2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)

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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)
Medalist
gold medal Félix Sánchez ( DOM ) Dominican RepublicDominican Republic 
Silver medal Danny McFarlane ( JAM ) JamaicaJamaica 
Bronze medal Naman Keïta ( FRA ) FranceFrance 

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 ) United StatesUnited States  47.50 s Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003 Félix Sánchez ( Dominican Republic ) Dominican RepublicDominican Republic  47.25 s Paris 2003
European Champion 2002 Stéphane Diagana ( France ) FranceFrance  47.58 s Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003 Félix Sánchez ( Dominican Republic ) Dominican RepublicDominican Republic  48.19 s Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003 Greg Little ( Jamaica ) JamaicaJamaica  50.04 s St. George's 2003
South American Champion 2003 Bayano Kamani ( Panama ) PanamaPanama  50.10 s Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champion 2003 Mubarak Al-Nubi ( Qatar ) QatarQatar  49.19 s Manila 2003
African champion 2004 Llewellyn Herbert ( South Africa ) South AfricaSouth Africa  48.90 s Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002 Mowen Boino ( Papua New Guinea ) Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea  53.06 s Christchurch 2002

Existing records

World record 46.78 s Kevin Young ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  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 StatesUnited States United States 48.79
2 Jiří Mužík Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 48.85
3 Christopher Rawlinson United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 48.94
4th Boris Gorban RussiaRussia Russia 49.25
5 Yevgeny Maleschenko KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 49.43
6th Ken Yoshizawa JapanJapan Japan 50.95
7th Kurt Couto MozambiqueMozambique Mozambique 51.18 NO

Forward 2

August 23, 2004, 7:38 pm

space Surname nation Time (s) annotation
1 Danny McFarlane JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 48.53
2 Bennie Brazell United StatesUnited States United States 48.57
3 Marek Plawgo PolandPoland Poland 48.67
4th Llewellyn Herbert South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 48.70
5 Štěpán Tesařík Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 49.44
6th Alaa Motar Iraq 2004Iraq Iraq 51.97
DSQ Yacnier Luis CubaCuba Cuba

Forward 3

August 23, 2004, 7:46 pm

space Surname nation Time (s) annotation
1 James Carter United StatesUnited States United States 48.64
2 Periklis Iakovakis GreeceGreece Greece 48.69
3 Dai Tamesue JapanJapan Japan 48.80
4th Eduardo Iván Rodríguez SpainSpain Spain 49.25
5 Bayano Kamani PanamaPanama Panama 49.37
6th Ibrahima Maiga MaliMali Mali 50.63
7th Michael Aguilar BelizeBelize Belize 51.21

Forward 4

August 23, 2004, 7:54 p.m.

space Surname nation Time (s) annotation
1 Félix Sánchez Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Dominican Republic 48.51
2 Alwyn Myburgh South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 48.84
3 Mikhail Lipsky RussiaRussia Russia 49.00
4th Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 49.15
5 Dean Griffiths JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 49.41
6th Cédric El-Idrissi SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 49.44
7th Mowen Boino Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea Papua New Guinea 50.97 NO

Forward 5

August 23, 2004, 8:02 pm

space Surname nation Time (s) annotation
1 Kemel Thompson JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 48.66
2 Naman Keïta FranceFrance France 48.88
3 Ockert Cilliers South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 49.12
4th Edivaldo Monteiro PortugalPortugal Portugal 49.53
5 Ibrahim Al-Hamaidi Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 49.64
6th Matthew Douglas United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 49.77
7th Ibrahim Tondi NigerNiger 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 RepublicDominican Republic Dominican Republic 47.93
2 Marek Plawgo PolandPoland Poland 48.16 NO
3 Alwyn Myburgh South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 48.21
4th Angelo Taylor United StatesUnited States United States 48.72
5 Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 48.98
6th Mikhail Lipsky RussiaRussia Russia 49.10
7th Edivaldo Monteiro PortugalPortugal Portugal 49.26
8th Dean Griffiths JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 49.51

Run 2

August 24, 2004, 9:13 pm

space Surname nation Time (s) annotation
1 Danny McFarlane JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 48.00
2 Bennie Brazell United StatesUnited States United States 48.19
3 Dai Tamesue JapanJapan Japan 48.46
4th Periklis Iakovakis GreeceGreece Greece 48.47
5 Llewellyn Herbert South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 48.57
6th Eduardo Iván Rodríguez SpainSpain Spain 49.77
7th Štěpán Tesařík Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 49.87
8th Christopher Rawlinson United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 50.89

Run 3

August 24, 2004, 9:21 pm

space Surname nation Time (s) annotation
1 James Carter United StatesUnited States United States 48.18
2 Bayano Kamani PanamaPanama Panama 48.23 NO
3 Naman Keïta FranceFrance France 48.24
4th Kemel Thompson JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 48.25
5 Jiří Mužík Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 48.88
6th Ockert Cilliers South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 49.01
7th Boris Gorban RussiaRussia Russia 49.46
8th Yevgeny Meleschenko KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 49.48

final

space Surname nation Time (s) annotation
1 Félix Sánchez Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Dominican Republic 47.63
2 Danny McFarlane JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 48.11
3 Naman Keïta FranceFrance France 48.26
4th James Carter United StatesUnited States United States 48.58
5 Bayano Kamani PanamaPanama Panama 48.74
6th Marek Plawgo PolandPoland Poland 49.00
7th Alwyn Myburgh South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 49.07
8th Bennie Brazell United StatesUnited States 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

Video

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675 , accessed on April 25, 2018