World Athletics Championships 1993/400 m hurdles for men

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	54 athletes from 38 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 16 (preliminary) August 17 (semi-finals) August 19 (final)
Medalist Kevin Young ( USA )   Samuel Matete ( ZAM )   Winthrop Graham ( JAM )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held from August 16 to 19, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

World champion was the US Olympic champion from 1992 and world record holder Kevin Young . He won ahead of defending champion Samuel Matete from Zambia . Bronze went to the 1991 runner-up world champion Winthrop Graham from Jamaica , who won Olympic silver in his country's 4 x 400 meter relay in 1988 and bronze in the 1991 World Cup .

Records

Existing records

World record	46.78 s	Kevin Young	OS in Barcelona , Spain	August 6, 1992
World championship record	47.46 s	Edwin Moses	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	September 1, 1987

Record improvement

The US world champion Kevin Young improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 19 by 28 hundredths of a second to 47.18 s.

Preliminary round

August 5, 1993, 5:35 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in seven runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

August 16, 1993, 11:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Samuel Matete	Zambia	48.49
2	Domingo Cordero	Puerto Rico	49.55
3	Yoshihiko Saito	Japan	49.69
4th	Dries Vorster	South Africa	49.82
5	Jean-Paul Bruwier	Belgium	50.05
6th	Jozef Kucej	Slovakia	50.18
7th	Costas Pochanis	Cyprus	50.77

Forward 2

August 16, 1993, 11:38 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Erick Keter	Kenya	49.39
2	Olaf Hense	Germany	49.64
3	Hidekazu Katsuki	Japan	49.72
4th	Miro Kocuvan	Slovenia	49.73
5	Juan Vallín	Mexico	50.90
6th	Mark Thompson	Jamaica	51.04
7th	Alex Foster	Costa Rica	53.13

Forward 3

August 16, 1993, 11:46 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Diagana	France	48.90
2	Gary Cadogan	Great Britain	49.25
3	Rohan Robinson	Australia	49.40
4th	Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal	50.07
5	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	50.81
6th	Mark Jackson	Canada	51.15
DNS	Jean-Claude Yekpe	Benin

Forward 4

August 16, 1993, 11:54 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Derrick Adkins	United States	49.18
2	Gideon Biwott	Kenya	49.27
3	Giorgio Frinolli	Italy	49.42
4th	Dušan Kovács	Hungary	49.96
5	Aleksey Bazarov	Israel	50.08
6th	Vadim Zadoynov	Moldova	50.24
7th	Francisco Flores	Honduras	53.79

Forward 5

August 16, 1993, 12:02 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	José Perez	Cuba	49.74
2	Oleh Twerdochleb	Ukraine	50.06
3	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	50.10
4th	David Patrick	United States	50.32
5	Fadhel Khayatti	Tunisia	50.60
6th	Marek Helinurm	Estonia	50.73
7th	Livingstone Roach	St. Kitts and Nevis	53.38

Forward 6

August 16, 1993, 12:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kevin Young	United States	49.15
2	Barnabas Kinyor	Kenya	49.39
3	Shunji Karube	Japan	49.80
4th	Hamadou Mbaye	Senegal	50.05
5	Abdelhak Lahlali	Morocco	51.19
6th	Igor Kurochkin	Belarus	51.45
7th	Óscar Pitillas	Spain	52.15

Forward 7

August 16, 1993, 12:18 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	49.30
2	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	49.68
3	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.70
4th	Marc Dollendorf	Belgium	49.90
5	Zeid Abou Hamed	Syria	49.96
6th	Vesa-Pekka Pihlavisto	Finland	51.05
7th	Chanond Kenchan	Thailand	51.37

Semifinals

From each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

Sven Nylander (here in 2014) did not reach the finals as fifth in his semi-final run

August 17, 1993, 6:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	48.09
2	Derrick Adkins	United States	48.51
3	Oleh Twerdochleb	Ukraine	48.62
4th	Barnabas Kinyor	Kenya	49.06
5	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.21
6th	Dries Vorster	South Africa	49.52
7th	Gary Cadogan	Great Britain	49.59
8th	Hidekazu Katsuki	Japan	49.72

Semi-final run 2

August 17, 1993, 6:38 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Samuel Matete	Zambia	48.18
2	Erick Keter	Kenya	48.24
3	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	49.23
4th	José Perez	Cuba	49.34
5	Yoshihiko Saito	Japan	49.43
6th	Marc Dollendorf	Belgium	49.93
7th	Olaf Hense	Germany	50.05
8th	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	50.40

Semi-final run 3

August 17, 1993, 6:46 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kevin Young	United States	47.99
2	Stéphane Diagana	France	48.50
3	Giorgio Frinolli	Italy	49.22
4th	Shunji Karube	Japan	49.31
5	Rohan Robinson	Australia	49.36
6th	Gideon Biwott	Kenya	49.42
7th	Domingo Cordero	Puerto Rico	49.62
8th	Miro Kocuvan	Slovenia	49.71

final

• 

  Stéphane Diagana (photo: 2008) reached fourth place - he had a successful sports career ahead of him, including becoming  world champion in 1997

• 

  Seventh-placed Derrick Adkins (here in 2013) was the upcoming world champion

August 19, 1993, 7:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kevin Young	United States	47.18 CR
2	Samuel Matete	Zambia	47.60
3	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	47.62
4th	Stéphane Diagana	France	47.64
5	Erick Keter	Kenya	48.40
6th	Oleh Twerdochleb	Ukraine	48.71
7th	Derrick Adkins	United States	49.07
8th	Barnabas Kinyor	Kenya	49.23

Video

• Men's 400m Hurdles Final World Champs Stuttgart 1993 on youtube.com, accessed on May 10, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 10, 2020
• Men 400m Hurdles Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 10, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 400m Hurdles, Stuttgart 1993, p. 153f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 10, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 10, 2020