Athletics 2024/Men's 400 metre hurdles

The men's 400 metre hurdles of Athletics 2024 during the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 5–9 August 2024 in the Stade de France. With 39 athletes competing, the event was won by Rai Benjamin from United States, with Karsten Warholm from Norway taking the silver medal and Alison dos Santos from Brazil taking bronze.

Format[]

The competition exists out of four rounds, each with races of up to eight athletes. In the opening round, the top two with the fastest time advance to the semifinal. The rest of the athletes have another chance for the remaining spots through the new repechage round. In the semifinal round, the top two with the fastest time advance to the final, together with a number of fastest non-qualifiers. The fastest competitor in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview[]

Thirty-nine athletes qualified for the event with world record holder and defending Olympic champion Karsten Warholm, world number one and defending silver medalist Rai Benjamin, 2022 world champion and defending bronze medalist Alison dos Santos, and 2023 world silver medalist Kyron McMaster as the athletes to watch and top favorites for the title.

Athlete	Nationality
Kyron McMaster	British Virgin Islands
Matic Ian Gucek	Slovenia
Carl Bengtstrom	Sweden
Bassem Hemeida	Qatar
Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica
Rai Benjamin	United States
Daiki Ogawa	Japan
Vit Muller	Czech Republic
Xie Zhiyu	China
Trevor Bassitt	United States
Karsten Warholm	Norway
Oskar Edlund	Sweden
Abderrahman Samba	Qatar
Yeral Nunez	Dominican Republic
Clement Ducos	France
Alison dos Santos	Brazil
Victor Ntweng	Botswana
Yasmani Copello	Turkey
Rasmus Magi	Estonia
CJ Allen	United States
Kaito Tsutsue	Japan
Julien Bonvin	Switzerland
Emil Agyekum	Germany
Constantin Preis	Germany
Ezekiel Nathaniel	Nigeria
Alessandro Sibilio	Italy
Wiseman Were Mukhobe	Kenya
Gerald Drummond	Costa Rica
Wilfried Happio	France
Roshawn Clarke	Jamaica
Nick Smidt	Netherlands
Malik James-King	Jamaica
Berke Akcam	Turkey
Ken Toyoda	Japan
Peng Ming-yang	Chinese Taipei
Matheus Lima	Brazil
Joshua Abuaku	Germany
Ismail Doudai Abakar	Qatar
Alastair Chambers	Great Britain

Current Records[]

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	3 August 2021		Karsten Warholm	45.94
OR	3 August 2021		Karsten Warholm	45.94

Summary[]

Round 1[]

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Rai Benjamin	48.82	Q
2		Jaheel Hyde	49.08	Q
3		Kyron McMaster	49.24	Q
4		Carl Bengtstrom	49.34
5		Bassem Hemeida	49.82
6		Daiki Ogawa	50.21
7		Matic Ian Gucek	50.30

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Karsten Warholm	47.57	Q
2		Clement Ducos	47.69	Q, PR
3		Abderrahman Samba	48.35	Q
4		Yeral Nunez	48.67
5		Trevor Bassitt	49.38
6		Vit Muller	49.44
7		Oskar Edlund	49.74
8		Xie Zhiyu	49.90

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Rasmus Magi	48.62	Q
2		CJ Allen	48.64	Q
3		Alison dos Santos	48.75	Q
4		Emil Agyekum	49.38
5		Victor Ntweng	49.59
6		Julien Bonvin	49.82
7		Kaito Tsutsue	50.50
8		Yasmani Copello	50.72

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Roshawn Clarke	48.17	Q
2		Ezekiel Nathaniel	48.38	Q
3		Wilfried Happio	48.42	Q
4		Alessandro Sibilio	48.43	q
5		Wiseman Were Mukhobe	48.58	q
6		Nick Smidt	48.64	q
7		Gerald Drummond	48.80
8		Constantin Preis	49.99

Heat 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Malik James-King	48.21	Q
2		Matheus Lima	48.90	Q
3		Alastair Chalmers	48.98	Q
4		Joshua Abuaku	49.00
5		Berke Akcam	49.48
6		Ken Toyoda	53.62
—		Ismail Doudai Abakar	DNF
—		Peng Ming-yang	DNF

Repechages[]

Repechage 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Trevor Bassitt	48.64	Q
2		Emil Agyekum	48.67	Q
3		Vit Muller	48.96
4		Oskar Edlund	48.99
5		Daiki Ogawa	49.25
6		Bassem Hemeida	49.64
—		Yasmani Copello	DNS

Repechage 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Carl Bengtstrom	48.63	Q
2		Gerald Drummond	48.78	Q
3		Victor Ntweng	48.88
4		Matic Ian Gucek	49.06
5		Constantin Preis	51.02
—		Kaito Tsutsue	DNS

Repechage 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Berke Akcam	48.72	Q
2		Joshua Abuaku	48.87	Q
3		Julien Bonvin	49.08
4		Xie Zhiyu	49.59
5		Yeral Nunez	53.68
—		Ken Toyoda	DNS

Semifinals[]

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Karsten Warholm	47.67	Q
2		Clement Ducos	47.85	Q
3		Alison dos Santos	47.95	q
4		Trevor Bassitt	48.29
5		Ezekiel Nathaniel	48.65
6		Nick Smidt	49.61
7		Jaheel Hyde	50.03
8		Joshua Abuaku	50.19

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kyron McMaster	48.15	Q
2		Rasmus Magi	48.16	Q
3		Abderrahman Samba	48.20	q
4		CJ Allen	48.44
5		Emil Agyekum	48.78
6		Alessandro Sibilio	48.79
7		Malik James-King	48.85
8		Berke Akcam	49.12

Semifinal 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Rai Benjamin	47.85	Q
2		Roshawn Clarke	48.34	Q
3		Wilfried Happio	48.66
4		Matheus Lima	49.08
5		Wiseman Were Mukhobe	49.22
6		Carl Bengtstrom	49.56
7		Gerald Drummond	49.68
8		Alastair Chalmers	56.52

Final[]

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Rai Benjamin	46.46
2		Karsten Warholm	47.06
3		Alison dos Santos	47.26
4		Clement Ducos	47.76
5		Kyron McMaster	47.79
6		Abderrahman Samba	47.98
7		Rasmus Magi	52.53
—		Roshawn Clarke	DNF

Results[]

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Rai Benjamin	United States
	Karsten Warholm	Norway
	Alison dos Santos	Brazil
4	Clement Ducos	France
5	Kyron McMaster	British Virgin Islands
6	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar
7	Rasmus Magi	Estonia
8	Roshawn Clarke	Jamaica
9	Trevor Bassitt	United States
10	CJ Allen	United States
11	Ezekiel Nathaniel	Nigeria
12	Wilfried Happio	France
13	Emil Agyekum	Germany
14	Alessandro Sibilio	Italy
15	Malik James-King	Jamaica
16	Matheus Lima	Brazil
17	Berke Akcam	Turkey
18	Wiseman Were Mukhobe	Kenya
19	Carl Bengtstrom	Sweden
20	Nick Smidt	Netherlands
21	Gerald Drummond	Costa Rica
22	Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica
23	Joshua Abuaku	Germany
24	Alastair Chalmers	Great Britain
25	Victor Ntweng	Botswana
26	Vit Muller	Czech Republic
27	Oskar Edlund	Sweden
28	Matic Ian Gucek	Slovenia
29	Julien Bonvin	Switzerland
30	Daiki Ogawa	Japan
31	Xie Zhiyu	China
32	Bassem Hemeida	Qatar
33	Constantin Preis	Germany
34	Yeral Nunez	Dominican Republic
35	Kaito Tsutsue	Japan
36	Yasmani Copello	Turkey
37	Ken Toyoda	Japan
—	Ismail Doudai Abakar	Qatar
—	Peng Ming-yang	Chinese Taipei

2024 Summer Olympic Games
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Men
Track
100 m	110 m hurdles
200 m	400 m hurdles
400 m	3000 m steeplechase
800 m	4x100 m relay
1500 m	4x400 m relay
5000 m	20 km walk
10000 m
Field
High jump	Shot put
Pole vault	Discus throw
Long jump	Hammer throw
Triple jump	Javelin throw
Miscellaneous
Marathon	Decathlon
Women
Track
100 m	100 m hurdles
200 m	400 m hurdles
400 m	3000 m steeplechase
800 m	4x100 m relay
1500 m	4x400 m relay
5000 m	20 km walk
10000 m
Field
High jump	Shot put
Pole vault	Discus throw
Long jump	Hammer throw
Triple jump	Javelin throw
Miscellaneous
Marathon	Heptathlon
Mixed
Track
4x400 m relay	Team race walk