# 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place March 9 and 10 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena. The final was won by Costa Rican Nery Brenes in a time of 45.11.

## Doping disqualification

Rabah Yousif of Sudan, who ran the heat and the semifinal, retrospectively got his results disqualified for doping.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Nery Brenes Costa Rica | Demetrius Pinder Bahamas | Chris Brown Bahamas |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2012 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 | Kirani James (GRN) | 45.19 | Fayetteville, United States | 11 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 |
| 46.90 | 45.20 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| March 9, 2012 | 12:20 | Heats |
| March 9, 2012 | 20:10 | Semifinals |
| March 10, 2012 | 19:30 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

Qualification: First 2 (Q) and the 6 fastest times qualified (q). 32 athletes from 27 countries participated.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Demetrius Pinder | Bahamas | 46.49 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Kirani James | Grenada | 46.64 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Tabarie Henry | U.S. Virgin Islands | 46.71 | Q, SB |
| 4 | 2 | Nery Brenes | Costa Rica | 46.77 | Q, SB |
| 5 | 5 | Pavel Maslák | Czech Republic | 47.00 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | Richard Buck | Great Britain | 47.05 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Mark Ujakpor | Spain | 47.06 | q |
| 8 | 2 | Luguelín Santos | Dominican Republic | 47.07 | q, PB |
| 9 | 6 | Chris Brown | Bahamas | 47.28 | Q |
| DQ | 2 | Rabah Yousif | Sudan | 47.30 | q |
| 10 | 6 | Calvin Smith Jr. | United States | 47.46 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | Ali Ekber Kayaş | Turkey | 47.55 | q |
| 12 | 3 | Nigel Levine | Great Britain | 47.56 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | Gil Roberts | United States | 47.57 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | Erison Hurtault | Dominica | 47.63 | q |
| 15 | 4 | Valentin Kruglyakov | Russia | 47.70 | Q |
| 16 | 2 | Maksim Aleksandrenko | Russia | 47.78 | q |
| 17 | 4 | Jarrin Solomon | Trinidad and Tobago | 47.82 | |
| 18 | 6 | Nika Kartavtsevi | Georgia | 48.27 | PB |
| 19 | 3 | Lorenzo Valentini | Italy | 48.58 | Q |
| 20 | 1 | Wala Gime | Papua New Guinea | 48.85 | |
| 21 | 5 | Trausti Stefánsson | Iceland | 48.86 | |
| 22 | 4 | Takeshi Fujiwara | El Salvador | 48.96 | SB |
| 23 | 3 | Bacar Houmadi Jannot | Comoros | 49.58 | |
| 24 | 4 | Kristijan Efremov | Macedonia | 50.23 | |
| 25 | 5 | Ak. Hafiy Tajuddin Rositi | Brunei | 51.02 | NR |
| 26 | 1 | Yaovi Michael Gougou | Benin | 51.20 | NR |
| 27 | 6 | Bahaa Al Farra | Palestine | 51.65 | NR |
| 28 | 3 | Andrés Silva | Uruguay | 51.93 | SB |
| 29 | 6 | Jeofry Limtiaco | Guam | 53.67 | PB |
| 30 | 5 | Hussein Al-Fedheili | Oman | 55.15 | PB |
| | 3 | Lalonde Gordon | Trinidad and Tobago | DQ | |

### Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 of each heat qualified (Q). 18 athletes from 14 countries participated.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Demetrius Pinder | Bahamas | 45.94 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Tabarie Henry | U.S. Virgin Islands | 46.01 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Nery Brenes | Costa Rica | 46.01 | NR, Q |
| 4 | 3 | Kirani James | Grenada | 46.04 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Chris Brown | Bahamas | 46.37 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | Nigel Levine | Great Britain | 46.46 | |
| 7 | 2 | Pavel Maslák | Czech Republic | 46.49 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Richard Buck | Great Britain | 46.68 | |
| 9 | 3 | Luguelín Santos | Dominican Republic | 46.83 | PB |
| 10 | 1 | Mark Ujakpor | Spain | 46.98 | |
| 11 | 1 | Gil Roberts | United States | 47.01 | |
| 12 | 2 | Calvin Smith Jr. | United States | 47.09 | |
| 13 | 3 | Valentin Kruglyakov | Russia | 47.34 | |
| 14 | 2 | Ali Ekber Kayaş | Turkey | 48.16 | |
| 15 | 1 | Lorenzo Valentini | Italy | 48.47 | |
| 16 | 3 | Erison Hurtault | Dominica | 48.68 | |
| 17 | 1 | Maksim Aleksandrenko | Russia | 49.76 | |
| DQ | 2 | Rabah Yousif | Sudan | DNF | |

### Final

6 athletes from 5 countries participated. The final started at 19:31.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Nery Brenes | Costa Rica | 45.11 | CR, NR |
| | Demetrius Pinder | Bahamas | 45.34 | SB |
| | Chris Brown | Bahamas | 45.90 | SB |
| 4 | Tabarie Henry | U.S. Virgin Islands | 45.96 | SB |
| 5 | Pavel Maslák | Czech Republic | 46.19 | |
| 6 | Kirani James | Grenada | 46.21 | |