2006 World Junior
Championships
Day 3 - 8/17
MEN'S 400M HURDLES
SEMI FINALS
Thursday August 17th,
2006
At Beijing, China
photos Doug Speck
Spiridon-Ioannis papadopoulos of Greece took heat #1
Official Results - 400 Metres Hurdles - Men - Semi-Final
Qual. rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified
Heat 1 - Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 19:45
Pos Lane Bib Athlete Country Mark React
1 7 347 Papadópoulos Spirídon-Ioánnis GRE 50.79 Q (PB) 0.165
2 3 481 Shraheli Bandar KSA 50.83 Q (PB) 0.186
3 6 747 Melnykov Stanislav UKR 50.87 q 0.175
4 5 495 Kulnis Arturas LTU 51.92 0.214
5 4 530 Kranendonk Marius NED 52.06 0.173
6 1 766 Greene Joe USA 53.24 0.177
7 8 180 Bube Andreas DEN 53.35 0.193
8 2 471 Yoo Kyungmin KOR 53.74 0.252
What a group near the end!! - Vyacheslav Sakaev of Russia emerged the winner
Heat 2 - Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 19:54
Pos Lane Bib Athlete Country Mark React
1 4 637 Sakaev Vyacheslav RUS 51.30 Q 0.156
2 1 529 Franken Daniël NED 51.48 Q 0.156
3 6 335 Stoll Stephan GER 51.64 0.170
4 3 477 Daak Mohammed KSA 51.78 (PB) 0.189
5 2 34 Yong Andrew AUS 51.91 (PB) 0.153
6 5 429 Imai Junya JPN 52.15 0.141
7 8 545 Kalivati Nick NZL 53.08 0.174
7 599 Jonck Wiekus RSA DQ 0.164
Chris Carter of the US looks supremely under control through the semi's!
Heat 3 - Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 20:03
Pos Lane Bib Athlete Country Mark React
1 5 762 Carter Chris USA 50.70 Q 0.165
2 4 459 Wambua John Kituu KEN 51.19 Q (PB) 0.177
3 3 142 Yu Zipei CHN 51.57 q 0.177
4 1 176 Prorok Josef CZE 52.29 0.178
5 6 594 Bloem Juan RSA 52.90 0.258
6 7 401 Guaschino Edoardo ITA 53.27 0.181
7 2 715 Wang Ching-Chun TPE 53.93 0.154
8 355 Villagrán Hans GUA DNS 0.000
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