World Athletics Championships 1991/400 m hurdles for women
3rd World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 34 athletes from 24 countries | ||||||||
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Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 26th (preliminary) August 27th (semi-finals) August 29th (final) |
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The women's 400-meter hurdles at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held from August 26th to 29th, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .
World champion was the Soviet Olympic runner-up from 1988 Tazzjana Ljadouskaja , who had won Olympic gold in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 1988 and here with her relay won her second World Cup title on the final day . Second place went to just five hundredths of a second behind the Briton Sally Gunnell . Bronze went to the American Janeene Vickers .
Records
Existing records
World record | 52.94 s |
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Tashkent , Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan ) | 17th September 1986 |
World Cup record | 53.62 s |
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World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy | 3rd September 1987 |
Record improvement
The Soviet world champion Tazzjana Ljadouskaja improved the world championship record in the final on August 29 by 51 hundredths of a second to 53.11 s.
In addition, the British Vice World Champion Sally Gunnell set a new national record in the final with 53.16 seconds.
Preliminary round
August 26, 1991, 3:30 p.m.
The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time |
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1 | Janeene Vickers |
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54.85 s |
2 | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja |
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54.94 s |
3 | Gowry Retchakan |
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54.95 s |
4th | Frida Johansson |
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55.60 s |
5 | Ann Maenhout |
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58.39 s |
6th | Marie Womplou |
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58.80 s |
7th | Elma Muros |
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59.90 s |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time |
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1 | Anita Protti |
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54.53 s |
2 | Margarita Ponomaryova |
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55.87 s |
3 | Gudrun Abbot |
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56.16 s |
4th | Lency's Montelier |
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57.72 s |
5 | Huang Yanhong |
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58.05 s |
6th | Omolade Akinremi |
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58.25 s |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time |
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1 | Sally Gunnell |
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54.70 s |
2 | Anna Tschuprina |
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56.15 s |
3 | Sabine Busch |
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56.37 s |
4th | Donalda Duprey |
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56.38 s |
5 | Lyn Massey |
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57.55 s |
6th | Junko Hasegawa |
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59.71 s |
7th | Gretha Tromp |
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1: 00.45 min |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | time |
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1 | Irmgard Trojer |
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55.77 s |
2 | Kim Batten |
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55.77 s |
3 | Monica Westén |
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55.79 s |
4th | Deon Hemmings |
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56.35 s |
5 | Nicoleta Căruţaşu |
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57.13 s |
6th | Liliana Chalá |
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1: 00.49 min |
7th | Mirenda Francourt |
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1: 05.92 min |
Forward 5
space | Surname | nation | time |
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1 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick |
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55.81 s |
2 | Heike Meissner |
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56.00 s |
3 | Nezha Bidouane |
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56.32 s |
4th | Rosey Edeh |
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57.32 s |
5 | Jacqui Parker |
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57.81 s |
6th | Reawadee Srithoa |
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58.74 s |
7th | Mari Bjone |
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59.00 s |
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Semifinals
August 27, 1991, 5:30 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 (s) |
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1 | Anita Protti |
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54.26 |
2 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick |
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54.44 |
3 | Janeene Vickers |
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54.63 |
4th | Heike Meissner |
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54.77 |
5 | Gowry Retchakan |
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54.88 |
6th | Frida Johansson |
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55.36 |
7th | Anna Tschuprina |
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55.81 |
8th | Nezha Bidouane |
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56.62 |
Semi-final run 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Sally Gunnell |
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54.24 |
2 | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja |
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54.36 |
3 | Kim Batten |
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54.70 |
4th | Margarita Ponomaryova |
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55.22 |
5 | Monica Westén |
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55.51 |
6th | Irmgard Trojer |
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55.66 |
7th | Sabine Busch |
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55.73 |
8th | Gudrun Abbot |
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56.17 |
final
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August 29, 1991, 7:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja |
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53.11 CR |
2 | Sally Gunnell |
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53.16 NO |
3 | Janeene Vickers |
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53.47 |
4th | Sandra Farmer-Patrick |
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53.95 |
5 | Kim Batten |
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53.98 |
6th | Anita Protti |
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54.25 |
7th | Heike Meissner |
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54.26 |
8th | Margarita Ponomaryova |
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54.27 |
Video
- Women's 400m Hurdles Final World Champs in Tokyo 1991 on youtube.com, accessed May 1, 2020
Web links
- World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 1, 2020
- Women 400m Hurdles Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) on todor66.com, accessed May 1, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 400m Hurdles, Tokyo 1991, p. 305f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 1, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 1, 2020