1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres

1992 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
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
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 400 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 18 September.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Romania
Silver	Claudine Williams  Jamaica
Bronze	Ionela Tîrlea  Romania

Results[]

Final[]

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
		Romania	51.84
	Claudine Williams	Jamaica	52.03
	Ionela Tîrlea	Romania	52.13
4	Camille Noel	Canada	52.98
5	Hana Benešová	Czechoslovakia	53.39
6	Kazue Kakinuma	Japan	53.45
7		Germany	53.73
8	Bai Xiaoyun	China	54.30

Semifinals[]

17 September

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Claudine Williams	Jamaica	52.88	Q
2	Ionela Tîrlea	Romania	52.90	Q
3		Germany	53.44	Q
4	Bai Xiaoyun	China	54.26	Q
5	Monique Hennagan	United States	54.27
6		Australia	55.27
7		Czechoslovakia	55.55
		Malaysia	DNS

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Romania	52.87	Q
2	Camille Noel	Canada	53.26	Q
3	Hana Benešová	Czechoslovakia	53.58	Q
4	Kazue Kakinuma	Japan	53.81	Q
5	Catherine Scott	Jamaica	53.91
6	Hsu Pei-Chin	Chinese Taipei	54.69
7		Australia	55.17
8		Israel	55.91

Heats[]

16 September

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Camille Noel	Canada	53.20	Q
2	Catherine Scott	Jamaica	54.55	Q
3	Hana Benešová	Czechoslovakia	54.71	Q
4		Australia	54.91	q
5		Israel	55.44	q
6		Japan	55.61

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ionela Tîrlea	Romania	53.49	Q
2	Kazue Kakinuma	Japan	53.92	Q
3	Hsu Pei-Chin	Chinese Taipei	55.03	Q
4	Patrizia Spuri	Italy	55.85
5		United States	56.07
		Commonwealth of Independent States	DNF

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Claudine Williams	Jamaica	53.53	Q
2	Bai Xiaoyun	China	54.50	Q
3		Germany	54.83	Q
4		Czechoslovakia	55.45	q
5	Helen Frost	United Kingdom	55.94
6	Grace Birungi	Uganda	56.10

Heat 4[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Romania	53.65	Q
2	Monique Hennagan	United States	54.19	Q
3		Australia	54.78	Q
4		Malaysia	54.91	q
5	Saidat Onanuga	Nigeria	55.61
6	Zhang Hengyun	China	56.06

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

References[]