# Athletics at the 2005 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2005 Summer Universiade was held on 17–20 August in İzmir, Turkey.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Kenji Narisako Japan | Takayuki Koike Japan | Gregory Little Jamaica |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Yevgeniy Meleshenko | Kazakhstan | 50.30 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Kenji Narisako | Japan | 50.32 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Aleksandr Derevyagin | Russia | 50.35 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Christian Grossenbacher | Switzerland | 50.38 | q |
| 5 | 1 | Mikhail Lipskiy | Russia | 50.40 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | Takayuki Koike | Japan | 50.70 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Michal Uhlík | Czech Republic | 50.74 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Cédric El-Idrissi | Switzerland | 50.76 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | Ondřej Daněk | Czech Republic | 50.84 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | Sotirios Iakovakis | Greece | 50.93 | Q, SB |
| 11 | 2 | Eduardo Iván Rodríguez | Spain | 51.29 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | Gregory Little | Jamaica | 51.38 | q |
| 13 | 2 | Andrey Kozlovskiy | Belarus | 51.54 | q |
| 14 | 2 | Rhys Williams | Great Britain | 51.61 | q |
| 15 | 4 | Jussi Heikkilä | Finland | 51.62 | |
| 16 | 1 | El Hadj Seth Mbow | Senegal | 51.75 | Q |
| 17 | 1 | Leanid Vershynin | Belarus | 51.77 | Q |
| 18 | 3 | Hussein Alaa Motar | Iraq | 51.98 | |
| 19 | 3 | Tuncay Örs | Turkey | 52.16 | |
| 20 | 1 | Osita Okeagu | Nigeria | 52.26 | |
| 21 | 1 | Janne Mäkelä | Finland | 52.44 | |
| 22 | 3 | Séléké Samake | Senegal | 52.80 | |
| 23 | 2 | Jonnie Lowe | Honduras | 52.91 | |
| 24 | 1 | Camilo Quevedo | Guatemala | 52.97 | NJR |
| 25 | 3 | Apisit Kuttiyawan | Thailand | 52.99 | |
| 26 | 3 | Ioannis Ioannou | Cyprus | 53.71 | |
| 27 | 2 | Alex Fan Wai Ho | Hong Kong | 54.94 | |
| | 1 | Ákos Dezsö | Hungary | DNS | |
| | 4 | Gianni Carabelli | Italy | DNS | |
| | 4 | Chen Tien-Wen | Chinese Taipei | DNS | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Kenji Narisako | Japan | 49.65 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Leanid Vershynin | Belarus | 49.95 | Q, SB |
| 3 | 2 | Mikhail Lipskiy | Russia | 50.06 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Aleksandr Derevyagin | Russia | 50.09 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Michal Uhlík | Czech Republic | 50.23 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Takayuki Koike | Japan | 50.38 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Gregory Little | Jamaica | 50.47 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Cédric El-Idrissi | Switzerland | 50.49 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | Christian Grossenbacher | Switzerland | 50.50 | |
| 9 | 2 | Eduardo Iván Rodríguez | Spain | 50.50 | |
| 11 | 2 | Andrey Kozlovskiy | Belarus | 51.08 | |
| 12 | 2 | Sotirios Iakovakis | Greece | 51.14 | |
| 13 | 2 | Ondřej Daněk | Czech Republic | 51.48 | |
| 14 | 1 | El Hadj Seth Mbow | Senegal | 51.69 | |
| | 1 | Yevgeniy Meleshenko | Kazakhstan | DNF | |
| | 1 | Rhys Williams | Great Britain | DNS | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Kenji Narisako | Japan | 48.96 | |
| | Takayuki Koike | Japan | 49.75 | |
| | Gregory Little | Jamaica | 49.77 | |
| 4 | Aleksandr Derevyagin | Russia | 49.78 | SB |
| 5 | Michal Uhlík | Czech Republic | 49.79 | |
| 6 | Mikhail Lipskiy | Russia | 49.84 | SB |
| 7 | Leanid Vershynin | Belarus | 50.50 | |
| 8 | Cédric El-Idrissi | Switzerland | 50.61 | |