2010 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres

The women's 400 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 28 and 30 July.

Medalists

Gold	Tatyana Firova Russia (RUS)
Silver	Kseniya Ustalova Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Antonina Krivoshapka Russia (RUS)

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships
World record	Marita Koch (GDR)	47.60	Canberra, Australia	6 October 1985
European record	Marita Koch (GDR)	47.60	Canberra, Australia	6 October 1985
Championship record	Marita Koch (GDR)	48.16	Athens, Greece	8 September 1982
World Leading	Debbie Dunn (USA)	49.64	Des Moines, United States	26 June 2010
European Leading	Anastasiya Kapachinskaya (RUS)	50.16	Moscow, Russia	29 June 2010
Broken records during the 2010 European Athletics Championships
European Leading	Tatyana Firova (RUS)	49.89	Barcelona, Spain	30 July 2010

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
28 July 2010	18:35	Round 1
30 July 2010	19:35	Final

Results

Round 1

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	React	Time	Notes
1	6	Antonina Krivoshapka	Russia (RUS)	0.211	51.52	Q
2	7	Denisa Rosolová	Czech Republic (CZE)	0.222	52.34	Q
3	2	Maris Mägi	Estonia (EST)	0.288	52.85
4	3	Lee McConnell	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	0.284	53.15
5	5	Darya Prystupa	Ukraine (UKR)	0.318	53.48
6	8	Agata Bednarek	Poland (POL)	0.218	54.16
DQ	4	Pınar Saka	Turkey (TUR)		54.33	Doping
7	1	Jasna Horozić	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	0.274	55.97

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	React	Time	Notes
1	7	Tatyana Firova	Russia (RUS)	0.198	51.11	Q
2	8	Antonina Yefremova	Ukraine (UKR)		51.67	Q
3	2	Marta Milani	Italy (ITA)	0.202	52.36	q
4	1	Virginie Michanol	France (FRA)	0.216	52.37
5	5	Helene Nordquist	Sweden (SWE)	0.274	53.78
6	6	Barbara Petráhn	Hungary (HUN)	0.183	53.78
7	3	Meliz Redif	Turkey (TUR)	0.257	54.19
8	4	Begoña Garrido	Spain (ESP)	0.260	54.65

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	React	Time	Notes
1	8	Kseniya Ustalova	Russia (RUS)	0.219	50.96	Q
2	4	Libania Grenot	Italy (ITA)	0.231	51.03	Q, SB
3	7	Muriel Hurtis-Houairi	France (FRA)	0.181	51.97	q
4	5	Joanne Cuddihy	Ireland (IRL)	0.193	52.58
5	6	Kseniya Karandyuk	Ukraine (UKR)		53.18
6	2	Jitka Bartoničková	Czech Republic (CZE)	0.283	54.16
	3	Agní Dervéni	Greece (GRE)	0.227	DQ

Summary

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	React	Time	Notes
1	3	8	Kseniya Ustalova	Russia (RUS)		50.96	Q
2	3	4	Libania Grenot	Italy (ITA)		51.03	Q, SB
3	2	7	Tatyana Firova	Russia (RUS)		51.11	Q
4	1	6	Antonina Krivoshapka	Russia (RUS)		51.52	Q
5	2	8	Antonina Yefremova	Ukraine (UKR)		51.67	Q
6	3	7	Muriel Hurtis-Houairi	France (FRA)		51.97	q
7	1	7	Denisa Rosolová	Czech Republic (CZE)		52.34	Q
8	2	2	Marta Milani	Italy (ITA)		52.36	q
9	2	1	Virginie Michanol	France (FRA)		52.37
10	3	5	Joanne Cuddihy	Ireland (IRL)		52.58
11	1	2	Maris Mägi	Estonia (EST)		52.85
12	1	3	Lee McConnell	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)		53.15
13	3	6	Kseniya Karandyuk	Ukraine (UKR)		53.18
14	1	5	Darya Prystupa	Ukraine (UKR)		53.48
15	2	5	Helene Nordquist	Sweden (SWE)		53.78
16	2	6	Barbara Petráhn	Hungary (HUN)		53.78
17	3	2	Jitka Bartoničková	Czech Republic (CZE)		54.16
17	1	8	Agata Bednarek	Poland (POL)		54.16
19	2	3	Meliz Redif	Turkey (TUR)		54.19
DQ	1	4	Pınar Saka	Turkey (TUR)		54.33	Doping
20	2	4	Begoña Garrido	Spain (ESP)		54.65
21	1	1	Jasna Horozić	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)		55.97
	3	3	Agní Dervéni	Greece (GRE)			DSQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	React	Time	Notes
DQ	5	Tatyana Firova	Russia (RUS)	0.200	49.89	EL
	4	Kseniya Ustalova	Russia (RUS)	0.229	49.92	PB
	3	Antonina Krivoshapka	Russia (RUS)	0.205	50.10	SB
	6	Libania Grenot	Italy (ITA)	0.323	50.43	SB
4	7	Denisa Rosolová	Czech Republic (CZE)	0.319	50.90
5	8	Antonina Yefremova	Ukraine (UKR)		51.67
6	1	Marta Milani	Italy (ITA)	0.185	51.87	PB
7	2	Muriel Hurtis-Houairi	France (FRA)	0.194	52.05

References

• Round 1 Results
• Final Results
• Full results