European Athletics Championships 2018/400 m hurdles of men

discipline	Men's 400-meter hurdles
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	37 athletes from 23 countries
Competition phase	August 6, 2018 (preliminary) August 7, 2018 (semi-finals) August 9, 2018 (final)
Medalist
gold	Karsten Warholm ( NOR )
silver	Yasmani Copello ( TUR )
bronze	Thomas Barr ( IRL )

400 meter hurdles final:
European champion Karsten Warholm ( right ) and fourth-placed Ludvy Vaillant

The men's 400 meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place between August 6 and 9 in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

European champion was the Norwegian Karsten Warholm . He won against the Turk Yasmani Copello . Irishman Thomas Barr won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Kevin Young	46.78 s	Olympic Games in Barcelona , Spain	August 6, 1992
European record	Stéphane Diagana	47.37 s	Lausanne , Switzerland	5th July 1995
Championship record	Harald Schmid	47.48 s	EM in Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

Conducting the competition

The eleven fastest hurdlers on the year's best list - marked with ‡ in the semi-final results - did not have to compete in the preliminary runs. They were automatically qualified for the semi-finals and only then intervened in the competition.

Prelims

First run ( from left to right ):
Maksims Sincukovs, Nick Smidt, Alexander Skorobogatko

Dai Greene from Great Britain did not run for his preliminary run

The Briton Sebastian Rodger retired as fifth in his preliminary run

From the four preliminary runs, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the five fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

August 6, 2018, 5:05 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Maksims Sinčukovs	Latvia	50.39 SB
2	5	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	50.47
3	6th	Alexander Skorobogatko	Authorized Neutral Athletes	50.74
4th	3	Dany Brand	Switzerland	50.82 SB
5	7th	Nick Smidt	Netherlands	50.96
6th	4th	Martin Tuček	Czech Republic	51.63
DNS	2	Dai Greene	Great Britain

Run 2

August 6, 2018, 5:12 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Muhammad Abdalla Kounta	France	50.60
2	4th	Martin Kučera	Slovakia	50.75
3	8th	Danylo Danylenko	Ukraine	51.02
4th	5	Jakub Mordyl	Poland	51.15
5	3	Sebastian Rodger	Great Britain	51.30
6th	6th	Aleix Porras	Spain	51.69

Run 3

August 6, 2018, 5:19 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Victor Coroller	France	50.10
2	4th	Alain-Hervé Mfomkpa	Switzerland	50.34
3	5	Emir Bekrić	Serbia	50.46 SB
4th	7th	Máté Koroknai	Hungary	50.70
5	3	Michal Brož	Czech Republic	50.74
6th	2	Diogo Mestren	Portugal	52.65
7th	8th	Andrea Ercolani Volta	San Marino	53.86

Run 4

August 6, 2018, 5:25 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Denys Nechyporenko	Ukraine	50.26 SB
2	7th	Tibor Koroknai	Hungary	50.34
3	4th	José Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon	Italy	50.80
4th	6th	Vít Müller	Czech Republic	51.00
5	5	Isak Andersson	Sweden	51.18
6th	3	Hrvoje Čukman	Croatia	52.91

Semifinals

The German Luke Campbell missed the finals by a hundredth of a second

The Hungarian Tibor Koroknai was eliminated in fifth place in his semi-final run

The Briton Jack Greene did not reach the final after finishing sixth in the third semifinal race

From the three semi-finals, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. The eleven fastest of the year - marked with ‡, who were automatically qualified for the semi-finals, now intervened in the action.

Run 1

August 7, 2018, 7:55 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Karsten Warholm ‡	Norway	48.67
2	4th	Patryk Dobek ‡	Poland	48.75 SB
3	3	Luke Campbell ‡	Germany	49.20
4th	5	Victor Coroller	France	49.34 SB
5	7th	José Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon	Italy	49.86
6th	2	Michal Brož	Czech Republic	50.31
7th	8th	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	50.41
8th	1	Emir Bekrić	Serbia	50.96

Run 2

August 7, 2018, 7:55 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Rasmus Mägi ‡	Estonia	48.80 SB
2	4th	Ludvy Vaillant ‡	France	48.88
3	3	Timofei Tschaly ‡	Authorized Neutral Athletes	48.89 SB
4th	5	Sergio Fernández ‡	Spain	49.19 SB
5	7th	Tibor Koroknai	Hungary	49.24 PB
6th	1	Martin Kučera	Slovakia	50.30 PB
7th	2	Maksims Sinčukovs	Latvia	50.33 NU23R
8th	8th	Alain-Hervé Mfomkpa	Switzerland	50.71

Run 3

August 7, 2018, 7:55 p.m. CEST

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Yasmani Copello ‡	Turkey	48.88
2	5	Thomas Barr ‡	Ireland	49.10
3	3	Lorenzo Vergani ‡	Italy	49.41
4th	8th	Muhammad Abdalla Kounta	France	49.58
5	2	Máté Koroknai	Hungary	49.77 PB
6th	4th	Jack Green ‡	Great Britain	49.84
7th	1	Denys Nechyporenko	Ukraine	50.27
DNF	7th	Alexander Skorobogatko	Authorized Neutral Athletes

final

August 9, 2018, 8:15 p.m. CEST

The top favorites were the two athletes who had finished first and second at the last World Championships : World Champion Karsten Warholm from Norway and Vice World Champion Yasmani Copello, the defending champion from Turkey. The semifinals indicated that the performance density was high and the competitors for the fight for the other top positions were close together. The Pole Patryk Dobek had the second fastest time there after Warholm, Rasmus Mägi from Estonia was third fastest, the French Ludvy Vaillant followed just behind at the same time as Copello. Timofei Tschaly, who started under a neutral flag, also stayed under 49 seconds.

The race turned into the expected duel in the end. Karsten Warholm prevailed with a new U23 European record in 47.64 s. This time also represented a new Norwegian national record. Yasmani Copello was seventeen hundredths of a second behind the Norwegian vice European champion and thus also remained below the 48-second mark. He also set a new national record with his performance. The level behind these two athletes was also high. Irishman Thomas Barr was a surprising third in 48.31 seconds. Ludvy Vaillant only missed bronze by a little more than a tenth of a second. Patryk Dobek came in fifth ahead of Rasmus Mägi. The Spaniard Sergio Fernández finished seventh, Timofei Tschaly finished eighth.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	6th	Karsten Warholm	Norway	47.64 NR / EU23R
	4th	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	47.81 NO
	8th	Thomas Barr	Ireland	48.31 SB
4th	7th	Ludvy Vaillant	France	48.42 PB
5	3	Patryk Dobek	Poland	48.59 SB
6th	5	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia	48.75 SB
7th	2	Sergio Fernández	Spain	48.98 SB
8th	1	Timofei Tschaly	Authorized Neutral Athletes	49.41

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  European champion Karsten Warholm, Norway

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  Vice European Champion Yasmani Copello, Turkey

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  Bronze medalist Thomas Barr, Ireland

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  The Frenchman Ludvy Vaillant took fourth place

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  5th place for the Pole Patryk Dobek

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  The Estonian Rasmus Mägi came in sixth place

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 3, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 3, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 3, 2019

Video

• Karsten Warholm: European 400m hurdles champ Berlin 2018, interview on youtube.com (English), published on August 9, 2018, accessed on January 3, 2019