2025 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships was held on 30 and 31 May.^[1]

Men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships
Venue	Gumi Civic Stadium
Location	Gumi, South Korea
Dates	30 May (heats) 31 May (final)
Competitors	20 from 15 nations
Winning time	48.00
Medalists
Abderrahman Samba    Qatar   Bassem Hemeida    Qatar   Lin Chung-wei    Chinese Taipei
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Records

Records before the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships

Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
World record[2]	Karsten Warholm (NOR)	45.94	Tokyo, Japan	3 August 2021
Asian record[3]	Abderrahman Samba (QAT)	46.98	Paris, France	30 June 2018
Championship record		47.51	Doha, Qatar	22 April 2019
World leading[4]	Karsten Warholm (NOR)	47.28	Shaoxing, China	3 May 2025
Asian leading[5]	Ken Toyoda (JPN)	48.55	Tokyo, Japan	18 May 2025

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+8), was as follows:^[1]

Date	Time	Round
30 May	10:30	Heats
31 May	18:00	Final

Results

Heats

Held on 30 May. First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Heat 1

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar	50.17	Q
2	6	Calvin Quek	Singapore	50.58	Q, SB
3	7	Chen Jian-rong	Chinese Taipei	50.80
4	2	Hasanbek Rustamjonov	Uzbekistan	52.12	PB
5	3	Chan Chun Ho	Hong Kong	52.70	PB
—	5	Vyacheslav Zems [de; ru]	Kazakhstan	DNS
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Heat 2

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Shunta Inoue	Japan	50.28	Q
2	5	Marc Anthony Ibrahim [de]	Lebanon	51.39	Q
3	8	Jo Hwi-in	South Korea	51.70	SB
4	7	Muhammad Fakrul	Malaysia	52.31
5	6	Nazimul Hossain	Bangladesh	52.36
6	3	Cheong Chi Chong	Macau	53.25
7	2	Muhammadrizoi Mirzozoda [de]	Tajikistan	53.87
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Heat 3

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Lin Chung-wei	Chinese Taipei	49.63	Q, PB
2	5	Xie Zhiyu	China	50.07	Q, SB
3	6	Bassem Hemeida	Qatar	50.15	q, SB
4	7	Mehdi Pirjahan	Iran	50.41	q, SB
5	2	Kwak Ui-chan	South Korea	54.04
—	3	Azzam Ibrahim Abu Bakr	Saudi Arabia	DQ	TR 16.8
—	8	Dmitriy Koblov	Kazakhstan	DQ	TR 16.8
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Final

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	5	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar	48.00
	1	Bassem Hemeida	Qatar	49.44	SB
	4	Lin Chung-wei	Chinese Taipei	49.73
4	6	Shunta Inoue	Japan	50.02
5	2	Mehdi Pirjahan	Iran	50.51
6	8	Marc Anthony Ibrahim [de]	Lebanon	50.56	SB
7	7	Xie Zhiyu	China	50.57
8	3	Calvin Quek	Singapore	50.94
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