1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres

1994 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
Road events
20 km 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 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Lisbon, Portugal, at Estádio Universitário de Lisboa on 20, 21 and 22 July.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Olabisi Afolabi  Nigeria
Silver	Monique Hennagan  United States
Bronze	Hana Benešová  Czech Republic

Results[]

Final[]

22 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Olabisi Afolabi	Nigeria	51.97
	Monique Hennagan	United States	52.25
	Hana Benešová	Czech Republic	52.60
4		China	52.62
5	Tracey Barnes	Jamaica	53.46
6	Tamsyn Lewis	Australia	53.51
7		United States	53.57
	Claudine Williams	Jamaica	DNF

Semifinals[]

21 July

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Claudine Williams	Jamaica	52.43	Q
2		China	52.99	Q
3	Hana Benešová	Czech Republic	53.48	Q
4		United States	53.65	Q
5	Žana Minina	Lithuania	53.81
6	Florence Ekpo-Umoh	Nigeria	53.84
7	Heidi Suomi	Finland	54.49
8	Sandrine Thiébaud	France	55.73

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Olabisi Afolabi	Nigeria	52.27	Q
2	Monique Hennagan	United States	52.74	Q
3	Tamsyn Lewis	Australia	53.91	Q
4	Tracey Barnes	Jamaica	53.92	Q
5	Daimí Pernía	Cuba	54.09
6		Russia	54.85
7		Germany	55.02
8		China	55.54

Heats[]

20 July

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Olabisi Afolabi	Nigeria	53.60	Q
2		United States	54.63	Q
3	Žana Minina	Lithuania	54.88	Q
4		Bahamas	55.12
5	Melissa Straker	Barbados	55.76
6	Kaltouma Nadjina	Chad	56.08
7	Militza Castro	Puerto Rico	56.16
8		Kazakhstan	57.78

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Claudine Williams	Jamaica	53.82	Q
2	Florence Ekpo-Umoh	Nigeria	54.69	Q
3		Germany	54.71	Q
4		China	54.81	q
5		South Africa	54.93
6		Czech Republic	55.88
7		Russia	55.97

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		China	53.38	Q
2	Hana Benešová	Czech Republic	53.89	Q
3	Tamsyn Lewis	Australia	54.42	Q
4		United Kingdom	55.06
5		Cuba	55.37
6		Guyana	55.82
	Tonique Williams	Bahamas	DQ

Heat 4[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Monique Hennagan	United States	53.50	Q
2	Tracey Barnes	Jamaica	53.92	Q
3	Daimí Pernía	Cuba	54.17	Q
4	Heidi Suomi	Finland	54.36	q
5		Russia	54.77	q
6	Sandrine Thiébaud	France	54.91	q
7		Romania	55.30
8	Tacko Diouf	Senegal	59.02

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 22 countries participated in the event.

References[]