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2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

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Field	Value
event	Men's 400 metres hurdles
competition	2011 World Championships
venue	Daegu Stadium
dates	29 August (heats)
30 August (semifinals)
1 September (final)
competitors	34
win_value	48.26
gold	Dai Greene
GBR
silver	Javier Culson
PUR
bronze	L. J. van Zyl
RSA
prev	2009
next	2013

30 August (semifinals) 1 September (final) GBR PUR RSA

The Men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 29, 30 and September 1.

In the final, Angelo Taylor in lane 1 and L. J. van Zyl in lane 8 bookended the field going out fast into the lead. As they were completing the final turn, Taylor faltered and started hitting hurdles while Javier Culson powered into the lead. Both van Zyl and Culson slowed going into the final hurdle while David Greene cleared the hurdle with full momentum, cruising past the others to take the gold medal.

Medalists

Gold		width=200 style="background-color:silver"	Silver		width=200 style="background-color:#CC9966"	Bronze
Dai Greene
Great Britain

Records

Oceanian record	Rohan Robinson	48.28	Atlanta, Georgia, United States	31 July 1996

Qualification standards

A time	B time
49.40	49.80

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 29, 2011	11:30	Heats
August 30, 2011	19:30	Heats
September 1, 2011	21:30	Final

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	David Greene	Great Britain	48.52	Q
1	1	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	48.52	Q
3	2	L. J. van Zyl	South Africa	48.58	Q
4	2	Isa Phillips	Jamaica	48.64	Q, SB
5	1	Georg Fleischhauer	Germany	48.72	Q, PB
6	2	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	48.74	Q, SB
7	5	Jeshua Anderson	United States	48.81	Q
8	2	Kerron Clement	United States	48.91	Q
9	3	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	48.95	Q
10	5	Nathan Woodward	Great Britain	49.06	Q
11	5	Stanislav Melnykov	Ukraine	49.24	Q, SB
12	3	Angelo Taylor	United States	49.38	Q
13	3	Aleksandr Derevyagin	Russia	49.43	Q, SB
14	5	Leford Green	Jamaica	49.45	Q
15	3	Andrés Silva	Uruguay	49.48	Q
16	2	Vincent Kiplangat Kosgei	Kenya	49.49	q, SB
17	3	Takayuki Kishimoto	Japan	49.51	q
18	1	Emir Bekrić	Serbia	49.67	Q
19	1	Omar Cisneros	Cuba	49.69	q
20	1	Mahau Suguimati	Brazil	49.74	q
21	4	Bershawn Jackson	United States	49.82	Q
22	2	Jorge Paula	Portugal	49.82
23	5	Kurt Couto	Mozambique	49.86
24	4	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad & Tobago	49.90	Q
25	2	Jamele Mason	Puerto Rico	49.98
26	4	Josef Robertson	Jamaica	50.29	Q
27	4	Jack Green	Great Britain	50.39	Q
28	3	Li Zhilong	China	50.44
29	4	Cheng Wen	China	50.51
30	5	Yuta Imazeki	Japan	50.92
31	5	Jean Antonio Vieillesse	Mauritius	51.02
32	4	Kenneth Medwood	Belize	51.19
33	4	Takatoshi Abe	Japan	51.90
34	3	Lee Seung-yun	South Korea	52.98

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	48.52	Q
2	2	David Greene	Great Britain	48.62	Q
3	3	Bershawn Jackson	United States	48.80	Q
4	1	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	48.83	Q
5	1	Angelo Taylor	United States	48.86	q
6	2	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	49.01	Q
7	3	L. J. van Zyl	South Africa	49.05	Q
8	3	Aleksandr Derevyagin	Russia	49.07	q, SB
9	2	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad & Tobago	49.08
10	2	Isa Phillips	Jamaica	49.16
11	3	Leford Green	Jamaica	49.29
12	1	Jeshua Anderson	United States	49.33
13	3	Georg Fleischhauer	Germany	49.36
14	3	Nathan Woodward	Great Britain	49.57
15	1	Jack Green	Great Britain	49.62
16	2	Andrés Silva	Uruguay	49.63
17	3	Vincent Kiplangat Kosgei	Kenya	49.71
18	1	Stanislav Melnykov	Ukraine	49.74
19	2	Emir Bekrić	Serbia	49.94
20	1	Takayuki Kishimoto	Japan	50.05
21	3	Omar Cisneros	Cuba	50.10
22	1	Josef Robertson	Jamaica	50.39
23	2	Mahau Suguimati	Brazil	50.89
24	2	Kerron Clement	United States	52.11

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	David Greene	Great Britain	48.26
	Javier Culson	Puerto Rico	48.44
	L. J. van Zyl	South Africa	48.80
4	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic	48.87
5	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	49.12
6	Bershawn Jackson	United States	49.24
7	Angelo Taylor	United States	49.31
8	Aleksandr Derevyagin	Russia	49.32

References

(1 September 2011). "Dai Greene's brutal regime earns gold at World Athletics Championships". Guardian.
(1 September 2011). "Dai Greene loses 'invisible man' tag to clinch gold in 400m hurdles at World Athletics Championships". Daily Telegraph.

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