2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 21 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 24, 2000 (preliminary round) September 25, 2000 (semi-finals) September 27, 2000 (final)
Medalists Irina Priwalowa ( RUS )   Deon Hemmings ( JAM )   Nezha Bidouane ( MAR )

The women's 400-meter hurdles at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 24, 25 and 27, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 33 athletes took part.

The Russian Irina Priwalowa became the Olympic champion . She won ahead of Jamaican Deon Hemmings and Moroccan Nezha Bidouane .

Heike Meißner and Ulrike Urbansky from Germany took part. Both were eliminated in the semi-finals.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Deon Hemmings ( Jamaica )	52.82 s	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Daimí Pernía ( Cuba )	52.89 s	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998	Ionela Târlea ( Romania )	53.37 s	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Daimí Pernía ( Cuba )	53.44 s	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	Andrea Blackett ( Barbados )	56.87 s	Bridgetown 1999
South America Champion	Ana Paula Pereira ( Brazil )	58.06 s	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Song Yinglan ( People's Republic of China )	57.73 s	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Mame Tacko Diouf ( Senegal )	57.48 s	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Mary Estelle Kapalu ( Vanuatu )	60.62 s	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	52.61 s	Kim Batten ( USA )	Gothenburg , Sweden	August 11, 1995
Olympic record	52.82 s	Deon Hemmings ( Jamaica )	Atlanta Final , USA	July 31, 1996

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

Preliminary round

A total of five preliminary runs were completed. The first two athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the six fastest drivers, 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

September 24, 2000, 7:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Nezha Bidouane	Morocco	55.38
2	Kim Batten	United States	55.28
3	Andrea Blackett	Barbados	56.31
4th	Sinead Dudgeon	Great Britain	57.82
5	Mary-Estelle Kapalu	Vanuatu	62.68
DNF	Natallia Chulkova	Russia
DNS	Karlene Haughton	Canada

Forward 2

September 24, 2000, 7:22 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Daimí Pernía	Cuba	55.53
2	Heike Meissner	Germany	55.58
3	Tasha Danvers	Great Britain	55.68
4th	Yulia Nosova	Russia	56.11
5	Catherine Scott-Pomales	Jamaica	56.17
6th	Tetjana Debela	Ukraine	57.33
7th	Cherry	Myanmar	60.81

The German Heike Meißner was initially disqualified immediately after the race. The protest of the German team was allowed after the video evaluation, Meißner was ranked second again.

Forward 3

The third place for the Australian Jana Pittman (l.) And four for the Polish Anna Olichwierczuk (r.) - here in a photo from 2007 - were not enough for advancement

September 24, 2000, 7:29 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	55.44
2	Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Russia	56.27
3	Jana Pittman	Australia	56.76
4th	Anna Olichwierczuk	Poland	57.36
5	Monika Niederstätter	Italy	58.02
6th	Mame Tacko Diouf	Senegal	58.65

Forward 4

The Irish Susan Smith-Walsh was eliminated from fourth in her preliminary run

September 24, 2000, 7:36 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sandra Glover	United States	55.76
2	Ulrike Urbansky	Germany	55.93
3	Natalja Torzina	Kazakhstan	56.38
4th	Susan Smith-Walsh	Ireland	57.08
5	Irēna Žauna	Latvia	57.79
6th	Lauren Poetschka	Australia	58.06
7th	Khrysoula Goudenoudi	Greece	61.59

Forward 5

September 24, 2000, 7:43 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	55.89
2	Guðrún Arnardóttir	Iceland	56.30
3	Ionela Târlea	Romania	56.40
4th	Tonja Buford-Bailey	United States	57.02
5	Keri Maddox	Guyana	57.44
6th	Stephanie Price	Australia	58.81
7th	Patrina Allen	Jamaica	59.36

Semifinals

The British Sandra Glover reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in sixth of her run

Andrea Blackett from Barbados was eliminated in the semifinals as seventh of her run

The first three athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two 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.

Run 1

September 25, 2000, 7:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	54.00
2	Daimí Pernía	Cuba	54.92
3	Tasha Danvers	Great Britain	54.95
4th	Ulrike Urbansky	Germany	55.23
5	Heike Meissner	Germany	55.73
6th	Kim Batten	United States	55.73
7th	Natalja Torzina	Kazakhstan	56.22
8th	Yulia Nosova	Russia	56.58

Run 2

September 25, 2000, 7:23 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	54.02
2	Nezha Bidouane	Morocco	54.19
3	Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Ukraine	54.25
4th	Ionela Târlea	Romania	54.70
5	Guðrún Arnardóttir	Iceland	54.82
6th	Sandra Glover	United States	54.98
7th	Andrea Blackett	Barbados	55.30
8th	Catherine Scott-Pomales	Jamaica	55.78

final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	53.02
2	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	53.45
3	Nezha Bidouane	Morocco	53.57
4th	Daimí Pernía	Cuba	53.68
5	Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Ukraine	53.98
6th	Ionela Târlea	Romania	54.35
7th	Guðrún Arnardóttir	Iceland	54.63
8th	Tasha Danvers	Great Britain	55.00

September 27, 2000, 8:55 pm

Eight athletes from eight nations qualified for the final. The favorites were the Cuban world champion Daimí Pernía, the Jamaican Olympic champion from 1996 and World Cup third Deon Hemmings as well as the Moroccan vice world champion from 1999 and world champion from 1997 Nezha Bidouane. The silver medalist in 1996 and third in the 1997 World Cup, Kim Batten from the USA, who also held the world record , competed again, but was no longer in the great shape of previous years and was eliminated in the semi-finals.

In the final, Hemmings and the Russian Irina Priwalowa, who only switched from the 400-meter run without hurdles to the long hurdle course in the spring of the Olympic year and completed her sixth competition here, took the lead. Both fought a head-to-head race up to the seventh hurdle. But Priwalowa showed great stamina and stood out decisively from the Jamaican. At the exit of the target curve, the Russian was clearly ahead, followed by three runners, Hemmings, Bidouane and Pernía, almost on a par. Even the Ukrainian Tetiana Tereschchuk-Antipowa was not beaten in the battle for the medals by a narrow margin. At the top Irina Priwalowa was not in danger and won the gold medal with a lead of almost four meters. Deon Hemmings won silver and twelve hundredths of a second behind her, the Moroccan Nezha Bidouane crossed the finish line in third place. Bidouane was able to keep world champion Daimí Pernía at a distance of eleven hundredths of a second. Tetjana Tereschtschuk-Antipowa finished fifth ahead of the reigning European champion Ionela Târlea from Romania.

Irina Priwalowa won the first Russian Olympic victory in this discipline.

Web links

• SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed April 12, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 12, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 12, 2018

Video

• Olympic 400m hurdles (Sydney 2000) , published January 8, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed April 12, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on April 12, 2018