2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (women)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | 400 meter hurdles |
gender | Women |
place | Beijing National Stadium |
Attendees | 27 athletes from 21 countries |
Competition phase | August 17th to 20th, 2008 |
Medalist | |
gold | Melaine Walker ( JAM ) |
silver | Sheena Tosta ( USA ) |
bronze | Tasha Danvers ( GBR ) |
The women's 400-meter hurdles at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing took place in the National Stadium from August 17th to 20th, 2008 . 27 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Melaine Walker from Jamaica ahead of the US-American ahead of Sheena Tosta . The bronze medal went to Tasha Danvers from Britain .
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion 2004 | Fani Chalkia ( Greece ) | 52.82 s | Athens 2004 |
World Champion 2007 | Jana Pittman-Rawlinson ( Australia ) | 53.31 s | Osaka 2007 |
European Champion 2006 | Yevgenia Issakova ( Russia ) | 53.93 s | Gothenburg 2006 |
Pan American Champion 2007 | Sheena Johnson ( USA ) | 54.04 s | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 2008 | Josanne Lucas ( Trinidad and Tobago ) | 56.55 s | Cali 2008 |
South American Champion 2007 | Lucimar Teodoro ( Brazil ) | 57.36 s | São Paulo 2007 |
Asian Champion 2007 | Satomi Kubokura ( Japan ) | 56.74 s | Amman 2007 |
Africa Champion 2008 | Muizat Ajoke Odumosu ( Nigeria ) | 55.02 s | Addis Ababa 2008 |
Oceania Champion 2008 | Sharon Henry ( Papua New Guinea ) | 61.83 s | Saipan 2008 |
Existing records
World record | 52.34 s | Julija Pechonkina ( Russia ) | Tula , Russia | August 8, 2003 |
Olympic record | 52.77 s | Fani Chalkia ( Greece ) | Athens semi-finals , Greece | August 22, 2004 |
Preliminary round
There were four preliminary runs. The first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the following four fastest athletes - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.
Forward 1
August 17, 2008 , 8:10 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Tiffany Ross-Williams | United States | 55.51 s | |
2 | Irina Obedina | Russia | 55.71 s | |
3 | Satomi Kubokura | Japan | 55.82 s | |
4th | Shevon Stoddart | Jamaica | 56.52 s | |
5 | Ieva Zunda | Latvia | 57.43 s | |
6th | Lucimar Teodoro | Brazil | 57.68 s |
Forward 2
August 17, 2008 , 8:18 pm
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Tasha Danvers | Great Britain | 55.19 s | |
2 | Anastasia Ott | Russia | 55.34 s | |
3 | Nickiesha Wilson | Jamaica | 55.75 s | |
4th | Angela Moroșanu | Romania | 56.07 s | |
5 | Sheena Tosta | United States | 56.12 s | |
6th | Nikolina Horvat | Croatia | 56.65 s | |
7th | Michelle Carey | Ireland | 57.99 s |
Forward 3
August 17, 2008 , 8:26 pm
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Melaine Walker | Jamaica | 54.46 s | |
2 | Anastasija Rabchenyuk | Ukraine | 55.18 s | |
3 | Tsvetelina Kirilova | Bulgaria | 55.22 s | PB |
4th | Queen Harrison | United States | 55.96 s | |
5 | Aïssata Soulama | Burkina Faso | 56.37 s | |
6th | Carole Kaboud Mebam | Cameroon | 57.81, s | |
7th | Galina Pedan | Kyrgyzstan | 60.31 s |
Forward 4
August 17, 2008 , 8:34 pm
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Ekaterina Bikert | Russia | 55.15 s | |
2 | Anna Jesień | Poland | 55.35 s | |
3 | Zuzana Hejnová | Czech Republic | 55.91 s | |
4th | Tatiana Azarova | Kazakhstan | 56.88 s | |
5 | Muna Jabir Adam | Sudan | 57.16 s | |
6th | Josanne Lucas | Trinidad and Tobago | 57.76 s | |
7th | Laia Forcadell | Spain | 58.64 s |
Semifinals
From the two semi-finals, the first four of each run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
Run 1
August 18, 2008 , 8:45 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Sheena Tosta | United States | 54.07 s | |
2 | Tasha Danvers | Great Britain | 54.31 s | |
3 | Anna Jesień | Poland | 54.36 s | |
4th | Ekaterina Bikert | Russia | 54.38 s | |
5 | Nickiesha Wilson | Jamaica | 54.67 s | |
6th | Anastasia Ott | Ukraine | 54.74 s | PB |
7th | Satomi Kubokura | Japan | 56.69 s | |
8th | Angela Moroșanu | Romania | 57.67 s |
Run 2
August 18, 2008 , 8:52 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Melaine Walker | Jamaica | 54.20 s | |
2 | Anastasija Rabchenyuk | Ukraine | 54.60 s | PB |
3 | Tiffany Ross-Williams | United States | 54.99 s | |
4th | Zuzana Hejnová | Czech Republic | 55.17 s | |
5 | Aïssata Soulama | Burkina Faso | 55.69 s | |
6th | Irina Obedina | Russia | 55.69 s | |
7th | Queen Harrison | United States | 55.85 s | |
8th | Tsvetelina Kirilova | Bulgaria | 55.97 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Melaine Walker | Jamaica | 52.64 s | OR |
2 | Sheena Tosta | United States | 53.70 s | |
3 | Tasha Danvers | Great Britain | 53.84 s | PB |
4th | Anastasija Rabchenyuk | Ukraine | 53.96 s | PB |
5 | Anna Jesień | Poland | 54.29 s | |
6th | Ekaterina Bikert | Russia | 54.96 s | |
7th | Zuzana Hejnová | Czech Republic | 54.97 s | |
8th | Tiffany Ross-Williams | United States | 57.55 s |
August 20, 2008 , 10:35 p.m.
At these games, a new generation of 400-meter hurdlers followed in the footsteps of their predecessors. The three medal winners of the 2004 Games , the three winners of the World Championships in 2005 , and the World Champion and Vice World Champion of 2007 were no longer among the participants. That also applied to the current world record holder .
The favorites were the strong Jamaicans - here especially Melaine Walker, and US-Americans - among them primarily Sheena Tosta, who won the Olympic Games in 2004, and the 2007 World Cup seventh, Tiffany Ross-Williams. The Polish woman Anna Jesień was as WM -Third of 2007 World Cup -Vierte 2005 and EM -Sechste 2006 counted just like the Russian Olympic Sixth 2004 Jekaterina Bikert to the medal candidates.
There was a very fast Olympic final in that competition. The runners bravely tackled the race at high speed. At the end of the target curve, Tosta and Walker were almost on a par. Danvers followed at a considerable distance, who in turn had a few meters ahead of the other competitors. On the home straight, the Jamaican showed great stamina. She broke away from Tosta and increased her lead more and more. Melaine Walker became Olympic champion and set a new Olympic record with 52.64 seconds . Tosta slacked off significantly in the last few meters, but was able to defend her second place. Sheena Tosta won the silver medal more than a second behind. Fourteen hundredths of a second behind her, Tasha Danvers crossed the finish line as a bronze medalist. The Ukrainian Anastassija Rabtschenjuk came fourth ahead of Anna Jesień and Jekaterina Bikert. The seventh and eighth place went to Zuzana Hejnová from the Czech Republic and Tiffany Ross-Williams.
Melaine Walker won this Olympic discipline since 1984, the second gold medal for Jamaica after Deon Hemmings , which had been successful in Atlanta in 1996 .
Web links
- SportsReference 400m hurdles women , accessed June 25, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed June 25, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 25, 2018
Video
- 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Women's 400m Hurdles Final , published October 2, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed June 25, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 25, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 25, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 25, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 25, 2018
- ↑ IAAF world records, 400 m hurdles women , accessed on June 25, 2018