Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 400 m (women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 400 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 49 athletes from 40 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium London | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 3, 2012 (preliminary round) August 4, 2012 (semi-finals) August 5, 2012 (final) |
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The women's 400-meter run at the 2012 London Olympics was held on August 3rd, 4th and 5th, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in London . 49 athletes took part.
The US-American Sanya Richards-Ross became Olympic champion . The British Christine Ohuruogu won the silver medal, the US athlete DeeDee Trotter bronze .
Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion |
Christine Ohuruogu ( Great Britain )
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49.62 s | Beijing 2008 |
world champion |
Amantle Montsho ( Botswana )
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49.56 s | Daegu 2011 |
European champion |
Moa Hjelmer ( Sweden )
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51.13 s | Helsinki 2012 |
Central America and Caribbean champion |
Shereefa Lloyd ( Jamaica )
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51.69 s | Mayagüez 2011 |
South America Champion |
Norma González ( Colombia )
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52.12 s | Buenos Aires 2011 |
Asian champion | Chen Jingwen ( People's Republic of China )
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52.89 s | Kobe 2011 |
African champion |
Amantle Montsho ( Botswana )
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49.54 s | Porto-Novo 2012 |
Oceania champion | Suliana Gusuivalu ( Fiji )
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57.14 s | Cairns 2012 |
Existing records
World record |
Marita Koch ( GDR )
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47.60 s | Canberra , Australia | October 6, 1985 |
Olympic record |
Marie-José Pérec ( France )
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48.25 s | Atlanta Final , USA | July 29, 1996 |
Note:
All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
leader
Seven preliminary runs were carried out. The first three athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the three 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 3, 2012, 12:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Francena McCorory |
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50.78 | |
2 | Christine Ohuruogu |
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50.80 | |
3 | Joy Nakhumicha Sakari |
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51.85 | |
4th | Joanne Cuddihy |
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52.09 | |
5 | Geisa Aparecida Coutinho |
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53.43 | |
6th | Marina Maslenko |
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53.66 | |
7th | Zamzam Mohamed Farah |
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80.48 |
Forward 2
August 3, 2012, 12:08 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Amantle Montsho |
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50.40 | |
2 | Christine Day |
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51.05 | |
3 | Shana Cox |
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52.01 | |
4th | Aliann Pompey |
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52.10 | |
5 | Afia Charles |
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54.25 | |
6th | Ingrid Yahocza Narváez Solis |
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59.55 | |
DNF | Shaunae Miller |
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Forward 3
August 3, 2012, 12:16 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | DeeDee Trotter |
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50.87 | |
2 | Rosemarie Whyte |
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50.90 | |
3 | Jenna Martin |
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51.98 | |
4th | Omolara Omotosho |
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52.11 | |
5 | Raysa Sánchez |
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52.47 | |
6th | Aauri Bokesa |
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53.67 | |
7th | Zourah Ali |
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65.37 |
Forward 4
August 3, 2012, 12:24 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Sanya Richards-Ross |
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51.78 | |
2 | Carol Rodríguez |
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52.19 | |
3 | Tjipekapora Herunga |
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52.31 | |
4th | Pinar Saka |
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52.38 | |
5 | Svyatlana Usovich |
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52.40 | |
6th | Phumlile Ndzinisa |
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53.95 | |
7th | Hristina Risteska |
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60.86 |
Forward 5
August 3, 2012, 12:32 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Antonina Kriwoschapka |
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50.75 | |
2 | Alina Lohwynenko |
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52.08 | |
3 | Lee McConnell |
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52.23 | |
4th | Moa Hjelmer |
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52.86 | |
5 | Ambwene Simukonda |
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54.20 | NO |
6th | Danielle Alakija |
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56.77 | |
DNS | Kanika Beckles |
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Forward 6
August 3, 2012, 12:40 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Novlene Williams-Mills |
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50.88 | |
2 | Natalija Pyhyda |
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51.09 | |
3 | Libania Grenot |
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52.13 | |
4th | Joelma Sousa |
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52.69 | |
5 | Bianca Răzor |
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52.83 | |
6th | Maziah Mahusin |
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59.28 | NO |
DNF | Kineke Alexander |
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Forward 7
August 3, 2012, 12:48 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Regina George |
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51.24 s | |
2 | Julia Gushchina |
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51.54 s | |
3 | Marlena Wesh |
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51.98 s | |
4th | Amy Mbacke Thiam |
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53.23 s | |
5 | Olesea Cojuhari |
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53.64 s | |
6th | Graciela Martins |
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58.30 s | |
DSQ | Jennifer Padilla |
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Semifinals
In each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified sprinters are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Run 1
August 4, 2012, 8:05 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Sanya Richards-Ross |
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50.07 | |
2 | Christine Ohuruogu |
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50.22 | |
3 | Rosemarie Whyte |
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50.98 | |
4th | Julia Gushchina |
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51.66 | |
5 | Joanne Cuddihy |
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51.88 | |
6th | Tjipekapora Herunga |
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52.53 | |
7th | Jenna Martin |
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52.83 | |
8th | Joy Nakhumicha Sakari |
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52.95 |
Run 2
August 4, 2012, 8:13 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Amantle Montsho |
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50.15 | |
2 | Francena McCorory |
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50.19 | |
3 | Libania Grenot |
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51.18 | |
4th | Christine Day |
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51.19 | |
5 | Regina George |
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51.35 | |
6th | Alina Lohwynenko |
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51.38 | |
7th | Aliann Pompey |
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52.58 | |
8th | Shana Cox |
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52.58 |
Run 3
August 4, 2012, 8:21 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Antonina Kriwoschapka |
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49.81 | |
2 | DeeDee Trotter |
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49.87 | |
3 | Novlene Williams-Mills |
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49.91 | |
4th | Omolara Omotosho |
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51.41 | |
5 | Natalija Pyhyda |
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51.41 | |
6th | Carol Rodríguez |
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52.08 | |
7th | Lee McConnell |
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52.24 | |
8th | Marlena Wesh |
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52.49 |
final
August 5, 2012, 9:10 p.m.
In the final, three Americans faced two Jamaicans and one athlete each from Botswana, Great Britain and Russia.
The favorite was US athlete Sanya Richards-Ross, the 2009 world champion . Her strongest opponents were the reigning world champion Amantle Montsho from Botswana and the 2008 Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu from Great Britain.
In the final, Russian Antonina Kriwoschapka took the lead, followed by Richards-Ross, her two teammates DeeDee Trotter and Francena McCorory and Montsho. In the finish curve, Richards-Ross took the lead, Trotter and McCorory also overtook Kriwoschapka. On the home straight, Richards-Ross initially increased their lead and Kriwoschapka fell further back. Ohuruogu came up strong in the end, but could no longer reach Richards-Ross. The American favorite won with a one-meter lead over Ohuruogu, who in turn was able to outperform Trotter by two hundredths of a second. Montsho finished fourth, missing bronze by just three hundredths of a second. The Jamaican Novlene Williams-Mills came in fifth. Kriwoschapka was sixth ahead of McCorory and the second Jamaican Rosemarie Whyte.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Sanya Richards-Ross |
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49.55 | |
2 | Christine Ohuruogu |
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49.70 | |
3 | DeeDee Trotter |
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49.72 | |
4th | Amantle Montsho |
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49.75 | |
5 | Novlene Williams-Mills |
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50.11 | |
6th | Antonina Kriwoschapka |
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50.17 | |
7th | Francena McCorory |
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50.33 | |
8th | Rosemarie Whyte |
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50.79 |
Picture gallery
Web links
- SportsReference 400 m (English) , accessed on September 18, 2018
- Official report , accessed September 18, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 18, 2018
Videos
- Women's 400m Heats - Full Heats - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 4, 2012, accessed September 18, 2018 * Women's 400m Final - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 5, 2012, accessed on 18th September 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 794 , accessed on September 18, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF) . accessed on September 18, 2018