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2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
10,000 m walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the: 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 9, 10 and "11 July."

Medalists※

Gold	Jeshua Anderson  United States
Silver	Johnny Dutch  United States
Bronze	Amaurys Valle  Cuba

Results※

Final※

11 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jeshua Anderson	United States	48.68
	Johnny Dutch	United States	49.25
	Amaurys Valle	Cuba	49.56
4	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	50.39
5	PC Beneke	South Africa	50.78
6	Taras Shcherenko	Israel	51.35
7	John Kituu Wambua	Kenya	51.70
8	David Gollnow	Germany	53.63

Semifinals※

10 July

Semifinal 1※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Johnny Dutch	United States	50.40	Q
2	Amaurys Valle	Cuba	51.17	Q
3	PC Beneke	South Africa	51.46	q
4	David Gollnow	Germany	51.48	q
5	Kohei Tamemoto	Japan	51.89
6	Valdas Valintelis	Lithuania	52.07
7	Julius Oletygor	Kenya	52.14
8	Emanuel Mayers	Trinidad and Tobago	52.39

Semifinal 2※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jeshua Anderson	United States	49.90	Q
2	Taras Shcherenko	Israel	51.60	Q
3	Giacomo Panizza	Italy	51.73
4	Sebastian Knorr	Germany	52.31
5	Leslie Murray	U.S. Virgin Islands	52.51
6	Adel Al-Nasser	Saudi Arabia	52.60
7	Shane Brathwaite	Barbados	53.09
	Nikita Andriyanov	Russia	DNS

Semifinal 3※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	51.11	Q
2	John Kituu Wambua	Kenya	51.51	Q
3	Tomoharu Kino	Japan	51.96
4	Michał Pietrzak	Poland	52.22
5	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago	52.26
6	Jassim Waleed Al-Mas	Kuwait	53.05
7	Silvestras Guogis	Lithuania	53.46
	Artyom Dyatlov	Uzbekistan	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Heats※

9 July

Heat 1※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jeshua Anderson	United States	51.12	Q
2	Taras Shcherenko	Israel	51.44	Q
3	Shane Brathwaite	Barbados	51.66	Q
4	Jehue Gordon	Trinidad and Tobago	52.30	q
5	Jassim Waleed Al-Mas	Kuwait	52.43	q
6	Driss Sassi	Tunisia	53.97
7	Victor Valentin	Puerto Rico	54.05
8	Stephan Ender	Austria	54.55

Heat 2※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tomoharu Kino	Japan	51.77	Q
2	John Kituu Wambua	Kenya	52.02	Q
3	Valdas Valintelis	Lithuania	52.83	Q
4	Hamada Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	53.61
5	Tomasz Baranowski	Poland	53.85
6	Jithin Paul	India	54.01
7	René Claudio	Puerto Rico	54.51
8	Chen Yu-Te	Chinese Taipei	55.57

Heat 3※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Johnny Dutch	United States	52.21	Q
2	David Gollnow	Germany	52.34	Q
3	Silvestras Guogis	Lithuania	52.48	Q
4	Julius Oletygor	Kenya	52.54	q
5	Fahad Faraj	Kuwait	53.40
6	Aleksandr Korovka	Ukraine	53.94
7	Nejmi Burnside	Bahamas	55.21

Heat 4※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Amaurys Valle	Cuba	51.67	Q
2	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	51.96	Q
3	Kohei Tamemoto	Japan	52.05	Q
4	Nikita Andriyanov	Russia	52.14	q
5	Emanuel Mayers	Trinidad and Tobago	52.29	q
6	Leslie Murray	U.S. Virgin Islands	52.64	q
7	Tibor Koroknai	Hungary	53.33
8	Kenneth Karosich	Guam	58.36

Heat 5※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Michał Pietrzak	Poland	51.89	Q
2	PC Beneke	South Africa	51.90	Q
3	Artyom Dyatlov	Uzbekistan	52.62	Q
4	Hugo Grillas	France	52.98
5	Nathan Woodward	United Kingdom	53.42
6	Faysal Mehdioui	Algeria	54.41
7	Shejil Varghese	India	54.48
8	Fernando Semedo	Cape Verde	61.09

Heat 6※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giacomo Panizza	Italy	52.77	Q
2	Adel Al-Nasser	Saudi Arabia	52.84	Q
3	Sebastian Knorr	Germany	53.25	Q
4	Lyes Bouzid	Algeria	54.10
5	Jeffery Gibson	Bahamas	54.37
6	Shih Yu-Fan	Chinese Taipei	55.43
7	Wilmer Valor	Venezuela	59.26

Participation※

According——to an unofficial count, 46 athletes from 31 countries participated in the——event.

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