Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games – Men's 400 metres

Men's 400 metres at the 2014 Asian Games
Venue	Incheon Asiad Main Stadium
Dates	27–28 September
Competitors	31 from 19 nations
Medalists
Yousef Masrahi    Saudi Arabia   Abbas Abubakar Abbas    Bahrain   Arokia Rajiv    India

Main article: Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games

The men's 400 metres event at the 2014 Asian Games was held at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, Incheon, South Korea on 27–28 September.

Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Date	Time	Event
Saturday, 27 September 2014	18:00	Round 1
	21:40	Semifinals
Sunday, 28 September 2014	19:30	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Michael Johnson (USA)	43.18	Seville, Spain	26 August 1999
Asian Record	Yousef Masrahi (KSA)	44.43	Lausanne, Switzerland	3 July 2014
Games Record	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)  Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW)	44.93	Hiroshima, Japan Busan, South Korea	11 October 1994 9 October 2002

Results

Legend

• DNS — Did not start

Round 1

• Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Yuzo Kanemaru (JPN)	46.68	Q
2	Ismail Al-Sabiani (KSA)	46.83	Q
3	Maytham Hussein (IRQ)	47.10	Q
4	Sergey Zaikov (KAZ)	47.28	q
5	Mohamed Nasir Abbas (QAT)	47.64
6	Vitsanu Phosri (THA)	47.67
7	Leung King Hung (HKG)	48.12
8	Samuel dos Santos (TLS)	53.78

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Abbas Abubakar Abbas (BRN)	45.61	Q
2	Park Bong-go (KOR)	46.15	Q
3	Zhu Chenbin (CHN)	46.50	Q
4	Archand Bagsit (PHI)	46.88	q
5	Saud Abdelkarim (UAE)	47.20	q
6	Aleksandr Pronzhenko (TJK)	47.97
7	Asyeikhany Akhyt (MGL)	51.15
—	Tilak Ram Tharu (NEP)	DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Yousef Masrahi (KSA)	46.30	Q
2	Seong Hyeok-je (KOR)	46.41	Q
3	Kunhu Muhammed (IND)	46.55	Q
4	Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi (OMA)	47.96
5	Srikharin Wannasa (THA)	48.23
6	Ho Tsz Fung (HKG)	49.44
7	Hussain Inaas (MDV)	49.83

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Arokia Rajiv (IND)	46.41	Q
2	Nobuya Kato (JPN)	46.72	Q
3	Zhang Huadong (CHN)	47.16	Q
4	Edgardo Alejan (PHI)	47.29	q
5	Dmitriy Korobeynikov (KAZ)	48.32
6	Ahmed Al-Merjabi (OMA)	48.88
7	Davron Atabaev (TJK)	49.10
8	Hussain Riza (MDV)	51.69

Semifinals

• Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Abbas Abubakar Abbas (BRN)	45.17	Q
2	Yuzo Kanemaru (JPN)	45.72	Q
3	Park Bong-go (KOR)	46.06	Q
4	Kunhu Muhammed (IND)	46.08	q
5	Zhu Chenbin (CHN)	46.58
6	Ismail Al-Sabiani (KSA)	47.06
7	Saud Abdelkarim (UAE)	47.27
8	Archand Bagsit (PHI)	47.56

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Yousef Masrahi (KSA)	45.86	Q
2	Nobuya Kato (JPN)	45.88	Q
3	Arokia Rajiv (IND)	46.22	Q
4	Seong Hyeok-je (KOR)	46.40	q
5	Zhang Huadong (CHN)	46.99
6	Edgardo Alejan (PHI)	47.07
7	Maytham Hussein (IRQ)	47.23
8	Sergey Zaikov (KAZ)	47.33

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Yousef Masrahi (KSA)	44.46	GR
	Abbas Abubakar Abbas (BRN)	45.62
	Arokia Rajiv (IND)	45.92
4	Yuzo Kanemaru (JPN)	46.04
5	Nobuya Kato (JPN)	46.13
6	Park Bong-go (KOR)	46.19
7	Kunhu Muhammed (IND)	46.53
8	Seong Hyeok-je (KOR)	46.74

References

• results