1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles

1996 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
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 22 and 23 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Ulrike Urbansky  Germany
Silver	Vicki Jamison  United Kingdom
Bronze	Tanya Jarrett  Jamaica

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ulrike Urbansky	Germany	56.65
	Vicki Jamison	United Kingdom	57.57
	Tanya Jarrett	Jamaica	57.91
4	Josephine Fowley	Australia	58.52
5	Svetlana Badrankova	Kazakhstan	58.53
6	Annika Kumlin	Finland	58.80
7	Medina Tudor	Romania	58.90
8	Yasnay Lescay	Cuba	59.40

22 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Josephine Fowley	Australia	58.36	Q
2	Annika Kumlin	Finland	58.45	Q
3	Svetlana Badrankova	Kazakhstan	58.48	q
4	Chou Ya-Chun	Chinese Taipei	62.28
5	Yuko Iida	Japan	63.56
	Astrid Joziasse	Netherlands	DNF
	Yuliya Nosova	Russia	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ulrike Urbansky	Germany	56.96	Q
2	Vicki Jamison	United Kingdom	57.49	Q
3	Tanya Jarrett	Jamaica	58.40	q
4	Deniece Bell	Canada	59.20
5	Char Foster	United States	59.50
6	Florence Delaune	France	60.35
7	Jennifer Marshall	Australia	60.57

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yasnay Lescay	Cuba	59.01	Q
2	Medina Tudor	Romania	59.03	Q
3	Wu Wei	China	60.08
4	Elizabeth Ndubueze	Nigeria	60.82
5	Ana Costa	Portugal	62.00
6	Anika Ahrens	Germany	62.48
7	Shontel Powell	United States	62.56

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.