Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 400 m (women)

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)
Medalists Sanya Richards-Ross ( USA )   Christine Ohuruogu ( GBR )   DeeDee Trotter ( USA )

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 )	49.62 s	Beijing 2008
world champion	Amantle Montsho ( Botswana )	49.56 s	Daegu 2011
European champion	Moa Hjelmer ( Sweden )	51.13 s	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champion	Shereefa Lloyd ( Jamaica )	51.69 s	Mayagüez 2011
South America Champion	Norma González ( Colombia )	52.12 s	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Chen Jingwen ( People's Republic of China )	52.89 s	Kobe 2011
African champion	Amantle Montsho ( Botswana )	49.54 s	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania champion	Suliana Gusuivalu ( Fiji )	57.14 s	Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Marita Koch ( GDR )	47.60 s	Canberra , Australia	October 6, 1985
Olympic record	Marie-José Pérec ( France )	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
1	Francena McCorory	United States	50.78
2	Christine Ohuruogu	Great Britain	50.80
3	Joy Nakhumicha Sakari	Kenya	51.85
4th	Joanne Cuddihy	Ireland	52.09
5	Geisa Aparecida Coutinho	Brazil	53.43
6th	Marina Maslenko	Kazakhstan	53.66
7th	Zamzam Mohamed Farah	Somalia	80.48

Forward 2

August 3, 2012, 12:08 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Amantle Montsho	Botswana	50.40
2	Christine Day	Jamaica	51.05
3	Shana Cox	Great Britain	52.01
4th	Aliann Pompey	Guyana	52.10
5	Afia Charles	Antigua and Barbuda	54.25
6th	Ingrid Yahocza Narváez Solis	Nicaragua	59.55
DNF	Shaunae Miller	Bahamas

Forward 3

August 3, 2012, 12:16 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	DeeDee Trotter	United States	50.87
2	Rosemarie Whyte	Jamaica	50.90
3	Jenna Martin	Canada	51.98
4th	Omolara Omotosho	Nigeria	52.11
5	Raysa Sánchez	Dominican Republic	52.47
6th	Aauri Bokesa	Spain	53.67
7th	Zourah Ali	Djibouti	65.37

Forward 4

August 3, 2012, 12:24 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sanya Richards-Ross	United States	51.78
2	Carol Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	52.19
3	Tjipekapora Herunga	Namibia	52.31
4th	Pinar Saka	Turkey	52.38
5	Svyatlana Usovich	Belarus	52.40
6th	Phumlile Ndzinisa	Swaziland	53.95
7th	Hristina Risteska	Macedonia	60.86

Forward 5

August 3, 2012, 12:32 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Antonina Kriwoschapka	Russia	50.75
2	Alina Lohwynenko	Ukraine	52.08
3	Lee McConnell	Great Britain	52.23
4th	Moa Hjelmer	Sweden	52.86
5	Ambwene Simukonda	Malawi	54.20	NO
6th	Danielle Alakija	Fiji	56.77
DNS	Kanika Beckles	Grenada

Forward 6

Preroll 6 ( from left to right ):
Mahusin, Pyhyda, Grenot, Răzor, Williams-Mills, Sousa, Alexander

August 3, 2012, 12:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Novlene Williams-Mills	Jamaica	50.88
2	Natalija Pyhyda	Ukraine	51.09
3	Libania Grenot	Italy	52.13
4th	Joelma Sousa	Brazil	52.69
5	Bianca Răzor	Romania	52.83
6th	Maziah Mahusin	Brunei	59.28	NO
DNF	Kineke Alexander	St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Forward 7

August 3, 2012, 12:48 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Regina George	Nigeria	51.24 s
2	Julia Gushchina	Russia	51.54 s
3	Marlena Wesh	Haiti	51.98 s
4th	Amy Mbacke Thiam	Senegal	53.23 s
5	Olesea Cojuhari	Moldova	53.64 s
6th	Graciela Martins	Guinea-Bissau	58.30 s
DSQ	Jennifer Padilla	Colombia		IAAF Rule 163.3 a - Violation of the lane marking

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

Scene from semi-final 1:
Ohuruogu ahead of Whyte, Gushchina and Richards-Ross

August 4, 2012, 8:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sanya Richards-Ross	United States	50.07
2	Christine Ohuruogu	Great Britain	50.22
3	Rosemarie Whyte	Jamaica	50.98
4th	Julia Gushchina	Russia	51.66
5	Joanne Cuddihy	Ireland	51.88
6th	Tjipekapora Herunga	Namibia	52.53
7th	Jenna Martin	Canada	52.83
8th	Joy Nakhumicha Sakari	Kenya	52.95

Run 2

August 4, 2012, 8:13 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Amantle Montsho	Botswana	50.15
2	Francena McCorory	United States	50.19
3	Libania Grenot	Italy	51.18
4th	Christine Day	Jamaica	51.19
5	Regina George	Nigeria	51.35
6th	Alina Lohwynenko	Ukraine	51.38
7th	Aliann Pompey	Guyana	52.58
8th	Shana Cox	Great Britain	52.58

Run 3

August 4, 2012, 8:21 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Antonina Kriwoschapka	Russia	49.81
2	DeeDee Trotter	United States	49.87
3	Novlene Williams-Mills	Jamaica	49.91
4th	Omolara Omotosho	Nigeria	51.41
5	Natalija Pyhyda	Ukraine	51.41
6th	Carol Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	52.08
7th	Lee McConnell	Great Britain	52.24
8th	Marlena Wesh	Haiti	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
1	Sanya Richards-Ross	United States	49.55
2	Christine Ohuruogu	Great Britain	49.70
3	DeeDee Trotter	United States	49.72
4th	Amantle Montsho	Botswana	49.75
5	Novlene Williams-Mills	Jamaica	50.11
6th	Antonina Kriwoschapka	Russia	50.17
7th	Francena McCorory	United States	50.33
8th	Rosemarie Whyte	Jamaica	50.79

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross, USA

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  Silver medalist Christine Ohuruogu from Great Britain

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  Bronze medalist DeeDee Trotter from the United States

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  Amantle Montsho, a runner from Botswana, came fourth

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  The Jamaican Novlene Williams-Mills finished fifth in the Olympics

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  The Russian Olympic sixth Antonina Kriwoschapka

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  The American Francena McCorory came in seventh place

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  Rosemarie Whyte from Jamaica was Olympic eight

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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 794 , accessed on September 18, 2018
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF) . accessed on September 18, 2018