Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Men's 400 metres hurdles

at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad

Interior view of the Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, where the Men's 400m hurdles took place.

Venue

Olympic Stadium

Dates

15 August 2016 (heats)
16 August 2016 (semifinal)
18 August 2016 (final)

Competitors

48 from 33 nations

Winning time

47.73

Medalists

	Kerron Clement	United States
	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	Kenya
	Yasmani Copello	Turkey

Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of athletes
Qualification
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 15–18 August at the Olympic Stadium.^[1]

Summary

There were several major absences from the competition: the 2012 Olympic champion Félix Sánchez did not return to defend his title as he had retired, Johnny Dutch (the world-leading athlete that season) had faltered at the American Olympic Trials, and the 2015 World Championships runner-up Denis Kudryavtsev was ineligible due to the Russian team ban for doping. The top contender was Kerron Clement – the 2008 Olympic medallist showing a return of form to place second on the world rankings. The 2012 Olympic minor medallists Javier Culson of Puerto Rico and American Michael Tinsley were other strong entrants, as was the 2016 European Champion Yasmani Copello of Turkey. Nicholas Bett (Kenya's reigning world champion) was present but ranked outside the world's top forty.^[2]^[3]

The final started with a false start. Javier Culson realized his mistake and walked off the track in tears before the disqualification card could be shown to him. On the restart, Yasmani Copello, the Cuban free agent running for Turkey in lane 2 was the first over the first hurdles. By the third barrier, Kerron Clement in 5, Annsert Whyte in 6 and Boniface Mucheru Tumuti in 7 had pulled even. Through the next two hurdles, Clement edged ahead with Whyte just marginally behind him. Through the final turn, Clement pushed his lead out to half a stride over Whyte, with Tumuti very close to Whyte on the outside. By the ninth barrier, Tumuti pulled even with Whyte. Clement was already on the ground after the hurdle before Copello began to rise. Another stride back in a battle to stay out of last place was Thomas Barr. But through what remained of the home straight, Clement began to come back to the field as Tumuti pulled ahead of Whyte, while Barr and Copello was making a final charge at all three. In the run in, Clement strained to successfully hold off Tumuti, to take the gold, while Copello closed strongly, barely holding off a late rush by Barr for bronze as Whyte faded.^[4]

Behind Clement, all the other athletes set national records for their countries except last place Haron Koech, who watched Tumuti take the Kenyan record in front of him and Whyte.^[5]

The medals were presented by Issa Hayatou, IOC member, Cameroon and Víctor López, Council Member of the IAAF.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Kevin Young (USA)	46.78	Barcelona, Spain	6 August 1992
Olympic record
2016 World leading	Johnny Dutch (USA)	48.10	Kingston, Jamaica	11 June 2016

Area	Time	Athlete	Nation
Africa (records)	47.10	Samuel Matete	Zambia
Asia (records)	47.53	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia
Europe (records)	47.37	Stephane Diagana	France
North, Central America and Caribbean (records)	46.78 WR	Kevin Young	United States
Oceania (records)	48.28	Rohan Robinson	Australia
South America (records)	47.84	Bayano Kamani	Panama

The following national records were established during the competition:

Country	Athlete	Round	Time
Algeria	Abdelmalik Lahoulou (ALG)	Heats	48.62 s
Norway	Karsten Warholm (NOR)	Heats	48.49 s
Finland	Oskari Mörö (FIN)	Heats	49.04 s
Seychelles	Ned Justeen Azemia (SEY)	Heats	50.74 s
Ireland	Thomas Barr (IRL)	Semifinals	48.39 s
Kenya	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti (KEN)	Final	47.78 s
Turkey	Yasmani Copello (TUR)	Final	47.92 s
Ireland	Thomas Barr (IRL)	Final	47.97 s
Estonia	Rasmus Mägi (EST)	Final	48.40 s

Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time (UTC-3)

Date	Time	Round
Monday, 15 August 2016	11:35	Heats
Tuesday, 16 August 2016	21:35	Semifinals
Thursday, 18 August 2016	12:00	Finals

Results

Round 1

Qualification rules: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes^[6]
1	8	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria	48.62	Q, NR
2	7	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	Kenya	48.91	Q
3	2	Kerron Clement	United States	49.17	Q
4	4	Yuki Matsushita	Japan	49.60
5	5	Miles Ukaoma	Nigeria	49.84
6	3	Marcio Teles	Brazil	50.41
7	6	Jeffery Gibson	Bahamas	52.77

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	49.52	Q
2	6	Eric Alejandro	Puerto Rico	49.54	Q
3	1	Mahau Suguimati	Brazil	49.77	Q
4	8	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	49.78
5	2	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	49.80
6	7	Amadou Ndiaye	Senegal	49.91
7	4	Martin Kucera	Slovakia	51.47
8	3	Maoulida Daroueche	Comoros	52.32

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Karsten Warholm	Norway	48.49	Q, NR
2	3	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	48.53	Q, SB
3	8	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia	48.55	Q, SB
4	7	Roxroy Cato	Jamaica	48.56	q, SB
5	6	Miloud Rahmani	Algeria	49.73
6	1	Dmitriy Koblov	Kazakhstan	49.87
7	5	José Luis Gaspar	Cuba	50.58
8	4	Ned Justeen Azemia	Seychelles	50.74	NR

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Keisuke Nozawa	Japan	48.62	Q, PB
2	3	Thomas Barr	Ireland	48.93	Q, SB
3	8	Eric Cray	Philippines	49.05	Q
4	4	Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica	49.24	q
5	1	Sergio Fernandez	Spain	49.31	q
6	5	Sebastian Rodger	Great Britain	49.54
7	6	Le Roux Hamman	South Africa	49.72
8	2	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago	49.90	SB

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Annsert Whyte	Jamaica	48.37	Q, PB
2	7	Jack Green	Great Britain	48.96	Q, SB
3	4	Byron Robinson	United States	48.98	Q
4	5	Oskari Mörö	Finland	49.04	q, NR
5	2	Michael Bultheel	Belgium	49.37	q, SB
6	3	Kurt Couto	Mozambique	49.74	SB
7	6	Lindsay Hanekom	South Africa	50.22
8 !–	8	Nicholas Kiplagat Bett	Kenya	51 !DQ	R168.7b

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Haron Koech	Kenya	48.77	Q, PB
2	8	L.J. Van Zyl	South Africa	49.12	Q
3	5	Andres Silva	Uruguay	49.21	Q, SB
4	7	Jordin Andrade	Cape Verde	49.35	q
5	6	Mohamed Sghaier	Tunisia	50.09	SB
6	1	Michael Tinsley	United States	50.18
7	3	Chen Chieh	Chinese Taipei	50.65
8	2	Patryk Dobek	Poland	50.66

Semifinals

Qualification rules: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	Kerron Clement	United States	48.26	Q, SB
2	6	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	Kenya	48.85	Q, SB
3	1	Sergio Fernandez	Spain	48.87
4	5	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria	49.08
5	2	Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica	49.17
6	3	Keisuke Nozawa	Japan	49.20
7	7	Eric Cray	Philippines	49.37
8	4	Jack Green	Great Britain	49.54

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Annsert Whyte	Jamaica	48.32	Q, PB
2	5	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	48.46	Q, SB
3	6	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	48.61	q
4	7	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia	48.64	q
5	3	L.J. Van Zyl	South Africa	49.00
6	1	Jordin Andrade	Cape Verde	49.32
7	2	Oskari Mörö	Finland	49.75
8	8	Mahau Suguimati	Brazil	49.77

Semifinal 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Thomas Barr	Ireland	48.39	Q, NR
2	6	Haron Koech	Kenya	48.49	Q, PB
3	7	Byron Robinson	United States	48.65	PB
4	5	Karsten Warholm	Norway	48.81
5	1	Michael Bultheel	Belgium	49.46
6	8	Andres Silva	Uruguay	49.75
7	3	Eric Alejandro	Puerto Rico	49.95
8 !–	2	Roxroy Cato	Jamaica	50 !DQ	R168.7a

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
01 !	5	Kerron Clement	United States	0.227	47.73	SB
02 !	7	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	Kenya	0.165	47.78	NR
03 !	2	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	0.186	47.92	NR
4	4	Thomas Barr	Ireland	0.191	47.97	NR
5	6	Annsert Whyte	Jamaica	0.167	48.07	PB
6	1	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia	0.182	48.40	NR
7	8	Haron Koech	Kenya	0.159	49.09
8 !–	3	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	N/A	50 !DQ	R162.7

References

↑ "Men's 400m hurdles". Rio 2016 Organisation. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
↑ Minshull, Phil (2016-08-10). Preview: men's 400m hurdles – Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-14.
↑ senior outdoor 2016 400 Metres Hurdles men. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-14.
↑ "Kerron Clement captures gold in 400 hurdles". USA Today. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
↑ "Rio Olympics 2016: Kerron Clement ends wait for 400m hurdles gold". BBC Sport. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
↑ "400 Metres Hurdles - M. Heats". rio2016.com. Retrieved 15 August 2016.

400 metres hurdles at the Olympic Games

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