2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 11–13 August.^[1] The winning margin was 0.66 seconds.

Men's 400 metres at the 2013 World Championships
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Dates	11 August (heats) 12 August (semifinals) 13 August (final)
Competitors	35 from 26 nations
Winning time	43.74
Medalists
LaShawn Merritt  United States (USA)   Tony McQuay  United States (USA)   Luguelín Santos  Dominican Republic (DOM)
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Official Video

The final had the 2008 Olympic Champion/2009 World Champion LaShawn Merritt and current defending champion and Olympic champion Kirani James in lanes 6 and 5 respectively. At the gun, Merritt took it out hard, passing Luguelín Santos to his outside and leaving him a couple meters behind at the halfway mark. James worked hard along the backstretch and into the turn to keep up with Merritt reaching the final straight two meters back, Jonathan Borlée one meter further back while the rest of the field almost 5 meters back with Santos the last out of the turn. Then the long striding James began to flail in quicksand. As Merritt charged home for the personal best 43.74 win, James fell back through the field. In lane 4, Tony McQuay asserted himself against the rest of the field, the first to pass James and run home for the silver. Borlée was clearly the next but Santos came from dead last to catch him just before the line to take the bronze.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:^[2]

World record	Michael Johnson (USA)	43.18	Sevilla, Spain	26 August 1999
Championship record
World Leading	Kirani James (GRN)	43.96	Saint-Denis, France	6 July 2013
African Record	Gary Kikaya (COD)	44.10	Stuttgart, Germany	9 September 2006
Asian Record	Mohamed Amer Al-Malky (OMA)	44.56	Budapest, Hungary	12 August 1988
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Michael Johnson (USA)	43.18	Seville, Spain	26 August 1999
South American Record	Sanderlei Parrela (BRA)	44.29	Seville, Spain	26 August 1999
European Record	Thomas Schönlebe (GDR)	44.33	Rome, Italy	3 September 1987
Oceanian record	Darren Clark (AUS)	44.38	Seoul, South Korea	26 September 1988

Qualification standards

A time	B time
45.28	45.60

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
11 August 2013	11:05	Heats
12 August 2013	20:05	Semifinals
13 August 2013	21:50	Final

Results

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	6	LaShawn Merritt	United States (USA)	44.92	Q
2	5	7	Kirani James	Grenada (GRN)	45.00	Q
3	1	4	Tony McQuay	United States (USA)	45.06	Q
4	2	5	Anderson Henriques	Brazil (BRA)	45.13	Q, PB
5	3	8	Deon Lendore	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	45.17	Q
6	5	2	Jarrin Solomon	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	45.19	Q, PB
7	5	8	Javere Bell	Jamaica (JAM)	45.20	Q
8	4	8	Luguelín Santos	Dominican Republic (DOM)	45.23	Q
9	1	2	Jonathan Borlée	Belgium (BEL)	45.24	Q
10	4	7	Kevin Borlée	Belgium (BEL)	45.32	Q
11	2	7	Javon Francis	Jamaica (JAM)	45.37	Q
12	2	6	Matteo Galvan	Italy (ITA)	45.39	Q, PB
12	2	2	Yousef Masrahi	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	45.39	Q
12	4	5	Chris Brown	Bahamas (BAH)	45.39	Q
15	4	2	Nigel Levine	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	45.41	Q
16	3	3	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic (CZE)	45.44	Q
17	2	3	Arman Hall	United States (USA)	45.45	q
18	1	3	Nick Ekelund-Arenander	Denmark (DEN)	45.50	Q
19	3	5	José Meléndez	Venezuela (VEN)	45.82	Q, PB
20	5	3	Gustavo Cuesta	Dominican Republic (DOM)	45.93	Q
21	4	3	Omar Johnson	Jamaica (JAM)	45.97	q
22	2	4	Brian Gregan	Ireland (IRL)	46.04	q
23	1	5	Nery Brenes	Costa Rica (CRC)	46.16	Q
24	4	4	Yuzo Kanemaru	Japan (JPN)	46.18	q
25	3	7	Vladimir Krasnov	Russia (RUS)	46.23
26	5	4	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa (RSA)	46.37
27	3	4	LaToy Williams	Bahamas (BAH)	46.65
28	5	5	Kevin Moore	Malta (MLT)	47.52
29	1	6	Ramon Miller	Bahamas (BAH)	47.53
30	5	6	Angelo Garland	Turks and Caicos Islands (TKS)	48.65
31	3	2	Ak Hafiy Tajuddin Rositi	Brunei (BRU)	49.98
32	2	8	Hamdinou Cheikh El Wely	Mauritania (MTN)	52.33	PB
	1	7	Yoandys Lescay	Cuba (CUB)	DQ	R 163.3
	4	6	Daniel Aleman	Nicaragua (NCA)	DQ	R 163.3
	1	8	Zaw Win Thet	Myanmar (MYA)	DQ	R 163.3

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	6	LaShawn Merritt	United States (USA)	44.60	Q
2	1	8	Yousef Masrahi	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	44.61	Q, NR
3	1	3	Tony McQuay	United States (USA)	44.66	Q
4	3	4	Kirani James	Grenada (GRN)	44.81	Q
5	3	6	Luguelín Santos	Dominican Republic (DOM)	44.83	Q
6	3	7	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic (CZE)	44.84	q, NR
7	2	3	Jonathan Borlée	Belgium (BEL)	44.85	Q
8	1	5	Anderson Henriques	Brazil (BRA)	44.95	q, PB
9	1	4	Kevin Borlée	Belgium (BEL)	45.03
10	2	8	Chris Brown	Bahamas (BAH)	45.18	SB
11	3	5	Jarrin Solomon	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	45.43
12	2	4	Deon Lendore	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	45.47
13	3	2	Arman Hall	United States (USA)	45.54
14	3	8	Nigel Levine	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	45.60
15	1	6	Javon Francis	Jamaica (JAM)	45.62
16	2	5	Matteo Galvan	Italy (ITA)	45.69
17	3	3	Javere Bell	Jamaica (JAM)	45.77
18	1	7	Nick Ekelund-Arenander	Denmark (DEN)	45.89
19	2	1	Omar Johnson	Jamaica (JAM)	45.89
20	2	2	Gustavo Cuesta	Dominican Republic (DOM)	45.93
21	1	2	Brian Gregan	Ireland (IRL)	45.98
22	2	7	José Meléndez	Venezuela (VEN)	46.22
23	1	1	Yuzo Kanemaru	Japan (JPN)	46.28
24	3	1	Nery Brenes	Costa Rica (CRC)	46.34

Final

The final was held at 21:50.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	LaShawn Merritt	United States (USA)	43.74	PB, WL
	4	Tony McQuay	United States (USA)	44.40	PB
	7	Luguelín Santos	Dominican Republic (DOM)	44.52	SB
4	8	Jonathan Borlée	Belgium (BEL)	44.54	SB
5	1	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic (CZE)	44.91
6	3	Yousef Masrahi	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	44.97
7	5	Kirani James	Grenada (GRN)	44.99
8	2	Anderson Henriques	Brazil (BRA)	45.03