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

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	43 athletes from 35 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 5, 2012 (preliminary round) August 6, 2012 (semi-finals) August 8, 2012 (final)
Medalists Natalja Antjuch ( RUS )   Lashinda Demus ( USA )   Zuzana Hejnová ( CZE )

The women's 400 meter hurdles at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on August 5th, 6th and 8th, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in London . 43 athletes took part.

The Russian Natalja Antjuch became the Olympic champion . The American Lashinda Demus won the silver medal, bronze went to the Czech Zuzana Hejnová .

Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion	Melaine Walker ( Jamaica )	52.64 s	Beijing 2008
world champion	Lashinda Demus ( USA )	52.47 s	Daegu 2011
European champion	Irina Davydova ( Russia )	53.77 s	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champion	Andrea Sutherland ( Jamaica )	56.75 s	Mayagüez 2011
South America Champion	Jaílma de Lima ( Brazil )	57.13 s	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Satomi Kubokura ( Japan )	56.52 s	Kobe 2011
African champion	Muizat Ajoke Odumosu ( Nigeria )	54.99 s	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania champion	Zoe Ballantyne ( New Zealand )	1: 01.63 min	Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Julija Pechonkina ( Russia )	52.34 s	Tula , Russia	August 8, 2003
Olympic record	Melaine Walker ( Jamaica )	52.64 s	Beijing Final , People's Republic of China	August 20, 2008

Note: All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

doping

The Syrian Ghofrane Mohamed (often also called Ghfran Almouhamad) was convicted and disqualified after her race in the second run of the doping with methylhexanamine .

Prelims

Five preliminary runs were carried out. The first four athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. 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 5, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Zuzana Hejnová	Czech Republic	53.96
2	T'erea Brown	United States	54.72
3	Eilidh Child	Great Britain	56.14
4th	Sarah Wells	Canada	56.47
5	Eglė Staišiūnaitė	Lithuania	57.79
6th	Tatiana Azarova	Kazakhstan	58.53
7th	Maureen Mayo	Kenya	62.16
DNF	Vanya Stambalova	Bulgaria

Forward 2

August 5, 2012, 7.08 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Natalja Antjuch	Russia	53.90
2	Kaliese Spencer	Jamaica	54.02
3	Muizat Ajoke Odumosu	Nigeria	54.93
4th	Anna Jesień	Poland	55.44
5	Lauren Boden	Australia	56.27
6th	Raasin McIntosh	Liberia	57.39
7th	Natalia Asanova	Uzbekistan	58.05
8th	Noraseela Mohd Khalid	Malaysia	60.16
DOP	Ghofrane Mohamed	Syria

Forward 3

August 5, 2012, 7:16 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Lashinda Demus	United States	54.60
2	Hanna Titimez	Ukraine	55.08
3	Vera Barbosa	Portugal	55.22	NO
4th	Jelena Tschurakowa	Russia	55.26
5	Denisa Rosolová	Czech Republic	55.42
6th	Sara Slott Petersen	Denmark	56.01
7th	Lucy Jaramillo	Ecuador	57.74
8th	Princesa Oliveros	Colombia	58.95

Forward 4

August 5, 2012, 7:24 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Georganne Moline	Turkey	54.31
2	Nickiesha Wilson	Jamaica	55.53
3	Irina Davydova	Russia	55.55
4th	Elodie Ouédraogo	Belgium	55.89
5	Angela Moroșanu	Romania	56.64
6th	Sharolyn Scott	Costa Rica	57.03
7th	Janeil Bellille	Trinidad and Tobago	57.27
8th	Nikolina Horvat	Croatia	58.49
DSQ	Nagihan Karadere	Turkey		IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

Forward 5

Scene from the fifth run: in
front Spencer (yellow jersey), above Shakes-Drayton, on the left Yaroschtschuk, on the upper left edge of the picture de Lima

August 5, 2012, 7:32 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Perri Shakes-Drayton	Great Britain	54.62
2	Melaine Walker	Jamaica	54.78
3	Hanna Yaroschtschuk	Ukraine	54.81
4th	Hayat Lambarki	Morocco	55.58
5	Satomi Kubokura	Japan	55.85
6th	Huang Xiaoxiao	People's Republic of China	56.29
7th	Déborah Rodríguez	Uruguay	57.04	NO
8th	Jaílma de Lima	Brazil	57.05
9	Christine Sonali Merrill	Sri Lanka	57.15

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  The Lithuanian Eglė Staišiūnaitė was eliminated in the preliminary run as fifth placed in her race

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  The Bulgaria Wanja Stambolowa did not reach the goal in their advance

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  The Romanian Angela Moroșanu came in fifth in her preliminary run and did not reach the semi-finals

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  The Brazilian Jailma de Lima failed as eighth of her race in the preliminaries

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  Christine Sonali Merrill from Sri Lanka finished ninth in her preliminary run and was eliminated

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 runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Run 1

August 6, 2012, 8:15 p.m.

The Australian Lauren Boden was initially disqualified, but the arbitral tribunal subsequently reversed this decision.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Natalja Antjuch	Russia	53.33
2	Zuzana Hejnová	Czech Republic	53.62
3	T'erea Brown	United States	54.21
4th	Elodie Ouédraogo	Belgium	55.20
5	Nickiesha Wilson	Jamaica	55.77
6th	Hayat Lambarki	Morocco	56.18
7th	Vera Barbosa	Portugal	56.27
8th	Lauren Boden	Australia	56.66

Run 2

August 6, 2012, 8:23 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Lashinda Demus	United States	54.08
2	Kaliese Spencer	Jamaica	54.20
3	Perri Shakes-Drayton	Great Britain	55.19
4th	Hanna Yaroschtschuk	Ukraine	55.51
5	Irina Davydova	Russia	55.86
6th	Sara Slott Petersen	Denmark	56.21
7th	Anna Jesień	Poland	56.28
8th	Sarah Wells	Canada	56.71

Run 3

Scene from the third semi-final (from left to right ):
Child, Tschurakowa, Moline, Odumosu at the
top right at the edge of the picture Titimez

August 6, 2012, 8:31 pm

The Czech Denisa Rosolová and the Ukrainian Hanna Titimez were initially disqualified, but the arbitral tribunal subsequently reversed this decision.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Muizat Ajoke Odumosu	Nigeria	54.40	NO
2	Georganne Moline	United States	54.74
3	Denisa Rosolová	Czech Republic	54.87
4th	Hanna Titimez	Ukraine	55.10
5	Jelena Tschurakowa	Russia	55.70
6th	Melaine Walker	Jamaica	55.74
7th	Eilidh Child	Great Britain	56.03
8th	Satomi Kubokura	Japan	56.25

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  The Belgian Élodie Ouédraogo finished fourth in her semi-final run and was eliminated

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  The Moroccan Hayat Lambarki did not reach the finals as sixth of her semi-final run

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  The British Perri Shakes-Drayton finished third in her semi-final run and missed the final by one place

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  The Russian European champion Irina Dawydowa failed as fifth in her run in the semifinals

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  The Danish Sara Petersen reached the semifinals and was eliminated there with a sixth place

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  Hanna Titimez from Ukraine finished fourth in the third semifinals and was eliminated

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  The Jamaican Melaine Walker failed in sixth of her race in the semifinals

final

Scene from the finale after the first corner:
Lane 2 (right): Brown; Lane 3: Rosolová; Lane 4: Hejnová; Lane 5: Antjuch; Lane 6: Odumosu; Lane 7: Demus; Lane 8: Moline; Lane 9: Spencer

August 8, 2012, 8:45 p.m.

All three US athletes had qualified for the final. There were also two Czech women and one participant each from Jamaica, Nigeria and Russia.

The reigning world champion Lashinda Demus from the USA was the favorite after the 2008 Olympic champion Melaine Walker from Jamaica failed in the semifinals. The highly esteemed Russian European champion Irina Dawydowa was also eliminated there. Her teammate Natalja Antjuch, who had achieved the world best performance in 2012, was now considered one of the strongest competitors of the US athlete.

Demus was ahead of Antjuch after the first five hurdles. But the Russian pushed herself to the top before the ninth hurdle. Demus was able to keep up with the pace of Antjuch, but couldn't get past her. More than half a second behind Demus, the Czech Zuzana Hejnová won the bronze medal in third place, ahead of the Jamaican Kaliese Spencer. Behind them were the two Americans Georganne Moline and T'erea Brown, places five and six.

Zuzana Hejnová managed to win the first medal for the Czech Republic in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Natalja Antjuch	Russia	52.70
2	Lashinda Demus	United States	52.77
3	Zuzana Hejnová	Czech Republic	53.38
4th	Kaliese Spencer	Jamaica	53.66
5	Georganne Moline	United States	53.92
6th	T'erea Brown	United States	55.07
7th	Denisa Rosolová	Czech Republic	55.27
8th	Muizat Ajoke Odumosu	Nigeria	55.31

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  Olympic champion:
  Natalja Antjuch, Russia

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  Silver medal:
  Lashinda Demus, USA

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  Bronze medal:
  Zuzana Hejnová from the Czech Republic

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  The Jamaican Kaliese Spencer came fourth in the final

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  The Olympic fifth Georganne Moline from the USA

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  The American T'erea Brown took sixth place

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  The Czech Denisa Rosolová was Olympic seventh

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  The Nigerian Muizat Ajoke Odumosu came in eighth in the final

Web links

• SportsReference 400m Hurdles Women (English) , accessed on September 22, 2018
• Official report , accessed September 22, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 22, 2018

Videos

• 400m Hurdles - Women's Full Heats - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 5, 2012, accessed September 22, 2018
• Natalya Antyukh (RUS) Wins 400m Hurdles Gold - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published on August 8, 2012, accessed on September 22, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on September 22, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Report of the Daily Mail from August 11, 2012 (English) , accessed on September 22, 2018
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF), accessed on September 22, 2018