2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

None These are the official results of the Men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2003 IAAF World Championships in Paris, France. There were a total number of 36 participating athletes, with five qualifying heats, three semi-finals and the final held on Friday August 29, 2003 at 22:05h. Summary Félix Sánchez went out with purpose, to defend his championship, taking a clear lead over the first hurdle. He never looked back, just continuing to extend his lead to win by almost a full second. His winning time of 47.25 turned out to be the lifetime personal record of the future double Olympic gold medalist. It was the number 7 time in history, at the time, and has only been surpassed once since, by .01 by 2008 gold medalist Angelo Taylor, though it was also tied by Kerron Clement as he won the 2016 Olympics (which name-checks all Olympic champions from this era, 2000-2016). Behind Sánchez was the battle for the other medals. Immediately outside of Sánchez, Joey Woody started slower, so Sánchez made up the stagger and passed Woody between the second and third hurdle. The closest to Sánchez, immediately to his inside was Periklis Iakovakis. Through the final turn, Chris Rawlinson and Danny McFarlane began to pull even with Iakovakis. By the eighth hurdle, Llewellyn Herbert pulled even with McFarlane. Between the eighth and ninth hurdles, Herbert put on a burst that put a meter on everyone except Sánchez, with Woody moving into contention behind him. Herbert had a firm grasp on silver until he hit the tenth hurdle, sprawling him to the track. Woody was the next to clear the hurdle and finished strongly to take that silver, a meter ahead of Iakovakis. Final RANKFINALTIMEImage:Med 1.pngFélix Sánchez DOM47.25 Image:Med 2.pngJoey Woody USA48.18Image:Med 3.pngPeriklis Iakovakis GRE48.244.Danny McFarlane JAM48.305.Kemel Thompson JAM48.516.Christopher Rawlinson GBR48.907.Mubarak Faraj Al-Nubi QAT52.648.Llewellyn Herbert RSA1:12.10 Semi-final Held on Wednesday 2003-08-27 RANKHEAT 1TIME1.Periklis Iakovakis GRE48.172.Joey Woody USA48.243.Danny McFarlane JAM48.354.Mubarak Faraj Al-Nubi QAT48.535.Stéphane Diagana FRA48.646.Boris Gorban RUS49.427.Mikael Jakobsson SWE50.06—Anthony Borsumato GBRDNF RANKHEAT 2TIME1.Félix Sánchez DOM48.162.Christopher Rawlinson GBR48.563.Dean Griffiths JAM48.644.Yevgeniy Meleshenko KAZ48.845.Alwyn Myburgh RSA48.986.Stepan Tesarik CZE49.237.Dai Tamesue JPN49.378.Naman Keïta FRA49.57 RANKHEAT 3TIME1.Kemel Thompson JAM48.332.Llewellyn Herbert RSA48.603.Jirí Mužík CZE48.824.Eric Thomas USA49.005.Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily KSA49.256.Ockert Cilliers RSA49.327.Eduardo Iván Rodríguez ESP50.068.Sébastien Maillard FRA50.70 Heats Held on Tuesday 2003-08-26 RANKHEAT 1TIME1.Periklis Iakovakis GRE48.762.Eric Thomas USA48.873.Stéphane Diagana FRA49.004.Dai Tamesue JPN49.455.Ari-Pekka Lattu FIN50.196.Adam Kunkel CAN50.687.Michael Aguilar BIZ51.33 National record for Belize RANKHEAT 2TIME1.Joey Woody USA48.532.Christopher Rawlinson GBR48.733.Mubarak Faraj Al-Nubi QAT48.904.Boris Gorban RUS49.075.Naman Keïta FRA49.086.Eduardo Iván Rodríguez ESP49.377.Edivaldo Monteiro POR50.318.Tien-Wen Chen TPE51.42 RANKHEAT 3TIME1.Kemel Thompson JAM48.632.Jirí Mužík CZE48.883.Alwyn Myburgh RSA48.924.Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily KSA48.975.Anthony Borsumato GBR49.166.Mikael Jakobsson SWE49.407.Yacnier Luis CUB49.73 RANKHEAT 4TIME1.Félix Sánchez DOM48.432.Dean Griffiths JAM48.753.Ockert Cilliers RSA49.174.Sébastien Maillard FRA49.255.Cédric El-Idrissi SUI50.046.Ken Yoshizawa JPN50.347.Bayano Kamani PAN51.18 RANKHEAT 5TIME1.Llewellyn Herbert RSA48.552.Danny McFarlane JAM48.863.Yevgeniy Meleshenko KAZ48.954.Stepan Tesarik CZE49.095.Victor Okorie NGR49.66—Bershawn Jackson USADQ—Ibrahim Maïga MLIDQ See also Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games - Men's 400 metres hurdles Notes References H Category:400 metres hurdles at the World Athletics Championships