Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metres hurdles

Women's 400 metres hurdles at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	5 August 1984 (heats) 6 August 1984 (semi-finals) 8 August 1984 (final)
Competitors	26 from 20 nations
Winning time	54.61 OR
Medalists
Nawal El Moutawakel  Morocco Judi Brown  United States Cristieana Cojocaru  Romania

Official Video Highlights

Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races

The Women's 400 metres Hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California (USA) had an entrylist of 26 competitors, with four qualifying heats (26 runners) and two semifinals (16) before the final (8) took place on August 8, 1984. The women's event was for the first time contested at the Olympic Games.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Nawal El Moutawakel  Morocco
Silver	Judi Brown  United States
Bronze	Cristieana Cojocaru  Romania

Abbreviations

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Nawal El Moutawakel (MAR)	54.61
	Judi Brown (USA)	55.20
	Cristieana Cojocaru (ROU)	55.41
4.	P. T. Usha (IND)	55.42
5.	Ann-Louise Skoglund (SWE)	55.43
6.	Debbie Flintoff (AUS)	56.21
7.	Tuija Helander (FIN)	56.55
8.	Sandra Farmer (JAM)	57.15

Semi finals

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Ann-Louise Skoglund (SWE)	55.17
2.	Cristieana Cojocaru (ROU)	55.24
3.	Nawal El Moutawakel (MAR)	55.65
4.	Sandra Farmer (JAM)	56.05
5.	Sharrieffa Barksdale (USA)	56.19
6.	Giuseppina Cirulli (ITA)	56.45
7.	Susan Morley (GBR)	56.67
8.	Andrea Page (CAN)	57.89

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	P. T. Usha (IND)	55.94
2.	Judi Brown (USA)	55.97
3.	Debbie Flintoff (AUS)	56.24
4.	Tuija Helander (FIN)	56.59
5.	Gladys Taylor (GBR)	56.72
6.	Olga Commandeur (NED)	57.01
7.	Ruth Kyalisima (UGA)	57.02 (NR)
8.	Maria Usifo (NGR)	58.55

Qualifying heats

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Judi Brown (USA)	55.97
2.	P. T. Usha (IND)	56.81
3.	Debbie Flintoff (AUS)	57.20
4.	Tuija Helander (FIN)	57.22
5.	Lai Lee-chiao (TPE)	58.54
6.	Alma Vázquez (MEX)	1:00.86

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Nawal El Moutawakel (MAR)	56.49
2.	Sharrieffa Barksdale (USA)	56.89
3.	Sandra Farmer (JAM)	57.06
4.	Gladys Taylor (GBR)	57.64
5.	Lynnette Grime (NZL)	58.02
6.	Dana Wright (CAN)	58.17

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Olga Commandeur (NED)	56.67
2.	Cristieana Cojocaru (ROU)	56.94
3.	Ruth Kyalisima (UGA)	57.38
4.	Giuseppina Cirulli (ITA)	57.49
5.	Overill Dwyer-Brown (JAM)	58.42
6.	Angela Wright-Scott (USA)	59.77
7.	Agripina de la Cruz (PHI)	1:02.70

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Ann-Louise Skoglund (SWE)	55.75
2.	Maria Usifo (NGR)	57.78
3.	Susan Morley (GBR)	58.71
4.	Andrea Page (CAN)	59.09
5.	M. D. Valsamma (IND)	1:00.03
6.	Cheryl Blackman (BAR)	1:01.19
7.	Mary Parr (IRL)	1:01.66

See also

• 1982 Women's European Championships 400m Hurdles (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships 400m Hurdles (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Friendship Games 400m Hurdles (Prague)
• 1986 Women's European Championships 400m Hurdles (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Women's World Championships 400m Hurdles (Rome)
• 1988 Women's Olympic 400m Hurdles (Seoul)

References

External links

• (in English) Results