World Athletics Championships 1993/400 m hurdles for women

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	36 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 16 (preliminary) August 17 (semi-finals) August 19 (final)
Medalists Sally Gunnell ( GBR )   Sandra Farmer-Patrick ( USA )   Margarita Ponomarjowa ( RUS )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

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	Marina Ivanovna Stepanova	Tashkent , Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan )	17th September 1986
World Cup record	53.11 s	Tazzjana Ljadouskaja	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
1	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	55.06 s
2	Silvia Rieger	Germany	56.30 s
3	Frida Johansson	Sweden	56.81 s
4th	Nicoleta Căruţaşu	Romania	57.13 s
5	Monika Warnicka	Poland	57.38 s
6th	Anabella from Kesselstatt	Argentina	57.82 s
7th	Zuzana Machotková	Czech Republic	59.53 s

Forward 2

August 16, 1993, 10:48 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Tazzjana Ljadouskaja	Belarus	55.37 s
2	Heike Meissner	Germany	55.84 s
3	Debbie-Ann Parris	Jamaica	56.19 s
4th	Ann Maenhout	Belgium	56.48 s
5	Lana Uys	South Africa	56.55 s
6th	Marta Moreira	Portugal	58.06 s
7th	Jupira Maurina da Graça	Brazil	58.79 s

Forward 3

August 16, 1993, 10:56 am

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Margarita Ponomaryova	Russia	54.68 s
2	Tonja Buford	United States	55.42 s
3	Rosey Edeh	Canada	55.70 s
4th	Monica Westén	Sweden	56.34 s
5	Jacqui Parker	Great Britain	56.93 s
6th	Linda Kisabaka	Germany	57.02 s
7th	Marjut Toyli	Finland	1: 00.16 min
8th	Ivette Sánchez	Panama	1: 07.89 min

Forward 4

August 16, 1993, 11:04 am

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Olga M. Nazarova	Russia	55.31 s
2	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	United States	55.70 s
3	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	55.94 s
4th	Gowry Retchakan	Great Britain	56.31 s
5	Sylwia Pachut	Poland	56.92 s
6th	Miriam Alonso	Spain	58.62 s
7th	Alejandra Quintanar	Mexico	1: 00.04 min

Forward 5

Nezha Bidouane, one of the best 400 m hurdlers in the world for the next few years, ended the race here prematurely

August 16, 1993, 11:12 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Kim Batten	United States	55.37 s
2	Natalja Torzina	Kazakhstan	55.51 s
3	Anna Knoros	Russia	55.54 s
4th	Tatiana Kurochkina	Belarus	55.69 s
5	Donalda Duprey	Canada	56.80 s
6th	Mary-Estelle Kapalu	Vanuatu	1: 00.29 min
DNF	Nezha Bidouane	Morocco
DNS	Yana Burtasenkova	Moldova

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

Nicoleta Căruţaşu had as eighth of her semi-final run no chance of reaching the final

August 17, 1993, 6:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	53.95
2	Tonja Buford	United States	54.38
3	Heike Meissner	Germany	54.64
4th	Anna Knoros	Russia	55.12
5	Tatiana Kurochkina	Belarus	55.64
6th	Debbie-Ann Parris	Jamaica	55.80
7th	Sylwia Pachut	Poland	56.31
8th	Nicoleta Căruţaşu	Romania	56.61

Semi-final run 2

August 17, 1993, 6:12 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Margarita Ponomaryova	Russia	53.71
2	Kim Batten	United States	54.20
3	Natalja Torzina	Kazakhstan	54.53
4th	Rosey Edeh	Canada	54.53
5	Silvia Rieger	Germany	54.90
6th	Monica Westén	Sweden	55.88
7th	Ann Maenhout	Belgium	56.14
8th	Jacqui Parker	Great Britain	56.68

Semi-final run 3

August 17, 1993, 6:19 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	United States	53.88
2	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	54.12
3	Tazzjana Ljadouskaja	Belarus	54.60
4th	Olga M. Nazarova	Russia	55.51
5	Gowry Retchakan	Great Britain	55.96
6th	Donalda Duprey	Canada	56.16
7th	Frida Johansson	Sweden	56.48
8th	Lana Uys	South Africa	57.40

final

World champion with world record: Sally Gunnell, 1992 Olympic champion and 1991 vice world champion

August 19, 1993, 7:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	52.74 WR
2	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	United States	52.79
3	Margarita Ponomaryova	Russia	53.48
4th	Kim Batten	United States	53.84
5	Tonja Buford	United States	54.55
6th	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	54.99
7th	Rosey Edeh	Canada	55.19
8th	Natalja Torzina	Kazakhstan	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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 19, 2020