2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres

2000 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	women
10,000 m	men
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
10,000 m walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 400 metres event at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Santiago, Chile, at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos on 17, 18 and 20 October.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Hamdan Al-Bishi  Saudi Arabia
Silver	Brandon Simpson  Jamaica
Bronze	Japan

Results[]

Final[]

20 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Hamdan Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	44.66
	Brandon Simpson	Jamaica	45.73
		Japan	45.77
4	Damion Barry	Trinidad and Tobago	45.86
5		Venezuela	45.94
6		South Africa	45.97
7	Jonathan Palma	Venezuela	46.36
8	Rafał Wieruszewski	Poland	46.37

Semifinals[]

18 October

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Damion Barry	Trinidad and Tobago	46.63	Q
2	Rafał Wieruszewski	Poland	46.66	Q
3		Japan	46.99	Q
4	Jonathan Palma	Venezuela	47.10	Q
5		South Africa	47.18
6		Ireland	47.37
7	Bastian Swillims	Germany	47.43
8		Ukraine	47.54

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hamdan Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	45.69	Q
2	Brandon Simpson	Jamaica	45.96	Q
3		Venezuela	46.77	Q
4		South Africa	46.83	Q
5	Sherridan Kirk	Trinidad and Tobago	47.08
6		Japan	47.67
7		Madagascar	47.91
8		United States	49.64

Heats[]

17 October

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hamdan Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	46.63	Q
2		Ireland	46.94	Q
3	Jonathan Palma	Venezuela	47.27	q
4	Mark Ormrod	Australia	47.66
5		Germany	48.96
6		Guam	49.99
7		Saint Kitts and Nevis	51.18

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Brandon Simpson	Jamaica	46.64	Q
2	Bastian Swillims	Germany	47.06	Q
3	David Melo	Spain	47.96
4		El Salvador	47.99
5		Bahamas	49.02
6	Liu Yuan-Kai	Chinese Taipei	49.06
		Kenya	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Damion Barry	Trinidad and Tobago	46.62	Q
2		South Africa	46.81	Q
3		Madagascar	46.83	q
4		France	47.34
5	Dmitriy Petrov	Russia	47.66
6		Puerto Rico	48.58
7		Anguilla	53.09
		Hungary	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Heat 4[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Venezuela	46.52	Q
2	Rafał Wieruszewski	Poland	46.64	Q
3		Ukraine	47.10	q
4		Australia	47.36
5		Romania	47.44
6	Nathan Justin	Saint Lucia	49.66
7		Northern Mariana Islands	56.72

Heat 5[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Japan	47.37	Q
2		United States	48.06	Q
3		Chile	48.21
4		New Zealand	48.31
5	David Hamil	Cayman Islands	49.97
6		Guinea	52.94

Heat 6[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Japan	46.53	Q
2		South Africa	46.84	Q
3	Sherridan Kirk	Trinidad and Tobago	47.06	q
4		Morocco	48.35
5	Hamed Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	48.40
6		United States	50.03
7		Hong Kong	51.92

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 42 athletes from 34 countries participated in the event.

References[]