European Athletics Championships 2018/400 m women

discipline	400-meter run for women
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants	42 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	August 8, 2018 (preliminary) August 9, 2018 (semi-finals) August 11, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold	Justyna Święty-Ersetic ( POL )
silver	Maria Belimbasaki ( GRE )
bronze	Lisanne de Witte ( NED )

The 400-meter runners on the home straight

The women's 400 meter run at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place between August 8, 9 and 11 in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The European champion was Justyna Święty-Ersetic from Poland . She won ahead of the Greek Maria Belimbasaki . Lisanne de Witte from the Netherlands won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Marita Koch	47.60 s	Canberra , Australia	October 6, 1985
European record
Championship record		48.12 s	EM in Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

Conducting the competition

The ten fastest sprinters on the annual top list - marked with ‡ in the semi-final results - did not have to compete in the preliminary stages. They were automatically qualified for the semi-finals and only then intervened in the competition.

Prelims

The Czech Zdeňka Seidlová was eliminated after her sixth place in the first heat

The German Nadine Gonska did not reach the semifinals as fifth in her preliminary run

Camille Laus ( left ): qualified for the next round after her second place in the third heat, while Déspina Mourtá was eliminated in fifth

Preroll four ( from left to right ): Modesta Morauskaitė, Laura de Witte, Matilda Hellqvist

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

Run 1

August 8, 2018, 11:30 a.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Laviai Nielsen	Great Britain	51.67 PB
2	5	Cátia Azevedo	Portugal	51.84 SB
3	2	Gunta Latiševa-Čudare	Latvia	51.98
4th	1	Alyona Mamina	Authorized Neutral Athletes	52.72
5	8th	Alexandra Bezeková	Slovakia	52.88
6th	4th	Zdeňka Seidlová	Czech Republic	53.38
7th	7th	Anastassija Bryshina	Ukraine	53.62
8th	3	Maja Ćirić	Serbia	53.65

Run 2

August 8, 2018, 11:38 a.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Cynthia Bolingo Mbongo	Belgium	51.69 PB
2	7th	Floria Gueï	France	51.89
3	3	Bianca Răzor	Romania	52.19
4th	5	Tamara Salaški	Serbia	52.39
5	6th	Nadine Gonska	Germany	52.54
6th	8th	Lada Vondrová	Czech Republic	53.21 PB
7th	4th	Iríni Vasilíou	Greece	53.37
8th	2	Xenia Aksyonova	Authorized Neutral Athletes	53.37

Run 3

August 8, 2018, 11:46 a.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Maria Benedicta Chigbolu	Italy	51.76 SB
2	4th	Camille Laus	Belgium	52.40
3	2	Andrea Miklós	Romania	52.40
4th	3	Tetiana Melnyk	Ukraine	52.44
5	5	Déspina Mourtá	Greece	52.96 PB
6th	7th	Iveta Putalová	Slovakia	53.21
7th	1	Alena Symerská	Czech Republic	53.25
8th	8th	Eva Misiūnaitė	Lithuania	54.02

Run 4

August 8, 2018, 11:54 a.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Polina Miller	Authorized Neutral Athletes	52.01
2	1	Laura Bueno	Spain	52.14 SB
3	8th	Iga Baumgart-Witan	Poland	52.23
4th	5	Laura de Witte	Netherlands	52.57
5	4th	Matilda Hellqvist	Sweden	52.68 PB
6th	6th	Modesta Morauskaitė	Lithuania	52.68
7th	3	Alina Lohwynenko	Ukraine	53.18
8th	2	Evelin Nádházy	Hungary	54.34

Semifinals

First semifinals ( from left to right ): Maria Belimbasaki, Lisanne de Witte, Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik

The British Anyika Onuora was eliminated as third in her semi-final run

Semi-final three: ( from left to right ): Amy Allcock, Madiea Ghafoor, Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Libania Grenot

The Italian defending champion Libania Grenot did not qualify for the final despite a third place in her preliminary run

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 ten fastest of the year - marked with ‡, who were automatically qualified for the semi-finals, now intervened in the action.

Run 1

August 9, 2018, 7:50 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Laviai Nielsen	Great Britain	51.21 PB
2	5	Maria Belimbasaki ‡	Greece	51.23
3	4th	Lisanne de Witte ‡	Netherlands	51.24
4th	6th	Floria Gueï	France	51.50 SB
5	3	Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik ‡	Poland	51.74
6th	7th	Cynthia Bolingo Mbongo	Belgium	51.92
7th	1	Tetiana Melnyk	Ukraine	52.20 SB
8th	2	Cátia Azevedo	Portugal	52.23

Run 2

August 9, 2018, 7:57 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Iga Baumgart-Witan	Poland	51.35 PB
2	4th	Agnė Šerkšnienė ‡	Lithuania	51.41
3	5	Anyika Onuora ‡	Great Britain	51.77
4th	3	Anita Horvat ‡	Slovenia	51.89
5	8th	Maria Benedicta Chigbolu	Italy	52.26
6th	6th	Camille Laus	Belgium	52.40
7th	2	Andrea Miklós	Romania	52.49
8th	1	Tamara Salaški	Serbia	53.20

Run 3

August 9, 2018, 8:04 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Justyna Święty-Ersetic ‡	Poland	51.23
2	5	Madiea Ghafoor ‡	Netherlands	51.29
3	3	Libania Grenot ‡	Italy	51.54
4th	7th	Gunta Latiševa-Čudare	Latvia	51.60 SB
5	8th	Polina Miller	Authorized Neutral Athletes	51.65 EU20L
6th	6th	Amy Allcock ‡	Great Britain	51.91
7th	1	Bianca Răzor	Romania	52.27
8th	2	Laura Bueno	Spain	52.46

final

August 11, 2018, 8:12 p.m. CEST

At world level, European women have not played a major role on this route in recent years, apart from the Briton Christine Ohuruogu - no longer at the start here. The race here in Berlin was very open even after the results of the semi-finals. The Italian European champion of 2014 and 2016 Libania Grenot had not reached the final.

The Greek Maria Belimbasaki was the first runner to hit the home straight, a few meters ahead. Second was Laviai Nielsen from Britain, just ahead of Madiea Ghafoor from the Netherlands. In the meantime, Agnė Šerkšnienė from Lithuania and Justyna Święty-Ersetic from Poland followed closely behind. The further gaps were also very close. Lisanne de Witte from the Netherlands was sixth.

In the last hundred meters Nielsen lost his strength. Belimbasaki held up better in the front, but now Święty-Ersetic stormed up from behind and de Witte also showed great stamina. Justyna Święty-Ersetic caught the Greek with the last steps and became European champion in 50.41 seconds. Maria Belimbasaki won the silver medal four hundredths of a second behind. Lisanne de Witte set a new Dutch national record with 50.77 s and won the bronze medal. For Laviai Nielsen it was enough for fourth place. Iga Baumgart-Witan, the second Polish woman in this final, was fifth ahead of Agnė Šerkšnienė and Floria Gueï from France. Madiea Ghafoor took eighth place.

space	train	Athlete	country	Time (s)
	3	Justyna Święty-Ersetic	Poland	50.41 EL
	4th	Maria Belimbasaki	Greece	50.45 NO
	2	Lisanne de Witte	Netherlands	50.77 NO
4th	5	Laviai Nielsen	Great Britain	51.21
5	6th	Iga Baumgart-Witan	Poland	51.24 PB
6th	7th	Agnė Šerkšnienė	Lithuania	51.42
7th	1	Floria Gueï	France	51,566
8th	8th	Madiea Ghafoor	Netherlands	51,567

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  Award ceremony over 400 meters ( from left to right ): Maria Belimbasaki, Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Lisanne de Witte

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  European Champion Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Poland

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  Vice European Champion Maria Belimbasaki, Greece

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  Bronze medalist Lisanne de Witte, Netherlands

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  The British Laviai Nielsen came in fourth place

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  Iga Baumgart-Witan, the second Polish woman in this final, finished fifth

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  Seventh place for the French Floria Gueï

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  The second Dutch woman in the final Madiea Ghafoor reached eighth place

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 12, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 12, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 12, 2019

Video

• Maria Belibasaki, silver medal, Berlin 2018 on youtube.com, published on August 11, 2018, accessed on January 12, 2019