2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 400 metres hurdles

The girls' 400 metres hurdles at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Lille Métropole on 6, 7 and 9 July.^[1]

Girls' 400 metres hurdles at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Venue	Stadium Lille Métropole
Dates	6 July (heats) 7 July (semifinal) 9 July (final)
Competitors	35
Winning time	57.93 WYL
Medalists
Nnenya Hailey    United States   Sarah Carli    Australia   Zurian Hechavarría    Cuba
← 2009 2013 →

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Nnenya Hailey  United States	Sarah Carli  Australia	Zurian Hechavarría  Cuba

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best	Leslie Maxie (USA)	55.20	San Jose, United States	9 June 1984
Championship Record	Ebony Collins (USA)	55.96	Marrakech, Morocco	15 July 2005
World Youth Leading	Ann Nwogu (NGR)	58.51	Calabar, Nigeria	25 June 2011

Heats

Qualification rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) plus the 4 fastest times (q) qualified.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Izelle Neuhoff	South Africa	59.97	Q
2	2	Vilde Svortevik	Norway	1:00.57	Q
3	5	Eva Trošt	Slovenia	1:01.10	Q
4	4	Andreea Cojocaru	Romania	1:01.73	Q
5	6	Elizaveta Anikienko	Russia	1:02.15	q
6	1	Salomé Pracht-Kautz	France	1:02.22	q
7	7	Zhilan Salah Mahmood	Iraq	1:11.96

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Amber Bryant-Brock	United States	1:01.13	Q
2	5	Zurian Hechavarría	Cuba	1:01.85	Q
3	6	Marina Swanepoel	South Africa	1:02.24	Q
4	2	Maruša Mišmaš	Slovenia	1:02.26	Q
5	3	Chloe Jamieson	Australia	1:02.31
6	7	Anastassiya Ovsekova	Kazakhstan	1:03.73
7	4	María Cristina Martínez	Mexico	1:04.20

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Sarah Carli	Australia	59.06	Q, PB
2	3	Kernesha Spann	Trinidad and Tobago	59.96	Q
3	7	Tasabih Mohamed El Sayed	Sudan	59.98	Q
4	4	Minori Tanaka	Japan	1:00.18	Q
5	6	Émeline Bauwe	France	1:01.20	q, PB
6	2	Nóra Zajovics	Hungary	1:06.79
-	5	Christine Salterberg	Germany	DQ

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Sage Watson	Canada	1:00.19	Q
2	3	Katsiaryna Verameyenka	Belarus	1:00.39	Q
3	1	Hayley McLean	Great Britain	1:00.85	Q
4	4	Oona Hujanen	Finland	1:01.32	Q
5	6	Yuke Wang	China	1:03.43
6	7	Maryia Roshchyn	Spain	1:03.52
7	2	Bettina Raffalt	Austria	1:03.77

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Nnenya Hailey	United States	58.71	Q
2	2	Aya Takizawa	Japan	59.86	Q
3	4	Ashley Taylor	Canada	1:00.38	Q, PB
4	1	Karolina Pahlitzsch	Germany	1:00.91	Q
5	3	Megan Kiely	Ireland	1:01.76	q
6	6	Dihia Haddar	Algeria	1:02.69
7	7	Durdona Turabekova	Uzbekistan	1:06.14

Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.^[3]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Sage Watson	Canada	59.98	Q
2	6	Zurian Hechavarría	Cuba	1:00.18	Q
3	8	Minori Tanaka	Japan	1:00.19
4	3	Izelle Neuhoff	South Africa	1:00.37
5	7	Eva Trošt	Slovenia	1:01.18
6	4	Vilde Svortevik	Norway	1:02.16
7	2	Émeline Bauwe	France	1:02.28
8	1	Megan Kiely	Ireland	1:03.23

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Nnenya Hailey	United States	58.44	Q, WYL
2	7	Hayley McLean	Great Britain	58.74	Q, PB
3	6	Aya Takizawa	Japan	59.18	q, PB
4	5	Kernesha Spann	Trinidad and Tobago	1:00.26
5	4	Ashley Taylor	Canada	1:00.42
6	8	Oona Hujanen	Finland	1:01.43
7	1	Andreea Cojocaru	Romania	1:02.70
8	2	Salomé Pracht-Kautz	France	1:03.13

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Tasabih Mohamed El Sayed	Sudan	59.64	Q, PB
2	4	Sarah Carli	Australia	59.67	Q
3	6	Katsiaryna Veremeyenka	Belarus	59.97	q
4	3	Amber Bryant-Brock	United States	1:00.18
5	1	Elizaveta Anikienko	Russia	1:00.51
6	7	Marina Swanepoel	South Africa	1:02.11
7	8	Karolina Pahlitzsch	Germany	1:02.32
8	2	Maruša Mišmaš	Slovenia	1:02.45

Final

^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Nnenya Hailey	United States	57.93	WYL
	8	Sarah Carli	Australia	58.05	PB
	7	Zurian Hechavarría	Cuba	58.37	PB
4	1	Aya Takizawa	Japan	58.80	PB
5	3	Tasabih Mohamed El Sayed	Sudan	58.91	PB
6	6	Hayley McLean	Great Britain	58.94
7	2	Katsiaryna Veremeyenka	Belarus	59.76	PB
8	4	Sage Watson	Canada	1:01.04