2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 400 metres

2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	boys	girls
200 m	boys	girls
400 m	boys	girls
800 m	boys	girls
1500 m	boys	girls
3000 m	boys	girls
5000 m	boys	girls
100 m hurdles		girls
110 m hurdles	boys
400 m hurdles	boys	girls
2000 m steeplechase	boys	girls
Medley relay	boys	girls
5000 m walk		girls
10,000 m walk	boys
Field events
Long jump	boys	girls
Triple jump	boys	girls
High jump	boys	girls
Pole vault	boys	girls
Shot put	boys	girls
Discus throw	boys	girls
Javelin throw	boys	girls
Hammer throw	boys	girls
Combined events
Heptathlon		girls
Decathlon	boys

The Girls' 400 metres at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 10–12 July.

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best	Li Jing (CHN)	50.01	Shanghai, China	18 October 1997
Championship Record	Nawal El Jack (SUD)	51.19	Marrakech, Morocco	15 July 2005
World Youth Leading	Olivia Baker (USA)	52.71	Edwardsville, IL, United States	26 June 2013

Heats

Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 3 fastest times (q) qualified.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Alanna Lally	Ireland
	3	Livia Cristurean	Romania
	4	Tiffany James	Jamaica
	5	Emilija Rudytė	Lithuania
	6	Ann-Kathrin Kopf	Germany
	7	Sonia Nasarre	Spain
	8	Zdenka Seidlová	Czech Republic

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Liang Xiaojing	China
	3	Astrid Balanta	Colombia
	4	Anamarija Petters	Croatia
	5	Olivia Baker	United States
	6	Abimbola Junaid	Nigeria
	7	Maja Pogorevc	Slovenia
	8	Susanne Walli	Austria

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Busra Yildirim	Turkey
	3	Anastasiya Kudryavtseva	Russia
	4	Yanique McNeil	Jamaica
	5	Viktória Záhradnícková	Slovakia
	6	Laurence Jones	Luxembourg
	7	Huang Guifen	China
	8	Liliya Manasipova	Uzbekistan

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Emily Rose Norum	Norway
	3	Eleonora Marchiando	Italy
	4	Fathin Faqihah Mohd Yusuf	Malaysia
	5	María Simancas	Venezuela
	6	Mariam Abdul-Rashid	Canada
	7	Kianeth Galván	Panama
	8	Edidiong Ofonime Odiong	Nigeria

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Molly Blakey	Australia
	3	Sabrina Bakare	Great Britain
	4	Andreea Timofei	Romania
	5	Jimena Copara	Peru
	6	Yana Kachur	Ukraine
	7	Tarika Moses	British Virgin Islands
	8	Nirmali M.P. Gamage	Sri Lanka

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1	Shannon Gearey	New Zealand
	2	Fanjalina	Madagascar
	3	Nanako Matsumoto	Japan
	4	Mariana Perez	Dominican Republic
	5	Melissa Gomis	France
	6	Jaydean Joseph	Grenada
	7	Daniela Ledecká	Slovakia
	8	Galefele Moroko	Botswana

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Alice Mangione	Italy
	3	Kseniia Prokopeva	Kyrgyzstan
	4	Luca Palásti	Hungary
	5	Yvonne Vanhuvaone	Zimbabwe
	6	Kadeisha Hield	Bahamas
	7	Kendra Clarke	Canada
	8	Nguyen Thi Oanh	Vietnam

Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

Final

The final was won by Sabrika Bakare in 52.77 seconds.

References