Athletics at the 2009 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2009 Summer Universiade was held on 8–10 July.

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Tristan Thomas Australia	Kazuaki Yoshida Japan	Michael Bultheel Belgium

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Michael Bultheel	Belgium	49.78	Q, PB
2	1	Jussi Heikkilä	Finland	50.73	Q
3	1	Abderrahmane Hamadi	Algeria	50.80	Q
4	2	Viktor Leptikov	Kazakhstan	50.99	Q
5	4	Kazuaki Yoshida	Japan	51.15	Q
6	4	Vladimir Guziy	Russia	51.23	Q, PB
7	3	Brendan Cole	Australia	51.45	Q
8	1	Aarne Nirk	Estonia	51.48	q
9	3	Tristan Thomas	Australia	52.26	Q
10	2	Peter Šajn	Slovenia	52.30	Q, PB
11	4	Thomas Carey	Ireland	52.42	Q
12	4	Tuncay Örs	Turkey	52.56	q
13	4	Valdas Valintėlis	Lithuania	52.60	q
14	2	Abdelgadir Abakar	Sudan	52.73	Q
15	3	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	52.96	Q
16	1	Denis Byvakin	Russia	52.98
16	3	Valdis Iļjanovs	Latvia	52.98	q
18	4	Emir Bekrić	Serbia	53.16	PB
19	2	Thomas Cortebeeck	Denmark	53.23	PB
20	4	Sotirios Iakovakis	Greece	54.19
21	2	Li Zhilong	China	54.24
22	2	Andrejs Romaņivs	Latvia	54.62
23	3	Niklas Liberg	Sweden	54.81	PB
24	2	Ilija Cvijetić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	54.84
25	1	Lukungu Waiswa	Uganda	55.12
26	4	Nikola Marović	Montenegro	55.24	PB
27	1	Hussein Omer Gamal	Qatar	58.67
28	3	Damir Andjelov	Serbia	59.20
29	1	Wong Cheok Wa	Macau	1:01.49	SB
	3	Camilo Quevedo	Guatemala	DNS

Qualification: First 3 of each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Tristan Thomas	Australia	50.11	Q
2	1	Kazuaki Yoshida	Japan	50.24	Q
3	2	Michael Bultheel	Belgium	50.46	Q
4	2	Brendan Cole	Australia	50.59	Q
5	2	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	50.79	Q
6	2	Jussi Heikkilä	Finland	50.86	q
7	1	Viktor Leptikov	Kazakhstan	50.94	Q
8	1	Vladimir Guziy	Russia	51.14	q, PB
9	1	Tuncay Örs	Turkey	51.57
10	1	Thomas Carey	Ireland	52.08
11	2	Aarne Nirk	Estonia	52.63
12	2	Peter Šajn	Slovenia	52.88
13	2	Valdis Iļjanovs	Latvia	53.00
14	1	Valdas Valintėlis	Lithuania	53.05
15	1	Abdelgadir Abakar	Sudan	53.51
	2	Abderrahmane Hamadi	Algeria	DNF

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Tristan Thomas	Australia	48.75
	5	Kazuaki Yoshida	Japan	49.78	SB
	4	Michael Bultheel	Belgium	49.79
4	8	Cornel Fredericks	South Africa	49.93	PB
5	6	Brendan Cole	Australia	50.18
6	2	Jussi Heikkilä	Finland	50.19
7	7	Viktor Leptikov	Kazakhstan	50.63
8	1	Vladimir Guziy	Russia	51.41