World Athletics Championships 1980/400 m hurdles for women

World Athletics Championships 1980
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 9 countries
venue	Sittard
Competition location	De Baandert Stadium
Competition phase	August 16 (preliminary) August 15 (semi-finals) August 16 (final)
Medalists Bärbel Broschat ( GDR )   Ellen Neumann ( GDR )   Petra Pfaff ( GDR )

Buildings in the Parklaan in Sittard

The women's 400-meter hurdles were held at the 1980 World Athletics Championships from August 14 to 16, 1980 in De Baandert Stadium in the Dutch city ​​of Sittard .

Unfortunately, the world championship run over 400 meter hurdles was devalued by the short-term cancellation of the strong runners from the Soviet Union . These athletes lost the opportunity to become the first world champion at this distance or at least to achieve top positions.

The runners from the GDR recorded a triple success. Bärbel Broschat , former Bärbel Klepp , became world champion . Only a hundredth of a second behind, Ellen Neumann , later Ellen Fiedler, won the silver medal. Bronze went to Petra Pfaff .

Records

World record	Karin Rossley	54.28 s	Jena , GDR (now Germany )	May 18, 1980
World championship record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time.

The World Cup record was gradually increased to 54.55 s ( Bärbel Broschat , GDR , in the final on August 16, 1980).

Preliminary round

August 14, 1980

The preliminary round was held in four 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

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Esther Mahr	United States	057.51 s CR
2	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	057.72 s
3	Monserrat Pujol	Spain	058.54 s
4th	Olga Commandeur	Netherlands	058.87 s
5	Lai Lih-Jian	Chinese Taipei	1: 01.1 min
DSQ	Kirsi Ulvinen	Sweden

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Petra Pfaff	GDR	57.82 s
2	Lynette Foreman	Australia	58.07 s
3	Susan Dalgoutté	Great Britain	59.63 s
4th	Esther Kaufmann	Switzerland	59.74 s
5	Simone Büngener	BR Germany	59.98 s
6th	Dominique Le Disset	France	1: 01.22 min

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Bärbel brooch	GDR	056.13 s CR
2	Mary Appleby	Ireland	058.54 s
3	Pink Colorado	Spain	058.79 s
4th	Francine Gendron	Canada	1: 00.40 min
5	Debra Melrose	United States	1: 00.46 min
6th	Ruth Dubos	France	1: 01.12 min

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Ellen Neumann	GDR	56.35 s
2	Christine Warden	Great Britain	57.84 s
3	Bright Sichlau	Denmark	58.99 s
4th	Kim Whitehead	United States	1: 01.33 min
5	Andrea Wachter	Canada	1: 02.28 min
6th	Celestine N'Drin	Ivory Coast	1: 04.91 min

Semifinals

August 6, 1991, 5:35 p.m.

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Bärbel brooch	GDR	055.89 s CR
2	Petra Pfaff	GDR	056.78 s
3	Mary Appleby	Ireland	057.06 s
4th	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	057.44 s
5	Monserrat Pujol	Spain	057.74 s
6th	Bright Sichlau	Denmark	058.44 s
7th	Susan Dalgoutté	Great Britain	059.85 s
8th	Francine Gendron	Canada	1: 00.14 min

Semi-final run 2

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Ellen Neumann	GDR	55.89 s CRe
2	Esther Mahr	United States	56.16 s
3	Christine Warden	Great Britain	57.26 s
4th	Lynette Foreman	Australia	57.46 s
5	Pink Colorado	Spain	57.47 s
6th	Olga Commandeur	Netherlands	57.93 s
7th	Simone Büngener	BR Germany	59.11 s
8th	Esther Kaufmann	Switzerland	59.55 s

B final

Olga Commandeur did not qualify for the A final and did not take part in the B final

The runners who did not qualify for the A-final in the semifinals contested the B-final. August 7, 1991, 5:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bright Sichlau	Denmark	58.03
2	Monserrat Pujol	Spain	58.38
3	Simone Büngener	BR Germany	58.77
4th	Susan Dalgoutté	Great Britain	59.31
5	Esther Kaufmann	Switzerland	59.41
6th	Francine Gendron	Canada	59.61
DSQ	Pink Colorado	Spain
DNS	Olga Commandeur	Netherlands

A final

Bärbel Broschat became world champion (front, in a race in 1979) , Petra Pfaff won the bronze medal

August 7, 1991, 5:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bärbel brooch	GDR	54.55 CR
2	Ellen Neumann	GDR	54.56
3	Petra Pfaff	GDR	55.84
4th	Mary Appleby	Ireland	56.51
5	Esther Mahr	United States	56.81
6th	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	56.85
7th	Lynette Foreman	Australia	58.25
DSQ	Christine Warden	Great Britain

Web links and sources

• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, p. 305 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 12, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 400 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 12, 2020