2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 400 metres

2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	boys	girls
200 m	boys
400 m	boys	girls
800 m	boys
1500 m	boys	girls
3000 m		girls
5000 m
100 m hurdles		girls
110 m hurdles	boys
400 m hurdles	boys	girls
2000 m steeplechase	boys
Medley relay
5000 m walk
10,000 m walk
Field events
Long jump
Triple jump
High jump		girls
Pole vault
Shot put
Discus throw
Javelin throw
Hammer throw
Combined events
Heptathlon
Decathlon
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The girls' 400 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Nord Lille Métropole on 6 and 8 July.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Shaunae Miller  Bahamas	Canada	Jamaica

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best	(CHN)	50.01	Shanghai, China	18 October 1997
Championship Record	Nawal El Jack (SUD)	51.19	Marrakesh, Morocco	15 July 2005
World Youth Leading	Chrisann Gordon (JAM)	51.62	Kingston, Jamaica	2 April 2011

No new records were set during the competition.

Heats[]

Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.^[2]

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bianca Razor	Romania	54.15	Q
2		Finland	54.43	Q
3		Spain	55.64	Q
4		Slovenia	55.95	q, PB
5	Raphaela Boaheng Lukudo	Italy	56.19	q
6		Austria	56.49
7	Ingrid Yahoska Narvaez	Nicaragua	58.74	PB
8		Philippines	59.58

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Shaunae Miller	Bahamas	54.39	Q
2	Brigitte Ntiamoah	France	57.06	Q
3		Russia	57.07	Q
4		South Africa	57.19
5		Ethiopia	57.52	PB
6		Spain	57.98
7		Serbia	58.97
8		South Korea	59.28

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Chrisann Gordon	Jamaica	53.52	Q
2	Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz	Poland	53.71	Q, PB
3	Modesta Morauskaitė	Lithuania	55.81	Q, PB
4		Croatia	55.89	q, PB
5		Russia	56.38
6		Brazil	57.21
7		France	58.14

Heat 4[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		United States	54.59	Q
2		Nigeria	54.72	Q
3		Poland	56.86	Q
4		Japan	57.01
5		Luxembourg	57.13	SB
6	Christine Botlogetswe	Botswana	59.13
7		Guam	1:03.18
-		Costa Rica	DNF

Heat 5[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Jamaica	54.78	Q
2	Kendall Baisden	United States	55.58	Q
3		Slovenia	55.97	Q
4	Bianka Kéri	Hungary	56.26	q
5		Ukraine	56.41
6		South Africa	58.92
7	Elina Mikhina	Kazakhstan	1:00.44	SB
8		Benin	1:01.37

Heat 6[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Canada	53.83	Q
2		Nigeria	55.11	Q
3		Italy	55.63	Q, PB
4	Kateryna Klymyuk	Ukraine	55.91	q
5	Priyanka Mondal	India	56.27	q, PB
6		Kenya	57.46	PB
7		Brazil	57.55
8		Turkey	57.64

Semifinal[]

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.^[3]

Heat 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Chrisann Gordon	Jamaica	52.79	Q
2	6		United States	53.21	Q
3	3	Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz	Poland	53.97
4	8		Italy	55.29	PB
5	7		Russia	55.40
6	2		Croatia	56.49
7	1	Priyanka Mondal	India	57.16
8	4	Brigitte Ntiamoah	France	57.38

Heat 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Shaunae Miller	Bahamas	52.92	Q
2	6	Kendall Baisden	United States	53.32	Q
3	4	Bianca Razor	Romania	53.51	q
4	3		Nigeria	54.11
5	8		Lithuania	55.55	PB
6	7		Slovenia	55.89
7	1	Raphaela Boaheng Lukudo	Italy	56.46
8	2	Bianka Kéri	Hungary	56.97

Heat 3[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3		Canada	53.15	Q
2	4		Jamaica	53.51	Q
3	5		Finland	53.92	q
4	6		Nigeria	54.02
5	1	Kateryna Klymyuk	Ukraine	56.15
6	8		Spain	56.25
7	2		Slovenia	57.05
8	7		Poland	58.35

Final[]

^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Shaunae Miller	Bahamas	51.84
	5		Canada	52.12
	7		Jamaica	52.14
4	3		United States	52.72
5	1	Bianca Razor	Romania	52.82
6	8	Kendall Baisden	United States	53.01
7	4	Chrisann Gordon	Jamaica	53.31
8	2		Finland	54.55

References[]