Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metres

Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 400 metres event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held 16–18 September on National Stadium, Bukit Jalil.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Iwan Thomas  Wales	Mark Richardson  England	Sugath Thilakaratne  Sri Lanka

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 8 fastest (q) qualified for the quarterfinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
2		Patrick Dwyer	Australia	46.58	Q[2]
4		Casey Vincent	Australia	47.04	Q[2]
5	1	Kirthley Richardson	Anguilla	51.93
9	1	Silas Helo	Solomon Islands	DNS
7	2	Bothwell Namuswa	Zambia	48.74
8	2	Abdulla Ibrahim	Maldives	52.77
5	3	Aminiasi Babitu	Fiji	48.74
6	3	Arnold Payne	Zimbabwe	48.22
7	3	Mohsin Munir	Pakistan	49.46
8	3	Thyroid Smith	Turks and Caicos Islands	53.18
3	4	Tawanda Chiwira	Zimbabwe	46.86	Q
6	4	Donald Bruno	Canada	47.80	q
7	5	Erwin Naimwhaka	Namibia	48.82
8	5	Naseer Ismail	Maldives	50.54
6	6	Yazid Parlan	Malaysia	48.18
7	6	N'Kosi Barnes	Antigua and Barbuda	50.15

Quarterfinals

Qualification: First 4 of each heat qualified directly (Q) for the semifinals.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
2		Patrick Dwyer	Australia	45.71	Q[2]
5	1	Shane Niemi	Canada	46.17
6	1	Lulu Basinyi	Botswana	46.71
7	1	Hendrick Mokganyetsi	South Africa	47.23
8	1	Fernando Augustin	Mauritius	47.66
5	2	Declan Stack	Australia	46.63
6	2	Romzi Bakar	Malaysia	47.12
7	2	Johnson Kubisa	Botswana	47.34
10	2	Donald Bruno	Canada	DNS
5	3	Casey Vincent	Australia	46.03
6	3	Adriaan Botha	South Africa	46.30
7	3	Brian Forbes	Northern Ireland	47.41
8	3	Henry Semiti	Fiji	47.66
5	4	Soloveni Nakaunicina	Fiji	46.35
6	4	Evripides Demosthenous	Cyprus	46.89
7	4	Nadarajan Deverajo	Malaysia	48.77
9	4	Tawanda Chiwira	Zimbabwe	DNF

Semifinals

Qualification: First 4 of each heat qualified directly (Q) for the final.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Iwan Thomas	Wales	44.61	Q
2	2	Jamie Baulch	Wales	44.83	Q, SB
3	2	Arnaud Malherbe	South Africa	45.01	Q
4	1	Mark Richardson	England	45.03	Q
5	1	Sugath Thilakaratne	Sri Lanka	45.09	Q
6	2	Davian Clarke	Jamaica	45.10	Q
7	2	Roxbert Martin	Jamaica	45.13
8	2	Troy McIntosh	Bahamas	45.19	SB
9	1	Greg Haughton	Jamaica	45.48	Q
10	1	Kennedy Ochieng	Kenya	45.48	Q
11	1	Mark Hylton	England	45.54
12	2	Abednego Matilu	Kenya	46.06
13	1	Patrick Dwyer	Australia	46.12
14	1	Paul McBurney	Northern Ireland	46.50
15	1	Jeffrey Masvanhise	Zimbabwe	46.77
16	2	Solomon Wariso	England	47.80

Final

^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Iwan Thomas	Wales	44.52	GR
	Mark Richardson	England	44.60	SB
	Sugath Thilakaratne	Sri Lanka	44.64	SB
4	Jamie Baulch	Wales	45.30
5	Arnaud Malherbe	South Africa	45.45
6	Greg Haughton	Jamaica	45.49
7	Davian Clarke	Jamaica	45.55
8	Kennedy Ochieng	Kenya	45.56

References

1. Non-qualifiers results
2. 1998 Australian Almanac
3. Non-qualifiers results
4. Semifinal 1 results, Semifinal 2 results
5. Final results