| Final 20.35h | time | L | | 1. Angelo Taylor |  USA | 47.50s | 1 | | 2. Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily |  KSA | 47.53s | 4 | | 3. Llewellyn Herbert |  RSA | 47.81s | 6 | | 4. James Carter | USA | 48.04s | 5 | | 5. Eronilde Nunes de Araujo |  BRA | 48.34s | 8 | | 6. Pawel Januszewski |  POL | 48.44s | 2 | | 7. Fabrizio Mori |  ITA | 48.78s | 3 | | 8. Gennadiy Gorbenko |  UKR | 49.01s | 7 |
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| Competitors: 62; Countries: 46 |
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| Semi 1 19.45h | time | L | | 1. Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily | KSA | 48.14s | 6 | | 2. Fabrizio Mori | ITA | 48.40s | 4 | | 3. Gennadiy Gorbenko | UKR | 48.40s | 5 | | 4. Pawel Januszewski | POL | 48.42s | 7 | | 5. Eric Thomas | USA | 49.25s | 2 | | 6. Thomas Goller |  GER | 49.28s | 3 | | 7. Pedro Rodrigues |  POR | 49.48s | 1 | | 8. Tien-Wen Chen |  TAI | 50.52s | 8 |
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| Semi 2 19.52h | time | L | | 1. Llewellyn Herbert | RSA | 48.38s | 4 | | 2. Angelo Taylor | USA | 48.49s | 3 | | 3. Ruslan Mashchenko |  RUS | 48.94s | 7 | | 4. Blair Young |  AUS | 49.20s | 8 | | 5. Jiri Muzik |  CZE | 49.23s | 5 | | 6. Christopher Rawlinson |  GBR | 49.25s | 6 | | 7. Felix Sanchez |  DOM | 49.69s | 1 | | 8. Giorgio Frinolli | ITA | 50.10s | 2 |
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| Heat 3 19.59h | time | L | | 1. James Carter | USA | 48.48s | 3 | | 2. Eronilde Nunes de Araujo | BRA | 48.76s | 4 | | 3. Samuel Matete |  ZAM | 48.98s | 6 | | 4. Alwyn Myburgh | RSA | 49.25s | 1 | | 5. Boris Gorban | RUS | 49.29s | 5 | | 6. Matthew Douglas | GBR | 49.53s | 8 | | 7. Dinsdale Morgan |  JAM | 50.23s | 2 | | 8. Erick Keter |  KEN | 51.25s | 7 |
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In very windy conditions, the first round brought only one sub-49
clocking (by Samuel Matete – 48.98). The semi-finals saw most of the
top runners unfurl their banners. Al-Somaily set a national record in
taking the first race in 48.14, with Mori (48.40), the surprising
Gorbenko (48.40) and Januszewsi (48.42) all qualifying. Herbert
(48.38) and Carter (48.48) were the other (^2Heat winners, the latter earning
boos from the crowd by his taunting his opposition on the run-in.
Al-Somaily led from the gun in the final, with Carter and Herbert his
closest pursuers. Taylor moved up from 4th at the 8th barrier to second
at the last hurdle, and finally caught Al-Somaily with his last stride.
Taylor became the 10th fastest of all-time and only the third man (after
Morgan Taylor in ’24 and Akii-Bua in ’72) to have won from the confines
of lane 1.
| Heat 1 18.15h | time | L | | 1. Llewellyn Herbert | RSA | 49.25s | 8 | | 2. Thomas Goller | GER | 49.32s | 7 | | 3. Ruslan Mashchenko | RUS | 50.01s | 3 | | 4. Rohan Robinson | AUS | 50.80s | 4 | | 5. Willie Smith |  NAM | 50.89s | 5 | | 6. Carlos Zbinden |  CHI | 51.36s | 6 | | 7. Victor Houston |  BAR | 51.51s | 2 |
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| Heat 2 18.22h | time | L | | 1. Fabrizio Mori | ITA | 49.35s | 5 | | 2. Boris Gorban | RUS | 49.44s | 8 | | 3. Felix Sanchez | DOM | 49.70s | 4 | | 4. Blair Young | AUS | 49.75s | 6 | | 5. Tien-Wen Chen | TAI | 49.93s | 2 | | 6. Erick Keter | KEN | 50.06s | 3 | | 7. Kazuhiko Yamazaki |  JPN | 50.15s | 1 | | 8. Yvon Rakotoarimiandry |  MAD | 50.15s | 7 |
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| Heat 3 18.29h | time | L | | 1. Angelo Taylor | USA | 49.48s | 8 | | 2. Dinsdale Morgan | JAM | 49.64s | 6 | | 3. Ibou Faye |  SEN | 50.09s | 4 | | 4. Harijan Ratnayake |  SRI | 50.43s | 7 | | 5. Erkin Isakov |  UZB | 50.71s | 5 | | 6. Hillary Maritim | KEN | 51.04s | 3 | | 7. Sylvester Omodiale |  NGR | 51.06s | 2 |
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| Heat 4 18.36h | time | L | | 1. Jiri Muzik | CZE | 50.11s | 8 | | 2. Eric Thomas | USA | 50.16s | 6 | | 3. Periklis Iakovakis |  GRE | 50.20s | 1 | | 4. Hideaki Kawamura | JPN | 50.68s | 4 | | 5. Vadim Zadoynov |  MOL | 51.08s | 7 | | 6. Mustapha Sdad |  MAR | 51.39s | 2 | | 7. Tom McGuirk |  IRL | 51.73s | 3 | | 8. Doo-Yeon Lee |  KOR | 52.61s | 5 |
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| Heat 5 18.43h | time | L | | 1. Christopher Rawlinson | GBR | 51.30s | 3 | | 2. Pawel Januszewski | POL | 51.40s | 2 | | 3. Tibor Bedi |  HUN | 51.54s | 7 | | 4. Ken Harnden |  ZIM | 51.83s | 5 | | 5. Leonid Vershinin |  BLR | 51.84s | 4 | | 6. Darko Juricic |  CRO | 52.39s | 1 | | 7. Zahr-Edin AlNajem |  SYR | 52.70s | 6 | | 8. Ilya Dzhivondov |  BUL | 54.36s | 8 |
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| Heat 6 18.49h | time | L | | 1. Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily | KSA | 49.28s | 1 | | 2. James Carter | USA | 49.41s | 7 | | 3. Alwyn Myburgh | RSA | 49.57s | 6 | | 4. Pedro Rodrigues | POR | 49.90s | 5 | | 5. Anthony Borsumato | GBR | 50.73s | 4 | | 6. Konstantinos Pochanis |  CYP | 51.20s | 3 | | 7. Matt Beckenham | AUS | 51.27s | 8 | | 8. Ian Weakley | JAM | 52.18s | 2 |
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| Heat 7 18.55h | time | L | | 1. Samuel Matete | ZAM | 48.98s | 1 | | 2. Gennadiy Gorbenko | UKR | 49.12s | 5 | | 3. Matthew Douglas | GBR | 49.62s | 8 | | 4. Kemel Thompson | JAM | 50.40s | 7 | | 5. Hamed Abou Zid | SYR | 50.--s | 3 | | 6. Paul Tucker |  GUY | 50.92s | 6 | | 7. Radoslav Holubek |  SVK | 51.18s | 2 | | 8. Mowen Boino |  PNG | 51.38s | 4 |
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| Heat 8 19.01h | time | L | | 1. Eronilde Nunes de Araujo | BRA | 50.06s | 8 | | 2. Giorgio Frinolli | ITA | 50.27s | 6 | | 3. Vladislav Shiryayev | RUS | 50.39s | 4 | | 4. Inigo Monreal |  ESP | 51.32s | 5 | | 5. Sinisa Pesa |  YUG | 52.14s | 7 | | 6. Curt Young |  PAN | 52.46s | 2 | | 7. Iain Harnden | ZIM | 54.01s | 3 | | 8. Dai Tamesue | JPN | 1:01.81 | 1 |
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