# Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres event at the 2014 Asian Games was held at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, Incheon, South Korea on 27–28 September.

## Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
| Saturday, 27 September 2014 | 18:00 | Round 1 |
| Saturday, 27 September 2014 | 21:40 | Semifinals |
| Sunday, 28 September 2014 | 19:30 | Final |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.
| World Record | Michael Johnson (USA) | 43.18 | Seville, Spain | 26 August 1999 |
| Asian Record | Yousef Masrahi (KSA) | 44.43 | Lausanne, Switzerland | 3 July 2014 |
| Games Record | Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT) Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW) | 44.93 | Hiroshima, Japan Busan, South Korea | 11 October 1994 9 October 2002 |

## Results
### Legend

* DNS — Did not start

### Round 1

* Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Yuzo Kanemaru (JPN) | 46.68 | Q |
| 2 | Ismail Al-Sabiani (KSA) | 46.83 | Q |
| 3 | Maytham Hussein (IRQ) | 47.10 | Q |
| 4 | Sergey Zaikov (KAZ) | 47.28 | q |
| 5 | Mohamed Nasir Abbas (QAT) | 47.64 | |
| 6 | Vitsanu Phosri (THA) | 47.67 | |
| 7 | Leung King Hung (HKG) | 48.12 | |
| 8 | Samuel dos Santos (TLS) | 53.78 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Abbas Abubakar Abbas (BRN) | 45.61 | Q |
| 2 | Park Bong-go (KOR) | 46.15 | Q |
| 3 | Zhu Chenbin (CHN) | 46.50 | Q |
| 4 | Archand Bagsit (PHI) | 46.88 | q |
| 5 | Saud Abdelkarim (UAE) | 47.20 | q |
| 6 | Aleksandr Pronzhenko (TJK) | 47.97 | |
| 7 | Asyeikhany Akhyt (MGL) | 51.15 | |
| — | Tilak Ram Tharu (NEP) | DNS | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Yousef Masrahi (KSA) | 46.30 | Q |
| 2 | Seong Hyeok-je (KOR) | 46.41 | Q |
| 3 | Kunhu Muhammed (IND) | 46.55 | Q |
| 4 | Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi (OMA) | 47.96 | |
| 5 | Srikharin Wannasa (THA) | 48.23 | |
| 6 | Ho Tsz Fung (HKG) | 49.44 | |
| 7 | Hussain Inaas (MDV) | 49.83 | |

#### Heat 4

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Arokia Rajiv (IND) | 46.41 | Q |
| 2 | Nobuya Kato (JPN) | 46.72 | Q |
| 3 | Zhang Huadong (CHN) | 47.16 | Q |
| 4 | Edgardo Alejan (PHI) | 47.29 | q |
| 5 | Dmitriy Korobeynikov (KAZ) | 48.32 | |
| 6 | Ahmed Al-Merjabi (OMA) | 48.88 | |
| 7 | Davron Atabaev (TJK) | 49.10 | |
| 8 | Hussain Riza (MDV) | 51.69 | |

### Semifinals

* Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Abbas Abubakar Abbas (BRN) | 45.17 | Q |
| 2 | Yuzo Kanemaru (JPN) | 45.72 | Q |
| 3 | Park Bong-go (KOR) | 46.06 | Q |
| 4 | Kunhu Muhammed (IND) | 46.08 | q |
| 5 | Zhu Chenbin (CHN) | 46.58 | |
| 6 | Ismail Al-Sabiani (KSA) | 47.06 | |
| 7 | Saud Abdelkarim (UAE) | 47.27 | |
| 8 | Archand Bagsit (PHI) | 47.56 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Yousef Masrahi (KSA) | 45.86 | Q |
| 2 | Nobuya Kato (JPN) | 45.88 | Q |
| 3 | Arokia Rajiv (IND) | 46.22 | Q |
| 4 | Seong Hyeok-je (KOR) | 46.40 | q |
| 5 | Zhang Huadong (CHN) | 46.99 | |
| 6 | Edgardo Alejan (PHI) | 47.07 | |
| 7 | Maytham Hussein (IRQ) | 47.23 | |
| 8 | Sergey Zaikov (KAZ) | 47.33 | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| | Yousef Masrahi (KSA) | 44.46 | GR |
| | Abbas Abubakar Abbas (BRN) | 45.62 | |
| | Arokia Rajiv (IND) | 45.92 | |
| 4 | Yuzo Kanemaru (JPN) | 46.04 | |
| 5 | Nobuya Kato (JPN) | 46.13 | |
| 6 | Park Bong-go (KOR) | 46.19 | |
| 7 | Kunhu Muhammed (IND) | 46.53 | |
| 8 | Seong Hyeok-je (KOR) | 46.74 | |