World Athletics Championships 1993/400 m hurdles for women
4th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 36 athletes from 23 countries | ||||||||
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Competition location | Gottlieb Daimler Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 16 (preliminary) August 17 (semi-finals) August 19 (final) |
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The women's 400-meter hurdles at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held from August 16-19, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .
The British Olympic champion in 1992 and Vice World Champion in 1991 Sally Gunnell became world champion . With her winning time she set a new world record. Sally Gunnell had also won an Olympic bronze medal in her country's 4 x 400 meter relay in 1992 and won another relay bronze here in Stuttgart on the final day. The US-American Sandra Farmer-Patrick took second place as in the Olympic Games last year. She was only five hundredths of a second behind the winner. Bronze went to the Russian Margarita Ponomarjowa , who also won a silver medal with the Russian 4 x 400 meter relay on the final day of these world championships.
Records
Existing records
World record | 52.94 s |
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Tashkent , Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan ) | 17th September 1986 |
World Cup record | 53.11 s |
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1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan | August 29, 1991 |
Record improvement
The British world champion Sally Gunnell improved the world championship record in the final on August 19 by 37 hundredths of a second to 52.74 s, which she also set a new world record.
Preliminary round
The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first four 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
August 16, 1993, 10:40 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | time |
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1 | Sally Gunnell |
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55.06 s |
2 | Silvia Rieger |
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56.30 s |
3 | Frida Johansson |
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56.81 s |
4th | Nicoleta Căruţaşu |
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57.13 s |
5 | Monika Warnicka |
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57.38 s |
6th | Anabella from Kesselstatt |
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57.82 s |
7th | Zuzana Machotková |
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59.53 s |
Forward 2
August 16, 1993, 10:48 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | time |
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1 | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja |
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55.37 s |
2 | Heike Meissner |
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55.84 s |
3 | Debbie-Ann Parris |
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56.19 s |
4th | Ann Maenhout |
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56.48 s |
5 | Lana Uys |
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56.55 s |
6th | Marta Moreira |
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58.06 s |
7th | Jupira Maurina da Graça |
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58.79 s |
Forward 3
August 16, 1993, 10:56 am
space | Surname | nation | time |
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1 | Margarita Ponomaryova |
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54.68 s |
2 | Tonja Buford |
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55.42 s |
3 | Rosey Edeh |
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55.70 s |
4th | Monica Westén |
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56.34 s |
5 | Jacqui Parker |
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56.93 s |
6th | Linda Kisabaka |
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57.02 s |
7th | Marjut Toyli |
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1: 00.16 min |
8th | Ivette Sánchez |
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1: 07.89 min |
Forward 4
August 16, 1993, 11:04 am
space | Surname | nation | time |
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1 | Olga M. Nazarova |
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55.31 s |
2 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick |
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55.70 s |
3 | Deon Hemmings |
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55.94 s |
4th | Gowry Retchakan |
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56.31 s |
5 | Sylwia Pachut |
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56.92 s |
6th | Miriam Alonso |
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58.62 s |
7th | Alejandra Quintanar |
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1: 00.04 min |
Forward 5
August 16, 1993, 11:12 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | time |
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1 | Kim Batten |
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55.37 s |
2 | Natalja Torzina |
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55.51 s |
3 | Anna Knoros |
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55.54 s |
4th | Tatiana Kurochkina |
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55.69 s |
5 | Donalda Duprey |
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56.80 s |
6th | Mary-Estelle Kapalu |
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1: 00.29 min |
DNF | Nezha Bidouane |
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DNS | Yana Burtasenkova |
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Semifinals
From each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.
Semi-final run 1
August 17, 1993, 6:05 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Sally Gunnell |
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53.95 |
2 | Tonja Buford |
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54.38 |
3 | Heike Meissner |
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54.64 |
4th | Anna Knoros |
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55.12 |
5 | Tatiana Kurochkina |
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55.64 |
6th | Debbie-Ann Parris |
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55.80 |
7th | Sylwia Pachut |
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56.31 |
8th | Nicoleta Căruţaşu |
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56.61 |
Semi-final run 2
August 17, 1993, 6:12 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Margarita Ponomaryova |
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53.71 |
2 | Kim Batten |
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54.20 |
3 | Natalja Torzina |
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54.53 |
4th | Rosey Edeh |
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54.53 |
5 | Silvia Rieger |
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54.90 |
6th | Monica Westén |
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55.88 |
7th | Ann Maenhout |
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56.14 |
8th | Jacqui Parker |
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56.68 |
Semi-final run 3
August 17, 1993, 6:19 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick |
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53.88 |
2 | Deon Hemmings |
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54.12 |
3 | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja |
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54.60 |
4th | Olga M. Nazarova |
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55.51 |
5 | Gowry Retchakan |
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55.96 |
6th | Donalda Duprey |
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56.16 |
7th | Frida Johansson |
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56.48 |
8th | Lana Uys |
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57.40 |
final
August 19, 1993, 7:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Sally Gunnell |
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52.74 WR |
2 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick |
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52.79 |
3 | Margarita Ponomaryova |
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53.48 |
4th | Kim Batten |
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53.84 |
5 | Tonja Buford |
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54.55 |
6th | Deon Hemmings |
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54.99 |
7th | Rosey Edeh |
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55.19 |
8th | Natalja Torzina |
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55.78 |
Video
- Women's 400m Hurdles Final 1993 World Athletics Championships Sally Gunnell wins gold , video posted March 30, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed May 19, 2020
Web links
- 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 19, 2020
- Women 400m Hurdles Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 19, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 400 m Hurdles, Stuttgart 1993, p. 300 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 19, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 19, 2020