2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres explained

The women's 400 metres event at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 3 March 2017 at 9:45 (heats), at 17:45 (semifinals) and on 4 March 19:58 (final) local time.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Floria Gueï	Zuzana Hejnová	Justyna Święty

Records

Standing records prior to the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships
World record	49.59	Milan, Italy	7 March 1982
European record
Championship record
World Leading	51.46	Magglingen, Switzerland	5 February 2017
European Leading	51.46	Magglingen, Switzerland	5 February 2017

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinal.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	1	52.55	Q
2	5	53.24	Q
3	2	53.26	Q
4	3	53.28	Q
5	5	53.39	Q
6	1	53.52	Q
6	1	53.52	Q
8	3	53.56	Q
9	2	53.61	Q
10	2	53.65	q
11	4	53.74	Q
12	6	53.76	Q
13	6	53.80	Q
14	6	53.85	q
15	3	53.88	q
16	3	53.92	q
17	4	53.98	Q
18	4	54.03	q
19	3	54.11
20	1	54.20
21	6	54.21
21	4	54.21
23	6	54.31
24	2	54.65
25	5	54.76
26	5	54.80
27	4	54.95
28	2	55.18
29	1	56.07	SB
	5
	1

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) advance to the Final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	2	52.17	Q
2	3	52.20	Q
3	3	52.31	Q
4	2	52.60	Q
5	1	52.74	Q
6	1	52.76	Q
7	1	52.81
8	2	52.86	SB
9	1	53.14
10	3	53.43
11	2	53.50
12	1	53.57
13	2	53.66
14	3	53.76
15	3	53.80
16	3	54.81
17	2	55.30
	1

Final

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Note
	5	51.90	PB
	4	52.42
	2	52.52
4	3	52.79
5	6	53.08
6	1	54.29

Notes and References

Web site: Heats results . 2017-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150403200500/http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATW004900_C73B.pdf . 2015-04-03 . dead .
Web site: Semifinals results . 2017-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150403200544/http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATW004200_C73B.pdf . 2015-04-03 . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2017-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170304211600/http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATW004101_C73A.pdf . 2017-03-04 . dead .