2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 400 metres hurdles

The Girls' 400 metres hurdles at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 10–12 July.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Girls' 400m hurdles	Heleen Swanepoel (RSA)	Tia-Adana Belle (BAR)	Lisa-Marie Jacoby (GER)

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best	Leslie Maxie (USA)	55.20	San José, United States	9 June 1984
Championship Record	Ebony Collins (USA)	55.96	Marrakech, Morocco	15 July 2005
World Youth Leading	Helene Swanepoel (RSA)	58.48	Potchefstroom, South Africa	25 May 2013

Heats

Qualification rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Tia-Adana Belle	Barbados	59.29	Q
2	8	Eileen Demes	Germany	59.67	Q
3	5	Klerianne Casi	Puerto Rico	59.85	Q
4	7	Tatiana Sánchez	Colombia	1:00.79	Q
5	6	Yang Qiao	China	1:01.60	q
6	2	Elisa Rovere	Italy	1:04.07
7	4	Glory Onome Nathaniel	Nigeria	1:07.06

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Ewa Ochocka	Poland	1:00.81	Q
2	5	Rebecca Sartori	Italy	1:01.05	Q
3	7	Andrenette Knight	Jamaica	1:01.25	Q
4	4	Mónika Zsiga	Hungary	1:01.25	Q
5	3	D'Jane Kriedemann	South Africa	1:01.26	q
6	8	Yevheniya Sendetska	Ukraine	1:04.28
7	6	Talia Thompson	Bahamas	1:04.43

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Helene Swanepoel	South Africa	1:00.34	Q
2	6	Stephanie Cho	Canada	1:01.10	Q
3	2	Kaho Horiike	Japan	1:01.11	Q
4	8	Kateryna Khasanova	Ukraine	1:01.63	Q
5	3	Virginia Villalba	Ecuador	1:01.74	q
6	7	Lorena Almasan	Romania	1:03.02
7	4	Busra Yildirim	Turkey	1:03.82

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	Samantha Gonzalez	United States	59.66	Q
2	5	Lisa-Marie Jacoby	Germany	1:00.56	Q
3	2	Julija Praprotnik	Slovenia	1:01.72	Q
4	3	Andreea Timofei	Romania	1:02.98	Q
5	4	Martina Samenková	Slovakia	1:03.04
6	6	Mesha Newbold	Bahamas	1:05.72
	7	Daisy Faith Akpofa	Nigeria	DQ

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	Jana Reissová	Czech Republic	59.11	Q
2	6	Nenah De Coninck	Belgium	1:01.08	Q
3	2	Briannill Cardona	Venezuela	1:01.84	Q
4	4	Eva Pivk	Slovenia	1:02.59	Q
5	5	María Dolores Cobo	Ecuador	1:02.95	q
6	7	Anastasiia Volkova	Russia	1:02.99
7	3	Lexi Aitken	Canada	1:03.27

Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Heleen Swanepoel	South Africa	59.02	Q
2		Nenah De Coninck	Belgium	59.73	Q
3		Samantha Gonzalez	United States	59.74	q
4		Tatiana Sanchez	Colombia	59.75	q
5		Stephanie Cho	Canada	1:00.05
6		Yang Qiao	China	1:00.18
7		Virginia Elizabeth Villalba	Ecuador	1:01.06
8		Briannill Cardona	Venezuela	1:04.57

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Eileen Demes	Germany	59.87	Q
2		Andrenette Knight	Jamaica	1:00.16	Q
3		Kaho Horiike	Japan	1:00.39
4		Kateryna Khasanova	Ukraine	1:01.70
5		Eva Pivk	Slovenia	1:02.42
6		Rebecca Sartori	Italy	1:03.25
7		Maria Dolores Cobo	Ecuador	1:05.15
8		Jana Reissová	Czech Republic	1:06.57

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Tia-Adana Belle	Barbados	58.81	Q
2		Lisa-Marie Jacoby	Germany	59.12	Q
3		Ewa Ochocka	Poland	59.88
4		Klerianne Casi	Puerto Rico	1:01.26
5		Djane Kriedemann	South Africa	1:01.47
6		Mónika Zsiga	Hungary	1:01.80
7		Andreea Timofei	Romania	1:02.74
8		Julija Praprotnik	Slovenia	1:07.59

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
		Heleen Swanepoel	South Africa	58.08
		Tia-Adana Belle	Barbados	58.42
		Lisa-Marie Jacoby	Germany	58.75
4		Eileen Demes	Germany	58.92
5		Samantha Gonzalez	United States	59.74
6		Tatiana Sanchez	Colombia	1:00.13
7		Nenah De Coninck	Belgium	1:00.61
8		Andrenette Knight	Jamaica	1:02.22