2002 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres
# 2002 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres event at the 2002 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 9–10 August.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Fawzi Al-Shammari Kuwait | Hamdan Odha Al-Bishi Saudi Arabia | Sugath Thilakaratne Sri Lanka |

## Results

### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | Hamdan Odha Al-Bishi | Saudi Arabia | 45.82 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Rohan Pradeep Kumara | Sri Lanka | 45.91 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Salaheddine Safi Bakar | Qatar | 46.51 | q, SB |
| 4 | 3 | Sugath Thilakaratne | Sri Lanka | 46.90 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Ernie Candelario | Philippines | 46.98 | q |
| 6 | 1 | Fawzi Al-Shammari | Kuwait | 47.20 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | Satbir Singh | India | 47.41 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | Prasanna Amarasekara | Sri Lanka | 47.60 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | Mohd Zaiful Zainal Abidin | Malaysia | 47.61 | |
| 10 | 1 | Suguru Matsumoto | Japan | 47.70 | |
| 11 | 3 | Yukihiro Mukai | Japan | 48.20 | |
| 12 | 3 | Idris Abdelaziz Al-Housaoui | Saudi Arabia | 49.11 | SB |
| 13 | 1 | Jimar Aing | Philippines | 49.50 | SB |
| 14 | 1 | Leung Tat Wai | Hong Kong | 50.30 | |
| 15 | 1 | Chao Un Kei | Macau | 50.40 | SB |
| 16 | 2 | Ku King Kit | Hong Kong | 50.71 | |
| 17 | 3 | Khaled Ibrahim | Jordan | 51.38 | PB |
| 18 | 3 | Mohamed Amir | Maldives | 52.33 | SB |
| | 1 | Mohamed Akefian | Iran | DQ | |
| | 2 | Abdullah Ibrahim | Iran | DNS | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Fawzi Al-Shammari | Kuwait | 45.21 | |
| | Hamdan Odha Al-Bishi | Saudi Arabia | 45.43 | |
| | Sugath Thilakaratne | Sri Lanka | 45.73 | =SB |
| 4 | Rohan Pradeep Kumara | Sri Lanka | 45.87 | |
| 5 | Satbir Singh | India | 46.64 | |
| 6 | Prasanna Amarasekara | Sri Lanka | 46.78 | SB |
| 7 | Ernie Candelario | Philippines | 47.60 | |
| 8 | Salaheddine Safi Bakar | Qatar | 47.76 | |
