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The men’s and women’s 400m hurdles finals at the world championships in Tokyo on Friday night (September 19) proved to be very contrasting affairs.
There was drama in the men’s race as Rai Benjamin at first appeared to have added world gold to his Olympic success from last year. However, as the American donned a golden crown and celebrated on the track, he was informed that he had been disqualified after hitting the final hurdle, causing it to move into the path of Ezekiel Nathaniel.
Just as that news was sinking in, he was then told shortly afterwards that he had been reinstated and had indeed come out on top in 46.52 ahead of Alison dos Santos (46.84) and Abderrahman Samba (47.06). Defending champion Karsten Warholm (47.58) finished out of the medals in fifth as Nathaniel’s Nigerian record of 47.11 gave him fourth .
The women’s final was far more serene as Femke Bol convincingly defended her world title in a world-leading 51.54 from Jasmine Jones’ PB of 52.08 and the national record-breaking 53.00 from Emma Zapletalova of the Slovak Republic.