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Women's 400 metres hurdles at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Dates	28 July 1996 (heats) 29 July 1996 (semi-finals) 31 July 1996 (final)
Competitors	29 from 22 nations
Winning time	52.82 OR
Medalists
Deon Hemmings  Jamaica Kim Batten  United States Tonja Buford-Bailey  United States
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Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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These are the official results of the Women's 400m Hurdles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There were a total of 30 competitors.

Results※

Heats※

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified——to the "semifinals."

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	54.70	Q
2	1	Guðrún Arnardóttir	Iceland	54.88	Q
3	4	Heike Meissner	Germany	55.05	Q
4	4	Susan Smith	Ireland	55.22	Q
5	2	Tonja Buford-Bailey	United States	55.23	Q
6	2	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	55.29	Q
7	2	Silvia Rieger	Germany	55.33	Q
8	1	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	United States	55.55	Q
9	1	Debbie Parris	Jamaica	55.64	Q
9	2	Rosey Edeh	Canada	55.64	q
11	1	Michèle Schenk	Switzerland	55.70	q
12	1	Tatyana Ledovskaya	Belarus	55.82	q
13	3	Kim Batten	United States	54.92	Q
14	4	Ionela Târlea	Romania	55.42	q
15	3	Tetyana Tereshchuk	Ukraine	55.82	Q
16	3	Ann Mercken	Belgium	55.88	Q
17	2	Natalya Torshina	Kazakhstan	55.94
18	4	Lana Jēkabsone	Latvia	56.18
19	3	Anna Knoroz	Russia	56.21
20	3	Catherine Scott-Pomales	Jamaica	56.21
21	2	Martina Stoop	Switzerland	56.32
22	2	Miriam Alonso	Spain	56.53
23	2	Lade Akinremi	Nigeria	56.83
24	4	Nelli Voronkova	Belarus	56.97
25	3	Karen van der Veen	South Africa	57.00
26	1	Virna De Angeli	Italy	57.12
27	3	Tanya Kurochkina	Belarus	57.28
28	4	Eva Paniagua	Spain	58.10
29	1	Mary-Estelle Kapalu	Vanuatu	58.68
30	1	Hsu Pei-chin	Chinese Taipei	58.80

Semifinals※

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly——to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	52.99	Q
2	1	6	Tonja Buford-Bailey	United States	53.38	Q
3	2	6	Kim Batten	United States	53.65	Q
4	1	4	Heike Meissner	Germany	54.27	Q
4	2	7	Silvia Rieger	Germany	54.27	Q
6	1	2	Ionela Târlea	Romania	54.41	Q
7	2	2	Rosey Edeh	Canada	54.49	Q
8	2	1	Debbie Parris	Jamaica	54.72	Q
9	2	5	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	United States	54.73
10	2	4	Guðrún Arnardóttir	Iceland	54.81
11	1	8	Susan Smith	Ireland	54.93
12	1	1	Ann Mercken	Belgium	54.95
13	1	7	Tatyana Ledovskaya	Belarus	54.99
41	1	5	Tetyana Tereshchuk	Ukraine	55.34
15	2	8	Michèle Schenk	Switzerland	55.96
	2	3	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	DNF

Final※

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	52.82	OR
	2	Kim Batten	United States	53.08
	4	Tonja Buford-Bailey	United States	53.22
4	2	Debbie Parris	Jamaica	53.97
5	1	Heike Meissner	Germany	54.03
6	7	Rosey Edeh	Canada	54.39
7	8	Ionela Târlea	Romania	54.40
8	3	Silvia Rieger	Germany	54.57

See also※

• Men's 400m hurdles
• Women's 100m hurdles

References※

External links※

• Official Report
• Results