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The World Athletics Championships are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics.
The 400 metres, or 400-metre dash, is an endurance race event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and race in separate lanes for the entire course. In many countries, athletes previously competed in the 440-yard dash (402.336 m)—which is a quarter of a mile and was referred to as the 'quarter-mile'—instead of the 400 m (437.445 yards), though this distance is now obsolete.
Nataliya Pyhyda is a Ukrainian track and field sprinter who specializes in the 200 and 400 metres. Her personal best times are 22.82 seconds (2008) and 50.62 seconds (2015), respectively.
Mokgadi Caster Semenya OIB is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals and three World Championships in the women's 800 metres. She first won gold at the World Championships in 2009, and went on to win at the 2016 Olympics, and 2017 World Championships, where she also won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres. After the doping disqualification of Mariya Savinova, she was also awarded gold medals for the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics.
Ingrid Yahoska Narvaez is a Nicaraguan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. She represented Nicaragua at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held between 27 September and 6 October 2019 in Doha, Qatar, at the renovated multi-purpose Khalifa International Stadium, but reduced to 21,000 available seats. 1,772 athletes from 206 teams competed in 49 athletics events over the ten-day competition, comprising 24 events each for men and women, plus a mixed relay. There were 43 track and field events, 4 racewalking events, and 2 marathon road running events. The racewalking and marathon events were held in Doha Corniche.
Ayomide Temilade Oluwatoyosi Folorunso is an Italian athlete specialising in the 400 metres hurdles. She competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.
Salwa Eid Naser is a Nigerian-born Bahraini sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. She is the 2019 World champion with a third fastest time in history of 48.14 seconds, becoming the youngest-ever champion in the event and also the first woman representing an Asian nation to win it at a World Championships. The mark places her only behind contested results of Marita Koch and Jarmila Kratochvílová. At the event, at only 19, Naser was the 2017 World silver medallist. She has also won, as a member of Bahraini mixed-gender 4x400 m relay team, the 2019 World Championships bronze medal.
Kendall Ellis is an American sprinter. Ellis won gold in the 4x400 m relay and bronze in the Mixed 4x400 metres at the Tokyo Olympics. She competed in the 400 meters at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships, winning gold medals as a part of prelim 4×400 m relays. As a junior, Ellis took gold in the 4×400 m relay and bronze in the 400 meters at the 2015 Pan American Junior Championships.
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.
Linda Olivieri is an Italian hurdler who competed at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 400 m hurdles.
Paulien Couckuyt is a Belgian track and field athlete who specializes in middle-distance running and 400 metres hurdles. She represented Belgium at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, competing in women's 400 metres hurdles and women's 4 × 400 metres relay.
Janet Richard is a Maltese athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She did not advance to compete in the semi-finals.
Gabriella O'Grady is an Australian athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She did not advance to compete in the semi-finals.
Hellen Syombua is a Kenyan athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She did not advance to compete in the semi-finals.
Kenza Sosse is a Qatari athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She did not advance to compete in the semi-finals.
Blessing Oladoye is a Nigerian athlete. She competed in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. In 2019, she won the gold medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco.
References
- ↑ "Anjali Devi". IAAF. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ↑ "400 Metres Women – Round 1" (PDF). IAAF (Doha 2019). Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ↑ "Women's 400 metres – Heats" (PDF). 2019 World Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 September 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
