2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Men's 400 metres hurdles
at the European Athletics Championships
Men's 400 metres hurdles ; at the European Athletics Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Location	Amsterdam
Dates	6 July (round 1); 7 July (semifinals); 8 July (final)
Competitors	39 from 21 nations
Winning time	48.98
Medalists
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Records

Standing records prior to the 2016 European Athletics Championships
World record	Kevin Young (USA)	46.78	Barcelona, Spain	6 August 1992
European record	Stéphane Diagana (FRA)	47.37	Lausanne, Switzerland	5 July 1995
Championship record	Harald Schmid (FRG)	47.48	Athens, Greece	8 September 1982
World Leading	Johnny Dutch (USA)	48.10	Kingston, Jamaica	11 June 2016
European Leading	Yasmani Copello (TUR)	48.79	Oslo, Norway	9 June 2016

All times are local times (UTC+2)

First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 4 (q) advance to the Semifinals.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	4	7	Martin Kučera	Slovakia	49.56	Q, PB
2	1	8	Thomas Barr	Ireland	50.17	Q, SB
3	2	2	Tobias Giehl	Germany	50.30	Q
4	4	6	Oskari Mörö	Finland	50.37	Q
5	1	4	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	50.54	Q
6	4	8	Stanislav Melnykov	Ukraine	50.57	q, SB
7	1	7	Robert Bryliński	Poland	50.74	q
8	1	5	Vít Müller	Czech Republic	50.80	q
9	4	5	Michal Brož	Czech Republic	50.83	q
10	3	6	Patryk Adamczyk	Poland	51.00	Q
11	1	6	Øyvind Kjerpeset	Norway	51.05
12	3	7	Mario Lambrughi	Italy	51.06	Q
13	3	5	Felix Franz	Germany	51.21
14	2	6	Mattia Contini	Italy	51.26	Q
14	4	3	Janis Baltušs	Latvia	51.26
16	3	8	Tibor Koroknai	Hungary	51.32
17	2	3	Nicolai Hartling	Denmark	51.49
18	1	2	Denys Nechyporenko	Ukraine	51.53
19	1	3	Dany Brand	Switzerland	51.60
20	3	4	Dominik Hufnagl	Austria	51.88
21	3	2	Javier Delgado	Spain	52.15
22	3	3	Jussi Kanervo	Finland	52.35
23	4	2	Maor Szeged	Israel	52.52
24	2	5	Paul Byrne	Ireland	53.12
25	4	4	Jakub Smoliński	Poland	53.27
26	2	7	Arnaud Ghislain	Belgium	53.65
	2	4	Anatoliy Synyanskyy	Ukraine	DNF

First 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	5	Yasmani Copello*	Turkey	48.42	Q, NR
2	1	3	Karsten Warholm*	Norway	48.84	Q, NR
3	1	5	Kariem Hussein*	Switzerland	48.87	Q, SB
4	1	6	Jack Green*	Great Britain	48.98	q, SB
5	1	4	Martin Kučera	Slovakia	49.08	q, PB
6	3	5	Sergio Fernández*	Spain	49.20	Q
7	2	3	Rhys Williams*	Great Britain	49.22	Q, =SB
8	2	4	Mamadou Kasse Hann*	France	49.28
9	3	3	Oskari Mörö	Finland	49.37	Q, SB
10	1	8	Tobias Giehl	Germany	49.50	PB
10	3	6	Rasmus Mägi*	Estonia	49.50
12	2	2	Mario Lambrughi	Italy	49.60	PB
13	2	7	Jaak-Heinrich Jagor	Estonia	49.65	SB
14	3	4	Tom Burton*	Great Britain	49.71
15	2	8	Michaël Bultheel*	Belgium	49.72
16	1	7	José Reynaldo Bencosme*	Italy	49.77
17	3	2	Thomas Barr	Ireland	50.09	SB
18	1	1	Patryk Adamczyk	Poland	50.12	PB
19	3	7	Robert Bryliński	Poland	50.42
20	1	2	Vít Müller	Czech Republic	50.70
21	3	8	Mattia Contini	Italy	50.78
22	3	1	Michal Brož	Czech Republic	50.85
23	2	1	Stanislav Melnykov	Ukraine	51.06
	2	6	Mark Ujakpor*	Spain	DNF

*Athletes who received a bye to the semifinals^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	6	Yasmani Copello	Turkey	48.98
	5	Sergio Fernández	Spain	49.06
	3	Kariem Hussein	Switzerland	49.10
4	7	Oskari Mörö	Finland	49.24	SB
5	8	Rhys Williams	Great Britain	49.63
6	4	Karsten Warholm	Norway	49.82
7	1	Martin Kučera	Slovakia	49.82
	2	Jack Green	Great Britain	DNF