2019 World Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres

Women's 400 metres at the 2019 World Championships
The medal ceremony of the event.
Venue	Khalifa International Stadium
Dates	30 September (heats) 1 October (semi-final) 3 October (final)
Competitors	48 from 32 nations
Winning time	48.14
Medalists
Salwa Eid Naser    Bahrain   Shaunae Miller-Uibo    Bahamas   Shericka Jackson    Jamaica
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The women's 400 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, from 30 September to 3 October 2019. ^[1]

Summary

The 2019 season saw only four women break 50 seconds. World leader Shaunae Miller-Uibo did it three times. Salwa Eid Naser broke it once, coming back against a challenge from Aminatou Seyni. Naser was consistently under 51, five times during the 2019 IAAF Diamond League season. Seyni was not allowed to compete in the 400 metres because of the new IAAF testosterone rule. ^[2] Shericka Jackson was the fourth to break 50 at the Jamaican championships.

Those athletes were the ones to watch in the final. With multi-toned hair, the tall Miller-Uibo started like she meant business, gaining on the stagger against defending champion Phyllis Francis to her outside and by the backstretch, Francis had already made up the stagger on Justyna Święty-Ersetic to her outside. In the center of the track, Naser had also already made up the stagger on Wadeline Jonathas to her outside. Miller-Uibo and Naser hit the 200 meter split marks virtually even. Through the final turn, Naser was moving faster, opening up 4 metres by the home straight. The first time Miller-Uibo was able to see Naser, she was already behind. That final straight is usually Miller-Uibo's territory. She began stretching out her long strides to reel Naser in. Miller-Uibo steadily gained on Naser, pulling in three metres, but it wasn't enough. Miller-Uibo set a new personal best, 48.37, which became the #6 400 metre race of all time. Naser beat her with 48.14, the #3 400 of all time. Jackson held off the American duo of Jonathas and Francis, all personal bests under 50 seconds. Like all previous top 10 women's races, there were two close competitors battling to the line.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: ^[3]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	47.60	Marita Koch	GDR	6 Oct 1985	Canberra, Australia
Championship	47.99	Jarmila Kratochvílová	TCH	10 Aug 1983	Helsinki, Finland
World Leading	49.05	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	BAH	27 Apr 2019	Gainesville, United States
African	49.10	Falilat Ogunkoya	NGA	29 Jul 1996	Atlanta, United States
Asian	49.08	Salwa Eid Naser	BHR	20 Jul 2018	Monaco
North, Central American and Caribbean	48.70	Sanya Richards-Ross	USA	16 Sep 2006	Athens, Greece
South American	49.64	Ximena Restrepo	COL	5 August 1992	Barcelona, Spain
European	47.60	Marita Koch	GDR	6 Oct 1985	Canberra, Australia
Oceanian	48.63	Cathy Freeman	AUS	29 Jul 1996	Atlanta, United States

The following records were set at the competition:

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
World Leading	48.14	Salwa Eid Naser	BHR	3 Oct 2019
Asian
Bahraini
North, Central American and Caribbean	48.37	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	BAH
Bahamian

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows: ^[4]

Date	Time	Round
30 September	18:20	Heats
1 October	20:50	Semi-finals
3 October	23:50	Final

Results

Heats

The first three in each heat (Q) and the next six fastest (q) qualified for the final. ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	3	Wadeline Jonathas	United States  (USA)	50.57	Q
2	4	2	Galefele Moroko	Botswana  (BOT)	50.59	Q, PB
3	6	2	Salwa Eid Naser	Bahrain  (BHR)	50.74	Q
4	1	2	Phyllis Francis	United States  (USA)	50.77	Q
5	2	8	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica  (JAM)	51.13	Q
6	3	9	Shakima Wimbley	United States  (USA)	51.17	Q
7	2	6	Bendere Oboya	Australia  (AUS)	51.21	Q, PB
8	4	3	Stephenie Ann McPherson	Jamaica  (JAM)	51.21	Q
9	5	5	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	Bahamas  (BAH)	51.30	Q
10	2	7	Lisanne de Witte	Netherlands  (NED)	51.31	q
11	3	8	Iga Baumgart-Witan	Poland  (POL)	51.34	Q
11	6	8	Justyna Święty-Ersetic	Poland  (POL)	51.34	Q
13	4	5	Favour Ofili	Nigeria  (NGR)	51.51	Q, PB
14	3	2	Laviai Nielsen	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	51.52	Q
15	6	4	Paola Morán	Mexico  (MEX)	51.58	Q
16	2	9	Emily Diamond	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	51.66	q, SB
17	4	7	Aliyah Abrams	Guyana  (GUY)	51.73	q
18	5	6	Déborah Sananes	France  (FRA)	51.76	Q
19	2	5	Patience Okon George	Nigeria  (NGR)	51.77	q
20	4	8	Kendall Ellis	United States  (USA)	51.82	q
21	4	9	Roxana Gómez	Cuba  (CUB)	51.85	q
22	5	8	Mary Moraa	Kenya  (KEN)	51.85	Q
23	2	4	Eleni Artymata	Cyprus  (CYP)	51.90
24	3	7	Tiffani Silva	Brazil  (BRA)	51.96
25	5	2	Polina Miller	Authorised Neutral Athletes  (ANA)	51.96
26	6	5	Kseniya Aksyonova	Authorised Neutral Athletes  (ANA)	51.99
27	3	6	Aiyanna Stiverne	Canada  (CAN)	52.03
28	1	4	Sada Williams	Barbados  (BAR)	52.14	Q
29	2	2	Alyona Mamina	Authorised Neutral Athletes  (ANA)	52.15
30	4	6	Maggie Barrie	Sierra Leone  (SLE)	52.16	SB
31	3	3	Leni Shida	Uganda  (UGA)	52.22
32	1	3	Lada Vondrová	Czech Republic  (CZE)	52.23	Q
33	6	3	Madeline Price	Canada  (CAN)	52.24
34	5	4	Anna Kiełbasińska	Poland  (POL)	52.25
35	5	7	Anastasia Le-Roy	Jamaica  (JAM)	52.26
36	5	9	Irini Vasiliou	Greece  (GRE)	52.31
37	6	7	Anjali Devi	India  (IND)	52.33
38	3	5	Maria Benedicta Chigbolu	Italy  (ITA)	52.63
39	1	7	Anita Horvat	Slovenia  (SLO)	52.73
40	1	6	Cátia Azevedo	Portugal  (POR)	52.79
41	6	6	Amandine Brossier	France  (FRA)	52.81
42	1	8	Christine Botlogetswe	Botswana  (BOT)	53.27
43	3	4	Janet Richard	Malta  (MLT)	54.33
44	4	4	Gabriella O'Grady	Australia  (AUS)	54.99
45	1	5	Hellen Syombua	Kenya  (KEN)	57.07
46	6	9	Aishath Himna Hassan	Maldives  (MDV)	59.91
47	5	3	Kenza Sosse	Qatar  (QAT)	1:06.76
	1	9	Ingrid Yahoska Narvaez	Nicaragua  (NCA)	DQ	163.3(a)

Semi-finals

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The first two in each heat (Q) and the next two fastest (q) qualified for the final. ^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	6	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	Bahamas  (BAH)	49.66	Q
2	1	7	Salwa Eid Naser	Bahrain  (BHR)	49.79	Q
3	2	4	Wadeline Jonathas	United States  (USA)	50.07	Q, PB
4	2	7	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica  (JAM)	50.10	q
5	1	5	Phyllis Francis	United States  (USA)	50.22	Q, SB
6	3	6	Stephenie Ann McPherson	Jamaica  (JAM)	50.70	Q, SB
7	3	5	Justyna Święty-Ersetic	Poland  (POL)	50.96	Q
8	1	6	Iga Baumgart-Witan	Poland  (POL)	51.02	q, PB
9	1	8	Paola Morán	Mexico  (MEX)	51.08
10	2	5	Sada Williams	Barbados  (BAR)	51.31	PB
11	2	2	Lisanne de Witte	Netherlands  (NED)	51.41
12	2	3	Roxana Gómez	Cuba  (CUB)	51.56	SB
13	2	9	Bendere Oboya	Australia  (AUS)	51.58
14	3	3	Kendall Ellis	United States  (USA)	51.58
15	3	2	Emily Diamond	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	51.62	SB
16	1	3	Aliyah Abrams	Guyana  (GUY)	51.71
17	1	2	Patience Okon George	Nigeria  (NGR)	51.89
18	3	9	Mary Moraa	Kenya  (KEN)	52.11
19	1	4	Déborah Sananes	France  (FRA)	52.24
20	2	8	Lada Vondrová	Czech Republic  (CZE)	52.25
21	3	8	Favour Ofili	Nigeria  (NGR)	52.58
22	1	9	Laviai Nielsen	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	52.94
23	3	7	Shakima Wimbley	United States  (USA)	1:13.55
	3	4	Galefele Moroko	Botswana  (BOT)	DNF

Final

The final was started on 3 October at 23:50. ^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Salwa Eid Naser	Bahrain  (BHR)	48.14	AR , WL
	7	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	Bahamas  (BAH)	48.37	AR
	3	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica  (JAM)	49.47	PB
4	6	Wadeline Jonathas	United States  (USA)	49.60	PB
5	8	Phyllis Francis	United States  (USA)	49.61	PB
6	4	Stephenie Ann McPherson	Jamaica  (JAM)	50.89
7	9	Justyna Święty-Ersetic	Poland  (POL)	50.95
8	2	Iga Baumgart-Witan	Poland  (POL)	51.29

References

1. "Start list" (PDF).
2. "Athletics world champs rocked by testosterone controversy". October 2019.
3. "400 Metres Women − Records". IAAF . Retrieved 27 September 2019.
4. "Women's 400 Metres − Timetable". IAAF . Retrieved 27 September 2019.
5. "Heats results" (PDF).
6. "Semi-finals results" (PDF).
7. "400 Metres Women − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.