World Athletics Championships 2001/400 m hurdles for women

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	25 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 5th (preliminary) August 6th (semi-finals) August 8th (final)
Medalists Nezha Bidouane ( MAR )   Julija Nossowa ( RUS )   Daimí Pernía ( CUB )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The 400-meter hurdles for women in the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was from 5 to 8 August 2001 Commonwealth Stadium the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

The winner was the Moroccan world champion of 1997 , Vice World Champion 1999 , Olympic medalist in 2000 and two-time African champion ( 1990 / 1998 ) Nezha Bidouane . In 1990 she was also runner-up at the African Championships over 100 meter hurdles .
Silver won the Russian Julija Nossowa , later Julija Petschonkina, who came third on the final day with her country's 4 x 400 meter relay .
Bronze went to the Cuban defending champion Daimí Pernía .

Existing records

World record	52.61 s	Kim Batten	World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden	August 11, 1995
World championship record

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

• The world annual best of 2001 has been improved twice:
  • 53.81s - Daimí Pernía ( Cuba ), 1st semi-finals on August 6th
  • 53.34 s - Nezha Bidouane ( Morocco ), final on August 8th
• There was also a national record:
  • 55.63s - Yvonne Harrison ( Puerto Rico ), 1st lead on August 5th

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 5, 2001, 9:05 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Nezha Bidouane	Morocco	54.55
2	Debbie-Ann Parris	Jamaica	54.81
3	Małgorzata Pskit	Poland	55.49
4th	Yvonne Harrison	Puerto Rico	55.63 NO
5	Natalya Torshina	Kazakhstan	55.69
6th	Karlene Haughton	Canada	55.94

Forward 2

August 5, 2001, 9:13 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yulia Nossova	Russia	54.43
2	Tonja Buford-Bailey	United States	54.99
3	Ionela Târlea	Romania	55.51
4th	Anna Olichwierczuk	Poland	55.98
5	Mame Tacko Diouf	Senegal	56.44
6th	Sylvanie Morandais	France	56.85
7th	Keri Maddox	Great Britain	57.55

• 

  Tasha Danvers missed a place in the next round with her 56.36 m

• 

  Melaine Walker's 57.10 seconds were far too few to make it to the semi-finals

Forward 3

August 5, 2001, 9:21 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sandra Glover	United States	55.38
2	Daimí Pernía	Cuba	55.40
3	Monika Niederstätter	Italy	55.83
4th	Tasha Danvers	Great Britain	56.36
5	Surita Febbraio	South Africa	56.80
6th	Melaine Walker	Jamaica	57.10

• 

  Andrea Blackett - fifth in the last heat in 57.10 s and eliminated

Forward 4

August 5, 2001, 9:29 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	55.39
2	Sinead Dudgeon	Great Britain	56.07
3	Brenda Taylor	United States	56.28
4th	Heike Meissner	Germany	56.79
5	Andrea Blackett	Barbados	57.10
6th	Noraseela Mohd Khalid	Malaysia	59.12
DNS	Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Ukraine

Semifinals

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

• 

  Małgorzata Pskit missed the final by one place or 24 hundredths of a second

Semi-final run 1

August 6, 2001, 4:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Daimí Pernía	Cuba	53.81 WL
2	Nezha Bidouane	Morocco	53.85
3	Debbie-Ann Parris	Jamaica	53.88
4th	Sandra Glover	United States	55.04
5	Małgorzata Pskit	Poland	55.28
6th	Karlene Haughton	Canada	55.68
7th	Monika Niederstätter	Italy	56.37
8th	Natalya Torshina	Kazakhstan	56.45

• 

  Anna Olichwierczuk (right) , later Anna Jesień, did not reach the final with 55.64 seconds

Semi-final run 2

August 6, 2001, 4:52 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yulia Nossova	Russia	54.03
2	Tonja Buford-Bailey	United States	54.15
3	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	54.47
4th	Ionela Târlea	Romania	54.92
5	Anna Olichwierczuk	Poland	55.64
6th	Brenda Taylor	United States	56.52
7th	Yvonne Harrison	Puerto Rico	56.85
8th	Sinead Dudgeon	Great Britain	57.55

final

• 

  Nezha Bidouane - after 1997 world champion for the second time, also in 1999 World Cup second and 2000  Olympic third

August 8, 2001, 7:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Nezha Bidouane	Morocco	53.34 WL
2	Yulia Nossova	Russia	54.27
3	Daimí Pernía	Cuba	54.51
4th	Tonja Buford-Bailey	United States	54.55
5	Debbie-Ann Parris	Jamaica	54.68
6th	Ionela Târlea	Romania	55.36
7th	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	55.82
8th	Sandra Glover	United States	57.42

• 

  Julija Nossowa, later Julija Pechonkina, became vice world champion, and on the final day she also won bronze with the Russian 4 x 400 meter relay

• 

  Sandra Glover reached the final and was eighth there

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed August 20, 2020
• Women 400m Hurdles Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 20, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 400 m Hurdles, Edmonton 2001, p. 307 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 20, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 20, 2020