1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Events at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
5000 m walk				women
10,000 m walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 28, 29 and 31 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Periklís Iakovákis  Greece
Silver	Osiris Martínez  Cuba
Bronze	Peter Bate  Australia

Results

Final

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Periklís Iakovákis	Greece	49.82
02 !	Osiris Martínez	Cuba	50.17
03 !	Peter Bate	Australia	50.83
4	Tomasz Rudnik	Poland	50.98
5	Terrance Wilson	United States	50.99
6	François Coetzee	South Africa	51.20
7	Chabib El-Azouizi	Morocco	51.41
8	Lin Chin-Fu	Chinese Taipei	52.04

Semifinals

29 July

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Osiris Martínez	Cuba	50.45	Q
2	Lin Chin-Fu	Chinese Taipei	50.47	Q
3	Terrance Wilson	United States	51.10	Q
4	François Coetzee	South Africa	51.35	q
5	Tomasz Rudnik	Poland	51.47	q
6	Tahar Ghozali	Algeria	52.12
7	Richard McDonald	United Kingdom	52.13
8	David Lloyd	Jamaica	52.15

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Peter Bate	Australia	50.50	Q
2	Periklís Iakovákis	Greece	50.73	Q
3	Chabib El-Azouizi	Morocco	51.11	Q
4	Satoshi Oshikawa	Japan	51.55
5	Reginald Depass	United States	51.89
6	Carlos García	Spain	52.03
7	Nicholas O'Brien	New Zealand	52.04
8	Stefano Cuzzi	Italy	52.71

Heats

28 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Chabib El-Azouizi	Morocco	52.03	Q
2	Reginald Depass	United States	52.20	Q
3	Salah Ghaidi	France	52.66
4	Dmitriy Zhukov	Russia	52.68
5	Robson dos Santos	Brazil	53.42
6	José Moncada	Venezuela	53.60
7	Andreas Wickert	Germany	54.42
8	Salem Al-Ameeri	Bahrain	58.19

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Periklís Iakovákis	Greece	51.99	Q
2	Tomasz Rudnik	Poland	52.31	Q
3	Adrian Medhurst	Australia	52.80
4	Mohamed Mouhlal	Morocco	53.02
5	Sveinn Þórarinsson	Iceland	53.46
6	Aissa Hassan Saadoun	Qatar	54.38

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Peter Bate	Australia	50.93	Q
2	Osiris Martínez	Cuba	52.00	Q
3	David Lloyd	Jamaica	52.06	q
4	Jon Torben Flöttmann	Germany	52.88
5	Saso Božic	Slovenia	53.04
6	Carlo Dambruoso	Italy	53.67
7	Roberto Carbajal	Mexico	53.79
8	Moncef Kessab	Algeria	54.93

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lin Chin-Fu	Chinese Taipei	51.43	Q
2	Satoshi Oshikawa	Japan	52.22	Q
3	Tahar Ghozali	Algeria	52.25	q
4	Carlos García	Spain	52.46	q
5	Jakub Havlín	Czech Republic	52.72
6	Dirk Le Roux	South Africa	52.78
7	Kirill Sedykh	Russia	53.00
8	Essel Mensah	Ghana	58.12

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Terrance Wilson	United States	51.61	Q
2	François Coetzee	South Africa	51.64	Q
3	Stefano Cuzzi	Italy	52.10	q
4	Nicholas O'Brien	New Zealand	52.11	q
5	Richard McDonald	United Kingdom	52.33	q
6	Hani Al-Mourhej	Syria	52.61
7	Wendell Colares	Brazil	54.98
8	Ryan Clarke	Jamaica	60.62

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 38 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event.

References