Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres explained

Event:	Men's 400 metres
Games:	2000 Summer
Venue:	Stadium Australia
Dates:	22–25 September
Longnames:	yes
Competitors:	68
Nations:	44
Gold:	Michael Johnson
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Alvin Harrison
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Gregory Haughton
Bronzenoc:	JAM
Prev:	1996
Next:	2004

The men's 400 metres event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics programme was held at Stadium Australia from 22 to 25 September 2000.^[1] Sixty-eight athletes from 44 nations competed.^[2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by 0.56 seconds by Michael Johnson of the United States, successfully defending his 1996 gold medal (the only man to do so in the history of the Olympic 400 metres race). It was the fifth in what would ultimately be 7 consecutive American victories stretching from 1984 to 2008 and the 17th overall title in the event by the United States. Gregory Haughton's bronze was Jamaica's first medal in the event since the nation won back-to-back golds in 1948 and 1952.

Background

This was the 24th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Five of the finalists from 1996 returned: defending gold medalist Michael Johnson and fourth-place finisher Alvin Harrison of the United States, bronze medalist Davis Kamoga of Uganda, seventh-place finisher Davian Clarke of Jamaica, and eight-place Ibrahim Ismail Muftah of Qatar. Johnson had stretched his world championship streak to 4, set a new world record, and was the (overwhelming) favorite again in 2000. Both of the other medalists (Sanderlei Parrela of Brazil and Alejandro Cárdenas of Mexico) from the 1999 worlds were in Sydney as well.

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Ukraine appeared in this event for the first time; Russia appeared for the first time since 1912. The United States made its 23rd appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

See main article: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run 45.80 seconds or faster during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run 46.20 seconds or faster could be entered.^[3]

Competition format

The competition retained the basic four-round format from 1920. The "fastest loser" system, introduced in 1964, was used for the first round. There were 9 first-round heats, each with 7 or 8 runners. The top three runners in each heat advanced, along with the next five fastest overall. The 32 quarterfinalists were divided into 4 quarterfinals with 8 runners each; the top four athletes in each quarterfinal heat advanced to the semifinals, with no "fastest loser" spots. The semifinals featured 2 heats of 8 runners each. The top four runners in each semifinal heat advanced, making an eight-man final.^[4] ^[2]

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.

No world or Olympic records were set in this event.

The following national records were established during the competition:

Nation	Athlete	Round	Time
		Heat 1	46.69
		Heat 8	45.22

Schedule

Following the 1984 schedule, the event was held on four separate days, with each round being on a different day.

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 22 September 2000	10:40	Round 1
Saturday, 23 September 2000	21:25	Quarterfinals
Sunday, 24 September 2000	21:00	Semifinals
style=background:lemonchiffon	Monday, 25 September 2000	style=background:lemonchiffon	20:25	style=background:lemonchiffon	Final

Results

All times shown are in seconds.

Round 1

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	1	Avard Moncur		0.266	45.23
2	7	Daniel Caines		0.153	45.39	,
3	5			0.162	45.49
4	3	Dmitriy Golovastov		0.234	45.90
5	2	Takahiko Yamamura		0.261	46.25
6	4	Carlos Santa		0.169	46.40
7	8	Piotr Rysiukiewicz		0.227	46.67
8	6	Gerald Clervil		0.556	46.69

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	8	Jude Monye		0.220	45.79
2	1	Patrick Dwyer		0.196 s	45.82 s
3	5			0.143 s	46.14 s
4	2	Neil de Silva		0.220	46.84
5	3	Gustavo Aguirre		0.237	47.03
6	3	Troy McIntosh		0.237	47.06
data-sort-value=7 rowspan=2	—	7	Jonas Motiejūnas		0.220
4	Kennedy Ochieng		0.178

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	4	Sanderlei Claro Parrela		0.472	45.55
2	3	Danny McFarlane		0.480	45.84
3	3			0.252	45.84
4	6	Jun Osakada		0.231	45.88
5	1	Tawanda Chiwira		0.203	46.50
6	7	Nduka Awazie		0.319	46.81
7	8	Johnson Kubisa		0.387	46.97
data-sort-value=8	—	2	Evripedes Demosthenous		0.179

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	8	Gregory Haughton		0.295	45.63
2	2	David Kirui		0.207	45.69	,
3	3			0.238	45.72
4	7	Arnaud Malherbe		0.200	45.73
5	6	Sunday Bada		0.554	45.75
6	5	Ato Modibo		0.486	45.91
7	4	Benjamin Youla		0.183	47.54
8	1	Iliya Dzhivondov		0.200	48.64

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	2	Hendrick Mokganyetsi		0.209	45.22
2	3	Piotr Haczek		0.248	45.61	,
3	7			0.134	45.79
4	4	Rohan Pradeep Kumara		0.499	46.00
5	8	Salaheddine Bakar Al-Safi		0.414	46.16
6	5	Zsolt Szeglet		0.176	46.19
7	6	Jamie Baulch		0.164	46.52

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	6	Alvin Harrison		0.467	44.96
2	5	Davian Clarke		0.204	45.30
3	2			0.236	45.39
4	3	Anastasios Gousis		0.211	46.38
5	7	Fawzi Al Shammari		0.157	46.38
6	8	Paramjit Singh		0.188	46.64
7	4	Philip Mukomana		0.503	47.11

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	5	Michael Johnson		0.176	45.25
2	2	David Canal		0.189	45.53	,
3	3			0.262	45.72
4	7	Malik Louahla		0.158	46.06
5	4	Sean Baldock		0.180	46.45
6	8	Fabian Rollins		0.447	46.85
7	6	Oleksandr Kaydash		0.586	46.88

Heat 8

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	4	Hamdan O Al-Bishi		0.153	45.22	,
2	2	Sugath Thilakaratne		0.211	45.48
3	1			0.234	45.48
4	5	Eric Milazar		0.459	45.66
5	3	Štefan Balošák		0.192	46.42
6	7	Kenji Tabata		0.143	46.59
7	8	Rudieon Sylvan		0.241	48.17
8	6	Basheer Al-Khewani		0.452	49.72

Heat 9

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	3	Antonio Pettigrew		0.328	45.62
2	4	Christopher Brown		0.505	45.80
3	6			0.625	45.92	,
4	7	Metija Sestak		0.295	45.95
5	5	Tomas Coman		0.263	46.17
6	2	Juan Pedro Toledo		0.282	46.82
data-sort-value=7	—	8	Daniel Batman		0.378

Overall results for Round 1

Rank	Athlete	Heat	Lane	Place	Time	Qual.	Record
1	Alvin Harrison	6	6	1	44.96 s	Q
2	Hamdan O Al-Bishi	8	4	1	45.22 s	Q	NR
2	Hendrick Mokganyetsi	5	2	1	45.22 s	Q
4	Avard Moncur	1	1	1	45.23 s	Q
5	Michael Johnson	7	5	1	45.25 s	Q
6	Davian Clarke	6	5	2	45.30 s	Q
7	Daniel Caines	1	7	2	45.39 s	Q	PB
7	Robert Maćkowiak	6	2	3	45.39 s	Q
9	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah	8	1	3	45.48 s	Q
9	Sugath Thilakaratne	8	2	2	45.48 s	Q
11	Casey Vincent	1	5	3	45.49 s	Q
12	David Canal	7	2	2	45.53 s	Q	SB
13	Sanderlei Claro Parrela	3	4	1	45.55 s	Q
14	Piotr Haczek	5	3	2	45.61 s	Q	SB
15	Antonio Pettigrew	9	3	1	45.62 s	Q
16	Gregory Haughton	4	8	1	45.63 s	Q
17	Eric Milazar	8	5	4	45.66 s	q
18	David Kipkorir Kirui	4	2	2	45.69 s	Q	PB
19	Marc Raquil	4	3	3	45.72 s	Q
19	Ibrahima Wade	7	3	3	45.72 s	Q
21	Arnaud Malherbe	4	7	4	45.73 s	q
22	Sunday Bada	4	6	5	45.75 s	q
23	Alessandro Attene	5	7	3	45.79 s	Q
23	Jude Monye	2	8	1	45.79 s	Q
25		8	4	2	45.80 s	Q
26	Patrick Dwyer	2	1	2	45.82 s	Q
27	Soufiene Labidi	3	3	3	45.84 s	Q
27	Danny McFarlane	3	5	2	45.84 s	Q
29		3	6	4	45.88 s	q
30	Dmitriy Golovastov	1	3	4	45.90 s	q
31		4	5	6	45.91 s
32	Davis Kamoga	9	6	3	45.82 s	Q	SB
33		9	7	4	45.95 s
34	Rhohan Pradeep Kumar	5	4	4	46.00 s
35	Malik Louahla	7	4	4	46.06 s
36		2	5	3	46.14 s	Q
37	Salaheldin E Bakkar	5	8	5	46.16 s
38	Tomas Coman	9	5	5	46.17 s
39	Zsolt Szeglet	5	5	6	46.19 s
40	Takahiko Yamamura	1	2	5	46.25 s
41	Fawzi Al Shammari	6	7	5	46.38 s
41		6	3	4	46.38 s
43	Carlos Santa	1	4	6	46.40 s
44		8	3	5	46.42 s
45	Sean Baldock	7	4	5	46.45 s
46	Tawanda Chiwira	3	1	5	46.50 s
47		5	6	7	46.52 s
48	Kenji Tabata	8	7	6	46.59 s
49	Paramjit Singh	6	8	8	46.64 s
50	Piotr Rysiukiewicz	1	8	7	46.67 s
51	Gerald Clervil	1	6	8	46.69 s		NR
52	Nduka Awazie	3	7	6	46.81 s
53	Juan Pedro Toledo	9	2	6	46.82 s
54	Neil de Silva	2	2	4	46.84 s
55	Fabian Rollins	7	8	6	46.85 s
56	Oleksandr Kaydash	7	6	7	46.88 s
57	Johnson Kubisa	3	8	7	46.97 s
58	Gustavo Aguirre	2	3	5	47.03 s
59	Troy McIntosh	2	6	6	47.06 s
60	Philip Mukomana	6	4	7	47.11 s
61	Benjamin Youla	4	4	7	47.54 s
62	Rudieon Sylvan	8	8	7	48.17 s
63	Iliya Dzhivondov	4	1	8	48.64 s
64	Basheer Al Khewani	8	6	8	49.72 s		PB
-	Daniel Batman	9	8	-	DNF
	Evripedes Demosthenous	3	2	-	DNF
	Jonas Motiejunas	2	7	-	DNF
	Kennedy Ochieng	2	4	-	DNF

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	4	Michael Johnson		0.150	45.31
2	1	Piotr Haczek		0.251	45.43	,
3	5				45.43
4	8	Casey Vincent		0.163	45.45
5	7	Eric Milazar		0.364	45.52
6	6	Sugath Thilakaratne		0.199	45.54
7	3	David Canal		0.221	45.54
8	2	Arnaud Malherbe		0.192	45.59

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	3	Davian Clarke		0.283	45.06	,
2	4	Antonio Pettigrew		0.475	45.35
3	6			0.600	45.35
4	8	Danny McFarlane		0.183	45.40
5	7	Ibrahima Wade		0.223	45.61
6	2	Davis Kamoga		0.207	45.74
7	5	David Kirui			46.00
8	1	Jun Osakada		0.217	46.15

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	6	Alvin Harrison		0.195	44.25
2	4	Gregory Haughton		0.475	45.08
3	7			0.150	45.35	,
4	8	Patrick Dwyer		0.174	45.38
5	1	Dmitriy Golovastov		0.184	45.66
6	5	Christopher Brown		0.204	45.76
7	2	Soufiene Labidi		0.215	46.01
8	3	Jude Monye		0.203	46.32

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	7	Robert Maćkowiak		0.194	45.01	,
2	4	Hendrick Mokganyetsi		0.440	45.15
3	5			0.161	45.37	,
4	3	Sanderlei Claro Parrela		0.302	45.55
5	2	Marc Raquil		0.224	45.56
6	1	Alejandro Cardenas		0.139	45.66
7	8	Sunday Bada		0.226	45.83
8	6	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah		0.549	45.96

Overall results for quarterfinals

Rank	Athlete	Heat	Lane	Place	Time	Qual.	Record
1	Alvin Harrison	3	6	1	44.25 s	Q
2	Robert Maćkowiak	4	7	1	45.01 s	Q	PB
3	Davian Clarke	2	3	1	45.06 s	Q	SB
4	Gregory Haughton	3	4	2	45.08 s	Q
5	Hendrick Mokganyetsi	4	4	2	45.15 s	Q
6	Michael Johnson	1	4	1	45.31 s	Q
7	Hamdan O Al-Bishi	2	6	3	45.35 s	Q
	Alessandro Attene	3	7	3	45.35 s	Q	PB
	Antonio Pettigrew	2	4	2	45.35 s	Q
10	Daniel Caines	4	5	3	45.37 s	Q	PB
11	Patrick Dwyer	3	8	4	45.38 s	Q
12	Danny McFarlane	2	8	4	45.40 s	Q
13	Piotr Haczek	1	1	2	45.43 s	Q	PB
13	Avard Moncur	1	5	3	45.43 s	Q
15	Casey Vincent	1	8	4	45.45 s	Q
16	Eric Milazar	1	7	5	45.52 s
17	David Canal	1	3	7	45.54 s
17	Sugath Thilakaratne	1	6	6	45.54 s
19	Sanderlei Claro Parrela	4	3	4	45.50 s	Q
20	Marc Raquil	4	2	5	45.56 s
21	Arnaud Malherbe	1	2	8	45.59 s
22	Ibrahima Wade	2	7	5	45.61 s
23	Alejandro Cardenas	4	1	6	45.66 s
23	Dmitriy Golovastov	3	1	5	45.66 s
25		2	2	6	45.74 s
26	Christopher Brown	3	5	6	45.76 s
27	Sunday Bada	4	8	7	45.83 s
28	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah	4	6	8	45.96 s
29		2	5	7	46.00 s
30	Soufiene Labidi	3	2	7	46.01 s
31		2	1	8	46.15 s
32	Jude Monye	3	3	8	46.32 s

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	6	Alvin Harrison		0.220	44.53
2	5	Michael Johnson		0.164	44.65
3	3			0.258	44.93
4	2	Sanderlei Claro Parrela		0.212	45.17
5	8	Avard Moncur		0.198	45.18
6	4	Piotr Haczek		0.470	45.66
7	1	Patrick Dwyer		0.176	45.70
8	7	Hamdan O Al-Bishi		0.179	45.98

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	4	Antonio Pettigrew		0.499	45.24
2	7	Danny McFarlane		0.253	45.38
3	5			0.529	45.52
4	6	Robert Maćkowiak		0.192	45.53
5	8	Daniel Caines		0.168	45.55
6	2	Casey Vincent		0.229	45.61
7	1	Alessandro Attene		0.221	46.41
data-sort-value=8	—	3	Davian Clarke		0.270

Overall results for semifinals

Rank	Athlete	Heat	Lane	Place	Time	Qual.
1	Alvin Harrison	1	6	1	44.53 s	Q
2	Michael Johnson	1	5	2	44.65 s	Q
3		1	3	3	44.93 s	Q
4	Sanderlei Claro Parrela	1	2	4	45.17 s	Q
5	Avard Moncur	1	8	5	45.18 s
6	Antonio Pettigrew	2	4	1	45.24 s	Q
7	Danny McFarlane	2	7	2	45.38 s	Q
8	Hendrick Mokganyetsi	2	5	3	45.52 s	Q
9	Robert Maćkowiak	2	6	4	45.53 s	Q
10	Daniel Caines	2	8	5	45.55 s
11	Casey Vincent	2	2	6	45.61 s
12	Piotr Haczek	1	4	6	45.66 s
13	Patrick Dwyer	1	1	7	45.70 s
14	Hamdan O Al-Bishi	1	7	8	45.98 s
15	Alessandro Attene	2	1	7	46.41 s
-	Davian Clarke	2	3		DNF

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
	6	Michael Johnson		0.610	43.84
	4	Alvin Harrison		0.490	44.40
	8			0.346	44.70	SB
4	2	Sanderlei Claro Parrela		0.280	45.01
5	1	Robert Maćkowiak		0.232	45.14
6	7	Hendrick Mokganyetsi		0.442	45.26
7	3	Danny McFarlane		0.332	45.55
data-sort-value=8	—	5	Antonio Pettigrew		0.576	45.42

External links

Source: Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080522105330/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm

Notes and References

Web site: Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's 400 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417171557/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/ATH/mens-400-metres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 8 August 2017 . sports-reference.com.
Web site: 400 metres, Men . Olympedia . 5 August 2020.
http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/images/stories/tfn_pdfs/ogqualifying_standards.pdf{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Official Report, Results Book for Athletics.