World Athletics Championships 2001/400 m for women

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	45 athletes from 34 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 3rd (preliminary) August 6th (semi-finals) August 7th (final)
Medalists Amy Mbacké Thiam ( SEN )   Lorraine Fenton ( JAM )   Ana Guevara ( MEX )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The 400-meter race of women in the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was from 5 to 7 August 2001 Commonwealth Stadium the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

Amy Mbacké Thiam from Senegal became world champion .
The second in the 2000 Olympics and third in the 1999 World Cup, Lorraine Fenton from Jamaica, came second. She started under her name Lorraine Graham until 2000 and had also won medals twice with her country's 4 x 400 meter relay : silver at the 2000 Olympic Games and bronze at the 1997 World Championships . Here in Edmonton she was a member of the Jamaican gold relay on the final day. The Mexican Ana Guevara took third place .

Existing records

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

The world championship record that had existed since the first world championships in 1983 was missed by 1.87 seconds here in Edmonton. Only the three medalists Amy Mbacké Thiam , Lorraine Fenton and Ana Guevara stayed below the fifty second mark.

Two national records were set:

• 50.21 s - Amy Mbacké Thiam ( Senegal ), 2nd semi-final on August 6th
• 49.86s - Amy Mbacké Thiam (Senegal), final on August 7th

doping

There was a doping case in this competition.

The Belarusian Natallja Salahub , who was eliminated in the semifinals , tested positive for the steroid norandrosterone and was disqualified.

A runner was disadvantaged:
The Romanian Otilia Ruicu would have been eligible to start in the semifinals with her 52.33 seconds in the second run.

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 semifinals.

Forward 1

August 5, 2001, 9:50 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kaltouma Nadjina	Chad	51.24
2	Demetria Washington	United States	51.50
3	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	51.71
5	Zana Minina	Lithuania	52.98
6th	Gretta Taslakian	Lebanon	57.06
DSQ	Alena Petrova	Turkmenistan	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track
DOP	Natallja Salahub	Belarus	admitted to the semifinals
DNS	Sandrine Kangni	Togo

Forward 2

August 5, 2001, 9:56 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michelle Collins	United States	51.26
2	Lorraine Fenton	Jamaica	51.80
3	Claudia Marx	Germany	52.03
4th	Otilia Ruicu	Romania	52.33 actually qualified for the semifinals
5	Foy Williams	Canada	52.92
6th	Carmo Tavares	Portugal	54.08
7th	Gladys Mateyo	Zambia	59.30
DSQ	Verica Dimitrovska	Macedonia	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Forward 3

August 5, 2001, 10:02 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olesia Sykina	Russia	51.56
2	Falilat Ogunkoya	Nigeria	51.79
3	Hanna Kosak	Belarus	52.35
4th	Catherine Murphy	Great Britain	52.40
5	Francine Landre	France	52.57
6th	Christine Amertil	Bahamas	53.07
7th	Julia Alba	Spain	54.73
8th	Mereoni Raluve	Fiji	58.03

Forward 4

Nova Peris (right, in 2012) was eliminated in sixth of their preliminary run

August 5, 2001, 10:08 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ana Guevara	Mexico	50.99
2	Anastassija Kapachinskaya	Russia	51.12
3	Florence Ekpo-Umoh	Germany	51.77
4th	Grażyna Prokopek	Poland	52.92
5	K. Mathews Beenamol	India	53.17
6th	Nova Peris	Australia	53.55
7th	Tsvetelina Kirilova	Bulgaria	54.82
DNS	Odonsur Oyuntuya	Mongolia

Forward 5

As seventh of her preliminary run, Natalja Antjuch did not reach the next round here - she still had her career highlights ahead of her

August 5, 2001, 10:14 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Grit Breuer	Germany	50.71
2	Monique Hennagan	United States	51.12
3	Karen Shinkins	Ireland	51.37
4th	Donna Fraser	Great Britain	52.02
5	Aliann Pompey	Guyana	52.20
6th	Jane Arnott	New Zealand	52.57
7th	Natalja Antjuch	Russia	52.71

Forward 6

August 5, 2001, 10:20 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Amy Mbacké Thiam	Senegal	50.99
2	Mireille Nguimgo	Cameroon	51.09
3	Heide Seyerling	South Africa	51.78
4th	Damayanthi Dharsha	Sri Lanka	52.21
5	LaDonna Antoine	Canada	52.38
6th	Allison Beckford	Jamaica	53.08
7th	Jitka Burianová	Czech Republic	53.29
DSQ	Klodiana Shala	Albania	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Semifinals

From each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

August 6, 2001, 5:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Grit Breuer	Germany	50.32
2	Olesia Sykina	Russia	50.59
3	Mireille Nguimgo	Cameroon	50.71
4th	Demetria Washington	United States	51.26
5	Karen Shinkins	Ireland	51.66
6th	Damayanthi Dharsha	Sri Lanka	51.88
7th	Grażyna Prokopek	Poland	52.28
DOP	Natallja Salahub	Belarus

Semi-final run 2

• 

  K. Mathews Beenamol (Photo: 2010 - handing over the Queen's staff ) failed in the semifinals in eighth place in her race

• 

  Monique Hennagan's fifth place in the second semifinals was not enough to participate in the final

August 6, 2001, 5:17 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Amy Mbacké Thiam	Senegal	50.21 NO
2	Kaltouma Nadjina	Chad	50.38
3	Falilat Ogunkoya	Nigeria	50.50
4th	Heide Seyerling	South Africa	50.87
5	Monique Hennagan	United States	50.98
6th	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	51.40
7th	Claudia Marx	Germany	51.75
8th	K. Mathews Beenamol	India	52.68

Semi-final run 3

• 

  Anastassija Kapatschinskaja's fifth place in the third semifinals was not enough to make it into the final

• 

  Donna Fraser - sixth in the third semifinals and eliminated

August 6, 2001, 5:24 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ana Guevara	Mexico	50.58
2	Lorraine Fenton	Jamaica	50.61
3	Michelle Collins	United States	51.22
4th	Florence Ekpo-Umoh	Germany	51.47
5	Anastassija Kapachinskaya	Russia	51.68
6th	Donna Fraser	Great Britain	51.77
7th	Aliann Pompey	Guyana	51.96
8th	Hanna Kosak	Belarus	52.13

final

World champion Amy Mbacké Thiam with national record in the semi-finals and in the final

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

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Amy Mbacké Thiam	Senegal	49.86 NO
2	Lorraine Fenton	Jamaica	49.88
3	Ana Guevara	Mexico	49.97
4th	Grit Breuer	Germany	50.49
5	Kaltouma Nadjina	Chad	50.80
6th	Olesia Sykina	Russia	50.93
7th	Mireille Nguimgo	Cameroon	51.97
DNF	Falilat Ogunkoya	Nigeria

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  Bronze medalist Ana Guevara increased in the coming years the world's best 400-meter runner  on

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  Grit Breuer (here at the East German championships in 1989) , 1991 World silver medalist, two-time European champion ( 1990 / 1998 ) and multiple relay medalist, finished fourth

Video

• Women's 400m Final Edmonton 2001 on youtube.com, accessed August 18, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed August 18, 2020
• Women 400m Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 400 m, Edmonton 2001, p. 264 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 18, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 18, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF suspend Termure and Sologub for doping offenses , August 10, 2001 on worldathletics.org, accessed on August 18, 2020
3. ↑ ^{a b c} IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on August 18, 2020