Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres event at the 2010 Asian Games was held at the Aoti Main Stadium, Guangzhou, China on 21–22 November.

Men's 400 metres at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Aoti Main Stadium
Dates	21–22 November
Competitors	18 from 11 nations
Medalists
Femi Ogunode    Qatar   Yuzo Kanemaru    Japan   Yousef Masrahi    Saudi Arabia

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Event
Sunday, 21 November 2010	19:05	Round 1
Monday, 22 November 2010	18:00	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	Mohammed Al-Malki (OMA)	44.56	Budapest, Hungary	12 August 1988
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

• DSQ — Disqualified

Round 1

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Ismail Al-Sabiani (KSA)	46.25	Q
2	Prasanna Amarasekara (SRI)	46.35	Q
3	Yusuke Ishitsuka (JPN)	46.66	q
4	S. K. Mortaja (IND)	46.75
5	Choi Myung-jun (KOR)	48.09
—	Arnon Jaiaree (THA)	DSQ

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Yuzo Kanemaru (JPN)	46.33	Q
2	Liu Xiaosheng (CHN)	46.76	Q
3	Reza Bouazar (IRI)	46.80
4	Bibin Mathew (IND)	46.93
5	Lim Chan-ho (KOR)	47.06
6	Heru Astriyanto (INA)	48.29

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Yousef Masrahi (KSA)	45.48	Q
2	Femi Ogunode (QAT)	45.64	Q
3	Chang Pengben (CHN)	46.58	q
4	Sajjad Hashemi (IRI)	47.77
5	Chanatip Ruckburee (THA)	48.91
—	Fawzi Al-Shammari (IOC)	DSQ

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Femi Ogunode (QAT)	45.12
	Yuzo Kanemaru (JPN)	45.32
	Yousef Masrahi (KSA)	45.71
4	Liu Xiaosheng (CHN)	46.34
5	Chang Pengben (CHN)	46.65
6	Prasanna Amarasekara (SRI)	47.05
7	Ismail Al-Sabiani (KSA)	47.11
8	Yusuke Ishitsuka (JPN)	47.49

References

• Results