2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Events at the
2008 World Junior
Championships in Athletics

Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men
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
10,000 m walk men women
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 9, 10 and 11 July.[1][2]

Medalists

Gold Jeshua Anderson
 United States
Silver Johnny Dutch
 United States
Bronze Amaurys Valle
 Cuba

Results

Final

11 July

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Jeshua Anderson  United States 48.68
2nd, silver medalist(s) Johnny Dutch  United States 49.25
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Amaurys Valle  Cuba 49.56
4 Cornel Fredericks  South Africa 50.39
5 PC Beneke  South Africa 50.78
6 Taras Shcherenko  Israel 51.35
7 John Kituu Wambua  Kenya 51.70
8 David Gollnow  Germany 53.63

Semifinals

10 July

Semifinal 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Johnny Dutch  United States 50.40 Q
2 Amaurys Valle  Cuba 51.17 Q
3 PC Beneke  South Africa 51.46 q
4 David Gollnow  Germany 51.48 q
5 Kohei Tamemoto  Japan 51.89
6 Valdas Valintelis  Lithuania 52.07
7 Julius Oletygor  Kenya 52.14
8 Emanuel Mayers  Trinidad and Tobago 52.39

Semifinal 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Jeshua Anderson  United States 49.90 Q
2 Taras Shcherenko  Israel 51.60 Q
3 Giacomo Panizza  Italy 51.73
4 Sebastian Knorr  Germany 52.31
5 Leslie Murray  U.S. Virgin Islands 52.51
6 Adel Al-Nasser  Saudi Arabia 52.60
7 Shane Brathwaite  Barbados 53.09
8 Nikita Andriyanov  Russia DNS

Semifinal 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Cornel Fredericks  South Africa 51.11 Q
2 John Kituu Wambua  Kenya 51.51 Q
3 Tomoharu Kino  Japan 51.96
4 Michał Pietrzak  Poland 52.22
5 Jehue Gordon  Trinidad and Tobago 52.26
6 Jassim Waleed Al-Mas  Kuwait 53.05
7 Silvestras Guogis  Lithuania 53.46
8 Artyom Dyatlov  Uzbekistan DQ IAAF rule 163.3

Heats

9 July

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Jeshua Anderson  United States 51.12 Q
2 Taras Shcherenko  Israel 51.44 Q
3 Shane Brathwaite  Barbados 51.66 Q
4 Jehue Gordon  Trinidad and Tobago 52.30 q
5 Jassim Waleed Al-Mas  Kuwait 52.43 q
6 Driss Sassi  Tunisia 53.97
7 Victor Valentin  Puerto Rico 54.05
8 Stephan Ender  Austria 54.55

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Tomoharu Kino  Japan 51.77 Q
2 John Kituu Wambua  Kenya 52.02 Q
3 Valdas Valintelis  Lithuania 52.83 Q
4 Hamada Al-Bishi  Saudi Arabia 53.61
5 Tomasz Baranowski  Poland 53.85
6 Jithin Paul  India 54.01
7 René Claudio  Puerto Rico 54.51
8 Chen Yu-Te  Chinese Taipei 55.57

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Johnny Dutch  United States 52.21 Q
2 David Gollnow  Germany 52.34 Q
3 Silvestras Guogis  Lithuania 52.48 Q
4 Julius Oletygor  Kenya 52.54 q
5 Fahad Faraj  Kuwait 53.40
6 Aleksandr Korovka  Ukraine 53.94
7 Nejmi Burnside  Bahamas 55.21

Heat 4

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Amaurys Valle  Cuba 51.67 Q
2 Cornel Fredericks  South Africa 51.96 Q
3 Kohei Tamemoto  Japan 52.05 Q
4 Nikita Andriyanov  Russia 52.14 q
5 Emanuel Mayers  Trinidad and Tobago 52.29 q
6 Leslie Murray  U.S. Virgin Islands 52.64 q
7 Tibor Koroknai  Hungary 53.33
8 Kenneth Karosich  Guam 58.36

Heat 5

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Michał Pietrzak  Poland 51.89 Q
2 PC Beneke  South Africa 51.90 Q
3 Artyom Dyatlov  Uzbekistan 52.62 Q
4 Hugo Grillas  France 52.98
5 Nathan Woodward  United Kingdom 53.42
6 Faysal Mehdioui  Algeria 54.41
7 Shejil Varghese  India 54.48
8 Fernando Semedo  Cape Verde 61.09

Heat 6

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Giacomo Panizza  Italy 52.77 Q
2 Adel Al-Nasser  Saudi Arabia 52.84 Q
3 Sebastian Knorr  Germany 53.25 Q
4 Lyes Bouzid  Algeria 54.10
5 Jeffery Gibson  Bahamas 54.37
6 Shih Yu-Fan  Chinese Taipei 55.43
7 Wilmer Valor  Venezuela 59.26

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 46 athletes from 31 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2008 Bydgoszcz POL Jul 8-13, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
  2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015
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