World Athletics Championships 2017/400 m men

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 400-meter run
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Attendees	52 athletes from 34 countries
Competition phase	August 5, 2017 (preliminary) August 6, 2017 (semi-finals) August 8, 2017 (final)
Medalist
gold	Wayde van Niekerk ( RSA )
silver	Steven Gardiner ( BAH )
bronze	Abdalelah Haroun ( QAT )

London Olympic Stadium at night

The men's 400 meter race at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , between August 5 and 8, 2017 .

The South African Wayde van Niekerk won . Steven Gardiner from Bahamas became vice world champion. Abdalelah Haroun from Qatar won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Wayde van Niekerk	43.03 s	Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil	August 14, 2016
Championship record	Michael Johnson	43.18 s	World Cup in Seville , Spain	August 26, 1999

Prelims

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

The Spaniard Lucas Búa did not reach the next round as seventh of his prelim

The Frenchman Teddy Atine-Venel was eliminated as fourth in his preliminary run

Fifth place in his preliminary run was too little for Luguelín Santos from the Dominican Republic to make it to the semi-finals

The Briton Martin Rooney was sixth in his heat and was eliminated

Winston George from Guyana finished eighth in his preliminary run and was eliminated

The Indian Mohammad Anas his fourth place in the sixth preliminary run was not enough for the semi-final qualification

August 5, 2017, 10:45 am (11:45 am CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Fred Kerley	United States	44.92
2	8th	Lalonde Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago	45.02
3	6th	Kevin Borlée	Belgium	45.09
4th	9	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	45.10 SB
5	5	Matthew Hudson-Smith	Great Britain	45.32
6th	4th	Lucas Carvalho	Brazil	45.86
7th	3	Lucas Búa	Spain	46.00
8th	2	Collins grandmae Gichana	Kenya	46.10
9	1	Bachir Mahamat	Chad	47.50

Run 2

August 5, 2017, 10:54 am (11:54 am CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa	45.27
2	2	Davide Re	Italy	45.71
3	3	Machel Cedenio	Trinidad and Tobago	45.77
4th	4th	Teddy Atine-Venel	France	45.90
5	6th	Yoandy's Lescay	Cuba	45.93
6th	1	Luka Janežič	Slovenia	46.06
7th	9	Steven Solomon	Australia	46.27
8th	7th	Kimorie Shearman	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	47.05
DSQ	8th	Nery Brenes	Costa Rica	IAAF Rule 163.3a - Rail violation

Run 3

August 5, 2017, 11:03 am (12:03 pm CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Baboloki Thebe	Botswana	44.82
2	8th	Demish Gaye	Jamaica	44.92
3	3	Dwayne Cowan	Great Britain	45.39
4th	7th	Bonface Ontuga Mweresa	Kenya	45.58
5	9	Rafał Omelko	Poland	45.69
6th	4th	Samuel García	Spain	46.37
7th	2	Pieter Conradie	South Africa	46.62
8th	1	Warren Hazel	St. Kitts and Nevis	46.96
9	5	Narek Ghukasjan	Armenia	49.70 SB

Run 4

August 5, 2017, 11:12 am (12:12 pm CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Steven Gardiner	Bahamas	44.75
2	5	Wilbert London III	United States	45.10
3	4th	Brian Gregan	Ireland	45.37
4th	9	Jonathan Borlée	Belgium	45.70
5	8th	Luguelin Santos	Dominican Republic	45.73
6th	3	Mamoudou-Elimane Hanne	France	45.89
7th	2	Yilmar Herrera	Colombia	47.18
DSQ	6th	Steven Gayle	Jamaica	IAAF Rule 163.3a - Rail violation

Run 5

August 5, 2017, 11:21 am (12:21 pm CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Isaac Makwala	Botswana	44.55
2	9	LaShawn Merritt	United States	45.00
3	8th	Jamal Walton	Cayman Islands	45.02 SB
4th	5	Óscar Husillos	Spain	45.22 PB
5	3	Raymond Kibet	Kenya	45.75
6th	8th	Martyn Rooney	Great Britain	45.75
7th	7th	Renny Quow	Trinidad and Tobago	45.95
8th	1	Winston George	Guyana	46.02
9	4th	Sailosi Tubuilagi	Fiji	48.98

Run 6

August 5, 2017, 11:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Nathon Allen	Jamaica	44.91
2	3	Gil Roberts	United States	44.92
3	9	Abdalelah Haroun	Qatar	45.27
4th	4th	Muhammed Anas	India	45.98
5	5	Samson Oghenewegba Nathaniel	Nigeria	46.63
6th	8th	Takamasa Kitagawa	Japan	47.35
7th	7th	Karabo Sibanda	Botswana	47.44
DNS	2	Emmanuel Dasor	Ghana

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

Belgian Kevin Borlée was eliminated in fourth place in his semi-final run

The Irish Brian Gregan was sixth place in the second semifinal race not enough for participation in the final

The second of the Belgian Borlée brothers - Jonathan - also dropped out after finishing fifth in the third semi-final

August 6, 2017, 7:40 p.m. (8:40 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Steven Gardiner	Bahamas	43.89 NO
2	6th	Nathon Allen	Jamaica	44.19 PB
3	7th	Fred Kerley	United States	44.51
4th	9	Kevin Borlée	Belgium	45.10
5	4th	Wilbert London III	United States	45.12
6th	3	Óscar Husillos	Spain	45.16 PB
7th	2	Rafał Omelko	Poland	45.37
8th	8th	Dwayne Cowan	Great Britain	45.96

Run 2

August 6, 2017, 7:48 p.m. (8:48 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa	44.22
2	5	Baboloki Thebe	Botswana	44.33
3	9	Abdalelah Haroun	Qatar	44.64 SB
4th	2	Matthew Hudson-Smith	Great Britain	44.74 SB
5	4th	Lalonde Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago	45.20
6th	8th	Brian Gregan	Ireland	45.42
7th	7th	LaShawn Merritt	United States	45.52
8th	3	Bonface Ontuga Mweresa	Kenya	45.93

Run 3

August 6, 2017, 7:56 p.m. (8:56 p.m. CEST )

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Isaac Makwala	Botswana	44.30
2	6th	Demish Gaye	Jamaica	44.55 PB
3	7th	Gil Roberts	United States	44.84
4th	9	Jamal Walton	Cayman Islands	45.16
5	3	Jonathan Borlée	Belgium	45.23
6th	2	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	45.25
7th	8th	Machel Cedenio	Trinidad and Tobago	45.91
8th	4th	Davide Re	Italy	45.95

final

August 8, 2017, 9:50 p.m. local time (10:50 p.m. CEST )

The clear favorite in this race was the South African world record holder , Olympic champion and 2015 world champion Wayde van Niekerk. The US runner-up in the world championship, Olympic third in 2012 and Olympic champion in 2008 LaShawn Merritt was also among the participants here in London , but he had already been eliminated in the semifinals. In the semifinals, Steven Gardiner from Bahamas presented himself very strongly and was one of the most important competitors for van Niekerk. Nathon Allen had also put himself into the role of possible medal candidates with the second fastest semi-final time.

Isaac Makwala from Botswana, fourth fastest semi-finalist, was affected by gastroenteritis rampant at these World Championships , so the IAAF had quarantined him for the final. A few days later he got another chance over 200 meters , where he reached the final where he finished sixth.

Van Niekerk was quickly ahead in the final. He was the first to hit the home straight. Not far behind were Gardiner and Baboloki Thebe from Botswana, followed by Allen. From far back, Abdalelah Haroun from Qatar stormed past his opponents in the last eighty meters. The leading Wayde van Niekerk could no longer be caught. He defended his world title from 2015. For Steven Gardiner it was again very tight, but he too was just able to hold his own with a lead of seven hundredths of a second and won the silver medal. But third place went to Abdalelah Haroun with his strong finish ahead of Baboloki Thebe and Nathon Allen. Allen's compatriot Demish Gaye was sixth ahead of Fred Kerley, the only American in the final.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	6th	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa	43.98
	4th	Steven Gardiner	Bahamas	44.41
	3	Abdalelah Haroun	Qatar	44.48 SB
4th	9	Baboloki Thebe	Botswana	44.66
5	5	Nathon Allen	Jamaica	44.88
6th	8th	Demish Gaye	Jamaica	45.04
7th	2	Fred Kerley	United States	45.23
DNS	7th	Isaac Makwala	Botswana	Start ban due to gastroenteritis quarantine

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  World champion Wayde van Niekerk, South Africa

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  Vice World Champion Steven Gardiner - right - from Bahamas and fifth-placed Nathon Allen after the final race

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  Bronze medalist Abdaleh Haroun, Qatar

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  Babaloki Thebe from Botswana took fourth place

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  Seventh place for the American Fred Kerley

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  Isaac Makwala from Botswana was not allowed to take part in the final because of a gastroenteritis quarantine imposed by the IAAF

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, 400 m men on the IAAF website , accessed on November 20, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 20, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 20, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - 400m - Men - Final - Van Niekerk wins on youtube.com, published on August 9, 2017, accessed on November 20, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on November 20, 2018