World Athletics Championships 2017/400 m for women

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	400-meter run for women
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Participants	49 athletes from 32 countries
Competition phase	August 6, 2017 (preliminary) August 7, 2017 (semi-finals) August 9, 2017 (final)
Medalists
gold	Phyllis Francis ( USA )
silver	Salwa Eid Naser ( BRN )
bronze	Allyson Felix ( USA )

Rainy London Olympic Stadium

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

The American Phyllis Francis won . Salwa Eid Naser from Bahrain was vice world champion . Allyson Felix , like the world champion from the United States, won the bronze medal.

Records

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

doping

There were two doping cases in this competition.

• The Zambian sprinter Kabange Mupopo tested positive for testosterone and was banned.
• The results of the Nigerian Margaret Bamgbose, who was eliminated in the semifinals, were subsequently canceled for violating the doping regulations. The athlete was banned from competition from July 1 to December 31, 2017.

Three runners were disadvantaged:

• The French Elea Mariama Diarra would actually have qualified for the semifinals via the time rule.
• The Serbian Tamara Salaški would also have been eligible to start in the semifinals via the time rule.
• The Jamaican Chrisann Gordon should have started in the final because of her semi-final placement.

Prelims

Maggie Barrie from Sierra Leone was eliminated fifth in her preliminary run

The Portuguese Cátia Azevedo did not reach the semi-finals as seventh of their preliminary round

The French Elea Mariama Diarra would actually have been eligible to start in the semifinals, which was prevented by a doping case discovered later

The Polish Małgorzata Hołub was eliminated after fourth place in her preliminary run

The Serbian Tamara Salaški was denied her participation in the semi-finals due to a doping case that was subsequently revealed

From the six preliminary runs, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and also the six fastest - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

August 6, 2017 11:55 am local time (12:55 pm CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	1	Allyson Felix	United States	52.44
2	2	Irini Vasiliou	Greece	52.61
3	6th	Ashley Kelly	British Virgin Islands	52.70
4th	9	Maria Benedicta Chigbolu	Italy	53.00
5	4th	Maggie Barrie	Sierra Leone	53.20 NO
6th	8th	Justyna Święty	Poland	53.62
7th	5	Maximila Imali	Kenya	53.97
8th	7th	Travia Jones	Canada	54.02
9	3	Samantha Dirks	Belize	54.74

Run 2

August 6, 2017 12:04 p.m. local time (01:04 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	3	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	Bahamas	50.97
2	7th	Stephenie Ann McPherson	Jamaica	51.27
3	9	Yinka Ajayi	Nigeria	51.58
4th	6th	Bianca Răzor	Romania	51.64
5	4th	Emily Diamond	Great Britain	52.20
6th	5	Aiyanna Stiverne	Canada	52.55
7th	2	Cátia Azevedo	Portugal	52.79
8th	8th	Christine Botlogetswe	Botswana	53.50

Run 3

August 6, 2017 12:13 p.m. local time (1:13 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica	51.26
2	6th	Gunta Latiševa-Čudare	Latvia	51.37 PB
3	8th	Lydia Jele	Botswana	51.41
4th	3	Ruth Spelmeyer	Germany	51.72 SB
5	5	Roxana Gomez	Cuba	51.98
6th	7th	Elea Mariama Diarra	France	52.06 actually qualified for the semi-finals
7th	9	Anita Horvat	Slovenia	52.78
DOP	2	Kabange Mupopo	Zambia	admitted to the semifinals

Run 4

August 6, 2017 12:22 p.m. local time (1:22 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	3	Salwa Eid Naser	Bahrain	50.57 NO
2	9	Phyllis Francis	United States	50.94
3	4th	Novlene Williams-Mills	Jamaica	51.00
4th	8th	Małgorzata Hołub	Poland	52.26
5	5	Lisanne de Witte	Netherlands	52.48
6th	6th	Amalie Iuel	Norway	52.55
7th	2	Eleni Artymata	Cyprus	53.26
8th	7th	Domonique Williams	Trinidad and Tobago	53.72

Run 5

August 6, 2017 12:31 p.m. local time (1:31 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Quanera Hayes	United States	51.43
2	9	Patience Okon George	Nigeria	51.83
3	4th	Zoey Clark	Great Britain	51.88
4th	2	Nirmala Sheoran	India	52.01
5	7th	Morgan Mitchell	Australia	52.22
6th	5	Anastasija Bryshina	Ukraine	52.26
7th	6th	Carline Muir	Canada	52.70
8th	3	Djénébou Dante	Mali	54.04

Run 6

August 6, 2017 12:40 p.m. local time (1:40 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Chrisann Gordon	Jamaica	51.14
2	2	Amantle Montsho	Botswana	51.37 SB
3	7th	Iga Baumgart	Poland	51.88
4th	6th	Tamara Salaški	Serbia	52.13 actually qualified for the semifinals
5	5	Kendall Ellis	United States	52.18
6th	9	Déborah Sananes	France	52.50
7th	8th	Anyika Onuora	Great Britain	52.58
DOP	4th	Margaret Bamgbose	Nigeria	admitted to the semifinals

Semifinals

The Cuban Roxana Gomez was eliminated in fifth in her semi-final run

Lydia Jele could not qualify for the final with her fifth place in the second semifinal race

The Jamaican Chrisann Gordon was denied participation in the finals due to the doping-related disqualification of a competitor

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 semi-finals.

Run 1

August 7, 2017 8:55 pm local time (9:55 pm CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	Bahamas	50.36
2	7th	Stephenie Ann McPherson	Jamaica	50.56 SB
3	6th	Quanera Hayes	United States	50.71
4th	8th	Gunta Latiševa-Čudare	Latvia	51.57
5	3	Roxana Gomez	Cuba	52.01
6th	2	Bianca Răzor	Romania	52.09
7th	4th	Patience Okon George	Nigeria	52.60
8th	9	Ashley Kelly	British Virgin Islands	54.50

Run 2

August 7, 2017 9:03 p.m. local time (10:03 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Salwa Eid Naser	Bahrain	50.08 NO
2	4th	Allyson Felix	United States	50.12
3	9	Novlene Williams-Mills	Jamaica	50.67
4th	5	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica	50.70
5	2	Lydia Jele	Botswana	51.57
6th	8th	Yinka Ajayi	Nigeria	52.10
7th	3	Nirmala Sheoran	India	53.07
8th	6th	Irini Vasiliou	Greece	53.27

Run 3

August 7, 2017 9:11 p.m. local time (10:11 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Phyllis Francis	United States	50.37
2	7th	Chrisann Gordon	Jamaica	50.87 actually qualified for the final
3	6th	Amantle Montsho	Botswana	51.28 SB
4th	3	Ruth Spelmeyer	Germany	51.77
5	2	Iga Baumgart	Poland	51.81
6th	8th	Zoey Clark	Great Britain	51.81 PB
DOP	4th	Kabange Mupopo	Zambia	admitted to the finals
	9	Margaret Bamgbose	Nigeria

final

August 9, 2017, 9:50 p.m. local time (10:50 p.m. CEST )

Here in London , too , the three identical medal winners from the 2016 Olympic Games and the 2015 World Championships competed and were among the closest favorites. They were runner-up and Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo from Bahamas, US American world champion and Olympic runner-up Allyson Felix, and third and third place in the World Cup, Shericka Jackson from Jamaica.

The final took place under difficult and performance-impairing external conditions with pouring rain, cool temperatures and a wet track. Fast times were not possible like this.

The Olympic champion Miller-Uibo started the race quickly and came out of the target curve with a clear lead. The reigning world champion Felix followed in second place, while the Americans Phyllis Francis and Salwa Eid Naser from Bahrain were third and fourth. Already at the beginning of the home stretch the front moved closer together, but the declining Miller-Uibo kept her lead, because Felix was now also having problems.

In the last twenty meters the order at the top completely changed. With the greatest stamina, Phyllis Francis pulled past the two runners in front of her to the world title. Salwa Eid Naser's strengths were also sufficient to secure the silver medal just ahead of Allyson Felix. The runner from Bahrain even set a new national record despite the wet track. Shaunae Miller-Uibo, on the other hand, let herself go to the last fifteen meters when she noticed that nothing was going on, just coast to a stop and came in fourth. She won bronze over 200 meters two days later . With Shericka Jackson Stephenie, Ann McPherson and Novlene Williams-Mills, three Jamaicans came in fifth to seventh. The first seventh place Kabange Mupopo from Zambia was disqualified for doping abuse.

space	train	Athlete	country	Time (s)
	6th	Phyllis Francis	United States	49.92 PB
	4th	Salwa Eid Naser	Bahrain	50.06 NO
	5	Allyson Felix	United States	50.08
4th	7th	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	Bahamas	50.49
5	2	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica	50.76
6th	8th	Stephenie Ann McPherson	Jamaica	50.86
7th	3	Novlene Williams-Mills	Jamaica	51.48
DOP	9	Kabange Mupopo	Zambia

• 

  World Champion Phyllis Francis, USA

• 

  Vice World Champion Sawa Eis Naser, Bahrain

• 

  Bronze medalist Allyson Felix, USA

• 

  Shaunae Miller-Uibo - here in fourth place, two days later bronze medalist over 200 meters

• 

  Fifth place for the Jamaican Shericka Jackson

• 

  Jamaican Stephenie McPherson reached number six

• 

  Novlene Williams-Mills came in seventh as the third Jamaican in this final

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, 400 m women on the IAAF website (English), accessed on December 8, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 8, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 8, 2018

Video

• London World championship women 400 meters final on youtube.com, published August 9, 2017, accessed December 8, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Zambian 400m runner Mupopo given four-year ban after positive drugs test at 2017 World Championships , accessed December 8, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} List of sanctioned athletes on athleticsintegrity.org, English (PDF), accessed December 8, 2018
3. Jump up ↑ Names of athletes with doping-related sanctions on dopingsanctions.com, accessed December 8, 2018