2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	69 athletes from 47 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 22, 2000 (preliminary round) September 23, 2000 (quarter-finals) September 24, 2000 (semi-finals) September 25, 2000 (final)
Medalist Michael Johnson ( USA )   Alvin Harrison ( USA )   Gregory Haughton ( JAM )

The men's 400-meter race at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 22, 23, 24 and 25, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 69 athletes took part.

The American Michael Johnson became Olympic champion . He won ahead of fellow countryman Alvin Harrison and Jamaican Gregory Haughton .

Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1996	Michael Johnson ( USA )	43.49 s	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999		43.18 s	Seville 1999
European champion 1998	Iwan Thomas ( Great Britain )	44.52 s	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Gregory Haughton ( Jamaica )	44.59 s	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999	Michael McDonald ( Jamaica )	45.21 s	Bridgetown 1999
South American Champion 1999	Anderson Jorge dos Santos ( Brazil )	45.39 s	Bogotá 1999
Asian champion 2000	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah ( Qatar )	44.66 s	Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000	Éric Milazar ( Mauritius )	45.62 s	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Jeffrey Bai ( Papua New Guinea )	48.50 s	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	43.18 s	Michael Johnson ( USA )	Seville , Spain	August 26, 1999
Olympic record	43.49 s		Atlanta Final , USA	July 29, 1996

Note: All times are local Sydney time ( UTC + 10 ).

Preliminary round

A total of nine preliminary runs were completed. The first three athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the five fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

The Pole Piotr Rysiukiewicz was eliminated as seventh in his heat

September 22, 2000, 10:40 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Avard Moncur	Bahamas	45.23
2	Daniel Caines	Great Britain	45.39
3	Casey Vincent	Australia	45.49
4th	Dmitri Golovastov	Russia	45.90
5	Takahiko Yamamura	Japan	46.25
6th	Carlos Santa	Dominican Republic	46.40
7th	Piotr Rysiukiewicz	Poland	46.67
8th	Gerald Clervil	Haiti	46.69	NO

Forward 2

September 22, 2000, 10:45 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Jew Monye	Nigeria	45.79
2	Patrick Dwyer	Australia	45.82
3	Alejandro Cardenas	Mexico	46.14
4th	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	46.84
5	Gustavo Aguirre	Argentina	47.03
6th	Troy McIntosh	Bahamas	47.06
DNF	Jonas Motiejūnas	Lithuania
	Kennedy Ochieng	Kenya

Forward 3

September 22, 2000, 10:50 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sanderlei Parrela	Brazil	45.55
2	Danny McFarlane	Jamaica	45.84
3	Sofiane Labidi	Tunisia	45.84
4th	Jun Osakada	Japan	45.88
5	Tawanda Chiwira	Zimbabwe	46.50
6th	Nduka Awazie	Nigeria	46.81
7th	Johnson Kubisa	Botswana	46.97
DNF	Evripides Demosthenous	Cyprus

Forward 4

September 22, 2000, 10:55 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Gregory Haughton	Jamaica	45.63
2	David Kirui	Kenya	45.69
3	Marc Raquil	France	45.72
4th	Arnaud Malherbe	South Africa	45.73
5	Sunday Bada	Nigeria	45.75
6th	Ato Stephens	Trinidad and Tobago	45.91
7th	Benjamin Youla	Republic of the Congo	47.54
8th	Ilija Dzhivondov	Bulgaria	48.64

Forward 5

September 22, 2000, 11:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Hendrick Mokganyetsi	South Africa	45.22
2	Piotr Haczek	Poland	45.61
3	Alessandro Attene	Italy	45.79
4th	Rohan Pradeep Kumar	Sri Lanka	46.00
5	Salaheddine Bakar al-Safi	Qatar	46.16
6th	Zsolt Szeglet	Hungary	46.19
7th	Jamie Baulch	Great Britain	46.52

Forward 6

The Greek Anastasios Gousis was eliminated as fourth in his preliminary run

September 22, 2000, 11:05 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Alvin Harrison	United States	44.96
2	Davian Clarke	Jamaica	45.30
3	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	45.39
4th	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	46.38
5	Fawzi Al-Shammari	Kuwait	46.38
6th	Paramjit Singh	India	46.64
7th	Philip Mukomana	Zimbabwe	47.11

Forward 7

September 22, 2000, 11:10 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Michael Johnson	United States	45.25
2	David Canal	Spain	45.53
3	Ibrahima Wade	France	45.72
4th	Malik Louahla	Algeria	46.06
5	Sean Baldock	Great Britain	46.85
6th	Fabian Rollins	Barbados	46.85
7th	Oleksandr Kajdasch	Ukraine	46.88

Forward 8

September 22, 2000, 11:15 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Hamdan Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	45.22	NO
2	Sugath Thilakaratne	Sri Lanka	45.48
3	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah	Qatar	45.48
4th	Eric Milazar	Mauritius	45.66
5	Štefan Balošák	Slovakia	46.42
6th	Kenji Tabata	Japan	46.59
7th	Rudieon Sylvan	Grenada	48.17
8th	Basheer Al-Khewani	Yemen	49.72

Forward 9

September 22, 2000, 11:20 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Antonio Pettigrew	United States	45.62
2	Chris Brown	Bahamas	45.80
3	Davis Kamoga	Uganda	45.92
4th	Matija Šestak	Slovenia	45.95
5	Tomas Coman	Ireland	46.17
6th	Juan Pedro Toledo	Mexico	46.82
DNF	Daniel Batman	Australia

Quarter finals

In each of the four quarter-finals, the first four athletes qualified for the semi-finals (highlighted in light blue).

Run 1

Chris Brown of the Bahamas reached the quarterfinals and was eliminated there in sixth of his run

The French Marc Raquil was eliminated in fifth place in his quarter-finals

September 23, 2000, 9:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Michael Johnson	United States	45.31
2	Piotr Haczek	Poland	45.43
3	Avard Moncur	Bahamas	45.43
4th	Casey Vincent	Australia	45.45
5	Eric Milazar	Mauritius	45.52
6th	Sugath Thilakaratne	Sri Lanka	45.54
7th	David Canal	Spain	45.54
8th	Arnaud Malherbe	South Africa	45.59

Run 2

September 23, 2000, 9:32 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Davian Clarke	Jamaica	45.06
2	Antonio Pettigrew	United States	45.35
3	Hamdan Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	45.35
4th	Danny McFarlane	Jamaica	45.40
5	Ibrahima Wade	France	45.61
6th	Davis Kamoga	Uganda	45.74
7th	David Kirui	Kenya	46.00
8th	Jun Osakada	Japan	46.15

Run 3

September 23, 2000, 9:39 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Alvin Harrison	United States	44.25
2	Gregory Haughton	Jamaica	45.08
3	Alessandro Attene	Italy	45.35
4th	Patrick Dwyer	Australia	45.38
5	Dmitri Golovastov	Russia	45.66
6th	Chris Brown	Bahamas	45.76
7th	Sofiane Labidi	Tunisia	46.01
8th	Jew Monye	Nigeria	46.32

Run 4

September 23, 2000, 9.46 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	45.01
2	Hendrick Mokganyetsi	South Africa	45.15
3	Daniel Caines	Great Britain	45.37
4th	Sanderlei Parrela	Brazil	45.55
5	Marc Raquil	France	45.56
6th	Alejandro Cardenas	Mexico	45.66
7th	Sunday Bada	Nigeria	45.83
8th	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah	Qatar	45.96

Semifinals

The first four runners in each of the two races (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

Run 1

Scene from the first semi-final:
Lane 1: Dwyer (AUS); Lane 2: Parrela (BRA); Lane 3: Haughton (JAM); Lane 4: Haczek (POL); Lane 5: Johnson (USA); Lane 6: Harrison (USA); Lane 7: Al-Bishi (KSA); Lane 8: Moncur (BAH)

September 24, 2000, 9:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Alvin Harrison	United States	44.53
2	Michael Johnson	United States	44.65
3	Gregory Haughton	Jamaica	44.93
4th	Sanderlei Parrela	Brazil	45.17
5	Avard Moncur	Bahamas	45.18
6th	Piotr Haczek	Poland	45.66
7th	Patrick Dwyer	Australia	45.70
8th	Hamdan Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	45.98

Run 2

September 24, 2000, 9:07 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Antonio Pettigrew	United States	45.24
2	Danny McFarlane	Jamaica	45.38
3	Hendrick Mokganyetsi	South Africa	45.52
4th	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	45.53
5	Daniel Caines	Great Britain	45.55
6th	Casey Vincent	Australia	45.61
7th	Alessandro Attene	Italy	46.41
DNF	Davian Clarke	Jamaica

final

Finish (from left to right):
Gregory Haughton (Lane 8), Michael Johnson (Lane 6), Hendrick Mokganyetsi (Lane 7), Antonio Pettigrew (Lane 5), Alvin Harrison (Lane 4)

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Michael Johnson	United States	43.84
2	Alvin Harrison	United States	44.40
3	Gregory Haughton	Jamaica	44.70
4th	Sanderlei Parrela	Brazil	45.01
5	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	45.14
6th	Hendrick Mokganyetsi	South Africa	45.26
7th	Danny McFarlane	Jamaica	45.55
DOP	Antonio Pettigrew	United States	45.42

September 25, 2000, 8:25 pm

All three Americans and two Jamaicans had qualified for the final. The field was completed by one starter each from Brazil, Poland and South Africa.

The 1996 Olympic champion , world record holder and four-time 400-meter world champion Michael Johnson from the USA was the clear favorite. Other medal candidates were his two compatriots Alvin Harrison and Antonio Pettigrew, World Cup fourth, vice world champion Sanderlei Parrela from Brazil and Mexican World Cup third Alejandro Cárdenas, who was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

In the final, the Jamaican Gregory Haughton, Harrison and Johnson started the race fastest. After two hundred yards, Haughton was clearly leading. Behind were Johnson and Harrison. From the target curve Johnson had gained a narrow lead over Haughton and Harrison. Parrela followed behind, and the rest of the field a little further behind. On the home straight, Michael Johnson played to his great stamina and became Olympic champion in 44.40 seconds with a clear lead. Alvin Harrison won silver, Gregory Haughton bronze. The three front runners were separated by three tenths of a second. Sanderlei Parrela was fourth, ahead of the Pole Robert Maćkowiak and the South African Hendrick Mokganyetsi.

The American Antonio Pettigrew, who finished seventh, was disqualified on August 2, 2008 for doping offenses .

Michael Johnson won the fourth gold medal of his career. His victory in the 24th Olympic final was the 17th Olympic victory of a US sprinter, and also the fifth US victory in a row.

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  Olympic champion Michael Johnson from the USA

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  The Olympic fifth Robert Maćkowiak from Poland

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  The Jamaican Danny McFarlane finished seventh in the final

literature

• Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 76f

Web links

• SportsReference 400m , accessed March 19, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on March 19, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 19, 2018

Video

• Michael Johnson- Sydney Olympics 400m , posted May 11, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed March 19, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 669 , accessed on March 19, 2018
2. ↑ IOC recognizes US relay 400m gold from Sydney , Focus-Online on August 2, 2008, accessed on March 19, 2018