2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

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Events at the 2011 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		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 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 29, 30 and September 1.

In the final, Angelo Taylor in lane 1 and L. J. van Zyl in lane 8 bookended the field going out fast into the lead. As they were completing the final turn, Taylor faltered and started hitting hurdles while Javier Culson powered into the lead. Both van Zyl and Culson slowed going into the final hurdle while David Greene cleared the hurdle with full momentum, cruising past the others to take the gold medal.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Dai Greene  Great Britain	Javier Culson  Puerto Rico	L. J. van Zyl  South Africa

Records

World record	Kevin Young (USA)	46.78	Barcelona, Spain	6 August 1992
Championship record	Kevin Young (USA)	47.18	Stuttgart, Germany	19 August 1993
World leading	Louis van Zyl (RSA)	47.66	Pretoria, South Africa	25 February 2011
			Ostrava, Czech Republic	31 May 2011
African record	Samuel Matete (ZAM)	47.10	Zürich, Switzerland	7 August 1991
Asian record	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily (KSA)	47.53	Sydney, Australia	27 September 2000
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Kevin Young (USA)	46.78	Barcelona, Spain	6 August 1992
South American record	Bayano Kamani (PAN)	47.84	Helsinki, Finland	7 August 2005
European record	Stéphane Diagana (FRA)	47.37	Lausanne, Switzerland	5 July 1995
Oceanian record	Rohan Robinson (AUS)	48.28	Atlanta, Georgia, United States	31 July 1996

Qualification standards

A time	B time
49.40	49.80

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 29, 2011	11:30	Heats
August 30, 2011	19:30	Heats
September 1, 2011	21:30	Final

Results

KEY:	q	Fastest non-qualifiers	Q	Qualified	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	David Greene	Great Britain	48.52	Q
1	1	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	48.52	Q
3	2	L. J. van Zyl	South Africa	48.58	Q
4	2	Isa Phillips	Jamaica	48.64	Q, SB
5	1	Georg Fleischhauer	Germany	48.72	Q, PB
6	2	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	48.74	Q, SB
7	5	Jeshua Anderson	United States	48.81	Q
8	2	Kerron Clement	United States	48.91	Q
9	3	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	48.95	Q
10	5	Nathan Woodward	Great Britain	49.06	Q
11	5	Stanislav Melnykov	Ukraine	49.24	Q, SB
12	3	Angelo Taylor	United States	49.38	Q
13	3	Aleksandr Derevyagin	Russia	49.43	Q, SB
14	5	Leford Green	Jamaica	49.45	Q
15	3	Andrés Silva	Uruguay	49.48	Q
16	2	Vincent Kiplangat Kosgei	Kenya	49.49	q, SB
17	3	Takayuki Kishimoto	Japan	49.51	q
18	1	Emir Bekrić	Serbia	49.67	Q
19	1	Omar Cisneros	Cuba	49.69	q
20	1	Mahau Suguimati	Brazil	49.74	q
21	4	Bershawn Jackson	United States	49.82	Q
22	2	Jorge Paula	Portugal	49.82
23	5	Kurt Couto	Mozambique	49.86
24	4	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago	49.90	Q
25	2	Jamele Mason	Puerto Rico	49.98
26	4	Josef Robertson	Jamaica	50.29	Q
27	4	Jack Green	Great Britain	50.39	Q
28	3	Li Zhilong	China	50.44
29	4	Cheng Wen	China	50.51
30	5	Yuta Imazeki	Japan	50.92
31	5	Jean Antonio Vieillesse	Mauritius	51.02
32	4	Kenneth Medwood	Belize	51.19
33	4	Takatoshi Abe	Japan	51.90
34	3	Lee Seung-yun	South Korea	52.98

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	48.52	Q
2	2	David Greene	Great Britain	48.62	Q
3	3	Bershawn Jackson	United States	48.80	Q
4	1	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	48.83	Q
5	1	Angelo Taylor	United States	48.86	q
6	2	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	49.01	Q
7	3	L. J. van Zyl	South Africa	49.05	Q
8	3	Aleksandr Derevyagin	Russia	49.07	q, SB
9	2	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago	49.08
10	2	Isa Phillips	Jamaica	49.16
11	3	Leford Green	Jamaica	49.29
12	1	Jeshua Anderson	United States	49.33
13	3	Georg Fleischhauer	Germany	49.36
14	3	Nathan Woodward	Great Britain	49.57
15	1	Jack Green	Great Britain	49.62
16	2	Andrés Silva	Uruguay	49.63
17	3	Vincent Kiplangat Kosgei	Kenya	49.71
18	1	Stanislav Melnykov	Ukraine	49.74
19	2	Emir Bekrić	Serbia	49.94
20	1	Takayuki Kishimoto	Japan	50.05
21	3	Omar Cisneros	Cuba	50.10
22	1	Josef Robertson	Jamaica	50.39
23	2	Mahau Suguimati	Brazil	50.89
24	2	Kerron Clement	United States	52.11

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	David Greene	Great Britain	48.26
	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	48.44
	L. J. van Zyl	South Africa	48.80
4	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	48.87
5	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	49.12
6	Bershawn Jackson	United States	49.24
7	Angelo Taylor	United States	49.31
8	Aleksandr Derevyagin	Russia	49.32

References

1. "Dai Greene's brutal regime earns gold at World Athletics Championships". Guardian. 1 September 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
2. "Dai Greene loses 'invisible man' tag to clinch gold in 400m hurdles at World Athletics Championships". Daily Telegraph. 1 September 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2011.

External links

• 400 metres hurdles results at IAAF website