Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 400 metres

Men's 400 metres at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Busan Asiad Main Stadium
Dates	7–9 October
Competitors	21 from 13 nations
Medalists
Fawzi Al-Shammari    Kuwait   Hamdan Al-Bishi    Saudi Arabia   Rohan Pradeep Kumara    Sri Lanka

Main article: Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games

The men's 400 metres competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 7–9 October at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium.^[1]

Schedule

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

Date	Time	Event
Monday, 7 October 2002	11:20	1st round
Tuesday, 8 October 2002	11:00	Semifinals
Wednesday, 9 October 2002	14:30	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	Mohammed Al-Malki (OMA)	44.56	Budapest, Hungary	12 August 1988
Games Record	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)	44.93	Hiroshima, Japan	11 October 1994

Results

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish

1st round

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Hamdan Al-Bishi (KSA)	45.26	Q
2	Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW)	46.17	Q
3	Masayuki Okusako (JPN)	47.12	Q
4	Salaheddine Al-Safi (QAT)	47.77	Q
5	Hwang Il-sok (PRK)	48.50	q
6	Weera Kongsri (THA)	49.75
—	Kim Do-sun (KOR)	DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Rohan Pradeep Kumara (SRI)	46.50	Q
2	Purukottam Ramachandran (IND)	46.79	Q
3	Kenji Tabata (JPN)	46.82	Q
4	Mohammed Al-Salhi (KSA)	47.04	Q
5	Ni Zhenjie (CHN)	47.38	q
6	Khaled Al-Johar (KUW)	47.77	q
7	Pich Kong (CAM)	52.78

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Sugath Thilakaratne (SRI)	46.73	Q
2	Liang Chao (CHN)	46.74	Q
3	Ernie Candelario (PHI)	46.96	Q
4	Paramjit Singh (IND)	47.58	Q
5	Senee Kongtong (THA)	48.74	q
6	Lee Sang-bong (KOR)	49.35
7	Chao Un Kei (MAC)	50.50

Semifinals

• Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) advance to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Hamdan Al-Bishi (KSA)	45.56	Q
2	Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW)	46.45	Q
3	Masayuki Okusako (JPN)	46.81	Q
4	Ernie Candelario (PHI)	46.84	Q
5	Sugath Thilakaratne (SRI)	47.28
6	Salaheddine Al-Safi (QAT)	47.88
7	Ni Zhenjie (CHN)	48.24
8	Senee Kongtong (THA)	49.85

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Rohan Pradeep Kumara (SRI)	46.60	Q
2	Liang Chao (CHN)	46.67	Q
3	Kenji Tabata (JPN)	47.19	Q
4	Purukottam Ramachandran (IND)	47.42	Q
5	Paramjit Singh (IND)	47.50
6	Mohammed Al-Salhi (KSA)	47.60
7	Khaled Al-Johar (KUW)	47.90
8	Hwang Il-sok (PRK)	49.06

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW)	44.93	=GR
	Hamdan Al-Bishi (KSA)	44.95
	Rohan Pradeep Kumara (SRI)	45.67
4	Masayuki Okusako (JPN)	46.11
5	Purukottam Ramachandran (IND)	46.15
6	Liang Chao (CHN)	46.25
7	Kenji Tabata (JPN)	46.61
8	Ernie Candelario (PHI)	46.95

References

1. "The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2020.

External links

• Results