World Athletics Championships 1991/400 m men

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	45 athletes from 33 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 25 (preliminary) August 26 (quarter-finals) August 27 (semi-finals) August 28 (final)
Medalist Antonio Pettigrew ( USA )   Roger Black ( GBR )   Inge Exner ( USA )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's 400-meter race at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held from August 25 to 28, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

In this competition, the US runners won two gold and bronze medals. Antonio Pettigrew became world champion . Silver went to the reigning European champion Roger Black from Great Britain , who three days later became world champion with his country's 4 x 400 meter relay . As in the 1988 Olympic Games , Danny Everett finished third. He had won gold with the 4 x 400 meter relay at the last World Championships and the last Olympic Games. For Pettigrew and Everett there was also silver with their relay on the final day.

Existing records

World record	43.29 s	Harry Reynolds	Zurich , Switzerland	17th August 1988
World championship record	44.26 s	Innocent Egbunike	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	September 1, 1987

The World Cup record remained unchanged at these World Championships.

Preliminary round

August 25, 1991, 10:00 a.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in six runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the eight fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Antonio Pettigrew	United States	45.02
2	Wilson Canizales	Colombia	46.23
3	Patrick O'Connor	Jamaica	46.30
4th	Paul Sanders	Great Britain	46.38
5	Simon Kipkemboi	Kenya	46.46
6th	Michael Joubert	Australia	46.55
7th	Carlos Morales	Chile	46.80
8th	Manuel Alves Fonseca	Sao Tome and Principe	54.01

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Susumu Takano	Japan	46.10
2	Samson Kitur	Kenya	46.19
3	Lázaro Martínez	Cuba	46.25
4th	Tamás Molnár	Hungary	46.64
5	Dmitri Kliger	Soviet Union	46.71
6th	Roberto Bortolotto	Brazil	47.44
7th	Joel Otim	Uganda	43.03
DSQ	Amadou Sy Savane	Guinea

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alvin Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	45.64
2	Derek Redmond	Great Britain	45.78
3	Benyounes Lahlou	Morocco	45.80
4th	Andrew Valmon	United States	46.16
5	Andrea Nuti	Italy	46.80
6th	Filipe Lombá	Portugal	47.37
7th	Word Coombs	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	48.63
DSQ	Tim Hesse	Ghana

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Danny Everett	United States	45.73
2	Patrick Delice	Trinidad and Tobago	46.03
3	Paul Greene	Australia	46.27
4th	Olivier Noirot	France	46.41
5	Dawda Jallow	Gambia	46.66
6th	Anthony Wilson	Canada	46.71
7th	Seibert Straughn	Barbados	46.88

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Seymour Fagan	Jamaica	44.88
2	Jens Carlowitz	Germany	45.78
3	Roger Black	Great Britain	46.02
4th	Ian Morris	Trinidad and Tobago	46.16
5	Amar Hacini	Algeria	46.52
6th	Tsvetoslav Stankulov	Bulgaria	46.89
7th	Thabani Gonye	Zimbabwe	47.61
8th	Henry Sweeney	Northern Mariana Islands	49.81

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	45.49
2	Mark Garner	Australia	45.77
3	Ibrahim Ismail	Qatar	46.20
4th	Cayetano Cornet	Spain	46.54
5	Jindich Roun	Czechoslovakia	46.86
6th	Charles Gitonga	Kenya	47.03
DNS	Troy Douglas	Bermuda

Quarter finals

August 26, 1991, 5:20 pm

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

Quarter-finals 1

Jens Carlowitz's fifth place in the first quarter-finals was not enough for participation in the semifinals

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	44.71
2	Susumu Takano	Japan	44.91
3	Ian Morris	Trinidad and Tobago	45.07
4th	Ibrahim Ismail	Qatar	45.37
5	Jens Carlowitz	Germany	45.68
6th	Dawda Jallow	Gambia	46.21
7th	Simon Kipkemboi	Kenya	46.29
8th	Michael Joubert	Australia	46.94

Quarter-finals 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Andrew Valmon	United States	45.41
2	Seymour Fagan	Jamaica	45.45
3	Samson Kitur	Kenya	45.54
4th	Derek Redmond	Great Britain	45.66
5	Paul Greene	Australia	45.97
6th	Lázaro Martínez	Cuba	46.12
7th	Tamás Molnár	Hungary	46.47
DNS	Carlos Morales	Chile

Quarter-finals 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Antonio Pettigrew	United States	45.03
2	Mark Garner	Australia	45.08
3	Roger Black	Great Britain	45.39
4th	Patrick O'Connor	Jamaica	45.56
5	Patrick Delice	Trinidad and Tobago	45.78
6th	Anthony Wilson	Canada	47.03
7th	Amar Hacini	Algeria	47.30
DNS	Cayetano Cornet	Spain

Quarter-finals 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alvin Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	45.48
2	Benyounes Lahlou	Morocco	45.69
3	Danny Everett	United States	45.93
4th	Olivier Noirot	France	45.98
5	Dmitri Kliger	Soviet Union	46.29
6th	Wilson Canizales	Colombia	46.42
7th	Paul Sanders	Great Britain	46.59
DSQ	Andrea Nuti	Italy

Semifinals

August 27, 6:40 p.m.

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

Semi-final run 1

Derek Redmond (photo from 2007) was eliminated in the semifinals as seventh of his race

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Antonio Pettigrew	United States	44.52
2	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	44.66
3	Danny Everett	United States	44.97
4th	Ian Morris	Trinidad and Tobago	45.00
5	Seymour Fagan	Jamaica	45.34
6th	Ibrahim Ismail	Qatar	45.46
7th	Derek Redmond	Great Britain	45.67
8th	Benyounes Lahlou	Morocco	45.75

Semi-final run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Roger Black	Great Britain	44.64
2	Andrew Valmon	United States	45.08
3	Susumu Takano	Japan	45.43
4th	Mark Garner	Australia	45.53
5	Patrick O'Connor	Jamaica	45.54
6th	Samson Kitur	Kenya	46.07
7th	Alvin Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	46.23
8th	Olivier Noirot	France	47.13

The reigning European champion Roger Black (here in 2011) was runner-up and three days later won gold with the British 4 x 400 meter relay

final

August 29, 8:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Antonio Pettigrew	United States	44.57
2	Roger Black	Great Britain	44.62
3	Danny Everett	United States	44.63
4th	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	44.86
5	Andrew Valmon	United States	45.09
6th	Ian Morris	Trinidad and Tobago	45.12
7th	Susumu Takano	Japan	45.39
8th	Mark Garner	Australia	45.47

Video

• Men's 400m Final World Champs in Tokyo 1991 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 17, 2020
• Men 400m Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) on todor66.com, accessed April 17, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 400 m, Tokyo 1991, p. 105 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 17, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 17, 2020