Summer Olympics 2020 / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)

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sport athletics
discipline 400 meter hurdles
gender Men
Attendees ?? Athletes from ?? Countries
Competition location Olympic Stadium
Competition phase July 31 to August 4, 2020

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will take place from July 31 to August 4 in the newly built Olympic Stadium.

Current title holders

Olympic champion Kerron Clement ( United States ) United StatesUnited States  47.73 s Rio de Janeiro 2016
World Champion Karsten Warholm ( Norway ) NorwayNorway  47.42 s Doha 2019
European champion Karsten Warholm ( Norway ) NorwayNorway  47.64 s Berlin 2018
North / Central America / Caribbean champions Kyron McMaster ( British Virgin Islands ) British Virgin IslandsBritish Virgin Islands  48.18 s Toronto 2018
South America champion Alison dos Santos ( Brazil ) BrazilBrazil  49.88 s Lima 2019
Asian champion Abderrahman Samba ( Qatar ) QatarQatar  47.51 s Doha 2019
African champions Algiers 2020
Oceania Champion Ian Dewhurst ( Australia ) AustraliaAustralia  50.79 s Townsville 2019

Existing records

World record Kevin Young ( United States ) United StatesUnited States  46.78 s Barcelona , Spain August 6, 1992
Olympic record Final of Barcelona , Spain

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675 , accessed on October 4, 2018