The men's

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at the

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was held at the

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from 27 to 30 September 2019.

Summary

Coming into these Championships, only four men had ever run under 47 seconds. While world record holder Kevin Young never officially retired, now at 53 he's largely been a spectator for a couple of decades. The other three have accomplished the feat in less than a year, two this season in the same race. And all three were in Doha setting up a highly anticipated confrontation. It took 48.93 to make the final.

Abdelmalik Lahoulou Abdelmalik Lahoulou (born 7 May 1992) is an Algerian athlete specializing in the 400 metres hurdles. He won the gold at the 2015 African Games, 2015 Military World Games, 2019 African Games and the silver at the 2015 Summer Universiade, 2022 ...

set the Algerian national record and

Alison dos Santos Alison Brendom Alves dos Santos (born 3 June 2000) is a Brazilian athlete specialising in the 400 metres hurdles. He is a bronze medalist from the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, the 2022 World Champion and the third fastest athlete in the hist ...

a personal best to get there. In the final, Rai Benjamin in lane 7 appeared to get a better start, making up the stagger on Lahoulou to his outside, but that may have been deceptive. Down the backstretch, defending champion

Karsten Warholm Karsten Warholm (; born 28 February 1996) is a Norwegian Sport of athletics, sprinter who competes in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles, 400 m hurdles. He is the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympic champion, silver meda ...

started to take charge. All alone in lane 9, the third of the big 3

Abderrahman Samba Abderrahman Almoubarrake Samba Alsaleck (born 5 September 1995) is a Qatari male track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles. He was born and raised in Saudi Arabia but chose to represent Mauritania – his father's homelan ...

, was getting passed by. Through the turn, Warholm held his advantage over Benjamin which revealed to be a full stride coming off the turn.

Kyron McMaster Kyron Anthony McMaster (born 3 January 1997) is an athlete from the British Virgin Islands specialising in the 400 metres hurdles. He represented his country at the 2017 World Championships, where he finished in the top three in his heat but w ...

looked to be in third place. Benjamin made a run at Warholm down the stretch but stretched for the final hurdle, landing awkwardly and losing momentum and his last opportunity to try to catch Warholm. In front of a home crowd, Samba was able to get past McMaster to take the bronze.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 49.30.

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advanced to the

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Semi-finals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the

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Final

The final was started on 30 September at 22:41.

References

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