# 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships will be held at the ASPIRE Dome on 12 and 13 March.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Chris Brown Bahamas | William Collazo Cuba | Jamaal Torrance United States |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships :
| World record | Kerron Clement (USA) | 44.57 | Fayetteville, United States | 12 March 2005 |
| Championship record | Harry Reynolds (USA) | 45.26 | Toronto, Canada | 14 March 1993 |
| World Leading | Torrin Lawrence (USA) | 45.03 | Fayetteville, United States | 12 February 2010 |
| African record | Sunday Bada (NGR) | 45.51 | Paris, France | 9 March 1997 |
| Asian record | Shunji Karube (JPN) | 45.76 | Paris, France | 9 March 1997 |
| European record | Thomas Schönlebe (GDR) | 45.05 | Sindelfingen, West Germany | 5 February 1988 |
| North and Central American and Caribbean record | Kerron Clement (USA) | 44.57 | Fayetteville, United States | 12 March 2005 |
| Oceanian Record | Daniel Batman (AUS) | 45.93 | Birmingham, Great Britain | 2 March 2003 |
| South American record | Bayano Kamani (PAN) | 46.26 | Boston, United States | 29 January 2005 |

## Qualification standards

| Indoor | Outdoor |
| 47.00 | 45.25 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| March 12, 2010 | 9:35 | Heats |
| March 12, 2010 | 19:30 | Semifinals |
| March 13, 2010 | 18:05 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Jamaal Torrance | United States | 46.70 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | David Gillick | Ireland | 46.72 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | William Collazo | Cuba | 46.78 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Edino Steele | Jamaica | 46.80 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Bershawn Jackson | United States | 46.87 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | Nery Brenes | Costa Rica | 46.94 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | Chris Brown | Bahamas | 46.95 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | Richard Buck | Great Britain | 47.02 | q |
| 9 | 1 | Dmitry Buryak | Russia | 47.03 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | Ricardo Chambers | Jamaica | 47.06 | q |
| 11 | 1 | Michael Mathieu | Bahamas | 47.10 | Q |
| DQ | 5 | Denis Alekseyev | Russia | 47.18 | Q, Doping |
| 12 | 1 | Rabah Yousif | Sudan | 47.21 | |
| 13 | 5 | Marcin Marciniszyn | Poland | 47.23 | |
| 14 | 1 | Santiago Ezquerro | Spain | 47.26 | |
| 15 | 4 | Brian Gregan | Ireland | 47.26 | |
| 16 | 5 | Arismendy Peguero | Dominican Republic | 47.28 | |
| 17 | 3 | Clemens Zeller | Austria | 47.39 | |
| 18 | 1 | Takeshi Fujiwara | El Salvador | 48.21 | NR |
| 19 | 2 | Dale Garland | Great Britain | 48.26 | |
| 20 | 4 | Nicolas Fillon | France | 48.28 | |
| 21 | 4 | Jarrin Solomon | Trinidad and Tobago | 48.37 | |
| 22 | 3 | Lewis Banda | Zimbabwe | 48.85 | |
| 23 | 5 | Andrés Silva | Uruguay | 49.09 | SB |
| 24 | 2 | Wala Gime | Papua New Guinea | 49.92 | NR |
| 25 | 3 | Gakologelwang Masheto | Botswana | 50.96 | SB |
| 26 | 4 | Matthew Pangelinan | Guam | 55.33 | SB |
| | 1 | Renny Quow | Trinidad and Tobago | DNF | |
| | 5 | Mohammed Ghaleb Al-Omaisi | Yemen | DNS | |

### Semifinals

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) qualified. to the final.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Bershawn Jackson | United States | 46.13 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | David Gillick | Ireland | 46.15 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | William Collazo | Cuba | 46.34 | Q, PB |
| 4 | 2 | Chris Brown | Bahamas | 46.64 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Jamaal Torrance | United States | 46.69 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Nery Brenes | Costa Rica | 46.73 | Q, SB |
| 7 | 1 | Edino Steele | Jamaica | 46.84 | |
| 8 | 2 | Dmitry Buryak | Russia | 46.95 | |
| 9 | 1 | Michael Mathieu | Bahamas | 47.09 | |
| DQ | 1 | Denis Alekseyev | Russia | 47.22 | Doping |
| 10 | 2 | Richard Buck | Great Britain | 47.70 | |
| 11 | 2 | Ricardo Chambers | Jamaica | 48.02 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Chris Brown | Bahamas | 45.96 | SB |
| | William Collazo | Cuba | 46.31 | PB |
| | Jamaal Torrance | United States | 46.43 | |
| 4 | Nery Brenes | Costa Rica | 46.55 | SB |
| 5 | Bershawn Jackson | United States | 46.84 | |
| | David Gillick | Ireland | DQ | |