Athletics 2016/Men's 400 metre hurdles

The men's 400 metre hurdles of Athletics 2016 during the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 15-18 August 2016 in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Stadium. With 47 athletes competing, the event was won by Kerron Clement from USA, with Boniface Mucheru Tumuti from Kenya taking the silver medal and Yasmani Copello from Turkey taking bronze.

Format[]

The competition exists out of three rounds, each with races of up to nine athletes. In each round, the top two with the fastest time advance to the next round, together with a number of fastest non-qualifiers. The fastest competitor in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview[]

Forty-seven athletes qualified for the event with Kerron Clement and world champion Nicholas Kiplagat Bett as the favorites for the title. Both athletes were spearheading the delegations of the United States and Kenya, respectively. Byron Robinson and Michael Tinsley were the other American athletes who were set against Boniface Mucheru Tumuti and Haron Koech. Yasmani Copello had run to the third-fastest time of the year, just in front of Javier Culson. Outsiders included Patryk Dobek, Jeffery Gibson, Annsert Whyte, and Jaheel Hyde.

Athlete	Nationality
Kerron Clement	United States
Marcio Teles	Brazil
Yuki Matsushita	Japan
Miles Ukaoma	Nigeria
Jeffery Gibson	Bahamas
Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	Kenya
Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria
Mahau Suguimati	Brazil
Kariem Hussein	Switzerland
Maoulida Daroueche	Comoros
Martin Kucera	Slovakia
Yasmani Copello	Turkey
Eric Alejandro	Puerto Rico
Amadou Ndiaye	Senegal
Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia
Dmitriy Koblov	Kazakhstan
Karsten Warholm	Norway
Javier Culson	Puerto Rico
Ned Justeed Azemia	Seychelles
Jose Luis Gaspar	Cuba
Miloud Rahmani	Algeria
Roxroy Cato	Jamaica
Rasmus Magi	Estonia
Sergio Fernandez	Spain
Jehue Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago
Thomas Barr	Ireland
Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica
Sebastian Rodger	Great Britain
Le Roux Hamman	South Africa
Keisuke Nozawa	Japan
Eric Cray	Philippines
Annsert Whyte	Jamaica
Michael Bultheel	Belgium
Kurt Couto	Mozambique
Byron Robinson	United States
Oskari Moro	Finland
Lindsay Hanekom	South Africa
Jack Green	Great Britain
Nicholas Kaplagat Bett	Kenya
Michael Tinsley	United States
Patryk Dobek	Poland
Chen Chieh	Chinese Taipei
Haron Koech	Kenya
Andres Silva	Uruguay
Mohamed Sghaier	Tunisia
Jordin Andrade	Cape Verde
Louis van Zyl	South Africa

Current Records[]

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	6 August 1992		Kevin Young	46.78
OR	6 August 1992		Kevin Young	46.78

Summary[]

Round 1[]

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Abdelmalik Lahoulou	48.62	Q, NR
2		Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	48.91	Q
3		Kerron Clement	49.17	Q
4		Yuki Matsushita	49.60
5		Miles Ukaoma	49.84
6		Marcio Teles	50.41
7		Jeffery Gibson	52.77

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Yasmani Copello	49.52	Q
2		Eric Alejandro	49.54	Q
3		Mahau Suguimati	49.77	Q
4		Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	49.78	Q
5		Kariem Hussein	49.80
6		Amadou Ndiaye	49.91
7		Martin Kucera	51.47
8		Maoulida Daroueche	52.32

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Karsten Warholm	48.49	Q, NR
2		Javier Culson	48.53	Q
3		Rasmus Magi	48.55	Q
4		Roxroy Cato	48.56	q
5		Miloud Rahmani	49.73
6		Dmitriy Koblov	49.87
7		Jose Luis Gaspar	50.58
8		Ned Justeen Azemia	50.74	NR

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Keisuke Nozawa	48.62	Q, PR
2		Thomas Barr	48.93	Q
3		Eric Cray	49.05	Q
4		Jaheel Hyde	49.24	q
5		Sergio Fernandez	49.31	q
6		Sebastian Rodger	49.54
7		Le Roux Hamman	49.72
8		Jehue Gordon	49.98

Heat 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Annsert Whyte	48.37	Q, PR
2		Jack Green	48.96	Q
3		Byron Robinson	48.98	Q
4		Oskari Moro	49.04	q, NR
5		Michael Bultheel	49.37	q
6		Kurt Couto	49.74
7		Lindsay Hanekom	50.22
8		Nicholas Kiplagat Bett	DQ

Heat 6 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Haron Koech	48.77	Q, PR
2		Louis van Zyl	49.12	Q
3		Andres Silva	49.21	Q
4		Jordin Andrade	49.35	q
5		Mohamed Sghaier	50.09
6		Michael Tinsley	50.18
7		Chen Chieh	50.65
8		Patryk Dobek	50.66

Semifinals[]

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kerron Clement	48.26	Q
2		Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	48.85	Q
3		Sergio Fernandez	48.87	NR
4		Abdelmalik Lahoulou	49.08
5		Jaheel Hyde	49.17
6		Keisuke Nozawa	49.20
7		Eric Cray	49.37
8		Jack Green	49.54

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Annsert Whyte	48.32	Q, PR
2		Javier Culson	48.46	Q
3		Yasmani Copello	48.61	q
4		Rasmus Magi	48.64	q
5		Louis van Zyl	49.00
6		Jordin Andrade	49.32
7		Oskari Moro	49.75
8		Mahau Suguimati	49.77

Semifinal 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Thomas Barr	48.39	Q, NR
2		Haron Koech	48.49	Q, PR
3		Byron Robinson	48.65	PR
4		Karsten Warholm	48.81
5		Michael Bultheel	49.46
6		Andres Silva	49.75
7		Eric Alejandro	49.95
8		Eder Antonio Souza	DQ

Final[]

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kerron Clement	47.73
2		Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	47.78	NR
3		Yasmani Copello	47.92	NR
4		Thomas Barr	47.97	NR
5		Annsert Whyte	48.07	PR
6		Rasmus Magi	48.40	NR
7		Haron Koech	49.09
8		Javier Culson	DQ

Results[]

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Kerron Clement	United States
	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti	Kenya
	Yasmani Copello	Turkey
4	Thomas Barr	Ireland
5	Annsert Whyte	Jamaica
6	Rasmus Magi	Estonia
7	Haron Koech	Kenya
8	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico
9	Byron Robinson	United States
10	Karsten Warholm	Norway
11	Sergio Fernandez	Spain
12	Louis van Zyl	South Africa
13	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria
14	Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica
15	Keisuke Nozawa	Japan
16	Jordin Andrade	Cape Verde
17	Eric Cray	Philippines
18	Michael Bultheel	Belgium
19	Jack Green	Great Britain
20	Oskari Moro	Finland
20	Andres Silva	Uruguay
22	Mahau Suguimati	Brazil
23	Eric Alejandro	Puerto Rico
24	Roxroy Cato	Jamaica
25	Sebastian Rodger	Great Britain
26	Yuki Matsushita	Japan
27	Le Roux Hamman	South Africa
28	Miloud Rahmani	Algeria
29	Kurt Couto	Mozambique
30	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia
31	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland
32	Miles Ukaoma	Nigeria
33	Dmitriy Koblov	Kazakhstan
34	Amadou Ndiaye	Senegal
35	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago
36	Mohamed Sghaier	Tunisia
37	Michael Tinsley	United States
38	Lindsay Hanekom	South Africa
39	Marcio Teles	Brazil
40	Jose Luis Gaspar	Cuba
41	Chen Chieh	Chinese Taipei
42	Patryk Dobek	Poland
43	Ned Justeen Azemia	Seychelles
44	Martin Kucera	Slovakia
45	Maoulida Daroueche	Comoros
46	Jeffery Gibson	Bahamas
-	Nicholas Kiplagat Bett	Kenya

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