The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships was held in Rieti from 19 to 21 July.
Russian athlete Timofey Chalyy won the gold medal in a championship record. His performance was described as "remarkable". His mark of 49.23 seconds was also the second fastest of any European U20 athlete ever, earning him the European Athletics Rising Star award. It was also a national U20 record for Russia.
Medalists Gold Silver Bronze
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.
World Junior Record48.02Los Angeles, United States17 June 1984European Junior Record48.74 Moscow, Soviet Union18 August 1984Championship Record49.70Tallinn, Estonia24 July 2011
Schedule Date Round19 July 2013 Heats20 July 2013 Semifinals21 July 2013 Final
Results Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, first 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the final.Heats results
+Men's 400mH Round 1 Place Athlete Country Time Heat 1 Jacob Paul 50.74 1 2 Timofey Chalyy 51.19 3 3 Patryk Adamczyk 51.83 1 4 51.94 2 5 Ben Kiely 52.10 2 6 52.42 1 7 Ludvy Vaillant 52.52 2 8 Rico Thränert 52.73 1 9 Timo Roth 52.73 3 10 Francesco Proietti 52.77 3 11 Marcel Matthäs 52.81 3 12 Markus Loftås 53.10 1 13 Pavel Agafonov 53.16 4 14 Enes Ünsal 53.20 1 15 Jonas HANßEN 53.31 4 16 Valtteri Toimela 53.49 2 17 Nicolai Hartling 53.54 2 18 Zoltán Rády 53.62 3 19 Danylo Danylenko 53.63 3 20 Marcin Jabłoński 53.84 4 21 54.25 4 22 54.65 4 23 Andrea Ercolani Volta 57.48 3 Piotr Szewczyk DNF 2 Roman Olejník DNF 4
+Men's 400mH Semifinal Place Athlete Country Time Heat 1 50.12 1 2 Timofey Chalyy 50.66 1 3 Jacob Paul 51.13 2 4 Ben Kiely 51.65 1 5 Patryk Adamczyk 51.65 2 6 Ludvy Vaillant 51.81 2 7 Jonas HANßEN 51.87 2 8 Pavel Agafonov 51.88 2 9 Enes Ünsal 52.36 2 10 52.36 2 11 Rico Thränert 52.41 2 12 Marcel Matthäs 52.47 1 13 Markus Loftås 52.56 1 14 Francesco Proietti 53.39 1 15 Timo Roth 53.58 1 16 Marcin Jabłoński 53.69 1
+Men's 400mH Place Athlete Country Time Timofey Chalyy 49.23 50.13 Jacob Paul 50.71 4 Patryk Adamczyk 50.89 5 Pavel Agafonov 50.98 6 Ben Kiely 51.98 7 Jonas HANßEN 51.99 8 Ludvy Vaillant 52.29
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