Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metres

Women's 400 metres at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Date	4 August 1984 (heats) 5 August 1984 (semi-finals) 6 August 1984 (final)
Competitors	28 from 18 nations
Winning time	48.83 OR
Medalists
Valerie Brisco-Hooks  United States Chandra Cheeseborough  United States Kathy Cook  Great Britain
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Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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
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
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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These are the official results of the Women's 400 metres event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. The final was held on August 6, 1984.^[1]

Final[]

Held on August 6, 1984

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Valerie Brisco-Hooks	United States	48.83 (OR)
	Chandra Cheeseborough	United States	49.05
	Kathy Cook	Great Britain	49.43
4	Marita Payne	Canada	49.91
5	Lillie Leatherwood	United States	50.25
6	Ute Thimm	West Germany	50.37
7	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	50.45
8	Ruth Waithera	Kenya	51.56

Semifinals[]

• Held on August 5, 1984

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Valerie Brisco-Hooks	United States	51.14
2	Kathy Cook	Great Britain	51.49
3	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	51.53
4	Ruth Waithera	Kenya	52.21
5	June Griffith	Guyana	52.39
6	Cathy Rattray-Williams	Jamaica	53.23
7	Marie Mathieu	Puerto Rico	53.69
–	Gaby Bußmann	West Germany	DNS

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Chandra Cheeseborough	United States	50.32
2	Lillie Leatherwood	United States	50.83
3	Marita Payne	Canada	50.94
4	Ute Thimm	West Germany	51.03
5	Molly Killingbeck	Canada	51.72
6	Michelle Scutt	Great Britain	52.07
7	Ilrey Oliver	Jamaica	52.14
8	Helen Barnett	Great Britain	52.26

Round one[]

• Held on August 4, 1984

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Chandra Cheeseborough	United States	50.94
2	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	52.04
3	Ilrey Oliver	Jamaica	52.19
4	June Griffith	Guyana	52.27
5	Heike Schulte-Mattler	West Germany	52.77
6	Erica Rossi	Italy	53.04
7	Jocelyn Joseph	Antigua and Barbuda	53.63
8	Zonia Meigham	Guatemala	55.64

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Gaby Bußmann	West Germany	52.42
2	Kathy Cook	Great Britain	52.64
3	Molly Killingbeck	Canada	52.77
4	Cathy Rattray-Williams	Jamaica	52.78
5	Gail Emmanuel	Trinidad and Tobago	54.07
6	Elanga Buala	Papua New Guinea	56.82
7	Mercy Addy	Ghana	58.91

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lillie Leatherwood	United States	52.05
2	Marita Payne	Canada	52.89
3	Helen Barnett	Great Britain	52.94
4	Marie Mathieu	Puerto Rico	53.27
5	Emma Tahapari	Indonesia	55.82
6	Reawadee Srithoa	Thailand	58.11

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Valerie Brisco-Hooks	United States	51.42
2	Ruth Waithera	Kenya	52.53
3	Ute Thimm	West Germany	52.53
4	Michelle Scutt	Great Britain	52.89
5	Cynthia Green	Jamaica	53.61
6	Carlon Blackman	Barbados	54.26
7	Mina El-Jas Zeina	Lebanon	59.56

See also[]

• 1982 Women's European Championships 400 metres (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships 400 metres (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Friendship Games 400 metres (Prague)
• 1987 Women's World Championships 400 metres (Rome)

References[]

External links[]

• Women's 400 metres