2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles
# 2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6, 7 and 8 July.

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2016 European Athletics Championships :

| World record | Kevin Young (USA) | 46.78 | Barcelona, Spain | 6 August 1992 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| European record | Stéphane Diagana (FRA) | 47.37 | Lausanne, Switzerland | 5 July 1995 |
| Championship record | Harald Schmid (FRG) | 47.48 | Athens, Greece | 8 September 1982 |
| World Leading | Johnny Dutch (USA) | 48.10 | Kingston, Jamaica | 11 June 2016 |
| European Leading | Yasmani Copello (TUR) | 48.79 | Oslo, Norway | 9 June 2016 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| 6 July 2016 | 17:05 | Round 1 |
| 7 July 2016 | 16:15 | Semifinals |
| 8 July 2016 | 19:40 | Final |

All times are local times (UTC+2)

## Results

### Round 1

First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 4 (q) advance to the Semifinals.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 4 | 7 | Martin Kučera | Slovakia | 49.56 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 1 | 8 | Thomas Barr | Ireland | 50.17 | Q, SB |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Tobias Giehl | Germany | 50.30 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 6 | Oskari Mörö | Finland | 50.37 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 4 | Jaak-Heinrich Jagor | Estonia | 50.54 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 8 | Stanislav Melnykov | Ukraine | 50.57 | q, SB |
| 7 | 1 | 7 | Robert Bryliński | Poland | 50.74 | q |
| 8 | 1 | 5 | Vít Müller | Czech Republic | 50.80 | q |
| 9 | 4 | 5 | Michal Brož | Czech Republic | 50.83 | q |
| 10 | 3 | 6 | Patryk Adamczyk | Poland | 51.00 | Q |
| 11 | 1 | 6 | Øyvind Kjerpeset | Norway | 51.05 | |
| 12 | 3 | 7 | Mario Lambrughi | Italy | 51.06 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 5 | Felix Franz | Germany | 51.21 | |
| 14 | 2 | 6 | Mattia Contini | Italy | 51.26 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 3 | Janis Baltušs | Latvia | 51.26 | |
| 16 | 3 | 8 | Tibor Koroknai | Hungary | 51.32 | |
| 17 | 2 | 3 | Nicolai Hartling | Denmark | 51.49 | |
| 18 | 1 | 2 | Denys Nechyporenko | Ukraine | 51.53 | |
| 19 | 1 | 3 | Dany Brand | Switzerland | 51.60 | |
| 20 | 3 | 4 | Dominik Hufnagl | Austria | 51.88 | |
| 21 | 3 | 2 | Javier Delgado | Spain | 52.15 | |
| 22 | 3 | 3 | Jussi Kanervo | Finland | 52.35 | |
| 23 | 4 | 2 | Maor Szeged | Israel | 52.52 | |
| 24 | 2 | 5 | Paul Byrne | Ireland | 53.12 | |
| 25 | 4 | 4 | Jakub Smoliński | Poland | 53.27 | |
| 26 | 2 | 7 | Arnaud Ghislain | Belgium | 53.65 | |
| | 2 | 4 | Anatoliy Synyanskyy | Ukraine | DNF | |

### Semifinals

First 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | Yasmani Copello* | Turkey | 48.42 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | Karsten Warholm* | Norway | 48.84 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | Kariem Hussein* | Switzerland | 48.87 | Q, SB |
| 4 | 1 | 6 | Jack Green* | Great Britain | 48.98 | q, SB |
| 5 | 1 | 4 | Martin Kučera | Slovakia | 49.08 | q, PB |
| 6 | 3 | 5 | Sergio Fernández* | Spain | 49.20 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 3 | Rhys Williams* | Great Britain | 49.22 | Q, =SB |
| 8 | 2 | 4 | Mamadou Kasse Hann* | France | 49.28 | |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | Oskari Mörö | Finland | 49.37 | Q, SB |
| 10 | 1 | 8 | Tobias Giehl | Germany | 49.50 | PB |
| 10 | 3 | 6 | Rasmus Mägi* | Estonia | 49.50 | |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | Mario Lambrughi | Italy | 49.60 | PB |
| 13 | 2 | 7 | Jaak-Heinrich Jagor | Estonia | 49.65 | SB |
| 14 | 3 | 4 | Tom Burton* | Great Britain | 49.71 | |
| 15 | 2 | 8 | Michaël Bultheel* | Belgium | 49.72 | |
| 16 | 1 | 7 | José Reynaldo Bencosme* | Italy | 49.77 | |
| 17 | 3 | 2 | Thomas Barr | Ireland | 50.09 | SB |
| 18 | 1 | 1 | Patryk Adamczyk | Poland | 50.12 | PB |
| 19 | 3 | 7 | Robert Bryliński | Poland | 50.42 | |
| 20 | 1 | 2 | Vít Müller | Czech Republic | 50.70 | |
| 21 | 3 | 8 | Mattia Contini | Italy | 50.78 | |
| 22 | 3 | 1 | Michal Brož | Czech Republic | 50.85 | |
| 23 | 2 | 1 | Stanislav Melnykov | Ukraine | 51.06 | |
| | 2 | 6 | Mark Ujakpor* | Spain | DNF | |

*Athletes who received a bye to the semifinals

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 6 | Yasmani Copello | Turkey | 48.98 | |
| | 5 | Sergio Fernández | Spain | 49.06 | |
| | 3 | Kariem Hussein | Switzerland | 49.10 | |
| 4 | 7 | Oskari Mörö | Finland | 49.24 | SB |
| 5 | 8 | Rhys Williams | Great Britain | 49.63 | |
| 6 | 4 | Karsten Warholm | Norway | 49.82 | |
| 7 | 1 | Martin Kučera | Slovakia | 49.82 | |
| | 2 | Jack Green | Great Britain | DNF | |
