2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m (men)

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sport athletics
discipline 400 meter run
gender Men
Attendees 53 athletes from 33 countries
Competition location Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase August 12, 2016 (preliminary)
August 13, 2016 (semi-finals)
August 14, 2016 (final)
Winning time 43.03 s (world record)
Medalist
gold medal Wayde van Niekerk ( RSA ) South AfricaSouth Africa 
Silver medal Kirani James ( GRD ) GrenadaGrenada 
Bronze medal LaShawn Merritt ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 

The men's 400-meter run at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 12, 13 and 14, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 53 athletes took part.

The South African Wayde van Niekerk , who set a new world record , became the Olympic champion . Silver went to Kirani James from Grenada, bronze went to the American LaShawn Merritt .

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

In this competition, the South Sudanese James Chiengjiek started under the Olympic flag and the abbreviation ROT (Refugee Olympic Team) as an athlete who had fled his home country.

Current title holders

Olympic champion Kirani James ( Grenada ) GrenadaGrenada  43.94 s London 2012
World Champion Wayde van Niekerk ( South Africa ) South AfricaSouth Africa  43.48 s Beijing 2015
European champion Martyn Rooney ( Great Britain ) United KingdomUnited Kingdom  45.29 s Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean champions Lalonde Gordon ( Trinidad and Tobago ) Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago  44.89 s San José 2015
South America champion Alberth Bravo ( Venezuela ) VenezuelaVenezuela  45.26 s Lima 2015
Asian champion Abdalelah Haroun ( Qatar ) QatarQatar  44.68 s Wuhan 2015
African champions Baboloki Thebe ( Botswana ) BotswanaBotswana  44.69 s Durban 2016
Oceania Champion Uluiyata Batinisavu ( Fiji ) FijiFiji  48.22 s Cairns 2015

Existing records

World record Michael Johnson ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  43.18 s Seville , Spain August 26, 1999
Olympic record 43.49 s Atlanta Final , USA July 29, 1996

All times are based on local time in Rio ( UTC-3 ).

Preliminary round

The athletes competed in a total of seven heats. The first three athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. 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 12, 2016, 9:05 p.m.

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Machel Cedenio Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 44.98 s
2 Gil Roberts United StatesUnited States United States 45.27 s
3 Yoandy's Lescay CubaCuba Cuba 45.36 s
4th Fitzroy Dunkley JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 45.66 s
5 Kevin Borlée BelgiumBelgium Belgium 45.90 s
6th Alberth Bravo VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela 46.15 s
7th Alexander Sampao KenyaKenya Kenya 46.62 s
8th Ousseini Djibo Idrissa NigerNiger Niger 50.06 s

Forward 2

August 12, 2016, 9:13 p.m.

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Bralon Taplin GrenadaGrenada Grenada 45.15 s
2 Nery Brenes Costa RicaCosta Rica Costa Rica 45.53 s
3 Karabo Sibanda BotswanaBotswana Botswana 45.56 s
4th Matteo Galvan ItalyItaly Italy 46.07 s
5 Raymond Kibet KenyaKenya Kenya 46.15 s
6th Mehboob Ali PakistanPakistan Pakistan 48.37 s
7th Bachir Mahamat ChadChad Chad 48.59 s
DSQ Anas Beshr EgyptEgypt Egypt IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the lane marking

Forward 3

August 12, 2016, 9:21 p.m.

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Wayde van Niekerk South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 45.26 s
2 Luguelin Santos Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Dominican Republic 45.61 s
3 Javon Francis JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 45.88 s
4th Jonathan Borlée BelgiumBelgium Belgium 46.01 s
5 Alphas Kishoyian KenyaKenya Kenya 46.74 s
6th Brandon Valentine-Parris Saint Vincent GrenadinesSt. Vincent and the Grenadines St. Vincent and the Grenadines 47.62 s
DSQ Alonzo Russell BahamasBahamas Bahamas IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the lane marking

Forward 4

August 12, 2016, 9:29 p.m.

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Lalonde Gordon Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 45.24 s
2 Luka Janežič SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 45.33 s
3 Baboloki Thebe BotswanaBotswana Botswana 45.41 s
4th Chris Brown BahamasBahamas Bahamas 45.56 s
5 Martyn Rooney United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 45.60 s
6th Julian Walsh JapanJapan Japan 46.37 s
7th Gustavo Cuesta Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Dominican Republic 46.92 s
8th James Chiengjiek IOCIOC Refugee Olympic Team 52.89 s Country of origin: South Sudan

Forward 5

August 12, 2016, 9:37 p.m.

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1 LaShawn Merritt United StatesUnited States United States 45.76 s
2 Abdalelah Haroun QatarQatar Qatar 45.33 s
3 Isaac Makwala BotswanaBotswana Botswana 45.91 s
4th Vitaly Butrim UkraineUkraine Ukraine 45.92 s
5 Donald Sanford IsraelIsrael Israel 46.06 s
6th Deon Lendore Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 46.15 s
7th Hederson Estefani BrazilBrazil Brazil 46.68 s

Forward 6

August 12, 2016, 9.45 p.m.

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1 Kirani James GrenadaGrenada Grenada 44.93 s
2 Rusheen McDonald JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 45.22 s
3 Matthew Hudson-Smith United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 45.26 s
4th David Verburg United StatesUnited States United States 45.48 s
5 Winston George GuyanaGuyana Guyana 45.77 s
6th Diego Palomeque ColombiaColombia Colombia 46.48 s
DSQ Abubakar Abbas BahrainBahrain Bahrain IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the lane marking

Forward 7

August 12, 2016, 9:53 p.m.

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Ali Khamis Khamis BahrainBahrain Bahrain 45.12 s
2 Steven Gardiner BahamasBahamas Bahamas 45.24 s
3 Liemarvin Bonevacia NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 45.49 s
4th Rafał Omelko PolandPoland Poland 45.54 s
5 Pavel Maslák Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 45.54 s
6th Muhammed Anas IndiaIndia India 45.95 s
7th Orukpe Erayokan NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 47.42 s
8th Yūzō Kanemaru JapanJapan Japan 48.38 s

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 13, 2016, 8.30 p.m.

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Kirani James GrenadaGrenada Grenada 44.02 s
2 LaShawn Merritt United StatesUnited States United States 44.21 s
3 Karabo Sibanda BotswanaBotswana Botswana 44.47 s
4th Luguelin Santos Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Dominican Republic 44.71 s
5 Javon Francis JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 44.96 s
6th Nery Brenes Costa RicaCosta Rica Costa Rica 45.95 s
7th Liemarvin Bonevacia NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 45.03 s
8th Lalonde Gordon Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 45.13 s

Run 2

August 13, 2016, 8.30 p.m.

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Machel Cedenio Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 44.39 s
2 Wayde van Niekerk South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 44.45 s
3 Pavel Maslák Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 45.06 s
4th Luka Janežič SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 45.07 s NO
5 David Verburg United StatesUnited States United States 44.96 s
6th Rusheen McDonald JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 46.12 s
7th Abdalelah Haroun QatarQatar Qatar 46.66 s
DNS Baboloki Thebe BotswanaBotswana Botswana

Run 3

August 13, 2016, 8.44 p.m.

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Bralon Taplin GrenadaGrenada Grenada 44.44 s
2 Matthew Hudson-Smith United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 44.48 s
3 Ali Khamis Khamis BahrainBahrain Bahrain 44.49 s NO
4th Gil Roberts United StatesUnited States United States 44.65 s
5 Steven Gardiner BahamasBahamas Bahamas 44.72 s
6th Yoandy's Lescay CubaCuba Cuba 45.00 s
7th Rafał Omelko PolandPoland Poland 45.28 s
8th Isaac Makwala BotswanaBotswana Botswana 46.60 s

final

August 14, 2016, 10:00 p.m.

Two athletes from the Caribbean island of Grenada qualified for the final. There was also one participant from Bahrain, Botswana, Great Britain, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago and the USA.

The favorites of the race were the South African world champion Wayde van Niekerk and the 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James from Grenada.

James, who started on lane six, led the US athlete LaShawn Merritt on lane five after two hundred meters. At the finish line, James, Merritt and van Niekerk were initially tied. At the start of the home straight van Niekerk had run out of the lead. The South African had the greatest stamina. Merritt was now slightly ahead of James in second place, but the American could no longer keep the pace. Van Niekerk crossed the finish line in 43.03 s and improved Michael Johnson's seventeen-year-old world record by 15 hundredths of a second. Kirani James caught LaShawn Merritt and won silver.

Wayde van Niekerk won the first gold medal in athletics for South Africa in twenty years. At the same time, he was the first Olympic champion over 400 meters to run on the outside lane.

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Wayde van Niekerk South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 43.03 s WR
2 Kirani James GrenadaGrenada Grenada 43.76 s
3 LaShawn Merritt United StatesUnited States United States 43.85 s
4th Machel Cedenio Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 44.01 s NO
5 Karabo Sibanda BotswanaBotswana Botswana 44.25 s
6th Ali Khamis Khamis BahrainBahrain Bahrain 44.36 s NO
7th Bralon Taplin GrenadaGrenada Grenada 44.45 s
8th Matthew Hudson-Smith United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 44.61 s

Web links

Video

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 669 , accessed on September 30, 2018
  2. a b c IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on September 30, 2018