# Athletics at the 1999 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1999 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Son Moix in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 10, 11 and 12 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Paweł Januszewski Poland | Bayano Kamani United States | Marcel Schelbert Switzerland |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Paweł Januszewski | Poland | 49.93 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Cleverson da Silva | Brazil | 49.99 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Steffen Kolb | Germany | 50.03 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Ken Yoshizawa | Japan | 50.12 | q |
| 5 | 4 | Massimo Redaelli | Italy | 50.19 | Q, SB |
| 6 | 6 | Alexandre Marchand | Canada | 50.21 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Costas Pochanis | Cyprus | 50.23 | Q, SB |
| 8 | 1 | Dai Tamesue | Japan | 50.25 | q |
| 9 | 4 | Bayano Kamani | United States | 50.28 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | Jan Schneider | Germany | 50.32 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | Chris Rawlinson | Great Britain | 50.33 | Q |
| 12 | 4 | Hennie Botha | South Africa | 50.53 | q |
| 13 | 2 | Corey Murdock | United States | 50.62 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | Patrick Ottoz | Italy | 50.65 | Q |
| 15 | 1 | Periklis Iakovakis | Greece | 50.74 | q |
| 16 | 5 | Marcel Schelbert | Switzerland | 50.80 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | Monte Raymond | Canada | 50.87 | |
| 18 | 6 | Roman Voronkov | Ukraine | 51.07 | PB |
| 19 | 6 | Iliya Dzhivondov | Bulgaria | 51.15 | |
| 20 | 5 | Brian Liddy | Ireland | 51.16 | SB |
| 21 | 3 | Andrey Vinnitskiy | Ukraine | 51.39 | |
| 22 | 4 | Oscar Pitillas | Spain | 51.40 | |
| 23 | 2 | Kenneth Enyiazu | Nigeria | 51.43 | |
| 24 | 1 | Erkinjon Isakov | Russia | 51.49 | |
| 25 | 4 | Chen Ching-fa | Chinese Taipei | 51.94 | |
| 26 | 5 | Matthew Douglas | Great Britain | 52.07 | |
| 27 | 2 | Iñigo Monreal | Spain | 52.13 | |
| 28 | 1 | Ibrahima Diouf | Senegal | 52.24 | |
| 29 | 5 | Chen Tien-wen | Chinese Taipei | 52.45 | |
| 30 | 3 | Paulo Villar | Colombia | 52.79 | |
| 30 | 6 | Peter Andersson | Sweden | 52.79 | |
| 32 | 5 | Souleymane Doumbouya | Senegal | 52.94 | |
| 33 | 2 | David Bergdahl | Sweden | 53.17 | |
| 34 | 4 | Víctor Mendoza | Peru | 53.39 | |
| 35 | 2 | Iztok Hodnik | Slovenia | 54.42 | |
| | 1 | Henrik Vincentsen | Denmark | DQ | |
| | 3 | Anders Sækmose | Denmark | DNF | |
| | 3 | Filip Salov | Russia | DNF | |
| | 6 | Indrek Tustit | Estonia | DNF | |
| | 6 | Mitja Bračič | Slovenia | DNF | |
| | 4 | James Mwangi | Kenya | DNS | |
| | 5 | Rohan Robinson | Australia | DNS | |
| | 6 | Carlos Silva | Portugal | DNS | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Marcel Schelbert | Switzerland | 48.89 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 1 | Paweł Januszewski | Poland | 48.97 | Q, SB |
| 3 | 1 | Bayano Kamani | United States | 49.09 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Chris Rawlinson | Great Britain | 49.36 | q, PB |
| 5 | 2 | Cleverson da Silva | Brazil | 49.43 | Q, PB |
| 6 | 2 | Corey Murdock | United States | 49.46 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Alexandre Marchand | Canada | 49.51 | Q, PB |
| 8 | 1 | Periklis Iakovakis | Greece | 49.80 | q, PB |
| 9 | 2 | Dai Tamesue | Japan | 49.84 | |
| 10 | 1 | Massimo Redaelli | Italy | 49.87 | SB |
| 11 | 2 | Costas Pochanis | Cyprus | 49.88 | PB |
| 12 | 1 | Jan Schneider | Germany | 49.89 | SB |
| 13 | 2 | Steffen Kolb | Germany | 50.02 | SB |
| 14 | 1 | Ken Yoshizawa | Japan | 50.17 | |
| 15 | 2 | Hennie Botha | South Africa | 50.68 | |
| 16 | 2 | Patrick Ottoz | Italy | 1:10.49 | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Paweł Januszewski | Poland | 48.64 | SB |
| | Bayano Kamani | United States | 48.74 | |
| | Marcel Schelbert | Switzerland | 48.77 | PB |
| 4 | Corey Murdock | United States | 48.85 | |
| 5 | Chris Rawlinson | Great Britain | 48.88 | |
| 6 | Cleverson da Silva | Brazil | 49.28 | |
| 7 | Alexandre Marchand | Canada | 49.72 | |
| | Periklis Iakovakis | Greece | DNS | |