2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 35 athletes from 24 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Athens Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 23, 2004 (preliminary round) August 24, 2004 (semi-finals) August 26, 2004 (final) |
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The men's 400 meter hurdles at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens took place on August 23, 24 and 26, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 35 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Félix Sánchez from the Dominican Republic. He won ahead of Jamaican Danny McFarlane and French Naman Keïta .
For Switzerland came Cédric El-Idrissi , who was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic Champion 2000 | Angelo Taylor ( USA ) | 47.50 s | Sydney 2000 |
World Champion 2003 | Félix Sánchez ( Dominican Republic ) | 47.25 s | Paris 2003 |
European Champion 2002 | Stéphane Diagana ( France ) | 47.58 s | Munich 2002 |
Pan American Champion 2003 | Félix Sánchez ( Dominican Republic ) | 48.19 s | Santo Domingo 2003 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003 | Greg Little ( Jamaica ) | 50.04 s | St. George's 2003 |
South American Champion 2003 | Bayano Kamani ( Panama ) | 50.10 s | Barquisimeto 2003 |
Asian champion 2003 | Mubarak Al-Nubi ( Qatar ) | 49.19 s | Manila 2003 |
African champion 2004 | Llewellyn Herbert ( South Africa ) | 48.90 s | Brazzaville 2004 |
Oceania Champion 2002 | Mowen Boino ( Papua New Guinea ) | 53.06 s | Christchurch 2002 |
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 given in Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
Preliminary round
A total of five preliminary runs were completed. The first four athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the four 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
August 23, 2004, 7:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Angelo Taylor | United States | 48.79 | |
2 | Jiří Mužík | Czech Republic | 48.85 | |
3 | Christopher Rawlinson | Great Britain | 48.94 | |
4th | Boris Gorban | Russia | 49.25 | |
5 | Yevgeny Maleschenko | Kazakhstan | 49.43 | |
6th | Ken Yoshizawa | Japan | 50.95 | |
7th | Kurt Couto | Mozambique | 51.18 | NO |
Forward 2
August 23, 2004, 7:38 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Danny McFarlane | Jamaica | 48.53 | |
2 | Bennie Brazell | United States | 48.57 | |
3 | Marek Plawgo | Poland | 48.67 | |
4th | Llewellyn Herbert | South Africa | 48.70 | |
5 | Štěpán Tesařík | Czech Republic | 49.44 | |
6th | Alaa Motar | Iraq | 51.97 | |
DSQ | Yacnier Luis | Cuba |
Forward 3
August 23, 2004, 7:46 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | James Carter | United States | 48.64 | |
2 | Periklis Iakovakis | Greece | 48.69 | |
3 | Dai Tamesue | Japan | 48.80 | |
4th | Eduardo Iván Rodríguez | Spain | 49.25 | |
5 | Bayano Kamani | Panama | 49.37 | |
6th | Ibrahima Maiga | Mali | 50.63 | |
7th | Michael Aguilar | Belize | 51.21 |
Forward 4
August 23, 2004, 7:54 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Félix Sánchez | Dominican Republic | 48.51 | |
2 | Alwyn Myburgh | South Africa | 48.84 | |
3 | Mikhail Lipsky | Russia | 49.00 | |
4th | Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily | Saudi Arabia | 49.15 | |
5 | Dean Griffiths | Jamaica | 49.41 | |
6th | Cédric El-Idrissi | Switzerland | 49.44 | |
7th | Mowen Boino | Papua New Guinea | 50.97 | NO |
Forward 5
August 23, 2004, 8:02 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kemel Thompson | Jamaica | 48.66 | |
2 | Naman Keïta | France | 48.88 | |
3 | Ockert Cilliers | South Africa | 49.12 | |
4th | Edivaldo Monteiro | Portugal | 49.53 | |
5 | Ibrahim Al-Hamaidi | Saudi Arabia | 49.64 | |
6th | Matthew Douglas | Great Britain | 49.77 | |
7th | Ibrahim Tondi | Niger | 52.62 |
Semifinals
The first three athletes in each of 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
August 24, 2004, 9:05 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Félix Sánchez | Dominican Republic | 47.93 | |
2 | Marek Plawgo | Poland | 48.16 | NO |
3 | Alwyn Myburgh | South Africa | 48.21 | |
4th | Angelo Taylor | United States | 48.72 | |
5 | Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily | Saudi Arabia | 48.98 | |
6th | Mikhail Lipsky | Russia | 49.10 | |
7th | Edivaldo Monteiro | Portugal | 49.26 | |
8th | Dean Griffiths | Jamaica | 49.51 |
Run 2
August 24, 2004, 9:13 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Danny McFarlane | Jamaica | 48.00 | |
2 | Bennie Brazell | United States | 48.19 | |
3 | Dai Tamesue | Japan | 48.46 | |
4th | Periklis Iakovakis | Greece | 48.47 | |
5 | Llewellyn Herbert | South Africa | 48.57 | |
6th | Eduardo Iván Rodríguez | Spain | 49.77 | |
7th | Štěpán Tesařík | Czech Republic | 49.87 | |
8th | Christopher Rawlinson | Great Britain | 50.89 |
Run 3
August 24, 2004, 9:21 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | James Carter | United States | 48.18 | |
2 | Bayano Kamani | Panama | 48.23 | NO |
3 | Naman Keïta | France | 48.24 | |
4th | Kemel Thompson | Jamaica | 48.25 | |
5 | Jiří Mužík | Czech Republic | 48.88 | |
6th | Ockert Cilliers | South Africa | 49.01 | |
7th | Boris Gorban | Russia | 49.46 | |
8th | Yevgeny Meleschenko | Kazakhstan | 49.48 |
final
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Félix Sánchez | Dominican Republic | 47.63 | |
2 | Danny McFarlane | Jamaica | 48.11 | |
3 | Naman Keïta | France | 48.26 | |
4th | James Carter | United States | 48.58 | |
5 | Bayano Kamani | Panama | 48.74 | |
6th | Marek Plawgo | Poland | 49.00 | |
7th | Alwyn Myburgh | South Africa | 49.07 | |
8th | Bennie Brazell | United States | 49.51 |
August 26, 2004, 10:30 p.m.
Two US-Americans and one participant each from the Dominican Republic, France, Jamaica, Panama, Poland and South Africa qualified for the final.
The favorite role was after the failure of the 2000 Olympic champion Angelo Taylor from the United States in the semifinals with the reigning world champion Félix Sánchez from the Dominican Republic. The highly rated Llewellyn Herbert from South Africa, bronze medalist from 2000, the Saudi Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily as World Cup fourth in 2001 and the Greek vice world champion Periklis Iakovakis failed in the semi-finals. The main competitors for the two-time world champion Sánchez were, above all, World Cup fourth Danny McFarlane from Jamaica and the US Olympic gold medalist from 2000, James Carter.
After two false starts, one caused by Sánchez and the other by Carter, Sánchez and Carter initially took the lead. The two runners were roughly level up to the sixth hurdle, then Carter passed Sánchez and came first on the home straight. The world champion followed closely behind him in front of McFarlane. The Frenchman Naman Keïta, Bayano Kamani from Panama and the South African Alwyn Myburgh were only a small margin behind the leading trio. But in the last hundred meters the picture changed completely again. Carter couldn't add anything more. Sánchez, McFarlane and Keïta passed the US runner. On the ninth hurdle, Félix Sánchez took the lead again and won the gold medal with a margin of 48 hundredths of a second from Danny McFarlane. That in turn was 15 hundredths of a second ahead of bronze medalist Naman Keïta. For the second time at the Olympic Games after 2000, James Carter finished fourth. Bayano Kamani was fifth, Marek Plawgo from Poland sixth.
Félix Sánchez was the first Olympic champion in his country. He also won the Dominican Republic's first athletics medal.
Apart from the u. a. Games boycotted by the USA in 1980 in Moscow , for the first time since 1968 there was no medal win for the USA in this discipline.
Web links
- SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed April 25, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 25, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on April 25, 2018
Video
- Felix Sanchez Gold - Men's 400m Hurdles | Athens 2004 Olympics , published March 1, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed April 25, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675 , accessed on April 25, 2018