Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2001 Summer Universiade was held at the Workers Stadium in Beijing, China on 30–31 August.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Alwyn Myburgh  South Africa	Yevgeniy Meleshenko  Kazakhstan	Chen Tien-wen Chinese Taipei

Results

Heats

Held on 30 August

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Marek Plawgo	Poland	49.74	Q[3]
2	1	Carlos Silva	Portugal	49.80	Q
3	1	Periklis Iakovakis	Greece	49.85	Q
4	4	Alwyn Myburgh	South Africa	49.89	Q[4]
5	3	Marcel Schelbert	Switzerland	50.03	Q[5]
6	3	Martin Willemse	South Africa	50.04	Q[4]
7	1	Štěpán Tesařík	Czech Republic	50.08	Q
8	2	Yevgeniy Meleshenko	Kazakhstan	50.10	Q
9	2	Fred Sharpe	United States	50.11	Q
10	3	Marcel Lopuchovský	Slovakia	50.12	Q
11	4	Ken Yoshizawa	Japan	50.19	Q
12	2	Yoshihiro Chiba	Japan	50.28	Q
13	3	Aleksandr Derevyagin	Russia	50.28	Q
14	3	Chen Tien-wen	Chinese Taipei	50.31	q
15	2	Jan Schneider	Germany	50.55	Q
16	2	Matthew Douglas	Great Britain	50.59
17	4	Bayano Kamani	United States	50.65	Q
18	3	Eduardo Iván Rodríguez	Spain	50.85
19	4	Leonid Vershinin	Belarus	50.89
20	1	Gianni Carabelli	Italy	50.95
21	4	Anderson Costa dos Santos	Brazil	50.98
22	4	Rova Rabemananjara	Canada	51.37	[6]
23	4	Jaime Juan	Spain	51.67
24	2	Tahar Ghozali	Algeria	51.68
25	1	Charles Robertson-Adams	Great Britain	52.88
26	1	Jeerachai Linglom	Thailand	53.58
27	4	Kulan Arunajith	Sri Lanka	56.04
28	3	Ravindra Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	56.35
29	2	A. Flores	Peru	58.77
30	3	Rony Georges	Lebanon	59.46

Semifinals

Held on 31 August

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Alwyn Myburgh	South Africa	49.04	Q[5]
2	1	Carlos Silva	Portugal	49.22	Q[4]
3	1	Periklis Iakovakis	Greece	49.30	Q[4]
4	1	Yevgeniy Meleshenko	Kazakhstan	49.49	q
5	2	Chen Tien-wen	Chinese Taipei	49.57	Q[4]
6	1	Ken Yoshizawa	Japan	49.63	q
7	2	Martin Willemse	South Africa	49.68	Q[4]
8	2	Marek Plawgo	Poland	49.77	Q[3]
9	1	Štěpán Tesařík	Czech Republic	49.87
10	2	Yoshihiro Chiba	Japan	50.00
11	2	Fred Sharpe	United States	50.01
12	2	Marcel Schelbert	Switzerland	50.53
13	2	Marcel Lopuchovský	Slovakia	50.55
14	2	Aleksandr Derevyagin	Russia	50.60
15	1	Bayano Kamani	United States	50.64
16	1	Jan Schneider	Germany	51.44

Final

Held on 31 August

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alwyn Myburgh	South Africa	48.09	UR
	Yevgeniy Meleshenko	Kazakhstan	48.46
	Chen Tien-wen	Chinese Taipei	48.63
4	Periklis Iakovakis	Greece	48.87
5	Martin Willemse	South Africa	48.96
6	Carlos Silva	Portugal	49.07
7	Ken Yoshizawa	Japan	49.60
8	Marek Plawgo	Poland	49.68