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Women's 400 metres hurdles
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Women's 400 metres hurdles; at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone celebrates winning the 2024 Olympic 400 meter hurdles in a world record time of 50.37 seconds.
Venue	Stade de France, Paris, France
Dates	4 August 2024 (round 1); 5 August 2024 (repechage round); 6 August 2024 (semi-finals); 8 August 2024 (final);
Competitors	40
Winning time	50.37 WR
Medalists
	← 2020 2028 →

The women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in four rounds at the Stade de France in Paris, France, from 4 to 8 August 2024. This was the eleventh time that the women's 400 metres hurdles was contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 40 athletes were able to qualify for the event by entry standard or ranking.

Summary

Returning gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone had improved the world record five times, each year at the U.S. Championships while qualifying and then at the major championship. Leading up to these championships, she set the record again at the U.S. Trials. Third in Tokyo behind Dalilah Muhammad #3 of all time, Femke Bol had risen to silver at the 2022 World Championships and in McLaughlin-Levrone's absence won gold in 2023. Earlier in 2024, Bol ran 50.95 at the record-setting track in La Chaux-de-Fonds, becoming the #2 performer in history.

In the final, McLaughlin-Levrone went out fastest over the first hurdle with Jasmine Jones second. McLaughlin-Levrone continued conservatively for herself down the backstretch, gaining on Bol, who was in the lane immediately to her outside. By the 200, McLaughlin-Levrone had made up the stagger on Bol. McLaughlin-Levrone just continued to pull ahead to an insurmountable lead and successfully defended her Olympic title. Cockrell took the final hurdle smoothly, passing Bol, and surged ahead to run in for silver. Bol won her second consecutive Olympic bronze medal in this event.^[2]

McLaughlin-Levrone set a new world record at 50.37. Anna Cockrell became the #4 performer with her 51.87, the 13th fastest performance in history (behind 7 by McLaughlin-Levrone, 4 by Bol, and Muhammad's Olympic silver medal). Bol's 52.15 was only her 8th best but was #19 in history. In fourth, Jasmine Jones became the #5 performer in history. Fifth place Rushell Clayton became #13. The top four would have won any Olympics before 2020.

The final was the fastest women's 400-meter hurdles race in Olympic history collectively: five of the eight women ran under 52.7 seconds, with these times ranking among the top 11 in Olympic history.^[3] The winning margin was 1.50 seconds - the greatest winning margin for the women's 400 metres hurdles at any Olympics.

Background

The women's 400 metres hurdles was first introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States and was contested ten times at the Summer Olympics before 2024: every four years, although the 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[4]^[5] That year, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone from the United States won the event in a world and Olympic record of 51.46 seconds.^[6] Since then, McLaughlin-Levrone lowered her world record three times, most recently at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials, where she ran a time of 50.65 seconds.^[7]

Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics
Record	Athlete (Nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
World record	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA)	50.65^[8]	Eugene, United States	30 June 2024
Olympic record	Sydney McLaughlin (USA)^{[note 1]}	51.46^[6]	Tokyo, Japan	4 August 2021
World leading	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA)	50.65^[9]	Eugene, United States	30 June 2024

Area records before the 2024 Summer Olympics^{[citation needed]}
Area Record	Athlete (Nation)	Time (s)
*Africa (records)*	Nezha Bidouane (MAR)	52.90
*Asia (records)*	Kemi Adekoya (BHR)	53.09
*Europe (records)*	Femke Bol (NED)	50.95
North, Central America and Caribbean (records)	Sydney McLaughlin (USA)	50.65 WR
*Oceania (records)*	Debbie Flintoff-King (AUS)	53.17
*South America (records)*	Gianna Woodruff (PAN)	53.69

Qualification

For the women's 400 metres hurdles event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024.^[10] Forty athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by running the entry standard of 54.85 seconds or faster or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event.^[10]

Results

Round 1

The five heats of round 1 were held on 4 August, at 12:35 (UTC+2) in the afternoon.^[1] 40 athletes qualified for the event.
Qualification rule: First 3 in each heat (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) advance to semi-finals, all others advance to repechage round (except DNS, DNF, DQ).^[11]

Heat 1

Results of heat 1 in round 1^[12]
Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Rushell Clayton	Jamaica	54.32	Q
2	3	Fatoumata Binta Diallo	Portugal	54.75	Q
3	5	Amalie Iuel	Norway	54.82	Q
4	8	Cathelijn Peeters	Netherlands	54.84	q
5	9	Naomi Van den Broeck	Belgium	55.81
6	6	Rebecca Sartori	Italy	55.81
7	4	Chayenne da Silva	Brazil	56.52
	2	Kemi Adekoya	Bahrain		DNS

Heat 2

Results of heat 2 in round 1^[13]
Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Jasmine Jones	United States	53.60	Q
2	9	Rogail Joseph	South Africa	54.46	Q, PB
3	3	Savannah Sutherland	Canada	54.80	Q
4	2	Paulien Couckuyt	Belgium	54.90	q, SB
5	8	Gianna Woodruff	Panama	54.94	SB
6	7	Ayomide Folorunso	Italy	55.03
7	6	Shana Grebo	France	56.70
8	4	Carolina Krafzik	Germany	58.49

Heat 3

Results of heat 3 in round 1^[14]
Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Femke Bol	Netherlands	53.38	Q
2	8	Shiann Salmon	Jamaica	53.95	Q
3	3	Zenéy Geldenhuys	South Africa	54.73	Q
4	6	Anna Ryzhykova	Ukraine	55.13
5	5	Jessie Knight	Great Britain	55.39
6	2	Jiadie Mo	China	55.43
7	9	Alanah Yukich	Australia	55.46
8	7	Linda Angounou	Cameroon	55.69	NR

Heat 4

Results of heat 4 in round 1^[15]
Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	8	Anna Cockrell	United States	53.91	Q
2	7	Lina Nielsen	Great Britain	54.65	Q
3	4	Janieve Russell	Jamaica	54.67	Q
4	9	Hanne Claes	Belgium	54.80	q, SB
5	5	Nikoleta Jíchová	Czech Republic	55.45
6	3	Grace Claxton	Puerto Rico	56.29
7	2	Viivi Lehikoinen	Finland	56.67
8	6	Lauren Hoffman	Philippines	57.84

Heat 5

Results of heat 5 in round 1^[16]
Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone	United States	53.60	Q
2	4	Noura Ennadi	Morocco	55.26	Q
3	5	Louise Maraval	France	55.32	Q
4	6	Yasmin Giger	Switzerland	55.44
5	2	Alice Muraro	Italy	55.62
6	7	Sarah Carli	Australia	55.92
7	8	Line Kloster	Norway	57.69
8	9	Viktoriya Tkachuk	Ukraine	58.10	SB

Repechage round

The repechage round was held on 5 August, starting at 10:50 (UTC+2) in the morning.^[1]
Qualification rule: first 2 in each repechage heat (Q) advance to the semi-finals.