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The Men's 400 metres hurdles

400 metres hurdles

The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

 event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics

2011 World Championships in Athletics

The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011....

 was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 29, 30 and September 1.

In the final, Angelo Taylor

Angelo Taylor

Angelo F. Taylor is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics....

 in lane 1 and Louis Jacob van Zyl in lane 8 bookended the field going out fast into the lead. As they were completing the final turn, Taylor faltered and started hitting hurdles while Javier Culson

Javier Culson

Javier Culson Pérez is a Puerto Rican athlete who specialises in the 400 metre hurdles.-Athletic career:Born in Ponce, Culson Pérez won his first international gold medal in his home town at the 2006 Ibero-American Championships. He won a bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade with a time of...

 powered into the lead. Both van Zyl and Culson slowed going into the final hurdle while David Greene

David Greene (athlete)

David "Dai" Greene is a Welsh hurdler who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles event and competes internationally for both Wales and Great Britain....

 cleared the hurdle with full momentum, cruising past the others to take the gold medal.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Dai Greene '	Javier Culson Javier Culson Javier Culson Pérez is a Puerto Rican athlete who specialises in the 400 metre hurdles.-Athletic career:Born in Ponce, Culson Pérez won his first international gold medal in his home town at the 2006 Ibero-American Championships. He won a bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade with a time of... '	Louis Jacob van Zyl '

Records

World record		46.78	Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... , Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	6 August 1992
Championship record		47.18	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	19 August 1993
World leading		47.66	Pretoria Pretoria Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is... , South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...	25 February 2011
			Ostrava Ostrava Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague. Located close to the Polish border, it is also the administrative center of the Moravian-Silesian Region and of the Municipality with Extended Competence. Ostrava was candidate for the... , Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....	31 May 2011
African record		47.10	Zürich Zürich Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich... , Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	7 August 1991
Asian record		47.53	Sydney Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people... , Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	27 September 2000
North, Central American and Caribbean record		46.78	Barcelona, Spain	6 August 1992
South American record		47.84	Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is... , Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...	7 August 2005
European record		47.37	Lausanne Lausanne Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west... , Switzerland	5 July 1995
Oceanian record		48.28	Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	31 July 1996

Qualification standards

A time	B time
49.40	49.80

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 29, 2011	11:30	Heats
August 30, 2011	19:30	Heats
September 1, 2011	21:30	Final

Results

KEY:	q	Fastest non-qualifiers	Q	Qualified	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	David Greene David Greene (athlete) David "Dai" Greene is a Welsh hurdler who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles event and competes internationally for both Wales and Great Britain....		48.52	Q
1	1	Cornel Fredericks Cornel Fredericks Cornel Edwin Fredericks is a South African track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles. His personal best for the event is 48.14 seconds....		48.52	Q
3	2	Louis Jacob van Zyl		48.58	Q
4	2	Isa Phillips Isa Phillips Isa Phillips is a Jamaican hurdling athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles.The Kingston native made his international debut at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Athletics, finishing sixth in the 400 m hurdles semi-finals. He won the national under-18s championship in the event...		48.64	Q, SB
5	1	Georg Fleischhauer Georg Fleischhauer Georg Fleischhauer is a German track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles.-Achievements:-References:...		48.72	Q, PB
6	2	Félix Sánchez Felix Sanchez Félix Sánchez —nicknamed Super Felix, the Invincible and the Dictator— is a track and field athlete from New York City, United States who competes for The Dominican Republic...		48.74	Q, SB
7	5	Jeshua Anderson Jeshua Anderson Jeshua Anderson is an American sprinter, who specialises in the 400 meters and 400 m hurdles. He currently enters his senior year at Washington State University. He won the 400m and 400m hurdles during the 2011 Pac-10 championships in May 2011...		48.81	Q
8	2	Kerron Clement Kerron Clement Kerron Stephon Clement is Trinidadian-born track and field athlete who represents the United States and specializes in the 400-meter hurdles...		48.91	Q
9	3	Javier Culson Javier Culson Javier Culson Pérez is a Puerto Rican athlete who specialises in the 400 metre hurdles.-Athletic career:Born in Ponce, Culson Pérez won his first international gold medal in his home town at the 2006 Ibero-American Championships. He won a bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade with a time of...		48.95	Q
10	5	Nathan Woodward		49.06	Q
11	5	Stanislav Melnykov Stanislav Melnykov Stanislav Melnykov is a Ukrainian is a Ukrainian 400 metres hurdler and two times national champion . Melnykov won bronze at the 2010 European Athletics Championships on the 400 metres hurdles.His personal best time is 46.54 seconds run in Bielsko-Biała .-References:...		49.24	Q, SB
12	3	Angelo Taylor Angelo Taylor Angelo F. Taylor is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics....		49.38	Q
13	3	Aleksandr Derevyagin Aleksandr Derevyagin Alexsandr Derevyagin is a Russian hurdler.He finished 8th in the 400m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....		49.43	Q, SB
14	5	Leford Green Leford Green Leford Green is a Jamaican athlete who specialises in the 400 metre hurdles & 400m.-External links:...		49.45	Q
15	3	Andrés Silva Andrés Silva Andrés Byron Silva Lemos is an Uruguayan track athlete. He competed in the combined events on the youth and junior levels, but has since specialized in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles....		49.48	Q
16	2	Vincent Kiplangat Kosgei		49.49	q, SB
17	3	Takayuki Kishimoto		49.51	q
18	1	Emir Bekrić Emir Bekrić Emir Bekrić is a Serbian hurdler who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles. He holds national record in this events.Bekrić won a bronze medal at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships in Ostrava. At the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen he achieved national record in semifinal. In the...		49.67	Q
19	1	Omar Cisneros Omar Cisneros Omar Cisneros Bonora is a Cuban track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles. He is the Cuban national record holder for the event with his personal best of 47.99 seconds...		49.69	q
20	1	Mahau Suguimati		49.74	q
21	4	Bershawn Jackson Bershawn Jackson Bershawn Jackson is an American athlete, who mainly competes in the 400 m hurdles, but is also a capable 400 m runner.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Jackson won a bronze medal in the 400 m hurdles...		49.82	Q
22	2	Jorge Paula		49.82
23	5	Kurt Couto		49.86
24	4	Jehue Gordon Jehue Gordon Jehue Gordon is a Trinidadian track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles. He turned professional on June 24, 2010, and signed a deal with Adidas in August 2010....		49.90	Q
25	2	Jamele Mason		49.98
26	4	Josef Robertson		50.29	Q
27	4	Jack Green		50.39	Q
28	3	Li Zhilong		50.44
29	4	Cheng Wen		50.51
30	5	Yuta Imazeki		50.92
31	5	Jean Antonio Vieillesse		51.02
32	4	Kenneth Medwood		51.19
33	4	Takatoshi Abe Takatoshi Abe is a Japanese track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles. His is the reigning Asian champion in the event.Born in Okayama Prefecture, Abe initially contested both the 110 metres hurdles and the 400 m hurdles, winning silver and gold medals at the Japanese high school...		51.90
34	3	Lee Seung-yun		52.98

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Javier Culson Javier Culson Javier Culson Pérez is a Puerto Rican athlete who specialises in the 400 metre hurdles.-Athletic career:Born in Ponce, Culson Pérez won his first international gold medal in his home town at the 2006 Ibero-American Championships. He won a bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade with a time of...		48.52	Q
2	2	David Greene David Greene (athlete) David "Dai" Greene is a Welsh hurdler who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles event and competes internationally for both Wales and Great Britain....		48.62	Q
3	3	Bershawn Jackson Bershawn Jackson Bershawn Jackson is an American athlete, who mainly competes in the 400 m hurdles, but is also a capable 400 m runner.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Jackson won a bronze medal in the 400 m hurdles...		48.80	Q
4	1	Cornel Fredericks Cornel Fredericks Cornel Edwin Fredericks is a South African track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles. His personal best for the event is 48.14 seconds....		48.83	Q
5	1	Angelo Taylor Angelo Taylor Angelo F. Taylor is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics....		48.86	q
6	2	Félix Sánchez Felix Sanchez Félix Sánchez —nicknamed Super Felix, the Invincible and the Dictator— is a track and field athlete from New York City, United States who competes for The Dominican Republic...		49.01	Q
7	3	Louis Jacob van Zyl		49.05	Q
8	3	Aleksandr Derevyagin Aleksandr Derevyagin Alexsandr Derevyagin is a Russian hurdler.He finished 8th in the 400m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....		49.07	q, SB
9	2	Jehue Gordon Jehue Gordon Jehue Gordon is a Trinidadian track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles. He turned professional on June 24, 2010, and signed a deal with Adidas in August 2010....		49.08
10	2	Isa Phillips Isa Phillips Isa Phillips is a Jamaican hurdling athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles.The Kingston native made his international debut at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Athletics, finishing sixth in the 400 m hurdles semi-finals. He won the national under-18s championship in the event...		49.16
11	3	Leford Green Leford Green Leford Green is a Jamaican athlete who specialises in the 400 metre hurdles & 400m.-External links:...		49.29
12	1	Jeshua Anderson Jeshua Anderson Jeshua Anderson is an American sprinter, who specialises in the 400 meters and 400 m hurdles. He currently enters his senior year at Washington State University. He won the 400m and 400m hurdles during the 2011 Pac-10 championships in May 2011...		49.33
13	3	Georg Fleischhauer Georg Fleischhauer Georg Fleischhauer is a German track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles.-Achievements:-References:...		49.36
14	3	Nathan Woodward		49.57
15	1	Jack Green		49.62
16	2	Andrés Silva Andrés Silva Andrés Byron Silva Lemos is an Uruguayan track athlete. He competed in the combined events on the youth and junior levels, but has since specialized in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles....		49.63
17	3	Vincent Kiplangat Kosgei		49.71
18	1	Stanislav Melnykov Stanislav Melnykov Stanislav Melnykov is a Ukrainian is a Ukrainian 400 metres hurdler and two times national champion . Melnykov won bronze at the 2010 European Athletics Championships on the 400 metres hurdles.His personal best time is 46.54 seconds run in Bielsko-Biała .-References:...		49.74
19	2	Emir Bekrić Emir Bekrić Emir Bekrić is a Serbian hurdler who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles. He holds national record in this events.Bekrić won a bronze medal at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships in Ostrava. At the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen he achieved national record in semifinal. In the...		49.94
20	1	Takayuki Kishimoto		50.05
21	3	Omar Cisneros Omar Cisneros Omar Cisneros Bonora is a Cuban track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles. He is the Cuban national record holder for the event with his personal best of 47.99 seconds...		50.10
22	1	Josef Robertson		50.39
23	2	Mahau Suguimati		50.89
24	2	Kerron Clement Kerron Clement Kerron Stephon Clement is Trinidadian-born track and field athlete who represents the United States and specializes in the 400-meter hurdles...		52.11

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	David Greene David Greene (athlete) David "Dai" Greene is a Welsh hurdler who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles event and competes internationally for both Wales and Great Britain....		48.26
	Javier Culson Javier Culson Javier Culson Pérez is a Puerto Rican athlete who specialises in the 400 metre hurdles.-Athletic career:Born in Ponce, Culson Pérez won his first international gold medal in his home town at the 2006 Ibero-American Championships. He won a bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade with a time of...		48.44
	Louis Jacob van Zyl		48.80
4	Félix Sánchez Felix Sanchez Félix Sánchez —nicknamed Super Felix, the Invincible and the Dictator— is a track and field athlete from New York City, United States who competes for The Dominican Republic...		48.87
5	Cornel Fredericks Cornel Fredericks Cornel Edwin Fredericks is a South African track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles. His personal best for the event is 48.14 seconds....		49.12
6	Bershawn Jackson Bershawn Jackson Bershawn Jackson is an American athlete, who mainly competes in the 400 m hurdles, but is also a capable 400 m runner.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Jackson won a bronze medal in the 400 m hurdles...		49.24
7	Angelo Taylor Angelo Taylor Angelo F. Taylor is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics....		49.31
8	Aleksandr Derevyagin Aleksandr Derevyagin Alexsandr Derevyagin is a Russian hurdler.He finished 8th in the 400m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....		49.32

External links

• 400 metres hurdles results at IAAF website