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

Men's 400 metres at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Stadium
Dates	13–14 December
Competitors	24 from 15 nations
Medalists
Sugath Thilakaratne    Sri Lanka   Ibrahim Ismail Muftah    Qatar   Paramjit Singh    India

Main article: Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games

The men's 400 metres competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand was held on 13–14 December at the Thammasat Stadium.

Schedule

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)

Date	Time	Event
Sunday, 13 December 1998	08:30	Heats
	14:50	Semifinals
Monday, 14 December 1998	14:50	Final

Results

Legend

• DSQ — Disqualified

Heats

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Sugath Thilakaratne (SRI)	46.88	Q
2	Kim Jae-da (KOR)	47.28	Q
3	Khaled Al-Johar (KUW)	47.88	Q
4	Khalifa Said (QAT)	48.38	q
5	Lei Vai Kun (MAC)	49.18
6	Basheer Al-Khewani (YEM)	53.31

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Paramjit Singh (IND)	46.68	Q
2	Kenji Tabata (JPN)	46.82	Q
3	Yazid Parlan (MAS)	48.37	Q
4	Chang Po-chih (TPE)	48.53	q
5	Anirut Saisut (THA)	48.77
6	Mohammad Ayed (JOR)	49.64

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)	46.65	Q
2	Shon Ju-il (KOR)	47.51	Q
3	Romzi Bakar (MAS)	47.69	Q
4	Lee Ching-yen (TPE)	48.55
—	Puntsag-Ochiryn Pürevsüren (MGL)	DSQ
—	Shadi Qaqour (JOR)	DSQ

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Masayoshi Kan (JPN)	46.67	Q
2	Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW)	46.81	Q
3	Rohan Pradeep Kumara (SRI)	47.02	Q
4	Senee Kongtong (THA)	47.76	q
5	Hwang Il-sok (PRK)	47.80	q
6	Hamoud Al-Hashimi (OMA)	48.94

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	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)	45.95	Q
2	Shon Ju-il (KOR)	46.55	Q
3	Kenji Tabata (JPN)	46.74	Q
4	Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW)	47.00	q
5	Rohan Pradeep Kumara (SRI)	47.09
6	Senee Kongtong (THA)	47.56
7	Chang Po-chih (TPE)	48.17
8	Yazid Parlan (MAS)	48.41

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Sugath Thilakaratne (SRI)	45.88	Q
2	Paramjit Singh (IND)	46.37	Q
3	Masayoshi Kan (JPN)	46.50	Q
4	Kim Jae-da (KOR)	46.97	q
5	Romzi Bakar (MAS)	47.73
6	Hwang Il-sok (PRK)	47.78
7	Khaled Al-Johar (KUW)	48.24
8	Khalifa Said (QAT)	48.41

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Sugath Thilakaratne (SRI)	44.99
	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)	45.32
	Paramjit Singh (IND)	45.93
4	Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW)	46.10
5	Masayoshi Kan (JPN)	46.11
6	Shon Ju-il (KOR)	46.19
7	Kenji Tabata (JPN)	46.96
8	Kim Jae-da (KOR)	47.85

External links

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