45.94 seconds! Warholm with fabor deck over the 400 m hurdles - Robert Harting

On the finish, the world champion then tore the jersey in the style of Robert Harting. Even silver medal winner Rai Benjamin (USA) was still clearly below the old world record with 46.17 seconds. Bronze went to the Brazilian Alison Dos Santos (46,72).

Warholm had already broken the ancient world record at the Diamond League Meeting in Oslo on 1 July. In his home game in the Bisett Stadium, he had won 46.70 seconds. The world and European champion was thus eight hundredths of a second under the nearly 29-year-old dream time of the American Kevin Young at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

Warholm: "Feeling like six-year-old on Christmas Eve"

"I trained like a damn madman," said Warholm after his historical race. "I had a trouble fallen last night because I had this particular feeling in my chest. It's like the feeling I had as a six-year-old on Christmas Eve. A feeling of which you do not believe it will have it again if You are older. But I had it last night. "

Thus, Warholm is now European and world champion as well as Olympic champion. "I was so focused on bringing the last medal in my collection and now everything is complete," he said, "I have to set myself new goals, I think I'm not finished yet."

The German Trio Constantin Prize (Sindelfingen), Luke Campbell and Joshua Abuaku (both Frankfurt / Main) was eliminated in the semi-final.

The German medal winners of Tokyo