2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres

None The men's 400 metres event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 8, 9 and 10 July. Peters Lionel Magnusson Tomas WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2008 Bydgoszcz POL Jul 8-13 http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/WJC/WJC2008.html https://web.archive.org/web/20140224202727/http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/WJC/WJC2008.html 24 February 2014 dead WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH") 13 June 2015 IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES http://dt9guucc6nuua.cloudfront.net/competitioninfo/1b820a45-e3d7-40f4-9d5d-7a3abea7f433.pdf IAAF 13 June 2015 Medalists Gold Marcus Boyd USASilver Kirani James GRNBronze O'Neal Wilder USA Results Final 10 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Marcus Boyd USA 45.53 Kirani James GRN 45.70 O'Neal Wilder USA 45.76 4 Kurt Mulcahy AUS 46.54 5 Niklas Zender GER 46.78 6 Daniel Harper CAN 47.20 7 Jordan McGrath UK 47.81 8 Brian Gregan IRL DQ IAAF rule 163.3 Semifinals 9 July Semifinal 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Kirani James GRN 46.55 Q 2 Marcus Boyd USA 46.88 Q 3 Petr Vaněk CZE 47.22 4 Marcell Deák Nagy HUN 47.43 5 Jānis Leitis LAT 47.51 6 Awad El-Karim Makki SUD 48.21 7 Juan Lewis BAH 48.30 8 Hideyuki Hirose JPN 48.30 9 Akihiro Urano JPN 48.34 Semifinal 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Niklas Zender GER 46.78 Q 2 Brian Gregan IRL 46.88 Q 3 Nigel Levine UK 47.14 4 Zwede Hewitt TRI 47.36 5 Vladimir Krasnov RUS 47.38 6 Silvester Kirwa Meli KEN 47.73 7 Pétros Kiriakídis GRE 48.03 8 Ismail Al-Sabani KSA 48.04 Semifinal 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 O'Neal Wilder USA 46.08 Q 2 Kurt Mulcahy AUS 46.56 Q 3 Daniel Harper CAN 46.81 q 4 Jordan McGrath UK 47.13 q 5 Rondell Bartholomew GRN 47.60 6 Juan Carlos Vega PUR 47.94 7 Mauritz Kåshagen NOR 48.22 8 Curtis Kock AHO 48.36 Heats 8 July Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Niklas Zender GER 47.34 Q 2 Juan Lewis BAH 47.78 Q 3 Marcell Deák Nagy HUN 47.85 Q 4 Arkadiusz Wojno POL 48.17 5 Bacar Jannot COM 48.38 6 Alejandro Guerrero ESP 49.20 7 Alessandro Pedrazzoli ITA 50.80 8 Victor Isaiah NGR DQ IAAF rule 163.3 Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Hideyuki Hirose JPN 47.86 Q 2 Jānis Leitis LAT 47.95 Q 3 Pétros Kiriakídis GRE 48.24 Q 4 Darnell Greig TRI 48.42 5 Yonas Al-Hosah KSA 48.47 6 Roman Starukh UKR 48.90 7 Juraj Mokráš SVK 49.29 8 Noah Akwu NGR 49.45 Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 O'Neal Wilder USA 46.82 Q 2 Juan Carlos Vega PUR 48.03 Q 3 Curtis Kock AHO 48.21 Q 4 Kevin Williams JAM 48.42 5 Denys Teslenko UKR 48.49 6 Marc Orozco ESP 48.61 7 Tom Chouquet FRA 49.06 8 Marvin Augustine DMA 52.08 9 Peter Semper MSR 54.87 Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Kirani James GRN 46.53 Q 2 Daniel Harper CAN 47.18 Q 3 Jordan McGrath UK 47.38 Q 4 Vladimir Krasnov RUS 47.73 q 5 Domenico Fontana ITA 47.99 6 Pascal Nabow GER 48.06 7 La'Sean Pickstock BAH 48.54 8 Akino Ming JAM 49.08 Heat 5 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Brian Gregan IRL 47.32 Q 2 Silvester Kirwa Meli KEN 47.34 Q 3 Ismail Al-Sabani KSA 47.39 Q 4 Petr Vaněk CZE 47.78 q 5 Jakub Krzewina POL 47.97 6 Rasmus Olsen DEN 48.46 7 Hafidhou Attoumani FRA 48.56 8 Fadi Ba-Hafs YEM 51.53 Heat 6 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Marcus Boyd USA 47.56 Q 2 Rondell Bartholomew GRN 47.85 Q 3 Awad El-Karim Makki SUD 47.93 Q 4 Erik Voncina SLO 48.20 5 Zoltán Kovács HUN 48.25 6 Endrik Zilberstein GEO 48.58 7 José Antonio Flores MEX 49.36 8 Isoa Me FIJ 49.40 9 Wong Man Hou MAC 54.57 Heat 7 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Kurt Mulcahy AUS 47.35 Q 2 Nigel Levine UK 47.38 Q 3 Zwede Hewitt TRI 47.45 Q 4 Mauritz Kåshagen NOR 47.75 q 5 Bereket Desta ETH 47.80 6 Akihiro Urano JPN 48.07 7 Arnaud Froidmont BEL 48.47 8 Fabian Norgrove BAR 49.10 Participation According to an unofficial count, 58 athletes from 42 countries participated in the event. 22em AUS (1) BAH (2) BAR (1) BEL (1) CAN (1) COM (1) CZE (1) DEN (1) DMA (1) ETH (1) FIJ (1) FRA (2) GEO (1) GER (2) GRE (1) GRN (2) HUN (2) IRL (1) ITA (2) JAM (2) JPN (2) KEN (1) LAT (1) MAC (1) MEX (1) MSR (1) AHO (1) NGR (2) NOR (1) POL (2) PUR (1) RUS (1) KSA (2) SVK (1) SLO (1) ESP (2) SUD (1) TRI (2) UKR (2) UK (2) USA (2) YEM (1) References Category:400 metres at the World Athletics U20 Championships Category:Men's events at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics