2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres event at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Santiago, Chile, at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos on 17, 18 and 20 October.

Medalists

Gold	Hamdan Al-Bishi Saudi Arabia
Silver	Brandon Simpson Jamaica
Bronze	Shinji Ishikawa Japan

Results

Final

20 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Hamdan Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	44.66
	Brandon Simpson	Jamaica	45.73
	Shinji Ishikawa	Japan	45.77
4	Damion Barry	Trinidad and Tobago	45.86
5	William Hernández	Venezuela	45.94
6	Richard Sharp	South Africa	45.97
7	Jonathan Palma	Venezuela	46.36
8	Rafał Wieruszewski	Poland	46.37

Semifinals

18 October

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Damion Barry	Trinidad and Tobago	46.63	Q
2	Rafał Wieruszewski	Poland	46.66	Q
3	Shinji Ishikawa	Japan	46.99	Q
4	Jonathan Palma	Venezuela	47.10	Q
5	Tshepo Thobelangope	South Africa	47.18
6	Gordon Kennedy	Ireland	47.37
7	Bastian Swillims	Germany	47.43
8	Vladimir Demchenko	Ukraine	47.54

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hamdan Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	45.69	Q
2	Brandon Simpson	Jamaica	45.96	Q
3	William Hernández	Venezuela	46.77	Q
4	Richard Sharp	South Africa	46.83	Q
5	Sherridan Kirk	Trinidad and Tobago	47.08
6	Shinji Itabashi	Japan	47.67
7	Bruno Ediarimalala	Madagascar	47.91
8	James Graham	United States	49.64

Heats

17 October

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hamdan Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	46.63	Q
2	Gordon Kennedy	Ireland	46.94	Q
3	Jonathan Palma	Venezuela	47.27	q
4	Mark Ormrod	Australia	47.66
5	Richard Petzold	Germany	48.96
6	David Neilsen	Guam	49.99
7	Melville Rogers	Saint Kitts and Nevis	51.18

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Brandon Simpson	Jamaica	46.64	Q
2	Bastian Swillims	Germany	47.06	Q
3	David Melo	Spain	47.96
4	Marcelo Figueroa	El Salvador	47.99
5	Alexis Roberts	Bahamas	49.02
6	Liu Yuan-Kai	Chinese Taipei	49.06
	Japheth Ogamba	Kenya	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Damion Barry	Trinidad and Tobago	46.62	Q
2	Tshepo Thobelangope	South Africa	46.81	Q
3	Bruno Ediarimalala	Madagascar	46.83	q
4	Urel Lacroix	France	47.34
5	Dmitriy Petrov	Russia	47.66
6	Jesús Torres	Puerto Rico	48.58
7	Khalid Brooks	Anguilla	53.09
	Sándor Gombos	Hungary	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	William Hernández	Venezuela	46.52	Q
2	Rafał Wieruszewski	Poland	46.64	Q
3	Vladimir Demchenko	Ukraine	47.10	q
4	Cameron Brown	Australia	47.36
5	Florin Suciu	Romania	47.44
6	Nathan Justin	Saint Lucia	49.66
7	Shane Ogumoro	Northern Mariana Islands	56.72

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Shinji Itabashi	Japan	47.37	Q
2	James Graham	United States	48.06	Q
3	Sebastián Martínez	Chile	48.21
4	Sam Higgie	New Zealand	48.31
5	David Hamil	Cayman Islands	49.97
6	Lucien Kramar	Guinea	52.94

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Shinji Ishikawa	Japan	46.53	Q
2	Richard Sharp	South Africa	46.84	Q
3	Sherridan Kirk	Trinidad and Tobago	47.06	q
4	Abdellatif El-Ghazaoui	Morocco	48.35
5	Hamed Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	48.40
6	Elton Spain	United States	50.03
7	Ku King Kit	Hong Kong	51.92

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 42 athletes from 34 countries participated in the event.

• Anguilla (1)
• Australia (2)
• Bahamas (1)
• Cayman Islands (1)
• Chile (1)
• Chinese Taipei (1)
• El Salvador (1)
• France (1)
• Germany (2)
• Guam (1)
• Guinea (1)
• Hong Kong (1)
• Hungary (1)
• Ireland (1)
• Jamaica (1)
• Japan (2)
• Kenya (1)
• Madagascar (1)
• Morocco (1)
• New Zealand (1)
• Northern Mariana Islands (1)
• Poland (1)
• Puerto Rico (1)
• Romania (1)
• Russia (1)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)
• Saint Lucia (1)
• Saudi Arabia (2)
• South Africa (2)
• Spain (1)
• Trinidad and Tobago (2)
• Ukraine (1)
• United States (2)
• Venezuela (2)