European Athletics Championships 2018/400 m men

discipline	Men's 400-meter run
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	39 athletes from 24 countries
Competition phase	August 7, 2018 (preliminary) August 8, 2018 (semi-finals) August 10, 2018 (final)
Medalist
gold	Matthew Hudson-Smith ( GBR )
silver	Kevin Borlée ( BEL )
bronze	Jonathan Borlée ( BEL )

Crossing the finish line of the 400 m final

The men's 400-meter run at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place between August 7 and 10 in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital, Berlin .

World champion was the Briton Matthew Hudson-Smith . Silver and bronze went to a brother couple from Belgium. Kevin Borlée came in second, Jonathan Borlée came in third.

Records

World record	Wayde van Niekerk	43.03 s	Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil	August 14, 2016
European record	Thomas Schönlebe	44.33 s	Rome , Italy	3rd September 1987
Championship record	Ivan Thomas	44.52 s	EM in Budapest , Hungary	August 21, 1998

Conducting the competition

The nine fastest 400-meter runners on the year's best list - marked with a ‡ in the semi-final results - did not have to compete in the heats. They were automatically qualified for the semi-finals and only then intervened in the competition.

Prelims

The Pole Dariusz Kowaluk did not reach the next lap after finishing fifth in his preliminary run

For the Czech Patrik Šorm - here in Linz - his fifth place in the third run was not enough for the semi-finals

The Czech Michal Desenský - here in second place in a relay race - did not make it to the semifinals as fifth in his heat

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

Run 1

August 7, 2018, 10:35 a.m. local time

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Kevin Borlée	Belgium	45.29 SB
2	6th	Ricardo dos Santos	Portugal	45.55 NO
3	7th	Vitaly Butrym	Ukraine	45.82 SB
4th	2	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	45.83
5	3	Yavuz Can	Turkey	46.58
6th	1	Christopher O'Donnell	Ireland	46.81 SB
7th	5	Mateo Ružić	Croatia	47.32
8th	4th	Jessy Franco	Gibraltar	48.12 PB

Run 2

August 7, 2018, 10:42 a.m. local time

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Jonathan Borlée	Belgium	45.19 SB
2	7th	Matteo Galvan	Italy	45.48 SB
3	6th	Jānis Leitis	Latvia	45.56 NO
4th	4th	Samuel García	Spain	45.63
5	3	Dariusz Kowaluk	Poland	46.18
6th	5	Stanislaw Senyk	Ukraine	47.10
7th	2	Franko Burraj	Albania	47.56

Run 3

August 7, 2018, 10:49 a.m. local time

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	1	Dylan Borlée	Belgium	45.84
2	7th	Robert Parge	Romania	45.99
3	8th	Martyn Rooney	Great Britain	46.27
4th	6th	Oleksiy Posdnyakov	Ukraine	46.47
5	4th	Patrik Šorm	Czech Republic	46.52
6th	2	Johannes Trefz	Germany	46.53
7th	5	Tony Nõu	Estonia	47.19
8th	3	Joel Burgundy	Switzerland	48.78

Run 4

August 7, 2018, 10:56 a.m. local time

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Dwayne Cowan	Great Britain	45.75
2	5	Donald Blair-Sanford	Israel	46.00
3	3	Patrick Schneider	Germany	46.15
4th	4th	Łukasz Krawczuk	Poland	46.17
5	7th	Michal Desenský	Czech Republic	47.68
6th	2	Erik Martinsson	Sweden	46.87
7th	8th	Batuhan Altıntaş	Turkey	46.91

Semifinals

The Italian Matteo Galvan was third in his semi-final run and only missed the final by three hundredths of a second

The German Patrick Schneider retired as eighth of his semi-final run

His fourth place in the third semi-final was not enough for the Dutchman Liemarvin Bonevacia to reach the final

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

Run 1

August 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Matthew Hudson-Smith ‡	Great Britain	44.76
2	5	Jonathan Borlée	Belgium	44.87 SB
3	7th	Ricardo dos Santos	Portugal	45.14 NO
4th	6th	Matteo Galvan	Italy	45.17 SB
5	2	Dwayne Cowan	Great Britain	45.45 SB
6th	3	Lucas Búa ‡	Spain	45.48
7th	8th	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	45.59 SB
8th	1	Łukasz Krawczuk	Poland	45.78 SB

Run 2

August 8, 2018, 7:37 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Karol Zalewski ‡	Poland	45.11 PB
2	4th	Óscar Husillos ‡	Spain	45.17
3	5	Rabah Yousif ‡	Great Britain	45.30 SB
4th	3	Davide Re ‡	Italy	45.53
5	8th	Jānis Leitis	Latvia	45.53 NO
6th	7th	Dylan Borlée	Belgium	45.63
7th	1	Robert Parge	Romania	46.07
8th	2	Patrick Schneider	Germany	46.58

Run 3

August 8, 2018, 7:44 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Karsten Warholm ‡	Norway	44.91 SB
2	6th	Luka Janežič ‡	Slovenia	44.93 SB
3	3	Kevin Borlée	Belgium	45.07 SB
4th	4th	Liemarvin Bonevacia ‡	Netherlands	45.39
5	7th	Donald Blair-Sanford	Israel	45.68
6th	1	Martyn Rooney	Great Britain	45.73 SB
7th	8th	Samuel García	Spain	45.87
8th	2	Vitaly Butrym	Ukraine	46.01

final

August 10, 2018, 9:05 p.m. CEST

Four runners had undercut the 45-second mark in the semifinals, suggesting a close final. The Briton Matthew Hudson-Smith, Vice European Champion in 2014 , set the fastest time with 44.76 s. The second fastest with 45.87 s was the Belgian Jonathan Borlée, Olympic sixth in 2016 . The Norwegian 400 meter hurdles world champion from 2017 Karsten Warholm had achieved 44.91 seconds, the Slovenian Luka Janežič was only two hundredths of a second slower. But the Belgian Kevin Borlée, the second of the Borlée brothers - fifth in the 2016 Olympics and fourth in the European Championship in 2016 - was also to be expected . The three other finalists Karol Zalewski from Poland - 45.11 s, Ricardo dos Santos from Portugal - 45.14 s - and the Spaniard Óscar Husillos - 45.14 s - stayed close to the 45-second mark in the semi-finals .

In the final, Hudson-Smith was in the lead after half the distance. With a clear lead, he hit the home straight. It was tighter behind the Briton. Jonathan Borlée was second, Zalewski third. The gap to Matthew Hudson-Smith could not be made up by any of the runners. The Brit won the race by a clear margin. Kevin Borlée ran a strong final straight and won the silver medal. His brother Jonathan was third six hundredths of a second behind, ahead of Karol Zalewski and Luka Janežič. Óscar Husillos came in sixth ahead of Ricardo dos Santos. Karsten Warholm was unable to build on his strong performance from the semi-finals and finished eighth. The day before he had become European champion over the 400-meter hurdles and the numerous races up to this 400-meter final had probably cost him too much energy.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	3	Matthew Hudson-Smith	Great Britain	44.78
	1	Kevin Borlée	Belgium	45.13
	4th	Jonathan Borlée	Belgium	45.19
4th	5	Karol Zalewski	Poland	45.34
5	7th	Luka Janežič	Slovenia	45.43
6th	8th	Óscar Husillos	Spain	45.61
7th	2	Ricardo dos Santos	Portugal	45.78
8th	6th	Karsten Warholm	Norway	46.68

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  The Briton Matthew Hudson-Smith - left as Vice European Champion in 2014 - this time won the EM -Titel

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  Vice European Champion Kevin Borlée, Belgium

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  Bronze medalist Jonathan Borlée, Belgium

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  Karol Zalewski from Poland finished fourth

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  The Slovenian Luka Janežič finished fifth

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  The Spaniard Óscar Husillos came in sixth place

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  Seventh place for the Portuguese Ricardo dos Santos

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  Karsten Warholm from Norway reached eighth place in the final

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on December 30, 2018
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 30, 2018
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 30, 2018

Video

• Hudson-Smith Runs to Gold via Stadium Round, European Championships 2018, sports show on youtube.com, published August 10, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018