World Athletics Championships 1995/400 m hurdles for men

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	54 athletes from 34 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 8th (semi-finals) August 10th (final)
Medalist Derrick Adkins ( USA )   Samuel Matete ( ZAM )   Stéphane Diagana ( FRA )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held from August 7th to 10th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

The American Derrick Adkins became world champion . He won before the 1991 world champion and 1993 vice world champion Samuel Matete from Zambia . Bronze went to Stéphane Diagana, who was third in the French European Championship in 1994 .

Existing records

World record	46.78 s	Kevin Young	OS in Barcelona , Spain	August 6, 1992
World championship record	47.18 s		World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany	19th August 1993

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in seven runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

August 7, 1995, 7:46 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	49.37
2	Ken Harnden	Zimbabwe	49.65
3	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	49.91
4th	Stephan Striezel	Germany	51.65
5	Juan Vallin	Mexico	51.96
6th	Ibou Faye	Senegal	52.20
DNF	Oleh Twerdochleb	Ukraine
DSQ	Salvador Vila	Spain	IAAF Rule 163.7 - Illegal control marks

Forward 2

August 7, 1995, 7:46 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Diagana	France	49.16
2	Octavius ​​Terry	United States	49.43
3	Carlos Silva	Portugal	49.53
4th	Patrick Ottoz	Italy	49.65
5	Iñigo Monreal	Spain	50.30
6th	Barnabas Kinyor	Kenya	50.91
DSQ	Chanon Kheanchan	Thailand	IAAF Rule 168.7 - Failure to cross the hurdle

Forward 3

August 7, 1995, 7:52 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	49.15
2	Erick Keter	Kenya	49.27
3	Dusán Kovács	Hungary	49.30
4th	Rohan Robinson	Australia	49.63
5	Yoshihiko Saito	Japan	49.91
6th	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	50.54
7th	Jean-Paul Bruwier	Belgium	50.96
DSQ	Gary Jennings	Great Britain	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Forward 4

August 7, 1995, 7:58 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	48.90
2	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.10
3	Miro Kocuvan	Slovenia	49.45
4th	Jozef Kucej	Slovakia	50.00
5	Michael Kaul	Germany	50.23
6th	Vadim Zadoynov	Moldova	50.24
7th	Domingo Cordero	Puerto Rico	50.42
8th	Judex Lefou	Mauritius	51.46

Forward 5

August 7, 1995, 8:04 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	48.84
2	Shunji Karube	Japan	49.07
3	Hennadij Horbenko	Ukraine	49.44
4th	Ryan Hayden	United States	49.77
5	Simon Hollingsworth	Australia	50.66
6th	Hamadou Mbaye	Senegal	52.13
7th	Eric Krings	Guatemala	53.78
DSQ	Petteri Pulkkinen	Finland	IAAF Rule 168.7 - Failure to cross the hurdle

Forward 6

His fifth place in the sixth heat was not enough for Paweł Januszewski to participate in the semi-finals

August 7, 1995, 8:10 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kazuhiko Yamazaki	Japan	48.37 AS
2	Samuel Matete	Zambia	48.45
3	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	48.47
4th	Niklas Eriksson	Sweden	49.33
5	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	49.43
6th	Óscar Pitillas	Spain	51.28
7th	Mohamed Amin	Pakistan	52.22
8th	Ilir Xhani	Albania	52.61

Forward 7

August 7, 1995, 8:16 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Derrick Adkins	United States	48.86
2	José Roquez Pérez	Cuba	50.32
3	Marc Dollendorf	Switzerland	50.47
4th	Jimmy Coco	France	50.80
5	Olaf Hense	Germany	52.35
DSQ	Gideon Biwott	Kenya	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track
	Gary Cadogan	Great Britain	IAAF Rule 168.7 - Failure to cross the hurdle

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

August 8, 1995, 5:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Derrick Adkins	United States	48.25
2	Stéphane Diagana	France	48.37
3	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	48.75
4th	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	48.85
5	Erick Keter	Kenya	49.53
6th	José Roquez Pérez	Cuba	50.20
DSQ	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	IAAF Rule 168.7 - Failure to cross the hurdle
	Shunji Karube	Japan

Semi-final run 2

August 8, 1995, 5:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Samuel Matete	Zambia	48.50
2	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.53
3	Kazuhiko Yamazaki	Japan	48.64
4th	Ken Harnden	Zimbabwe	48.73
5	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	48.94
6th	Octavius ​​Terry	United States	49.49
7th	Dusán Kovács	Hungary	49.57
DSQ	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	IAAF Rule 168.7 - Failure to cross the hurdle

final

World Champion Derrick Adkins

August 10, 1995, 5:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Derrick Adkins	United States	47.98
2	Samuel Matete	Zambia	48.03
3	Stéphane Diagana	France	48.14
4th	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	48.83
5	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.84
6th	Ken Harnden	Zimbabwe	48.89
7th	Kazuhiko Yamazaki	Japan	49.22
8th	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	49.86

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  Bronze medalist Stéphane Diagana (photo: 2008) , third in the European Championship the year before - he still had many successes ahead of him, including two years later he was world champion

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  The two-time European Vice Champion ( 1990 /1994) and EM -Third of 1986 Sven Nylander took fifth place

Video

• 400 hurdles World Championships 1995 (Goteborg, Sweden) , video published July 23, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed May 26, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 18, 2020
• Men 400m Hurdles Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 400m Hurdles, Gothenborg 1995, p. 154 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 26, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 27, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on May 26, 2020
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} IAAF competition rules, page 93 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on May 26, 2020
4. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on May 26, 2020