Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was held on 5 and 7 October at the QE II Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Garry Brown Australia	Peter Rwamuhanda Uganda	Greg Rolle Bahamas

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualify for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Garry Brown	Australia	50.06	Q
2	2	Mike Whittingham	England	51.02	Q
3	2	Karl Smith	Jamaica	51.26	Q
4	2	Stanley Devine	Scotland	51.34	Q
5	1	Peter Rwamuhanda	Uganda	51.71	Q
6	1	Greg Rolle	Bahamas	51.91	Q
7	1	Lloyd Guss	Canada	51.95	Q
8	2	Eric Spence	Canada	52.01	q
9	1	Gary Oakes	England	52.05	Q
10	1	Phil Beattie	Northern Ireland	52.15
11	1	Meshak Munyoro	Kenya	52.22
12	2	Wilbert Greaves	England	52.81
13	2	Paiwa Bogela	Papua New Guinea	53.93
14	1	David McCutcheon	Isle of Man	54.46
15	2	Ian Newhouse	Canada	54.81
16	1	Joseph Rodan	Fiji	55.09
17	1	Lau Chi Keung	Hong Kong	56.17
18	2	William Pakoa	Vanuatu	1:00.06

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	8	Garry Brown	Australia	49.37
	2	Peter Rwamuhanda	Uganda	49.95
	7	Greg Rolle	Bahamas	50.50
4	1	Mike Whittingham	England	51.04
5	6	Lloyd Guss	Canada	51.23
6	5	Stanley Devine	Scotland	51.68
7	3	Eric Spence	Canada	51.84
8	9	Gary Oakes	England	51.96
9	4	Karl Smith	Jamaica	53.52

References

• Final results (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Heats results (The Canberra Times)
• Final results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results Archived 14 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine