1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres

1988 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
3000 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 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 27, 28 and 29 July.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Tomasz Jędrusik  Poland
Silver	Australia
Bronze	Nigeria

Results[]

Final[]

29 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tomasz Jędrusik	Poland	46.19
		Australia	46.74
		Nigeria	46.81
4	Mark Richardson	United Kingdom	46.94
5		United Kingdom	47.08
6		Kenya	47.22
7		Cuba	47.28
8		Jamaica	47.48

Semifinals[]

28 July

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Australia	46.21	Q
2	Mark Richardson	United Kingdom	46.43	Q
3		Nigeria	46.66	q
4		United States	46.89
5	Mark Jackson	Canada	47.56
6		Japan	48.17
		Kenya	DQ
		New Zealand	DQ

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		United Kingdom	46.29	Q
2		Kenya	46.32	Q
3		Cuba	46.86	q
4		United States	47.30
5		France	47.70
6	Kiril Raykov	Bulgaria	48.74
7		Portugal	49.82
	Samuel Matete	Zambia	DQ

Semifinal 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tomasz Jędrusik	Poland	46.16	Q
2		Jamaica	46.71	Q
3		Canada	47.29
4		Japan	47.47
5		Australia	47.62
6	Olivier Noirot	France	47.68
7		Nigeria	49.26
8		Argentina	49.93

Heats[]

27 July

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Jamaica	47.18	Q
2		Cuba	47.43	Q
3	Mark Jackson	Canada	47.64	Q
4		Kenya	48.02	q
5	Inaldo de Sena	Brazil	48.30
6	Muhammad Sadaqat	Pakistan	49.33
		Puerto Rico	DQ

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Kenya	46.54	Q
2	Mark Richardson	United Kingdom	46.63	Q
3	Olivier Noirot	France	47.43	Q
4		Canada	47.70	q
5		Ethiopia	48.24
6		Brazil	49.97
7	Mitchell Peters	U.S. Virgin Islands	50.17
8	Gilbert Hashan	Mauritius	50.19

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Samuel Matete	Zambia	46.88	Q
2		France	47.20	Q
3		Japan	47.49	Q
4		Nigeria	47.73	q
5	Eversley Linley	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	48.65
6		Somalia	49.00
7		Guatemala	50.71
8		Ethiopia	51.10

Heat 4[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Australia	47.08	Q
2		United States	47.49	Q
3		New Zealand	47.63	Q
4		Spain	48.29
5		Italy	48.54
		Jamaica	DNF

Heat 5[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Nigeria	47.29	Q
2		United States	47.34	Q
3		Portugal	47.92	Q
4		Uganda	48.10
5		Italy	48.23
6		British Virgin Islands	52.60

Heat 6[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Australia	46.79	Q
2	Kiril Raykov	Bulgaria	48.05	Q
3		Argentina	49.12	Q
4		Antigua and Barbuda	50.68
	Yeóryios Panayiotopoulos	Greece	DQ

Heat 7[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tomasz Jędrusik	Poland	46.50	Q
2		United Kingdom	47.58	Q
3		Japan	48.02	Q
4	Lin Kuang-Liang	Chinese Taipei	48.15
5		Ecuador	48.63
6		Poland	48.74

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 46 athletes from 33 countries participated in the event.

References[]