World Athletics Championships 2017/400 m hurdles of men

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 400-meter hurdles
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Attendees	40 athletes from 28 countries
Competition phase	August 6, 2017 (preliminary) August 7, 2017 (semi-finals) August 9, 2017 (final)
Medalist
gold	Karsten Warholm ( NOR )
silver	Yasmani Copello ( TUR )
bronze	Kerron Clement ( USA )

The finalists at the last hurdle (from left to right): Abderrahman Samba, Kerron Clement, Karsten Warholm

The men's 400 meter hurdles at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , between 6 and 9 August 2017 .

The Norwegian Karsten Warholm won . The Turk Yasmani Copello became vice world champion. The bronze medal went to the American Kerron Clement .

Records

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

Prelims

The Brazilian Hederson Estefani was eliminated in fifth place

Javier Culson of Puerto Rico was no longer in the shape of earlier years and did not get past the lead

Eric Cray, Philippines, caused a false start in his prelim and was eliminated

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.

Note: If the same time is in the range of hundredths of a second, thousandths of a second are also listed.

Run 1

August 6, 2017, 11:05 a.m. local time (12:05 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Kerron Clement	United States	49.46
2	3	Takatoshi Abe	Japan	49.65
3	6th	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	49.81
4th	8th	Kemar Mowatt	Jamaica	49.991
5	4th	Hederson Estefani	Brazil	50.22
6th	2	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	50.33
7th	7th	José Luis Gaspar	Cuba	51.82
8th	9	Pablo Andrés Ibáñez	El Salvador	52.72

Run 2

August 6, 2017, 11:14 a.m. local time (12:14 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Timothy Lamonte Holmes	United States	49.35
2	9	Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica	49.72
3	5	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria	49.78
4th	6th	Thomas Barr	Ireland	49.782
5	3	Yusuke Ishida	Japan	50.35
6th	2	Lorenzo Vergani	Italy	50.37
7th	7th	Ephraim Lerkin	Papua New Guinea	52.36
DSQ	8th	Kyron McMaster	British Virgin Islands	IAAF Rule 163.3a - Rail violation

Run 3

August 6, 2017, 11:23 a.m. local time (12:23 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	49.13
2	9	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar	49.39
3	4th	Ludvy Vaillant	France	49.487
4th	2	José Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon	Italy	49.789
5	7th	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	50.12
6th	5	Jordin Andrade	Cape Verde	50.32
7th	6th	Creve Armando Machava	Mozambique	51.71
DNS	3	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia

Run 4

August 6, 2017, 11:32 a.m. local time (12:32 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	9	Juander Santos	Dominican Republic	49.19
2	4th	Karsten Warholm	Norway	49.50
3	3	Guillermo Ruggeri	Argentina	49.69 NO
4th	7th	Ricardo Cunningham	Jamaica	49.91
5	5	Victor Coroller	France	49.998
6th	6th	Ryo Kajiki	Japan	51.36
DSQ	8th	Eric Cray	Philippines	IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start
	4th	Michael Stigler	United States	IAAF Rule 168.7a - Incorrect crossing of the hurdles

Run 5

August 6, 2017, 11:41 am local time (12:41 pm CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	2	Mamadou Kassé Hann	France	49.34
2	7th	Márcio Teles	Brazil	49.41
3	4th	Patryk Dobek	Poland	49.42
4th	5	Aron Kipchumba Koech	Kenya	49,547
5	3	Jack Green	Great Britain	49,549
6th	8th	Eric Futch	United States	49.57
7th	9	Sergio Fernández	Spain	50.38
8th	6th	Mehboob Ali	Pakistan	52.24

Semifinals

The Algerian Abdelmalik Lahoulou - right - retired in fifth place in his semi-final run

Ludvy Vaillant - left - from France finished fourth in his semi-final race, which was not enough for the final

His sixth place in the third semifinal was not enough for the Jamaican Ricardo Cunningham to make it into the final

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.

Note: If the same time is in the range of hundredths of a second, thousandths of a second are also listed.

Run 1

August 7, 2017, 8:20 p.m. local time (9:20 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Kerron Clement	United States	48.35
2	5	Karsten Warholm	Norway	48.43
3	4th	Juander Santos	Dominican Republic	48.59 PB
4th	3	Kemar Mowatt	Jamaica	48.66
5	8th	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria	49.33
6th	6th	Patryk Dobek	Poland	49.40
7th	2	Victor Coroller	France	55.69
DNS	9	Thomas Barr	Ireland

Run 2

August 7, 2017, 8:30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Timothy Lamonte Holmes	United States	49.12
2	2	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	49.13
3	7th	Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica	49.75
4th	3	Jack Green	Great Britain	49.927
5	4th	Takatoshi Abe	Japan	49.929
6th	5	Mamadou Kassé Hann	France	50.35
7th	9	Aron Kipchumba Koech	Kenya	50.40
8th	8th	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	50.43

Run 3

August 7, 2017, 8:40 p.m. local time (9:40 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar	48.75
2	4th	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	48.91
3	2	Eric Futch	United States	49.30
4th	5	Ludvy Vaillant	France	49.95
5	8th	José Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon	Italy	50.29
6th	3	Ricardo Cunningham	Jamaica	50.54
DSQ	9	Guillermo Ruggeri	Argentina	IAAF Rule 163.3a - Rail violation
DNF	7th	Márcio Teles	Brazil

final

Start of the 400 m hurdles final

August 9, 2017, 9:33 p.m. local time (10:33 p.m. CEST )

The situation before this final was a little different than at most of the World Championships and Olympic Games in recent years. There were no particularly outstanding athletes who could have run times well under 48 seconds. So the situation was pretty open and we could expect an exciting race. The top three runners in the last last and second last World Championships were not among the participants. The 2016 Olympic champion Kerron Clement from the USA had reached the final, but no longer had the high standard of performance of his strongest years. Nevertheless, as the fastest in the semi-finals, he was one of the favorites. This also included the Turkish Olympic third from 2016 and current European champion Yasmani Copello as well as the European champion from 2014 and EC third from 2016 Kariem Hussein from Switzerland. In the semifinals, the Norwegian Karsten Warholm also made a strong impression with the second fastest time and thus got into the conversation for the wider circle of favorites.

The final took place in cool and rainy outdoor conditions. Warholm started the race fastest. Halfway through the course, he led Copello and Abderrahman Samba from Qatar, who bravely kept up the pace. At the exit of the target curve, Warholm led with a lead of around three meters over Clement, Samba and Copello, who were pretty much on par. On the home stretch it got a bit tighter, especially Clement and Samba got closer to the Norwegian. But Copello was still doing well in the race. Samba touched the last hurdle lightly and then got completely out of rhythm. In the end, Karsten Warholm could not be ousted from the top and won the world title in 48.35 seconds. This time was to be valued highly in view of the difficult conditions. In the last few meters, Yasmani Copello passed Kerron Clement and secured the silver medal in front of the American, fifteen hundredths of a second behind the winner. The next runners crossed the finish line with a clear gap. Kemar Mowatt from Jamaica came fourth, Timothy Lamonte Holmes - often referred to as "TJ Holmes" - came in fifth ahead of Juander Santos from the Dominican Republic. Abderrahman Samba was seventh ahead of Kariem Hussein.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	5	Karsten Warholm	Norway	48.35
	8th	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	48.49
	4th	Kerron Clement	United States	48.52
4th	3	Kemar Mowatt	Jamaica	48.99
5	7th	Timothy Lamonte Holmes	United States	49.00
6th	2	Juander Santos	Dominican Republic	49.04
7th	6th	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar	49.74
8th	9	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	50.07

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  The Norwegian Karsten Warholm on the way to the world title

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  Vice World Champion Yasmani Copello, Turkey

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  Bronze medalist Kerron Clement, USA

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  Juander Santos from the Dominican Republic came in sixth

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  After a brave race, Abderrahman Samba from Qatar lost his rhythm at the last hurdle and fell back to seventh place

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  The Swiss Kariem Hussein finished eighth in the final

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, 400 m hurdles men on the IAAF website (English), accessed on November 25, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 25, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 25, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - 400m Hurdles - Men - Final - Warholm wins on youtube.com, published on August 10, 2017, accessed on November 26, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on November 25, 2018
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF), accessed on November 25, 2018
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 93 (PDF), accessed on November 25, 2018