World Athletics Championships 2001/400 m hurdles for men

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 29 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 8th (semi-finals) August 10th (final)
Medalist Félix Sánchez ( DOM )   Fabrizio Mori ( ITA )   Dai Tamesue ( JPN )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The 400-meter hurdles of the men at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was from 7 to 10 August 2001 Commonwealth Stadium the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

As world champion, Félix Sánchez from the Dominican Republic recorded his first major success at a world-class event. He won ahead of the Italian defending champion and European Championship third from 1998 Fabrizio Mori . Bronze went to the Japanese Dai Tamesue .

Existing records

World record	46.78 s	Kevin Young	OS in Barcelona , Spain	August 6, 1992
World Cup 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.

A world annual record and four national records were recorded here.

• World annual best:
  • 47.49 s - Félix Sánchez ( Dominican Republic ), final on August 10

• National records:
  • 48.96 s - Mustapha Sdad ( Morocco ), 2nd advance on August 7th
  • 48.10 s - Dai Tamesue ( Japan ), 3rd semifinals on August 8th
  • 47.89s - Dai Tamesue (Japan), final on August 10
  • 47.54 s - Fabrizio Mori ( Italy ), final on August 10th

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

August 7, 2001, 10:45 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	49.29
2	Ian Weakley	Jamaica	49.40
3	Boris Gorban	Russia	49.60
4th	Edivaldo Monteiro	Portugal	50.42
5	Hideaki Kawamura	Japan	50.61
6th	Harijan Ratnayake	Sri Lanka	51.28
DNS	Du'aine Ladejo	Great Britain

Forward 2

August 7, 2001, 10:53 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	48.64
2	Mustapha Sdad	Morocco	48.96 NO
3	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	49.33
4th	Eduardo Iván Rodríguez	Spain	49.51
5	Calvin Davis	United States	49.93
6th	Blair Young	Australia	50.17
7th	Hani Mourhej	Syria	50.69

Forward 3

August 7, 2001, 11:01 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dai Tamesue	Japan	49.45
2	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	50.16
3	James Carter	United States	50.41
4th	Alain Rohr	Switzerland	50.50
5	Marnus Kritzinger	South Africa	51.20
6th	Mowen Boino	Papua New Guinea	51.82
DSQ	Chen Tien-wen	Chinese Taipei	IAAF Rule 168.7 - Failure to cross the hurdle

Forward 4

August 7, 2001, 11:09 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Neil Gardner	Jamaica	49.29
2	Angelo Taylor	United States	49.39
3	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	49.50
4th	Anthony Borsumato	Great Britain	49.65
5	Ibou Faye	Senegal	50.26
6th	Monte Raymond	Canada	50.71
DNF	Hennadij Horbenko	Ukraine

Forward 5

August 7, 2001, 11:17 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christopher Rawlinson	Great Britain	49.38
2	Marek Plawgo	Poland	49.75
3	Mario Watts	Jamaica	49.86
4th	Alwyn Myburgh	South Africa	49.96
5	Stepan Tesarik	Czech Republic	50.30
6th	Ken Yoshizawa	Japan	50.32
7th	Ian Harnden	Zimbabwe	51.67

Forward 6

August 7, 2001, 11:25 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	49.42
2	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	49.65
3	Periklis Iakovakis	Greece	49.86
4th	Yvon Rakotoarimiandry	Madagascar	50.08
5	Llewellyn Herbert	South Africa	50.28
6th	Roberto Cortés	El Salvador	53.61
DNF	Viktors Lacis	Latvia

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

Surprisingly, Angelo Taylor, the current Olympic champion, was eliminated in the semi-finals

August 8, 2001, 7:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	48.49
2	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	48.64
3	Ian Weakley	Jamaica	49.04
4th	Angelo Taylor	United States	49.23
5	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	49.32
6th	Anthony Borsumato	Great Britain	49.48
7th	Yvon Rakotoarimiandry	Madagascar	49.81
8th	Eduardo Iván Rodríguez	Spain	49.92

Semi-final run 2

Marek Plawgo did not reach the final with his 49.80 seconds

August 8, 2001, 7:23 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christopher Rawlinson	Great Britain	48.27
2	Boris Gorban	Russia	48.50
3	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	48.53
4th	Calvin Davis	United States	48.99
5	James Carter	United States	49.38
6th	Neil Gardner	Jamaica	49.57
7th	Marek Plawgo	Poland	49.80
8th	Alwyn Myburgh	South Africa	50.34

Semi-final run 3

Periklis Iakovakis made it to the semi-finals and failed there in 49.38 s

August 8, 2001, 7:31 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	48.07
2	Dai Tamesue	Japan	48.10 NO
3	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	48.40
4th	Mustapha Sdad	Morocco	49.14
5	Periklis Iakovakis	Greece	49.38
6th	Mario Watts	Jamaica	49.96
7th	Blair Young	Australia	50.21
8th	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	51.23

final

World champion Félix Sánchez won his first major international title

August 10, 2001, 9:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	47.49 WL
2	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	47.54 NO
3	Dai Tamesue	Japan	47.89 NO
4th	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	47.99
5	Christopher Rawlinson	Great Britain	48.54
6th	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	48.57
7th	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	49.07
DSQ	Boris Gorban	Russia	IAAF Rule 168.7 - Failure to cross the hurdle

• 

  Dai Tamesue won the bronze medal with national records in the semi-finals and finals

• 

  Sixth place Paweł Januszewski

• 

  Jiří Mužík finished seventh

Video

• Uncut - 400m Hurdles Men Final Edmonton 2001 on youtube.com, accessed August 11, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed August 11, 2020
• Men 400m_Hurdles Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 11, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 400 m_Hurdles, Edmonton 2001, p. 155 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 11, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 11, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 93 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on August 11, 2020