1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres

Events at the
1997 IAAF World Indoor
Championships

Track events
60 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m men women
60 m hurdles men women
4×400 m relay men women
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
Shot put men women
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Heptathlon men

The women's 400 metres event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 7–9.

Medalists

GoldSilverBronze
Jearl Miles Clark
 United States
Sandie Richards
 Jamaica
Helena Fuchsová
 Czech Republic

Results

Heats

First 2 of each heat (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.[1]

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Charity Opara  Nigeria 52.02 Q
2 3 Sandie Richards  Jamaica 52.26 Q, PB
3 2 Grit Breuer  Germany 52.43 Q
4 3 Ionela Târlea  Romania 52.49 Q
5 3 Olga Kotlyarova  Russia 52.63 q
5 4 Jearl Miles Clark  United States 52.63 Q
7 2 Helena Fuchsová  Czech Republic 52.69 Q
8 3 Phylis Smith  Great Britain 52.74 q
9 1 Natasha Kaiser-Brown  United States 52.86 Q
10 2 Olabisi Afolabi  Nigeria 52.89 q
11 4 Hana Benešová  Czech Republic 52.94 Q
12 2 Tatyana Movchan  Ukraine 52.96 q
13 1 Sally Gunnell  Great Britain 53.05
14 4 Deon Hemmings  Jamaica 53.22
15 4 Guðrún Arnardóttir  Iceland 53.41
16 4 Nezha Bidouane  Morocco 53.54
17 1 Olga Moroz  Ukraine 53.82
18 1 Marina Filipović  Yugoslavia 54.18
19 2 Adina Valdez  Trinidad and Tobago 55.79
20 2 Erum Khanum  Pakistan 1:04.74
21 3 Angela Camara  Guinea DNS
21 3 Ruth Mangue Nve  Equatorial Guinea DNS

Semifinals

First 3 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.[2]

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Charity Opara  Nigeria 51.26 Q
2 2 Sandie Richards  Jamaica 51.53 Q, PB
3 1 Jearl Miles Clark  United States 51.55 Q, SB
4 1 Ionela Târlea  Romania 52.10 Q, NR
5 2 Grit Breuer  Germany 52.16 Q
6 2 Helena Fuchsová  Czech Republic 52.43 Q
7 1 Tatyana Movchan  Ukraine 52.48
8 1 Hana Benešová  Czech Republic 52.75
9 2 Natasha Kaiser-Brown  United States 52.82
10 2 Phylis Smith  Great Britain 52.86
11 1 Olga Kotlyarova  Russia 53.17
12 2 Olabisi Afolabi  Nigeria 53.33

Final

[3]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Jearl Miles Clark  United States 50.96 WL
2nd Sandie Richards  Jamaica 51.17 PB
3rd Helena Fuchsová  Czech Republic 52.04 PB
4 Ionela Târlea  Romania 52.06 NR
5 Charity Opara  Nigeria 52.19
6 Grit Breuer  Germany 52.22

References

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