World Athletics Championships 1993/400 m for women

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	34 athletes from 27 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 15th (preliminary) August 16th (semi-finals) August 17th (final)
Medalists Jearl Miles ( USA )   Natasha Kaiser-Brown ( USA )   Sandie Richards ( JAM )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The women's 400-meter run at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held from August 15 to 17, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition, the US runners achieved a double victory. World champion was Jearl Miles , who had won silver with their country's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1992 Olympic Games and 1991 World Championships . Here in Stuttgart there was relay gold for the world champion on the final day. Silver went to Natasha Kaiser-Brown , who, like Jearl Miles, had won Olympic silver with the US relay in 1992 and won gold with this team on the final day. Third place went to Jamaican Sandie Richards .

Existing records

World record	47.60 s	Marita Koch	Canberra , Australia	October 6, 1985
World championship record	47.99 s	Jarmila Kratochvílová	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 10, 1983

The existing world championship record was missed by almost two seconds at these world championships. World champion Jearl Miles alone beat the fifty second mark.

Preliminary round

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

August 15, 1993, 11:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Tatyana Alexeyeva	Russia	50.88 s
2	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	51.01 s
3	Naděžda Koštovalová	Czech Republic	52.69 s
4th	Elsa Devassoigne	France	52.81 s
5	Regula Zürcher-Scalabrin	Switzerland	52.84 s
6th	Guilhermina da Cruz	Angola	55.34 s
7th	Kaltouma Nadjina	Chad	59.76 s

Forward 2

August 15, 1993, 11:07 am

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Natasha Kaiser-Brown	United States	51.80 s
2	Jelena Rusina	Russia	52.23 s
3	Linda Keough	Great Britain	52.61 s
4th	Dora Kyriakou	Cyprus	54.49 s
5	Lorie Ann Adams	Guyana	55.54 s
6th	Shermaine Ross	Grenada	1: 07.87 min
DNS	Aminath Nasheeda	Maldives

Forward 3

August 15, 1993, 11:14 am

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Ximena Restrepo	Colombia	51.59 s
2	Sandra Myers	Spain	51.77 s
3	Aelita Yurchenko	Ukraine	52.22 s
4th	Noodang Phimphoo	Thailand	54.01 s
5	Denise Ouabangui	Central African Republic	57.18 s
6th	Lasnet Nkouka	Republic of the Congo	57.95 s
DNS	Grace Birungi	Uganda

Forward 4

August 15, 1993, 11:21 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Norfalia Carabalí	Colombia	51.65 s
2	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	51.76 s
3	Michelle Collins	United States	52.03 s
4th	Aïssatou Tandian	Senegal	52.59 s
5	Yana Burtasenkova	Moldova	53.12 s
6th	Manda Kanoute	Mali	55.72 s
7th	Rachelle Godonou	Benin	1: 03.39 min

Forward 5

August 15, 1993, 11:28 am

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Jearl Miles	United States	51.24 s
2	Inez Turner	Jamaica	52.04 s
3	Anja Rücker	Germany	52.10 s
4th	Francine Landre	France	52.53 s
5	Camille Noel	Canada	53.11 s
6th	Mary Estelle Kapalu	Vanuatu	56.06 s
7th	Mirna El-Laz	Lebanon	59.76 s
DNS	Lyudmyla Jyhalova	Ukraine

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

August 16, 1993, 7:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Natasha Kaiser-Brown	United States	50.41
2	Tatyana Alexeyeva	Russia	50.49
3	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	50.89
4th	Norfalia Carabalí	Colombia	51.17
5	Aelita Yurchenko	Ukraine	51.55
6th	Inez Turner	Jamaica	52.25
7th	Anja Rücker	Germany	52.32
8th	Aïssatou Tandian	Senegal	52.77

Semi-final run 2

August 16, 1993, 7:47 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jearl Miles	United States	50.45
2	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	50.65
3	Sandra Myers	Spain	50.83
4th	Ximena Restrepo	Colombia	50.89
5	Jelena Rusina	Russia	51.14
6th	Linda Keough	Great Britain	52.56
7th	Michelle Collins	United States	52.60
8th	Francine Landre	France	52.72

The world champion Jearl Miles won a second gold medal on the final day with the 4 x 400 meter relay of the USA

final

August 17, 1993, 7:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jearl Miles	United States	49.82
2	Natasha Kaiser-Brown	United States	50.17
3	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	50.44
4th	Tatyana Alexeyeva	Russia	50.52
5	Ximena Restrepo	Colombia	50.91
6th	Sandra Myers	Spain	51.22
7th	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	51.40
DSQ	Norfalia Carabalí	Colombia	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Video

• Women's 400m Final World Champs Stuttgart 1993 on youtube.com, accessed on May 16, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 16, 2020
• Women 400m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 16, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 400 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 262 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 16, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 16, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on May 16, 2020