2002 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres

Women's 400 metres at the European Athletics Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Location	Munich, Germany
Dates	6–8 August 2002
Winning time	50.45 s
Medalists
Olesya Zykina    Russia   Grit Breuer    Germany   Lee McConnell    Great Britain

2002 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
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
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
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

The women's 400 metres at the 2002 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 6–8.

Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Olesya Zykina	Russia	50.47	Q
2	3	Grit Breuer	Germany	50.98	Q
3	3	Lee McConnell	Great Britain	51.24	Q
4	3	Anastasiya Kapachinskaya	Russia	51.56	q
5	2	Antonina Yefremova	Ukraine	51.96	Q
6	2	Grażyna Prokopek	Poland	52.01	Q
7	1	Birgit Rockmeier	Germany	52.28	Q
8	3	Sviatlana Usovich	Belarus	52.33	q
9	1	Danielle Perpoli	Italy	52.34
10	2	Claudia Marx	Germany	52.42
11	1	Karen Shinkins	Ireland	52.50
12	2	Tatyana Levina	Russia	52.56
13	3	Olga Mishchenko	Ukraine	52.62
14	1	Hrisoula Goudenoudi	Greece	52.63
15	2	Barbara Petráhn	Hungary	52.72
16	3	Lena Udd	Sweden	53.26
17	2	Otilia Ruicu	Romania	53.35
18	2	Zana Minina	Lithuania	53.50
19	1	Jovana Miljković	Yugoslavia	53.72
20	3	Klodiana Shala	Albania	55.81
	1	Catherine Murphy	Great Britain	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Olesya Zykina	Russia	50.45	EL
	Grit Breuer	Germany	50.70	SB
	Lee McConnell	Great Britain	51.02	PB
4	Grażyna Prokopek	Poland	51.53
5	Anastasiya Kapachinskaya	Russia	51.69
6	Antonina Yefremova	Ukraine	52.02
7	Sviatlana Usovich	Belarus	52.10
8	Birgit Rockmeier	Germany	52.91

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