1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles

Events at the 1995 World Championships
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
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

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'Women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics was held in Gothenburg, on 8, 9 and 11 August.

Medalists

Gold	Kim Batten United States (USA)
Silver	Tonja Buford-Bailey United States (USA)
Bronze	Deon Hemmings Jamaica (JAM)

Results

Heats

First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	54.72	Q
2	1	Tonja Buford-Bailey	United States	55.15	Q
3	2	Kim Batten	United States	55.71	Q
4	3	Silvia Rieger	Germany	55.75	Q
5	4	Heike Meissner	Germany	55.95	Q
6	4	Trevaia Williams-Davis	United States	55.98	Q
7	3	Tatyana Ledovskaya	Belarus	56.03	Q
8	1	Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Ukraine	56.16	Q
9	1	Natalya Torshina	Kazakhstan	56.23	Q
10	4	Karen van der Veen	South Africa	56.32	Q
11	3	Omolade Akinremi	Nigeria	56.46	q
12	1	Monika Warnicka	Poland	56.88	q
13	4	Irina Lenskaya	Ukraine	57.52	q
14	1	Olga Nazarova	Russia	57.64	q
15	4	Debbie-Ann Parris	Jamaica	57.83
16	1	Louise Fraser	Great Britain	57.99
17	3	Miriam Alonso	Spain	58.36
18	1	Åsa Carlsson	Sweden	58.42
19	2	Ionela Tirlea	Romania	58.47	Q
20	2	Gudrun Arnardottir	Iceland	58.57	Q
21	4	Marie Womplou	Ivory Coast	58.67
22	2	Zhanna Sokolova	Tajikistan	1:13.16
	2	Hsu Pei-Chin	Chinese Taipei	DQ
	2	Tatyana Kurochkina	Belarus	DQ
	3	Nezha Bidouane	Morocco	DQ
	2	Rosey Edeh	Canada	DNS

Semifinals

First 4 of each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Kim Batten	United States	54.15	Q
2	2	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	54.33	Q
3	1	Tonja Buford-Bailey	United States	55.30	Q
4	2	Silvia Rieger	Germany	55.69	Q
5	1	Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Ukraine	56.09	Q
6	2	Ionela Tirlea	Romania	56.21	Q
7	1	Natalya Torshina	Kazakhstan	56.52	Q
8	1	Heike Meissner	Germany	56.75	Q
9	1	Monika Warnicka	Poland	56.88
10	1	Olga Nazarova	Russia	56.89
11	2	Omolade Akinremi	Nigeria	57.07
12	2	Gudrun Arnardottir	Iceland	57.29
13	2	Irina Lenskaya	Ukraine	57.33
	1	Karen van der Veen	South Africa	DQ
	2	Tatyana Ledovskaya	Belarus	DQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Kim Batten	United States	52.61	WR
	3	Tonja Buford-Bailey	United States	52.62
	4	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	53.48	NR
4	7	Heike Meissner	Germany	54.86
5	6	Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Ukraine	54.94
6	1	Silvia Rieger	Germany	55.01
7	8	Ionela Tirlea	Romania	55.46
8	2	Natalya Torshina	Kazakhstan	56.75

References

• Results
• IAAF