World Athletics Championships 1995/400 m hurdles for women
| 5th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 25 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Gothenburg
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| Competition location | Ullevi Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 8th (preliminary) August 9th (semi-finals) August 11th (final) |
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The women's 400-meter hurdles at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held from August 8 to 11, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .
The US hurdlers achieved a double victory in this competition. Kim Batten became world champion , who set a new world record in the final with 52.61 seconds. Silver went to Tonja Buford , who crossed the finish line just a hundredth of a second behind the winner. The Jamaican Deon Hemmings won the bronze medal.
Records
Existing records
| World record | 52.74 s |
 Sally Gunnell
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World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany | 19th August 1993 |
| World championship record |
Record improvement
The American world champion Kim Batten improved the world championship record and thus also the world record in the final on August 11 by 13 hundredths of a second to 52.61 s.
In addition, the third-placed Jamaican Deon Hemmings set a new national record in the final with 53.48 seconds.
Preliminary round
The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three 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 8, 1995, 4:45 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tonja Buford |
 United States
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55.15 s |
| 2 | Tetiana Tereshchuk |
 Russia
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56.16 s |
| 3 | Natalja Torzina |
 Kazakhstan
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56.23 s |
| 4th | Monika Warnicka |
 Poland
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56.88 s |
| 5 | Olga M. Nazarova |
Russia
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57.64 s |
| 6th | Louise Fraser |
Great Britain
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57.99 s |
| 7th | Åsa Carlsson |
Sweden
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58.42 s |
Forward 2
August 8, 1995, 4:51 pm
| space | Surname | nation | time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kim Batten |
United States
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55.71 s |
| 2 | Ionela Târlea |
 Romania
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58.47 s |
| 3 | Guðrún Arnardóttir |
 Iceland
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58.57 s |
| 4th | Zhanna Sokolova |
 Tajikistan
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1: 13.16 min |
| DSQ | Hsu Pei-chin |
 Chinese Taipei
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IAAF Rule 163.7 Illegal control marks |
| Tatiana Kurochkina |
 Belarus
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| DNS | Rosey Edeh |
 Canada
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Forward 3
August 8, 1995, 4:57 pm
| space | Surname | nation | time |
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| 1 | Deon Hemmings |
 Jamaica
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54.72 s |
| 2 | Silvia Rieger |
 Germany
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55.75 s |
| 3 | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja |
Belarus
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56.03 s |
| 4th | Omolade Akinremi |
 Nigeria
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56.46 s |
| 5 | Miriam Alonso |
 Spain
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58.36 s |
| DSQ | Nezha Bidouane |
 Morocco
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IAAF Rule 168.7 - Failure to cross the hurdle |
Forward 4
August 8, 1995, 5:03 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | time |
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| 1 | Heike Meissner |
Germany
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55.95 s |
| 2 | Trevaia Williams |
United States
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55.98 s |
| 3 | Karen van der Veen |
 South Africa
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56.32 s |
| 4th | Irina Lenskiy |
 Ukraine
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57.52 s |
| 5 | Debbie-Ann Parris |
Jamaica
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57.83 s |
| 6th | Marie Womplou |
 Ivory Coast
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58.67 s |
Semifinals
From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
Semi-final run 1
August 9, 1995, 5:05 pm
| space | Surname | nation | time |
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| 1 | Tonja Buford |
United States
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55.30 s |
| 2 | Tetiana Tereshchuk |
Russia
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56.09 s |
| 3 | Natalja Torzina |
Kazakhstan
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56.52 s |
| 4th | Heike Meissner |
Germany
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56.75 s |
| 5 | Monika Warnicka |
Poland
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56.88 s |
| 6th | Olga M. Nazarova |
Russia
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56.89 s |
| 7th | Trevaia Williams |
United States
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1: 04.84 min |
| DSQ | Karen van der Veen |
South Africa
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IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track |
Semi-final run 2
Omolade Akinremi missed the final by one place as fifth of her semi-final run
Irina Lenskiy was seventh in her race in the semifinals
August 9, 1995, 5:12 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | time |
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| 1 | Kim Batten |
United States
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54.15 s |
| 2 | Deon Hemmings |
Jamaica
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54.33 s |
| 3 | Silvia Rieger |
Germany
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55.69 s |
| 4th | Ionela Târlea |
Romania
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56.21 s |
| 5 | Omolade Akinremi |
Nigeria
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57.07 s |
| 6th | Guðrún Arnardóttir |
Iceland
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57.29 s |
| 7th | Irina Lenskiy |
Ukraine
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57.33 s |
| DSQ | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja |
Belarus
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IAAF Rule 168.7 - Failure to cross the hurdle |
final
August 11, 1995, 6:50 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kim Batten |
United States
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52.61 WR |
| 2 | Tonja Buford |
United States
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52.62 |
| 3 | Deon Hemmings |
Jamaica
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53.48 NO |
| 4th | Heike Meissner |
Germany
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54.86 |
| 5 | Tetiana Tereshchuk |
Russia
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54.94 |
| 6th | Silvia Rieger |
Germany
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55.01 |
| 7th | Ionela Târlea |
Romania
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55.46 |
| 8th | Natalja Torzina |
Kazakhstan
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56.75 |
Video
- Women's 400m Hurdles Final World Champs Gothenburg 1995 , video posted April 26, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed June 9, 2020
Web links
- 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed June 8, 2020
- Women 400m Hurdles Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed June 8, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 400m Hurdles, Gothenborg 1995, p. 306 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 8, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 8, 2020
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on June 8, 2020
- ↑ a b IAAF competition rules, page 93 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on June 8, 2020
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on June 8, 2020