World Athletics Championships 2015/400 m hurdles of men

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	Men's 400-meter hurdles
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	44 athletes from 27 countries
Competition phase	August 22, 2015 (preliminary round) August 23, 2015 (semi-finals) August 25, 2015 (final)
Medalist
gold	Nicholas bed ( KEN )
silver	Denis Kudryavtsev ( RUS )
bronze	Jeffery Gibson ( BAH )

Beijing National Stadium

The men's 400 meter hurdles at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place on August 22, 23 and 25, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China .

The Kenyan Nicholas Bett won . Denis Kudrjawzew from Russia was runner-up in front of Jeffery Gibson from the Bahamas.

Records

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

Prelims

From the five preliminary runs, the four first in each run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

The Jamaican Roxroy Cato missed the semi-finals as sixth of his heat

Jehue Gordon from Trinidad and Tobago - here after his world championship title in 2013 - failed as sixth in his preliminary round in the preliminary round

The Nigerian Miles Ukaoma was not enough his 49.38 s as fifth in his run to reach the semi-finals

August 22, 2015, 6:35 p.m. (12:35 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	9	Nicholas bed	Kenya	48.37
2	6th	Timofei Tschaly	Russia	49.05 SB
3	5	Jeffery Gibson	Bahamas	49.09
4th	7th	Kurt Couto	Mozambique	49.15 SB
5	2	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria	49.33
6th	3	Roxroy Cato	Jamaica	49.47
7th	8th	Michael Cochrane	New Zealand	49.58 NO
8th	4th	Takayuki Kishimoto	Japan	49.78
9	1	Eric Alejandro	Puerto Rico	49.94

Run 2

August 22, 2015, 6:43 p.m. (12:43 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	3	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	Kenya	48.79 PB
2	4th	Michael Tinsley	United States	48.91
3	8th	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	49.02
4th	5	Louis Jacobus van Zyl	South Africa	49.12
5	6th	Leford Green	Jamaica	49.33
6th	7th	Yūta Konishi	Japan	49.58 SB
7th	2	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago	49.91
8th	9	Maoulida Darouèche	Comoros	53.06
DNS	1	Andrés Silva	Uruguay

Run 3

August 22, 2015, 6:51 p.m. (12:51 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Kerron Clement	United States	48.75
2	7th	Niall Flannery	Great Britain	48.90 SB
3	5	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	49.08
4th	8th	Annsert Whyte	Jamaica	49.10
5	9	Miles Ukaoma	Nigeria	49.38
6th	2	Saber Boukemouche	Algeria	51.54
DSQ	3	Mohamed Sghaier	Tunisia
DNS	4th	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa

Run 4

The US-American Bershawn Jackson had to cancel the sails as seventh in his race

August 22, 2015, 6:59 p.m. (12:59 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	48.89 NO
2	3	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia	49.18
3	9	Thomas Barr	Ireland	49.20
4th	2	Cheng Wen	People's Republic of China	49.56 PB
5	4th	Ivan Shabljuev	Russia	49.56
6th	6th	Eric Cray	Philippines	50.04
7th	5	Bershawn Jackson	United States	50.14
8th	7th	Johannes Hardus Maritz	Namibia	51.10
DNS	1	Jack Green	Great Britain

Run 5

August 22, 2015, 7:07 pm (1:07 pm CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Denis Kudryavtsev	Russia	48.51 PB
2	1	Patryk Dobek	Poland	48.94
3	3	Johnny Dutch	United States	48.97
4th	8th	Yūki Matsushita	Japan	49.34
5	4th	Aron Kipchumba Koech	Kenya	49.38 PB
6th	5	Michaël Bultheel	Belgium	49.38
7th	6th	Miloud Rahmani	Algeria	50.21
8th	2	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	50.29
9	9	Amadou Ndiaye	Senegal	52.40

Semifinals

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

Run 1

The Estonian Rasmus Mägi - here at the award ceremony after his runner-up European title in 2014 - was eliminated in fifth place in his semi-final race

August 23, 2015, 6:40 p.m. (12:40 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	Kenya	48.29 PB
2	6th	Kerron Clement	United States	48.50
3	4th	Timofei Tschaly	Russia	48.69 PB
4th	9	Thomas Barr	Ireland	48.71
5	5	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia	48.76
6th	2	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria	48.87 NO
7th	8th	Annsert Whyte	Jamaica	48.90 SB
8th	3	Michaël Bulthee	Belgium	49.66

Run 2

The American Johnny Dutch failed as fifth in his race in the semifinals

August 23, 2015, 6:48 p.m. (12:48 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Denis Kudryavtsev	Russia	48.23 PB
2	9	Jeffery Gibson	Bahamas	48.37 NO
3	6th	Patryk Dobek	Poland	48.40 PB
4th	5	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	48.46 NO
5	4th	Johnny Dutch	United States	48.74
6th	8th	Louis Jacobus van Zyl	South Africa	48.90
7th	2	Aron Kipchumba Koech	Kenya	49.54
8th	3	Cheng Wen	People's Republic of China	49.62

Run 3

August 23, 2015, 6:56 p.m. (12:56 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Michael Tinsley	United States	48.47
2	4th	Nicholas bed	Kenya	48.54
3	8th	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	48.59
4th	7th	Niall Flannery	Great Britain	49.17
5	6th	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	49.36
6th	3	Leford Green	Jamaica	49.59
7th	9	Kurt Couto	Mozambique	50.58
8th	2	Yuki Matsushita	Japan	51.10

final

August 25, 2015, 8:25 p.m. local time (2:25 p.m. CEST )

There was no clear favorite in this competition. The reigning world champion Jehue Gordon was one of the participants here in Beijing , but was eliminated in the preliminary run. But the US vice world champion and 2012 Olympic runner-up Michael Tinsley made it to the final. His compatriot Kerron Clement was also one of the favorites. With strong performances in the semifinals, the Russian Denis Kudrjawzew, the Kenyan Boniface Tumuti and Jeffery Gibson from the Bahamas also got into conversation.

The race turned into a very exciting affair. At the beginning of the home stretch, six runners still had a chance to win. These six athletes were only a few meters apart. Kudrjawzew led gossamerly before Gibson and Clement. Close behind were the Kenyans Nicholas Bett and Tinsley in front of Tumuti.

The greatest stamina was finally shown by Nicholas Bett, who surprisingly became world champion and set a new world record for the year with 47.79 s. 26 hundredths of a second after him, Denis Kudrjawzew crossed the finish line in second place. Its time of 48.05 s also meant a new Russian national record. Jeffery Gibson won bronze another twelve hundredths of a second behind. Kerron Clement missed the medal rank by only a hundredth of a second. Boniface Tumuti was fifth, ahead of Yasmani Copello from Turkey and Patryk Dobek from Poland. Michael Tinsley had recently run out of strength and he only let the race coast down when he saw that he could not fight for the medals.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	9	Nicholas bed	Kenya	47.79 WL
	6th	Denis Kudryavtsev	Russia	48.05 NO
	7th	Jeffery Gibson	Bahamas	48.17 NO
4th	8th	Kerron Clement	United States	48.18 SB
5	4th	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	Kenya	48.33
6th	2	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	48.96
7th	3	Patryk Dobek	Poland	49.14
8th	5	Michael Tinsley	United States	50.02

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  Surprise world champion Nicholas Betlt from Kenya

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  Vice world champion Denis Kudrjawzew, Russia

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  Bronze medalist Jeffery Gibson, Bahamas

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  The American Kerron Clement was fourth and only missed the medal by a hundredth of a second

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  The Kenyan Boniface Tumuti took fifth place

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  The Turk Yasmani Copello finished sixth

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  The Pole Patryk Dobek came in seventh place

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  The American Michael Tinsey finished eighth in the final

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, 400 m hurdles men on the IAAF website (English), accessed on October 27, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 27, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 27, 2018

Video

• Nicholas Bett 47.79 gold 400m hurdles , also slow motion replay (Spanish) on youtube.com, published August 25, 2015, accessed October 27, 2018
• Bett bags historic 400m hurdles gold on youtube.com, published August 26, 2015, accessed October 27, 2018