poland	45.67
7th	Mame-Ibra Anne	France	45.75
8th	Matteo Galvan	Italy	45.80

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  Defending champion Martyn Rooney was again European champion

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  Vice European Champion Pavel Maslák

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  Bronze medalist Liemarvin Bonevacia

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  Kevin Borlée, 2010 European champion and 2011 World Cup -Dritter, was fourth

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  Luka Janežič reached number five

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  Rafał Omelko came in sixth place

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  Mame-Ibra Anne came in seventh

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  The eighth place Matteo Galvan

Web links

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

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed February 23, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Men , p. 10 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on February 23, 2020