The women's

400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once a ...

at the

2023 World Athletics Championships The 2023 World Athletics Championships ( hu, 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, are scheduled to be held from 19 August to 27 August 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. The city of Budapes ...

was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary from 21 to 24 August 2023. The final was won by the Dutchwoman

Femke Bol Femke Bol (; born 23 February 2000) is a Dutch track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles and 400 metres. In the 400 metres hurdles, Bol's personal best is 51.45 seconds, which is a European record and ma ...

in a time of 51.70 s, ahead the American

Shamier Little Shamier Little (born March 20, 1995) is an American track and field sprinter specializing in the 400 metres hurdles. As a 20-year-old college sophomore at Texas A&M University, Little was the 2015 US champion. She then went on to win the silver ...

in second place and the Jamaican

Rushell Clayton Rushell Clayton (born 18 October 1992) is a Jamaican athlete specialising in the 400 metres hurdles. She won the bronze medal, finishing in third place, at the 2019 World Championships and again at the 2023 World Championships, setting her pers ...

in third place.

Background

In the absence of the 2022 world champion and world record holder

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (, born August 7, 1999) is an American hurdler and sprinter who competes in the 400 meters hurdles. She is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic champion with the Games record, and 2022 World champion with a world record time of 50 ...

, the overwhelming favorite for the world title was the 2022 European Champion and #2 of all time

. In 2023, the 23-year-old Dutch woman broke the world indoor record over 400 metres flat, as well as her own European record over the 400 metres hurdles. Bol remained unbeaten in all her hurdles races since the 2022 final and her world-leading time of 51.45 s was almost 2 seconds faster than anyone else had run this year. After 2019 champion and #3 all time Dalilah Muhammad failed to qualify for the final, Bol's biggest opponent seemed to be the 2015 silver medalist and #5 all time

, who posted the fastest qualifying time in the semi-finals. Other medal hopefuls were Bahraini

Kemi Adekoya Oluwakemi Adekoya (born 16 January 1993 in Lagos) is a Nigerian-born track and field athlete who competes for Bahrain. She specialises in the 400 metres hurdles and has a personal best of 54.59 seconds – a Bahraini record. In January 2019, it w ...

, who set Asian records in both the preliminary heats and semi-finals, and 2019 bronze medalist

from Jamaica, who set a personal best in the semi-finals.

Records

Before the competition, records were as follows:

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 54.90.

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Results

Heats

The first four athletes in each heat (Q) and the next four fastest (q) qualify to the semi-finals.

Semi-finals

The first 2 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify to the final.

Final

References

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