2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles

2012 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 women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 12, 13, and 14 July.^[1][2][3]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Janieve Russell  Jamaica	Aurèlie Chaboudez  France	United States

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	(CHN)	54.40	Nanjing, China	21 October 2005
Championship Record	Lashinda Demus (USA)	54.70	Kingston, Jamaica	19 July 2002
World Junior Leading	Janieve Russell (JAM)	57.04	Kingston, Jamaica	28 June 2012
Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
World Junior Leading	Janieve Russell (JAM)	56.62	Barcelona, Spain	14 July 2012

Results[]

Heats[]

Qualification: first 4 of each heat (Q) plus the 4 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	1	7		Turkey	58.01	Q
2	2	8	Olena Kolesnychenko	Ukraine	58.40	Q
3	1	2		Norway	58.46	Q, PB
4	4	3	Janieve Russell	Jamaica	58.57	Q
5	2	4	Sage Watson	Canada	58.99	Q, PB
5	1	8		Germany	58.99	Q
7	1	9		Slovenia	59.15	Q, PB
8	1	4		France	59.20	q, PB
9	3	8		Ukraine	59.28	Q
10	4	4		Poland	59.31	Q
11	5	8		Canada	59.38	Q
12	5	9	Aurèlie Chaboudez	France	59.56	Q
13	4	9		Australia	59.66	Q
14	4	8		Russia	59.74	Q
15	2	9		Trinidad and Tobago	59.84	Q
16	1	6		Finland	1:00.01	q, PB
17	2	7		United States	1:00.02	Q
18	3	5	Sara Klein	Australia	1:00.06	Q
19	5	3		Sudan	1:00.13	Q
20	5	5	Shamier Little	United States	1:00.14	Q
21	2	6		Greece	1:00.19	q
22	4	7		Turkey	1:00.56	q
23	5	6		Kazakhstan	1:00.63
24	3	7		Bahamas	1:00.72	Q
25	3	3		Russia	1:00.73	Q
26	3	9		South Africa	1:00.83
27	1	5		South Africa	1:00.93
28	5	7		China	1:01.06
29	4	6	Pedrya Seymour	Bahamas	1:01.09
30	4	5		India	1:01.14
31	2	3		Hungary	1:01.28
32	2	5	Thi Huyen Nguyen	Vietnam	1:02.01	SB
33	5	4		Uzbekistan	1:02.04
34	1	3		Hungary	1:03.88
35	3	6		Tunisia	1:04.42
36	2	2		Spain	1:10.26
	3	4	Adekoya Kemi	Nigeria	DNS

Semi-Final[]

Qualification: The first 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	3	4	Janieve Russell	Jamaica	57.23	Q
2	2	8		United States	57.29	Q, PB
3	2	7		Norway	57.34	Q, NJ
4	1	5	Olena Kolesnychenko	Ukraine	57.35	Q, PB
5	2	6		Turkey	57.45	q, NJ
6	3	5	Aurèlie Chaboudez	France	57.46	Q, SB
6	1	3	Shamier Little	United States	57.46	Q
8	1	4		Canada	57.82	q, PB
9	1	6		Germany	57.96
10	2	5	Sage Watson	Canada	58.04	PB
11	3	7		Ukraine	58.13	PB
12	3	8		Slovenia	58.60	PB
13	3	3		Turkey	58.82
14	3	6	Sara Klein	Australia	58.93
15	1	2		France	59.42
16	2	4		Australia	59.75
17	3	2		Finland	59.88	PB
18	1	7		Poland	59.94
19	1	9		Sudan	59.95
20	1	8		Russia	1:00.40
21	2	9		Trinidad and Tobago	1:00.63
22	2	3		Greece	1:00.91
23	2	2		Russia	1:00.97
24	3	9		Bahamas	1:03.88

Final[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	6	Janieve Russell	Jamaica	56.62	WJL
	9	Aurèlie Chaboudez	France	57.14	NJ
	4		United States	57.63
4	7	Olena Kolesnychenko	Ukraine	58.10
5	2		Turkey	58.35
6	5		Norway	58.45
7	3		Canada	58.77
	8	Shamier Little	United States	DNF

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event.

References[]

External links[]

• WJC12 400 metres hurdles schedule