Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metres hurdles

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These are the official results of the Women's 400m Hurdles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There were 30 competitors.^[1]

Results

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	Template:FlagIOC	54.70	Q
2	1	Guðrún Arnardóttir	Template:FlagIOC	54.88	Q
3	4	Heike Meissner	Template:FlagIOC	55.05	Q
4	4	Susan Smith	Template:FlagIOC	55.22	Q
5	2	Tonja Buford-Bailey	Template:FlagIOC	55.23	Q
6	2	Sally Gunnell	Template:FlagIOC	55.29	Q
7	2	Silvia Rieger	Template:FlagIOC	55.33	Q
8	1	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	Template:FlagIOC	55.55	Q
9	1	Debbie Parris	Template:FlagIOC	55.64	Q
9	2	Rosey Edeh	Template:FlagIOC	55.64	q
11	1	Michèle Schenk	Template:FlagIOC	55.70	q
12	1	Tatyana Ledovskaya	Template:FlagIOC	55.82	q
13	3	Kim Batten	Template:FlagIOC	54.92	Q
14	4	Ionela Târlea	Template:FlagIOC	55.42	q
15	3	Tetyana Tereshchuk	Template:FlagIOC	55.82	Q
16	3	Ann Mercken	Template:FlagIOC	55.88	Q
17	2	Natalya Torshina	Template:FlagIOC	55.94
18	4	Lana Jēkabsone	Template:FlagIOC	56.18
19	3	Anna Knoroz	Template:FlagIOC	56.21
20	3	Catherine Scott-Pomales	Template:FlagIOC	56.21
21	2	Martina Stoop	Template:FlagIOC	56.32
22	2	Miriam Alonso	Template:FlagIOC	56.53
23	2	Lade Akinremi	Template:FlagIOC	56.83
24	4	Nelli Voronkova	Template:FlagIOC	56.97
25	3	Karen van der Veen	Template:FlagIOC	57.00
26	1	Virna De Angeli	Template:FlagIOC	57.12
27	3	Tanya Kurochkina	Template:FlagIOC	57.28
28	4	Eva Paniagua	Template:FlagIOC	58.10
29	1	Mary-Estelle Kapalu	Template:FlagIOC	58.68
30	1	Hsu Pei-chin	Template:FlagIOC	58.80

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Deon Hemmings	Template:FlagIOC	52.99	Q
2	1	6	Tonja Buford-Bailey	Template:FlagIOC	53.38	Q
3	2	6	Kim Batten	Template:FlagIOC	53.65	Q
4	1	4	Heike Meissner	Template:FlagIOC	54.27	Q
4	2	7	Silvia Rieger	Template:FlagIOC	54.27	Q
6	1	2	Ionela Târlea	Template:FlagIOC	54.41	Q
7	2	2	Rosey Edeh	Template:FlagIOC	54.49	Q
8	2	1	Debbie Parris	Template:FlagIOC	54.72	Q
9	2	5	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	Template:FlagIOC	54.73
10	2	4	Guðrún Arnardóttir	Template:FlagIOC	54.81
11	1	8	Susan Smith	Template:FlagIOC	54.93
12	1	1	Ann Mercken	Template:FlagIOC	54.95
13	1	7	Tatyana Ledovskaya	Template:FlagIOC	54.99
41	1	5	Tetyana Tereshchuk	Template:FlagIOC	55.34
15	2	8	Michèle Schenk	Template:FlagIOC	55.96
Template:Hs	2	3	Sally Gunnell	Template:FlagIOC	Script error: No such module "sort".

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
Script error: No such module "sort".	5	Deon Hemmings	Template:FlagIOC	52.82	OR
Script error: No such module "sort".	2	Kim Batten	Template:FlagIOC	53.08
Script error: No such module "sort".	4	Tonja Buford-Bailey	Template:FlagIOC	53.22
4	2	Debbie Parris	Template:FlagIOC	53.97
5	1	Heike Meissner	Template:FlagIOC	54.03
6	7	Rosey Edeh	Template:FlagIOC	54.39
7	8	Ionela Târlea	Template:FlagIOC	54.40
8	3	Silvia Rieger	Template:FlagIOC	54.57

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