2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres
# 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres

The Men's 400 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6–7.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Johan Wissman Sweden | Claudio Licciardello Italy | Ioan Vieru Romania |

## Results

### Heats

First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Johan Wissman | Sweden | 46.49 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Clemens Zeller | Austria | 46.61 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Jan Ciepiela | Poland | 46.72 | Q, PB |
| 4 | 5 | Claudio Licciardello | Italy | 46.72 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Ioan Vieru | Romania | 46.99 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | Richard Buck | Great Britain | 47.04 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | David Gillick | Ireland | 47.10 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Matteo Galvan | Italy | 47.18 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | Nick Leavey | Great Britain | 47.19 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | Yoan Décimus | France | 47.22 | q |
| 11 | 1 | Piotr Klimczak | Poland | 47.24 | q |
| 12 | 3 | Stanislav Melnykov | Ukraine | 47.24 | |
| 13 | 4 | Yannick Fonsat | France | 47.28 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | Vladimir Krasnov | Russia | 47.31 | |
| 15 | 2 | Santiago Ezquerro | Spain | 47.45 | |
| 16 | 5 | Jussi Heikkilä | Finland | 47.53 | SB |
| 17 | 4 | Jacob Riis | Denmark | 47.54 | PB |
| 18 | 3 | Mark Ujakpor | Spain | 47.59 | |
| 19 | 1 | Visa Hongisto | Finland | 47.70 | NJR |
| 20 | 3 | Peter Žnava | Slovakia | 47.85 | |
| 21 | 5 | Serdar Tamaç | Turkey | 47.94 | |
| 22 | 1 | Andreas Bube | Denmark | 48.02 | |
| 23 | 4 | Petr Szetei | Czech Republic | 48.03 | |
| 24 | 2 | Ali Ekber Kayas | Turkey | 48.65 | |
| 25 | 1 | Catalin Cîmpeanu | Romania | 48.66 | |
| 26 | 2 | Nicklas Hyde | Denmark | 49.30 | |
| | 4 | Antonio Manuel Reina | Spain | DNF | |

### Semifinals

First 3 of each semifinals qualified directly (Q) for the final.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | Claudio Licciardello | Italy | 46.31 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Johan Wissman | Sweden | 46.38 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Ioan Vieru | Romania | 46.61 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Richard Buck | Great Britain | 46.76 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Clemens Zeller | Austria | 46.84 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Matteo Galvan | Italy | 47.45 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Jan Ciepiela | Poland | 47.54 | |
| 8 | 2 | Yoan Décimus | France | 47.78 | |
| 9 | 1 | Nick Leavey | Great Britain | 47.93 | |
| 10 | 2 | Yannick Fonsat | France | 47.99 | |
| 11 | 1 | Piotr Klimczak | Poland | 53.81 | |
| 12 | 1 | David Gillick | Ireland | 1:37.01 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Johan Wissman | Sweden | 45.89 | PB |
| | Claudio Licciardello | Italy | 46.32 | |
| | Ioan Vieru | Romania | 46.54 | SB |
| 4 | Clemens Zeller | Austria | 46.62 | |
| 5 | Richard Buck | Great Britain | 46.94 | |
| 6 | Matteo Galvan | Italy | 48.23 | |
