1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres

Events at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m		men		women
60 m hurdles		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Heptathlon		men

The men's 400 metres event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 7–9.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sunday Bada  Nigeria	Jamie Baulch  Great Britain	Shunji Karube  Japan

Results

Heats

First 2 of each heat (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Jamie Baulch	Great Britain	46.52	Q
2	2	Sunday Bada	Nigeria	46.58	Q
3	1	Troy McIntosh	Bahamas	46.59	Q
4	2	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	46.64	Q, SB
5	1	Mathias Rusterholz	Switzerland	46.65	q
6	3	Sanderlei Parrela	Brazil	46.84	Q, AR
7	5	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	46.90	Q
8	5	Kjell Provost	Belgium	46.94	Q
9	5	Shunji Karube	Japan	47.08	q
10	4	Derek Mills	United States	47.10	Q
11	1	Shigekazu Ōmori	Japan	47.13	q, PB
12	2	Antonio Andrés	Spain	47.14	q, PB
13	4	Linval Laird	Jamaica	47.18	Q
14	5	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah	Qatar	47.32
15	4	Slobodan Branković	Yugoslavia	47.42
16	3	Marco Vaccari	Italy	47.56	Q
17	6	Alejandro Cárdenas	Mexico	47.57	Q
18	7	Mark Hylton	Great Britain	47.58	Q
19	7	Deon Minor	United States	47.61	Q
20	7	Siniša Peša	Yugoslavia	47.64
21	7	Pierre-Marie Hilaire	France	47.68
22	3	Valentin Kulbatskiy	Ukraine	47.76
23	6	Dusán Kovács	Hungary	47.81	Q
23	7	Kevin Widmer	Switzerland	47.81
25	4	Vadim Zadoynov	Moldova	48.18
26	6	Valdinei da Silva	Brazil	48.19
27	2	Péter Nyilasi	Hungary	48.21
28	3	Erasto Sampson	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	48.26
29	5	Carlos José Toledo	El Salvador	49.23
30	1	Pablo Escriba	Spain	49.90
31	6	Emmanuel Rubayiza	Rwanda	50.25	SB
32	3	Mandiaye Seck	Mauritania	51.70
33	7	Mike Ezra	Uganda	53.74
34	2	Davis Kamoga	Uganda	DNS
34	3	Michael McDonald	Jamaica	DNS
34	4	Clement Chukwu	Nigeria	DNS
34	4	Mahdi Moullai	Iran	DNS
34	5	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS
34	6	Greg Haughton	Jamaica	DNS
34	6	Kenmore Hughes	Antigua and Barbuda	DNS

Semifinals

First 2 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Jamie Baulch	Great Britain	46.02	Q
2	2	Sunday Bada	Nigeria	46.06	Q, SB
3	2	Derek Mills	United States	46.14	Q
4	3	Shunji Karube	Japan	46.16	Q, NR
5	2	Mark Hylton	Great Britain	46.19
6	1	Troy McIntosh	Bahamas	46.20	Q, NR
7	3	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	46.22	Q, SB
8	3	Sanderlei Parrela	Brazil	46.33	AR
9	3	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	46.42
10	1	Alejandro Cárdenas	Mexico	46.50
11	1	Deon Minor	United States	46.68
12	2	Linval Laird	Jamaica	47.01
13	3	Mathias Rusterholz	Switzerland	47.16
14	2	Dusán Kovács	Hungary	47.23
15	2	Shigekazu Ōmori	Japan	47.34
16	1	Marco Vaccari	Italy	47.54
17	1	Antonio Andrés	Spain	47.71
18	3	Kjell Provost	Belgium	48.30

Final

^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sunday Bada	Nigeria	45.51	AR
	Jamie Baulch	Great Britain	45.62
	Shunji Karube	Japan	45.76	AR
4	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	45.94	SB
5	Derek Mills	United States	46.30
6	Troy McIntosh	Bahamas	DNF

References

1. 400 m heats results
2. 400 m semifinals results (archived)
3. 400 m final results (archived)