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Men's 400 metres hurdles
at the 2023 World Championships
Men's 400 metres hurdles ; at the 2023 World Championships
	The final underway.
Venue	National Athletics Centre
Dates	20 August (heats); 21 August (semi-finals); 23 August (final)
Competitors	43 from 31 nations
Medalists
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The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary from 20 to 23 August 2023.

Summary

World record holder #1 Karsten Warholm was back. With three time silver medalist #2 Rai Benjamin and defending champion #3 Alison dos Santos, the top three of all time were there. And don't forget #8 Kyron McMaster. During the semi-finals, 18 year old Roshawn Clarke got inspired trying to chase Warholm, and the result was a new World Junior Record, now called a U20 Record, and #13 of all time. Trevor Bassitt moved to #18 all time with his performance in the semis just to be a time qualifier behind Warholm and Clarke.

Warholm was assigned his favorite lane 7. Outside of him was McMaster in 8 and dos Santos in 9. With Benjamin in 6 and Clarke in 5, all the major players were on the outside of the track. As expected, Warholm took it out hard. Unexpectedly, Benjamin also took it out hard, marginally ahead of Warholm, and McMaster was right there with them. The three were virtually even at the halfway point, and then Warholm started to edge ahead. Down the home stretch, unlike previous meetings, Benjamin was not coming from behind, but instead was watching Warholm pulling away from him. And it was McMaster coming from behind to catch Benjamin before the line for silver. Warholm's winning time of 46.89 was the eighth time he has run under 47 seconds, a time that had only been achieved once before 2018. It was Warholm's third World Championship gold medal in this event.

Records

Before the competition, records were as follows:^[1]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Karsten Warholm (NOR)	45.94	Tokyo, Japan	3 August 2021
Championship record	Alison dos Santos (BRA)	46.29	Eugene, United States	19 July 2022
World Leading	Karsten Warholm (NOR)	46.51	Monte Carlo, Monaco	21 July 2023
African Record	Samuel Matete (ZAM)	47.10	Zürich, Switzerland	7 August 1991
Asian Record	Abderrahman Samba (QAT)	46.98	Paris, France	30 June 2018
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Rai Benjamin (USA)	46.17	Tokyo, Japan	3 August 2021
South American Record	Alison dos Santos (BRA)	46.29	Eugene, United States	19 July 2022
European Record	Karsten Warholm (NOR)	45.94	Tokyo, Japan	3 August 2021
Oceanian record	Rohan Robinson (AUS)	48.28	Atlanta, United States	31 July 1996

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 48.70.^[2]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
20 August	11:25	Heats
21 August	19:33	Semi-finals
23 August	21:50	Final

Results

Heats

The first four athletes in each heat (Q) and the next four fastest (q) qualified to the semi-finals.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Alison dos Santos	Brazil (BRA)	48.12	Q
2	1	Ludvy Vaillant	France (FRA)	48.27	Q
3	4	Joshua Abuaku	Germany (GER)	48.32	Q, PB
4	5	Rai Benjamin	United States (USA)	48.35	Q
5	4	CJ Allen	United States (USA)	48.36	Q
6	4	Roshawn Clarke	Jamaica (JAM)	48.39	Q
7	2	Kyron McMaster	British Virgin Islands (IVB)	48.47	Q
8	4	Ezekiel Nathaniel	Nigeria (NGR)	48.47	Q, SB
9	2	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia (EST)	48.58	Q
10	5	Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica (JAM)	48.63	Q
11	3	Wilfried Happio	France (FRA)	48.63	Q
12	5	Kazuki Kurokawa	Japan (JPN)	48.71	Q, SB
13	4	Julien Watrin	Belgium (BEL)	48.72	q, SB
14	2	Trevor Bassitt	United States (USA)	48.73	Q
15	5	Gerald Drummond	Costa Rica (CRC)	48.73	Q
16	3	Karsten Warholm	Norway (NOR)	48.76	Q
17	5	Yasmani Copello	Turkey (TUR)	48.92	q
18	5	Emil Agyekum	Germany (GER)	49.00	q
19	4	Mario Lambrughi	Italy (ITA)	49.05	q, SB
20	2	Wiseman Were Mukhobe	Kenya (KEN)	49.10	Q
21	1	Julien Bonvin	Switzerland (SUI)	49.19	Q, SB
22	1	Xie Zhiyu	China (CHN)	49.25	Q
23	2	Sergio Fernández	Spain (ESP)	49.26
24	4	Vít Müller	Czech Republic (CZE)	49.37
25	1	Matic Ian Gucek	Slovenia (SLO)	49.40	SB
26	1	Constantin Preis	Germany (GER)	49.45
27	3	Bassem Hemeida	Qatar (QAT)	49.50	Q
28	3	Alessandro Sibilio	Italy (ITA)	49.50	Q
29	5	Shakeem Hall-Smith	Bahamas (BAH)	49.61
30	3	Dany Brand	Switzerland (SUI)	49.69
31	2	Ismail Nezir	Turkey (TUR)	49.92
32	3	Pablo Andrés Ibáñez	El Salvador (ESA)	50.01
33	4	Yusaku Kodama	Japan (JPN)	50.18
34	2	Eric Cray	Philippines (PHI)	50.27
35	5	Árpád Bánóczy	Hungary (HUN)	50.31	PB
36	3	Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan	India (IND)	50.46
37	5	Jun Jie Calvin Quek	Singapore (SIN)	50.53
38	3	Marc Anthony Ibrahim [de]	Lebanon (LIB)	50.62
39	3	Malique Smith [no]	U.S. Virgin Islands (ISV)	50.86
40	2	Takayuki Kishimoto	Japan (JPN)	50.90
41	2	Andrea Ercolani Volta	San Marino (SMR)	52.69
	1	Abdelmalik Lahoulou	Algeria (ALG)	DNF
	1	Assinie Wilson	Jamaica (JAM)	DNF

Semi-finals

The first 2 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified to the final.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Karsten Warholm	Norway (NOR)	47.09	Q
2	2	Rai Benjamin	United States (USA)	47.24	Q
3	3	Roshawn Clarke	Jamaica (JAM)	47.34	Q, WU20R, NR
4	3	Trevor Bassitt	United States (USA)	47.38	q, PB
5	2	Alison dos Santos	Brazil (BRA)	47.38	Q, SB
6	1	Kyron McMaster	British Virgin Islands (IVB)	47.72	Q
7	1	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia (EST)	48.30	Q
8	3	Joshua Abuaku	Germany (GER)	48.39	q
9	3	Alessandro Sibilio	Italy (ITA)	48.43
10	1	CJ Allen	United States (USA)	48.44
11	2	Ludvy Vaillant	France (FRA)	48.48
12	1	Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica (JAM)	48.49
13	2	Kazuki Kurokawa	Japan (JPN)	48.58	PB
14	3	Yasmani Copello	Turkey (TUR)	48.66	SB
15	2	Emil Agyekum	Germany (GER)	48.71	PB
16	3	Wilfried Happio	France (FRA)	48.83
17	1	Julien Watrin	Belgium (BEL)	48.94
18	1	Ezekiel Nathaniel	Nigeria (NGR)	49.22
19	3	Gerald Drummond	Costa Rica (CRC)	49.31
20	2	Wiseman Were Mukhobe	Kenya (KEN)	49.40
21	1	Bassem Hemeida	Qatar (QAT)	49.50
22	2	Xie Zhiyu	China (CHN)	49.57
23	2	Julien Bonvin	Switzerland (SUI)	49.75
24	1	Mario Lambrughi	Italy (ITA)	DQ	TR16.8

Final

The final was started on 23 August at 21:50.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	7	Karsten Warholm	Norway (NOR)	46.89
	8	Kyron McMaster	British Virgin Islands (IVB)	47.34
	6	Rai Benjamin	United States (USA)	47.56
4	5	Roshawn Clarke	Jamaica (JAM)	48.07
5	9	Alison dos Santos	Brazil (BRA)	48.10
6	3	Trevor Bassitt	United States (USA)	48.22
7	4	Rasmus Mägi	Estonia (EST)	48.33
8	2	Joshua Abuaku	Germany (GER)	48.53