¶2012 OG: m400H–Felix Sanchez (DomR) 47.63

[user4]

I dont see any of these guys at less than 95% on the final. Day 1 heats, Day 2 semi, Day 3 off, Day 4 final. I see the top 6 performers making it through the semis without leaving a lung and aorta on the track. They will be sharp for the final. Best guess, baring rain, no one medals coming after 47.7.

[Weights&Shoes]

About to start in 5 mins.

[Weights&Shoes]

Love that they show the previous Olympic Finals before Round 1 begins.

[MightyBurner]

Heats four and five are stacked.

[j-a-m]

Morton in top 3, but did not look good.

[Weights&Shoes]

49.14 for Tinsley. Looking REAL good.

[j-a-m]

Tinsley easily wins his heat.

[Weights&Shoes]

Welp, Dai Greene wins his round. Sub 49.

[ATK]

The way the crowd sounded, in his heat, they really might just pull him to something amazing in the final.

[MightyBurner]

I don't know if the crowd in the final will be anywhere near as loud or as British.

[Weights&Shoes]

Culson 48.33......with all that looking around AND missed Clement on his inside, lol.

[Weights&Shoes]

A couple of fast times today so far, even with Ennis' run.

[j-a-m]

Culson cruises to fastest time so far, Clement and Cisneros not far behind.

[Alan Shank]

Culson 48.33
Clement 48.48 SB
Alan Shank
Woodland, CA, USA

[MightyBurner]

Clement looked awesome. If he were to do something special, he could be a real star.

[j-a-m]

Clement looked awesome. If he were to do something special, he could be a real star.

Agreed.

[Weights&Shoes]

Angelo Taylor wins, Jehue Gordon 2nd. Both looked good, don't know about Van Zyl.

[MightyBurner]

VAN ZYL OUT?!?!

[Weights&Shoes]

Clement looked awesome. If he were to do something special, he could be a real star.

I maybe getting a fresh plate of crow from Alan Shank based on my previous comments on Clement, ha.

[j-a-m]

VAN ZYL OUT?!?!

Yeah, looks like it, wow.

[Alan Shank]

Van Zyl, Iakovakis not in top 3, likely out.
Alan Shank

[MightyBurner]

Both van Zyl and Fredericks bombed. The final in London is going to look significantly different than the one in Daegu based on the big names missing.

[Weights&Shoes]

Felix Sanchez wins 49.24, Jack Green in second. Felix looked really good.

[DecFan]

Felix Sanchez wins 49.24, Jack Green in second. Felix looked really good.

Indeed. The best he's looked in a long, long while.

[Alan Shank]

Sanchez jogged in, Jack Green came from well back for 2nd.
Alan Shank

[MightyBurner]

Jack Green ran a properly stupid race.

[t_monk]

400 Metres Hurdles - M Heats
Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1
03 August 2012 - 11:15
Position Lane Athlete Country Mark . React
1 6 Amaurys R. Valle CUB 49.19 Q (PB) 0.176
2 3 Brendan Cole AUS 49.24 Q (PB) 0.200
3 5 Amaechi Morton NGR 49.34 Q . 0.295
4 4 Kenneth Medwood BIZ 49.78 q . 0.190
5 7 Roxroy Cato JAM 50.22 . 0.158
6 8 Chieh Chen TPE 50.27 . 0.187
7 9 Zhilong Li CHN 50.36 . 0.146
. 2 Takayuki Kishimoto JPN DQ . 0.144

Heat 2
03 August 2012 - 11:22
Position Lane Athlete Country Mark . React
1 3 Michael Tinsley USA 49.13 Q . 0.185
2 4 Leford Green JAM 49.30 Q . 0.194
3 6 Kurt Couto MOZ 49.31 Q . 0.170
4 8 Eric Alejandro PUR 49.39 q . 0.204
5 9 Rasmus Mägi EST 50.05 . 0.128
6 7 Winder Cuevas DOM 50.15 (SB) 0.184
. 5 Akihiko Nakamura JPN DQ . 0.153
. 2 Kariem Hussein SUI DNS .

Heat 3
03 August 2012 - 11:29
Position Lane Athlete Country Mark . React
1 1 David Greene GBR 48.98 Q . 0.167
2 8 Emir Bekric SRB 49.21 Q (NR) 0.196
3 9 José Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon ITA 49.35 Q . 0.220
4 6 Brent LaRue SLO 49.38 q (PB) 0.182
5 7 Jamele Mason PUR 49.89 . 0.173
6 2 Wen Cheng CHN 50.38 . 0.176
7 5 Vincent Kiplangat Kosgei KEN 50.80 . 0.175
8 4 Cornel Fredericks RSA 52.29 . 0.162
. 3 Lankantien Lamboni TOG DQ . 0.334

Heat 4
03 August 2012 - 11:36
Position Lane Athlete Country Mark . React
1 4 Javier Culson PUR 48.33 Q . 0.212
2 2 Kerron Clement USA 48.48 Q (SB) 0.175
3 7 Omar Cisneros CUB 48.63 Q (SB) 0.206
4 3 Tristan Thomas AUS 49.13 q (SB) 0.152
5 6 Rhys Williams GBR 49.17 q (SB) 0.217
6 5 Michaël Bultheel BEL 49.18 q (PB) 0.147
7 9 Viacheslav Sakaev RUS 50.36 . 0.181
8 8 Jorge Paula POR 51.40 . 0.160
9 1 Maoulida Daroueche COM 53.49 . 0.213

Heat 5
03 August 2012 - 11:43
Position Lane Athlete Country Mark . React
1 3 Angelo Taylor USA 49.29 Q . 0.187
2 9 Jehue Gordon TRI 49.37 Q . 0.161
3 4 Stanislav Melnykov UKR 50.13 Q . 0.196
4 5 Silvio Schirrmeister GER 50.21 . 0.226
5 8 Periklís Iakovákis GRE 50.27 . 0.248
6 6 L.J. van Zyl RSA 50.31 . 0.173
7 7 Josef Prorok CZE 50.33 . 0.184
8 2 Viktor Leptikov KAZ 51.67 . 0.249

Heat 6
03 August 2012 - 11:50
Position Lane Athlete Country Mark . React
1 7 Felix Sánchez DOM 49.24 Q . 0.177
2 8 Jack Green GBR 49.49 Q . 0.209
3 9 Mamadou Kasse Hanne SEN 49.63 Q . 0.262
4 6 Tetsuya Tateno JPN 49.95 . 0.168
5 5 Josef Robertson JAM 49.98 . 0.176
6 3 Boniface Mucheru KEN 50.33 . 0.165
7 2 Artem Dyatlov UZB 51.55 . 0.185
8 4 Andrés Silva URU 53.38 . 0.195

[Jacksf]

. . .
Also, look out for one of the athletes from Japan. I don't know if 400h is the equivalent of Ekiden for the track in Japan but EVERY year this country manages to send 3 qualifiers to global events. The only country that has been as consistent at sending the max number of 400h to global events over the last 20 years is the USA (and I think JAM; RSA also does a very good job, but not as good as JPN).

2of the 3 Japanese were DQ'd (what happened). The 3rd did not qualify.

[Flumpy]

I don't know if the crowd in the final will be anywhere near as loud or as British.

HUH???

[Weights&Shoes]

SEMI-FINALS STARTLIST:

400 Metres Hurdles - M Semi-Final
Qual. rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1:
Saturday 04 August 2012 - 19:00

2 2741 Eric Alejandro [PUERTO RICO]
3 1135 Michaël Bultheel [BELGIUM]
4 1563 Felix Sánchez [DOMINICAN REPUBLIC]
5 3043 Jehue Gordon [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]
6 3212 Kerron Clement [UNITED STATES]
7 1812 David Greene [GREAT BRITAIN & N.I.]
8 2528 Kurt Couto [MOZAMBIQUE]
9 2910 Mamadou Kasse Hanne [SENEGAL]

Heat 2:

2 1155 Kenneth Medwood [BELIZE]
3 1065 Tristan Thomas [AUSTRALIA]
4 1811 Jack Green [GREAT BRITAIN & N.I.]
5 2743 Javier Culson [PUERTO RICO]
6 2947 Emir Bekric [SERBIA]
7 3255 Angelo Taylor [UNITED STATES]
8 3140 Stanislav Melnykov [UKRAINE]
9 1465 Omar Cisneros [CUBA]

Heat 3:

2 2932 Brent LaRue [SLOVENIA]
3 1843 Rhys Williams [GREAT BRITAIN & N.I.]
4 2176 Leford Green [JAMAICA]
5 3258 Michael Tinsley [UNITED STATES]
6 1039 Brendan Cole [AUSTRALIA]
7 1483 Amaurys R. Valle [CUBA]
8 2128 José Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon [ITALY]
9 2571 Amaechi Morton [NIGERIA]

[Weights&Shoes]

Just terrible.

Semi-Final 1 is packed, while 3 has no one. Very sad.

[ATK]

I don't know if the crowd in the final will be anywhere near as loud or as British.

HUH???

Yea this makes no sense whatsoever...

[dj]

T&FN formchart advancing to semis

1. Javier Culson (Puerto Rico)
2. Dai Greene (Great Britain)
3. Angelo Taylor (USA)
4. LJ van Zyl (South Africa)
5. Michael Tinsley (USA)
6. Amaechi Morton (Nigeria)
7. Kerron Clement (USA)
8. Cornel Fredericks (South Africa)
9. Félix Sánchez (Dominican Rep)
10. Rhys Williams (Great Britain)

[Alan Shank]

Just terrible.

Semi-Final 1 is packed, while 3 has no one. Very sad.

Well, Tinsley is the US champion, but, yes, heat one looks like a pretty good final. It seems likely that the two time quallies will come from #1.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

[j-a-m]

Semi-Final 1 is packed, while 3 has no one.

Yes, good draw for Tinsley in heat 3. And in heat 1, Sanchez, Clement, and Greene all in the same heat.