1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 18 July.

Medalists

Gold	Emilio Valle Cuba
Silver	Hiroshi Kakimori Japan
Bronze	Pascal Maran France

Results

Final

18 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Emilio Valle	Cuba	50.02
	Hiroshi Kakimori	Japan	50.09
	Pascal Maran	France	50.39
4	Carsten Köhrbrück	West Germany	50.58
5	Alain Cuypers	Belgium	50.67
6	Nikolay Boiko	Soviet Union	50.87
7	Dolph Francis	Australia	51.69
	Joseph Maritim	Kenya	DNF

Semifinals

17 July

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hiroshi Kakimori	Japan	50.05	Q
2	Emilio Valle	Cuba	50.39	Q
3	Alain Cuypers	Belgium	50.51	Q
4	Nikolay Boiko	Soviet Union	50.57	Q
5	Stéphane Leger	France	51.90
6	Andrzej Nowak	Poland	52.38
7	Kevin Mason	United States	53.17
	Valeriy Kosobokov	Soviet Union	DNS

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joseph Maritim	Kenya	50.27	Q
2	Dolph Francis	Australia	50.72	Q
3	Pascal Maran	France	50.99	Q
4	Carsten Köhrbrück	West Germany	51.12	Q
5	Róbert Bágyi	Hungary	51.23
6	Philip Hughes	Canada	52.38
7	Michael Graham	United States	53.22
	Herwig Röttl	Austria	DNS

Heats

16 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joseph Maritim	Kenya	50.70	Q
2	Alain Cuypers	Belgium	51.29	Q
3	Stéphane Leger	France	52.28	Q
4	Constantin Popescu	Romania	52.64
5	Gianni Floridia	Italy	53.02
6	Jorge Guevara	Mexico	54.78
7	Yasser Abdulrahman Fallatah Kadhy	Saudi Arabia	57.30

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pascal Maran	France	51.12	Q
2	Carsten Köhrbrück	West Germany	51.48	Q
3	Róbert Bágyi	Hungary	51.62	Q
4	Dolph Francis	Australia	52.01	q
5	Takahiro Matsuhisa	Japan	52.89
6	Khaled Abdullah Hassan	Bahrain	52.99
7	Daniel Velázquez	Puerto Rico	53.85

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kevin Mason	United States	51.90	Q
2	Nikolay Boiko	Soviet Union	52.20	Q
3	Herwig Röttl	Austria	52.29	Q
4	Antonio Smith	Venezuela	52.42
5	Emil Peshev	Bulgaria	52.48
6	Yehuda Moreli	Israel	53.96
7	Stelios Bisbas	Greece	55.30

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hiroshi Kakimori	Japan	50.61	Q
2	Emilio Valle	Cuba	51.12	Q
3	Philip Hughes	Canada	52.41	Q
4	Pel van de Kerkhof	Netherlands	53.19
5	Mark Langmuir	Australia	53.41
6	Oliver Ciesla	West Germany	55.12
7	Roberto Mobarec	Bolivia	56.15
8	Vasilios Archondidis	Greece	56.38

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andrzej Nowak	Poland	51.93	Q
2	Valeriy Kosobokov	Soviet Union	52.04	Q
3	Michael Graham	United States	52.14	Q
4	Michele Carrozza	Italy	52.60
5	Allan Ince	Barbados	52.63
6	Augustus Lawson	Ghana	54.66
7	Ralph Carter	Canada	54.73
8	Tarek Khamis Dabouss	United Arab Emirates	59.14

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 37 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event.

• Australia (2)
• Austria (1)
• Bahrain (1)
• Barbados (1)
• Belgium (1)
• Bolivia (1)
• Bulgaria (1)
• Canada (2)
• Cuba (1)
• France (2)
• Ghana (1)
• Greece (2)
• Hungary (1)
• Israel (1)
• Italy (2)
• Japan (2)
• Kenya (1)
• Mexico (1)
• Netherlands (1)
• Poland (1)
• Puerto Rico (1)
• Romania (1)
• Saudi Arabia (1)
• Soviet Union (2)
• United Arab Emirates (1)
• United States (2)
• Venezuela (1)
• West Germany (2)