Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 50 athletes from 34 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Olympic Stadium London | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 3, 2012 (preliminary round) August 4, 2012 (semi-finals) August 6, 2012 (final) |
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The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on August 3rd, 4th and 6th, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in London . Fifty athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Félix Sánchez from the Dominican Republic. The American Michael Tinsley won the silver medal, while the bronze went to Javier Culson from Puerto Rico.
Silvio Schirrmeister started for Germany , who was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion |
Angelo Taylor ( USA )
 |
47.25 s | Beijing 2008 |
| World Champion |
David Greene ( Great Britain )
 |
48.26 s | Daegu 2011 |
| European champion |
Rhys Williams ( Great Britain )
|
49.33 s | Helsinki 2012 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions |
Leford Green ( Jamaica )
 |
49.03 s | Mayagüez 2011 |
| South America champion |
Andrés Silva ( Uruguay )
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49.94 s | Buenos Aires 2011 |
| Asian champion |
Takatoshi Abe ( Japan )
 |
49.64 s | Kobe 2011 |
| African champions |
Cristian Morton ( Nigeria )
 |
49.32 s | Porto-Novo 2012 |
| Oceania Champion | Competition not in the championship program | Gold Coast 2012 | |
Existing records
| World record |
Kevin Young ( USA )
|
46.78 s | Barcelona , Spain | August 6, 1992 |
| Olympic record | Final of Barcelona , Spain |
Note:
All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
Prelims
Six preliminary runs were carried out. The first three athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the six fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
August 3, 2012, 11:15 a.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amaury's Valle |
 Cuba
|
49.19 | |
| 2 | Brendan Cole |
 Australia
|
49.24 | |
| 3 | Amaechi Morton |
Nigeria
|
49.34 | |
| 4th | Kenneth Medwood |
 Belize
|
49.78 | |
| 5 | Roxroy Cato |
Jamaica
|
50.22 | |
| 6th | Chen Chieh |
 Chinese Taipei
|
50.27 | |
| 7th | Li Zhilong |
 People's Republic of China
|
50.36 | |
| DSQ | Takayuki Kishimoto |
Japan
|
IAAF Rule 168.7 a - Illegal crossing of the hurdle |
Forward 2
August 3, 2012, 11:22 am
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Tinsley |
United States
|
49.13 | |
| 2 | Leford Green |
Jamaica
|
49.30 | |
| 3 | Kurt Couto |
 Mozambique
|
49.31 | |
| 4th | Eric Alejandro |
 Puerto Rico
|
49.39 | |
| 5 | Andrew Riley |
Jamaica
|
49.59 | |
| 6th | Rasmus Mägi |
 Estonia
|
50.05 | |
| 7th | Winder Cuevas |
 Dominican Republic
|
50.15 | |
| DSQ | Akihiko Nakamura |
Japan
|
IAAF Rule 168.7 a - Illegal crossing of the hurdle | |
| DNS | Kariem Hussein |
 Switzerland
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Forward 3
August 3, 2012, 11:29 am
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Greene |
Great Britain
|
48.98 | |
| 2 | Emir Bekrić |
 Serbia
|
49.21 | NO |
| 3 | José Bencosme de Leon |
 Italy
|
49.35 | |
| 4th | Brent LaRue |
 Slovenia
|
49.38 | |
| 5 | Jamele Mason |
Puerto Rico
|
49.89 | |
| 6th | Cheng Wen |
People's Republic of China
|
50.38 | |
| 7th | Vincent Kosgei |
 Kenya
|
50.80 | |
| 8th | Cornel Fredericks |
 South Africa
|
52.29 | |
| DSQ | Lankrantien Lamboni |
 Togo
|
IAAF Rule 168.7 a - Illegal crossing of the hurdle |
Forward 4
August 3, 2012, 11:36 am
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Javier Culson |
Puerto Rico
|
48.33 | |
| 2 | Kerron Clement |
United States
|
48.48 | |
| 3 | Omar Cisneros |
Cuba
|
48.63 | |
| 4th | Tristan Thomas |
Australia
|
49.13 | |
| 5 | Rhys Williams |
Great Britain
|
49.17 | |
| 6th | Michael Bultheel |
 Belgium
|
49.18 | |
| 7th | Vyacheslav Zakaev |
 Russia
|
50.36 | |
| 8th | Jorge Paula |
 Portugal
|
51.40 | |
| 9 | Maoulida Darouèche |
 Comoros
|
53.49 |
Forward 5
August 3, 2012, 11:43 am
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angelo Taylor |
United States
|
49.29 | |
| 2 | Jehue Gordon |
 Trinidad and Tobago
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49.37 | |
| 3 | Stanislaw Melnykov |
 Ukraine
|
50.13 | |
| 4th | Silvio Schirrmeister |
 Germany
|
50.21 | |
| 5 | Periklis Iakovakis |
 Greece
|
50.27 | |
| 6th | Louis Jacobus van Zyl |
South Africa
|
50.31 | |
| 7th | Josef Prorok |
 Czech Republic
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50.33 | |
| 8th | Viktor Leptikov |
 Kazakhstan
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51.67 |
Forward 6
August 3, 2012, 11:50 a.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Félix Sánchez |
Dominican Republic
|
49.24 | |
| 2 | Jack Green |
Great Britain
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49.49 | |
| 3 | Mamadou cash register Hanne |
 Senegal
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49.63 | |
| 4th | Tetsuya Tateno |
Japan
|
49.95 | |
| 5 | Josef Robertson |
Jamaica
|
49.98 | |
| 6th | Boniface Mucheru |
Kenya
|
50.33 | |
| 7th | Artyom Dyatlov |
 Uzbekistan
|
51.55 | |
| 8th | Andrés Silva |
Uruguay
|
53.38 |
With his fifth place in the preliminary run, the Jamaican Roxroy Cato did not reach the semi-finals
The Estonian Rasmus Mägi was eliminated as sixth of his preliminary run
The German Silvio Schirrmeister finished fourth in his preliminary run and did not reach the next round
The Greek Periklis Iakovakis was fifth in his preliminary run and was eliminated
With fifth place in his race, the South African Louis Jacobus van Zyl failed in the preliminary round
The Czech Josef Prorok failed as seventh in his race in the preliminary round
Andrés Silva from Uruguay was eighth in his heat and did not make it to the semi-finals
Semifinals
There were three semi-finals. The first two athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Run 1
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August 4, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Félix Sánchez |
Dominican Republic
|
47.76 | |
| 2 | Jehue Gordon |
Trinidad and Tobago
|
47.96 | NO |
| 3 | Kerron Clement |
United States
|
48.12 | |
| 4th | David Greene |
Great Britain
|
48.19 | |
| 5 | Mamadou cash register Hanne |
Senegal
|
48.80 | |
| 6th | Michael Bultheel |
Belgium
|
49.10 | |
| 7th | Eric Alejandro |
Puerto Rico
|
49.15 | |
| 8th | Kurt Couto |
Mozambique
|
51.55 |
Run 2
August 4, 2012, 7:08 pm
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Javier Culson |
Puerto Rico
|
47.93 | |
| 2 | Angelo Taylor |
United States
|
47.95 | |
| 3 | Omar Cisneros |
Cuba
|
48.23 | |
| 4th | Emir Bekrić |
Serbia
|
49.62 | |
| 5 | Kenneth Medwood |
Belize
|
49.87 | |
| 6th | Stanislaw Melnykov |
Ukraine
|
50.19 | |
| 7th | Tristan Thomas |
Australia
|
50.55 | |
| DNF | Jack Green |
Great Britain
|
Run 3
August 4, 2012, 7:16 pm
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Tinsley |
United States
|
48.18 | |
| 2 | Leford Green |
Jamaica
|
48.61 | |
| 3 | Brent LaRue |
Slovenia
|
49.45 | |
| 4th | Rhys Williams |
Great Britain
|
49.63 | |
| 5 | Brendan Cole |
Australia
|
49.65 | |
| 6th | José Bencosme de Leon |
Italy
|
50.07 | |
| 7th | Amaury's Valle |
Russia
|
50.48 | |
| DSQ | Amaechi Morton |
Nigeria
|
IAAF Rule 168.7 - Skipping a hurdle |
The Belgian Michaël Bultheel was eliminated in the semifinals as sixth of his run
For Kenneth Medwood from Belize, a fifth place in his semifinals was not enough for the final
Brit Rhys Williams finished fourth in his semi-final run and was eliminated
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final
August 6, 2012, 8:45 p.m.
All three Americans qualified for the finals. There was also a participant from the Dominican Republic, Great Britain, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago.
In this final, the Olympic champions of three games met each other. In 2000 and 2008 the American Angelo Taylor won gold, in 2004 the winner was Félix Sánchez, who came from the Dominican Republic. The American Kerron Clement, world champion from 2007 and 2009 , Michael Tinsley, who had won the US Olympic qualifications, and the reigning world champion David Greene from Great Britain also started with good chances .
The race was initially led by Sánchez, Taylor and Puerto Rican Javier Culson. Taylor had moved forward slightly, but lost his rhythm on the eighth hurdle. On the ninth hurdle, Sánchez took the lead, closely followed by Culson. On the home straight, Sánchez had the greatest stamina and won the gold medal in the time of 47.63 s, which was identical to his winning time in 2004. Tinsley worked his way forward on the last meters and finished second before Culson. World Champion Greene was fourth, Taylor fifth.
Kevin Young Olympic record and world record from the year 1992 of 46.78 s remained completely unharmed even at these games.
Javier Culson won Puerto Rico's first medal in this discipline.
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Félix Sánchez |
Dominican Republic
|
47.63 | |
| 2 | Michael Tinsley |
United States
|
47.91 | |
| 3 | Javier Culson |
Puerto Rico
|
48.10 | |
| 4th | David Greene |
Great Britain
|
48.24 | |
| 5 | Angelo Taylor |
United States
|
48.25 | |
| 6th | Jehue Gordon |
Trinidad and Tobago
|
48.86 | |
| 7th | Leford Green |
Jamaica
|
49.12 | |
| 8th | Kerron Clement |
United States
|
49.15 |
Olympic Champion:
Félix Sánchez, Dominican Republic
Silver medal:
Michael Tinsley, USA
Bronze medal:
Javier Culson from Puerto Rico
The Briton David Greene finished in the Olympics
The American Angelo Taylor finished fifth in the final
Jehue Gordon from Trinidad and Tobago came in sixth place
The Jamaican Leford Green was Olympic seventh
Eighth place went to Kerron Clement from the United States
Web links
- SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed September 12, 2018
- Official report , accessed September 12, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 12, 2018
Video recordings
- Preliminary round on youtube.com, published on youtube.com on August 3, 2012, accessed on September 12, 2018
- Semifinals on youtube.com, published July 28, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed September 12, 2018
- Finale on youtube.com, published August 6, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed September 12, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675 , accessed on September 12, 2018
- ↑ a b c IAAF competition rules, page 93 . accessed on September 12, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 93 , accessed on September 12, 2018
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