2013 European Athletics Junior Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships was held in Rieti from 19 to 21 July.

Russian athlete Timofey Chalyy won the gold medal in a championship record. ^[1] His performance was described as "remarkable". ^[2] His mark of 49.23 seconds was also the second fastest of any European U20 athlete ever, earning him the European Athletics Rising Star award. ^[3] It was also a national U20 record for Russia. ^[4]

Medalists

Gold	Timofey Chalyy  (RUS)
Silver	Aleksandr Skorobogatko  [ ru ] (RUS)
Bronze	Jacob Paul  (GBR)

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Danny Harris  (USA)	48.02	Los Angeles, United States	17 June 1984
European Junior Record	Vladimir Budko  (Soviet Union)	48.74	Moscow, Soviet Union	18 August 1984
Championship Record	Varg Königsmark  (GER)	49.70	Tallinn, Estonia	24 July 2011

Schedule

Date	Round
19 July 2013	Heats
20 July 2013	Semifinals
21 July 2013	Final

Results

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, first 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the final. ^[5]

Men's 400mH Round 1 Place Athlete Country Time Heat 1 Jacob Paul   Great Britain 50.74 1 2 Timofey Chalyy   Russia 51.19 3 3 Patryk Adamczyk   Poland 51.83 1 4 Aleksandr Skorobogatko  [ ru ]   Russia 51.94 2 5 Ben Kiely   Ireland 52.10 2 6 Mattia Contini  [ it ]   Italy 52.42 1 7 Ludvy Vaillant   France 52.52 2 8 Rico Thränert   Germany 52.73 1 9 Timo Roth   Switzerland 52.73 3 10 Francesco Proietti   Italy 52.77 3 11 Marcel Matthäs   Germany 52.81 3 12 Markus Loftås   Norway 53.10 1 13 Pavel Agafonov   Russia 53.16 4 14 Enes Ünsal   Turkey 53.20 1 15 Jonas HANßEN   Germany 53.31 4 16 Valtteri Toimela   Finland 53.49 2 17 Nicolai Hartling   Denmark 53.54 2 18 Zoltán Rády   Hungary 53.62 3 19 Danylo Danylenko   Ukraine 53.63 3 20 Marcin Jabłoński   Poland 53.84 4 21 Attila Molnár  [ d ]   Hungary 54.25 4 22 Joachim Sandberg  [ no ]   Norway 54.65 4 23 Andrea Ercolani Volta   San Marino 57.48 3 Piotr Szewczyk   Poland DNF 2 Roman Olejník   Slovakia DNF 4

Men's 400mH Semifinal Place Athlete Country Time Heat 1 Aleksandr Skorobogatko  [ ru ]   Russia 50.12 1 2 Timofey Chalyy   Russia 50.66 1 3 Jacob Paul   Great Britain 51.13 2 4 Ben Kiely   Ireland 51.65 1 5 Patryk Adamczyk   Poland 51.65 2 6 Ludvy Vaillant   France 51.81 2 7 Jonas HANßEN   Germany 51.87 2 8 Pavel Agafonov   Russia 51.88 2 9 Enes Ünsal   Turkey 52.36 2 10 Mattia Contini  [ it ]   Italy 52.36 2 11 Rico Thränert   Germany 52.41 2 12 Marcel Matthäs   Germany 52.47 1 13 Markus Loftås   Norway 52.56 1 14 Francesco Proietti   Italy 53.39 1 15 Timo Roth   Switzerland 53.58 1 16 Marcin Jabłoński   Poland 53.69 1

Men's 400mH Place Athlete Country Time Timofey Chalyy   Russia 49.23 Aleksandr Skorobogatko  [ ru ]   Russia 50.13 Jacob Paul   Great Britain 50.71 4 Patryk Adamczyk   Poland 50.89 5 Pavel Agafonov   Russia 50.98 6 Ben Kiely   Ireland 51.98 7 Jonas HANßEN   Germany 51.99 8 Ludvy Vaillant   France 52.29

References

1. "Championship record for Chalyy as Britain top Rieti medal table". www.european-athletics.com. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
2. "Encouraging Final Day for Irish Athletes at European Junior Championships | Sport Ireland". www.sportireland.ie. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
3. "EUROPEAN ATHLETICS RISING STAR" (PDF). ekjl.ee.
4. "Rieti 2013". mondoworldwide.com. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
5. Heats results ^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}