2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles

2002 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
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
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The women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Kingston, Jamaica, at National Stadium on 17 and 19 July.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Lashinda Demus  United States
Silver	Melaine Walker  Jamaica
Bronze	Jamaica

Results[]

Final[]

19 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lashinda Demus	United States	54.70
	Melaine Walker	Jamaica	56.03
		Jamaica	56.14
4	Tiffany Ross	United States	56.52
5	Zuzana Hejnová	Czech Republic	58.42
6	Yusmelys García	Venezuela	58.46
7		South Africa	58.60
8		Russia	59.97

Heats[]

17 July

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lashinda Demus	United States	57.38	Q
2		Jamaica	57.71	Q
3	Yusmelys García	Venezuela	59.07	q
4		South Africa	59.25	q
5		Brazil	60.74
6		France	60.85

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tiffany Ross	United States	59.54	Q
2		Russia	59.83	Q
3		Brazil	59.93
4		Germany	60.53
5		Poland	61.11
6		Japan	61.80
7		France	63.15

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Melaine Walker	Jamaica	57.39	Q
2	Zuzana Hejnová	Czech Republic	59.31	Q
3		Japan	59.43
4		South Africa	59.98
5		Germany	61.27
6	Lucy Jaramillo	Ecuador	62.97

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References[]