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

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
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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
	Jeshua Anderson	United States	48.68
	Johnny Dutch	United States	49.25
	Amaurys Valle	Cuba	49.56
4	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	50.39
5	PC Beneke	South Africa	50.78
6		Israel	51.35
7		Kenya	51.70
8		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		Germany	51.48	q
5		Japan	51.89
6		Lithuania	52.07
7		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		Israel	51.60	Q
3		Italy	51.73
4		Germany	52.31
5		U.S. Virgin Islands	52.51
6		Saudi Arabia	52.60
7	Shane Brathwaite	Barbados	53.09
		Russia	DNS

Semifinal 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	51.11	Q
2		Kenya	51.51	Q
3		Japan	51.96
4	Michał Pietrzak	Poland	52.22
5	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago	52.26
6		Kuwait	53.05
7	Silvestras Guogis	Lithuania	53.46
		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		Israel	51.44	Q
3	Shane Brathwaite	Barbados	51.66	Q
4	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago	52.30	q
5		Kuwait	52.43	q
6		Tunisia	53.97
7		Puerto Rico	54.05
8		Austria	54.55

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Japan	51.77	Q
2		Kenya	52.02	Q
3		Lithuania	52.83	Q
4		Saudi Arabia	53.61
5		Poland	53.85
6		India	54.01
7		Puerto Rico	54.51
8		Chinese Taipei	55.57

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Johnny Dutch	United States	52.21	Q
2		Germany	52.34	Q
3	Silvestras Guogis	Lithuania	52.48	Q
4		Kenya	52.54	q
5		Kuwait	53.40
6		Ukraine	53.94
7		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		Japan	52.05	Q
4		Russia	52.14	q
5	Emanuel Mayers	Trinidad and Tobago	52.29	q
6		U.S. Virgin Islands	52.64	q
7	Tibor Koroknai	Hungary	53.33
8		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		Uzbekistan	52.62	Q
4		France	52.98
5	Nathan Woodward	United Kingdom	53.42
6		Algeria	54.41
7		India	54.48
8		Cape Verde	61.09

Heat 6[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Italy	52.77	Q
2		Saudi Arabia	52.84	Q
3		Germany	53.25	Q
4		Algeria	54.10
5	Jeffery Gibson	Bahamas	54.37
6		Chinese Taipei	55.43
7		Venezuela	59.26

Participation[]

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

References[]