1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres

1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
2000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 400 metres event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 18 July.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Miles Murphy  Australia
Silver	Roberto Hernández  Cuba
Bronze	Edgar Itt  West Germany

Results[]

Final[]

18 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Miles Murphy	Australia	45.64
	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	45.64
	Edgar Itt	West Germany	45.72
4		Cuba	46.52
5		United States	46.52
6		Nigeria	46.81
7	Peter Crampton	United Kingdom	47.26
8		United States	47.50

Semifinals[]

18 July

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		United States	45.94	Q
2	Edgar Itt	West Germany	46.41	Q
3		Nigeria	46.82
4		Soviet Union	46.86
5		Belgium	47.65
6		Poland	47.92
7		Japan	47.94
8	Seibert Straughn	Barbados	48.29

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Cuba	46.34	Q
2		Nigeria	46.51	Q
3		United Kingdom	46.95
4		Kenya	46.96
5		Hungary	47.11
6		Belgium	47.32
7	Slobodan Branković	Yugoslavia	47.44
8	António Abrantes	Portugal	48.33

Semifinal 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	45.53	Q
2	Miles Murphy	Australia	46.02	Q
3		United States	46.33	q
4	Peter Crampton	United Kingdom	46.78	q
5	Tamás Molnár	Hungary	46.96
6		Soviet Union	47.44
7	Dawda Jallow	Gambia	48.01
8	Carl Folkes	Canada	48.27

Heats[]

16 July

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Nigeria	46.63	Q
2		Soviet Union	46.99	Q
3	Dawda Jallow	Gambia	47.16	Q
4	Tamás Molnár	Hungary	47.17	q
5		Yugoslavia	48.83
6		Bangladesh	48.96
7		Kuwait	49.52
8		Egypt	50.42

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		United States	46.60	Q
2		Belgium	47.33	Q
3	Seibert Straughn	Barbados	47.70	Q
4	Manuel Moreno	Spain	48.29
5		Botswana	48.66
6		Canada	48.78
7	Washington Rodrigues	Brazil	49.79
8	Horace Dove-Edwin	Sierra Leone	52.12

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Edgar Itt	West Germany	47.02	Q
2		Hungary	47.49	Q
3		Soviet Union	47.83	Q
4		Italy	48.28
5	Yeóryios Panayiotopoulos	Greece	48.82
6		Saudi Arabia	48.97
7		Egypt	51.14

Heat 4[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Miles Murphy	Australia	46.83	Q
2		Kenya	47.17	Q
3	Slobodan Branković	Yugoslavia	47.28	Q
4	António Abrantes	Portugal	47.91	q
5		Poland	48.30
6		Zambia	50.39
7		Seychelles	50.69

Heat 5[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		United States	47.34	Q
2		Belgium	47.75	Q
3		United Kingdom	47.80	Q
4		Japan	48.18	q
5		Cyprus	48.93
6		Senegal	49.12
7		Sudan	50.81

Heat 6[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	46.75	Q
2	Carl Folkes	Canada	47.58	Q
3	Peter Crampton	United Kingdom	48.17	Q
4		New Zealand	48.81
5		Ethiopia	48.99
6	Yuji Yoshioka	Japan	49.39
7		San Marino	52.33
8		United Arab Emirates	53.23

Heat 7[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Cuba	46.91	Q
2		Nigeria	47.45	Q
3		Poland	47.79	Q
4		New Zealand	48.46
5		Tanzania	48.76
6		Greece	49.25
7		Spain	50.56
8		Cambodia	53.17

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 53 athletes from 38 countries participated in the event.

References[]