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

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	62 athletes from 45 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 24, 2000 (preliminary round) September 25, 2000 (semi-finals) September 27, 2000 (final)
Medalist Angelo Taylor ( USA )   Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily ( KSA )   Llewellyn Herbert ( RSA )

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 24, 25 and 27, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 62 athletes took part.

The American Angelo Taylor became Olympic champion . He won ahead of Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily from Saudi Arabia and the South African Llewellyn Herbert .

Thomas Goller started for Germany and was eliminated in the semifinals.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1996	Derrick Adkins ( USA )	47.54 s	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Fabrizio Mori ( Italy )	47.72 s	Seville 1999
European champion 1998	Paweł Januszewski ( Poland )	48.17 s	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Eronilde de Araújo ( Brazil )	48.23 s	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999	Victor Houston ( Barbados )	50.23 s	Bridgetown 1999
South American Champion 1999	Eronilde de Araújo ( Brazil )	49.13 s	Bogotá 1999
Asian champion 2000	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily ( Saudi Arabia )	49.13 s	Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000	Sylvester Omodiale ( Nigeria )	49.81 s	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Ivan Wakit ( Papua New Guinea )	52.40 s	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	46.78 s	Kevin Young ( USA )	Barcelona , Spain	August 6, 1992
Olympic record			Final of Barcelona , Spain

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

Preliminary round

A total of eight preliminary runs were completed. The first two athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the eight 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, 6:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Llewellyn Herbert	South Africa	49.25
2	Thomas Goller	Germany	49.32
3	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	50.01
4th	Rohan Robinson	Australia	50.80
5	Willie Smith	Namibia	50.89
6th	Carlos Zbinden	Chile	51.36
7th	Victor Houston	Barbados	51.51

Forward 2

September 24, 2000, 6:22 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	49.35
2	Boris Gorban	Russia	49.44
3	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	49.70
4th	Blair Young	Australia	49.75
5	Chen Tien-wen	Chinese Taipei	49.93	NO
6th	Erick Keter	Kenya	50.06
7th	Kazuhiko Yamazaki	Japan	50.15
8th	Yvon Rakotoarimiandry	Madagascar	50.15

Forward 3

September 24, 2000, 6:29 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Angelo Taylor	United States	49.48
2	Dinsdale Morgan	Jamaica	49.64
3	Ibou Faye	Senegal	50.09
4th	Harijan Ratnayake	Sri Lanka	50.43
5	Erkinjon Isakov	Uzbekistan	50.71
6th	Hillary Maritime	Kenya	51.04
7th	Sylvester Omodiale	Nigeria	51.06

Forward 4

The Greek Periklis Iakovakis was eliminated as eighth of his lead

September 24, 2000, 6:36 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	50.11
2	Eric Thomas	United States	50.16
3	Periklis Iakovakis	Greece	50.20
4th	Hideaki Kawamura	Japan	50.68
5	Vadim Sadoinov	Moldova	51.08
6th	Mustapha Sdad	Morocco	51.39
7th	Tom McGuirk	Ireland	51.73
8th	Lee Du-yeon	South Korea	52.61

Forward 5

September 24, 2000, 6:43 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Christopher Rawlinson	Great Britain	51.30
2	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	51.40
3	Tibor Bédi	Hungary	51.54
4th	Kenneth Harnden	Zimbabwe	51.83
5	Leanid Vershinin	Belarus	51.84
6th	Darko Juričić	Croatia	52.39
7th	Zahr-el-Din El-Najem	Syria	52.70
8th	Ilija Dzhivondov	Bulgaria	54.36

Forward 6

Kemel Thompson from Jamaica was eliminated fourth in his preliminary run

The Japanese Dai Tamesue finished eighth in his preliminary run and was eliminated

September 24, 2000, 6:49 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	49.28
2	James Carter	United States	49.41
3	Alwyn Myburgh	South Africa	49.57
4th	Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal	49.90
5	Anthony Borsumato	Great Britain	50.73
6th	Konstantinos Pochanis	Cyprus	51.20
7th	Matthew Beckenham	Australia	51.27
8th	Ian Weakley	Jamaica	52.18

Forward 7

September 24, 2000, 6:55 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Samuel Matete	Zambia	48.98
2	Hennadij Horbenko	Ukraine	49.12
3	Matthew Douglas	Great Britain	49.62
4th	Kemel Thompson	Jamaica	50.40
5	Zaid Abu Hamed	Syria	50.74
6th	Paul Tucker	Guyana	50.92
7th	Radoslav Holúbek	Slovakia	51.18
8th	Mowen Boino	Papua New Guinea	51.28	NO

Forward 8

September 24, 2000, 7:01 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	50.06
2	Giorgio Frinolli Puzzilli	Italy	50.27
3	Vladislav Schirjajew	Russia	50.39
4th	Iñigo Monreal	Spain	51.32
5	Siniša Peša	Yugoslavia	52.14
6th	Curt Young	Panama	52.46
7th	Iain Harnden	Zimbabwe	54.01
8th	Dai Tamesue	Japan	61.81

Semifinals

The first two athletes in the three races 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, 7:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	48.14	AS
2	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	48.40
3	Hennadij Horbenko	Ukraine	48.40
4th	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	48.42
5	Eric Thomas	United States	49.25
6th	Thomas Goller	Germany	49.28
7th	Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal	49.48
8th	Chen Tien-wen	Chinese Taipei	50.52

Run 2

Jiří Mužík from the Czech Republic reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in fifth of his run

September 25, 2000, 7:52 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Llewellyn Herbert	South Africa	48.38
2	Angelo Taylor	United States	48.49
3	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	48.49
4th	Blair Young	Australia	49.20
5	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	49.23
6th	Christopher Rawlinson	Great Britain	49.25
7th	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	49.69
8th	Giorgio Frinolli Puzzilli	Italy	50.10

Run 3

September 25, 2000, 7:59 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	James Carter	United States	48.48
2	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	48.76
3	Samuel Matete	Zambia	48.98
4th	Alwyn Myburgh	South Africa	49.25
5	Boris Gorban	Russia	49.29
6th	Matthew Douglas	Great Britain	49.53
7th	Dinsdale Morgan	Jamaica	50.23
8th	Erick Keter	Kenya	51.25

final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Angelo Taylor	United States	47.50
2	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	47.53	AS
3	Llewellyn Herbert	South Africa	47.81	NO
4th	James Carter	United States	48.04
5	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	48.34
6th	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	48.44
7th	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	48.78
8th	Hennadij Horbenko	Ukraine	49.01

September 27, 2000, 8:35 pm

Two Americans qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Brazil, Italy, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the Ukraine.

Two hurdlers with excellent performances in the Olympic season were considered favorites. These were the American Angelo Taylor and the South African Llewellyn Herbert. Here you met the Italian world champion Fabrizio Mori. Other contenders for top positions were above all World Cup fourth Eronilde de Araújo from Brazil and World Cup fifth Paweł Januszewski from Poland, who are also reigning European champions .

The final was led for a long time by the surprisingly strong Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily from Saudi Arabia. Taylor, who started on lane one, came closer to Al-Somaily at the end of the target curve. At the start of the home stretch, however, the runner from Saudi Arabia was still ahead. Just behind him was Taylor in front of his compatriot James Carter. Not far back were de Araújo, Januszewski and Mori almost on the same line. In the last few meters it got closer and closer between Taylor and Al-Somaily, who showed great stamina. At the finish, Angelo Taylor won the gold medal in 47.50 s with just three hundredths of a second ahead. As second, Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily improved his Asian record from the semi-finals by 61 hundredths of a second. Another 18 hundredths of a second behind him, Llewellyn Herbert won the bronze medal. The ranks four to six were occupied by James Carter, Eronilde de Araújo and Paweł Januszewski.

Angelo Taylor won the 17th gold medal for the USA over 400 meter hurdles in the 22nd Olympic final . It was the fifth US victory in a row in this discipline.

Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily won the first Olympic medal for Saudi Arabia.

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  Olympic champion Angelo Taylor from the USA

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  The American Olympic gold medalist James Carter

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  The Pole Paweł Januszewski finished sixth 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. 68f

Web links

• SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed March 21, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on March 21, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 21, 2018

Video

• Sydney olympics 2000 | 400M Hurdles Mens Race , posted August 20, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed March 21, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675 , accessed on March 21, 2018