2000 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2000 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 29–31 August.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily Saudi Arabia	Harijan Ratnayake Sri Lanka	Zahr-el-Din El-Najem Syria

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	49.94	Q
2	1	Harijan Ratnayake	Sri Lanka	50.23	Q
3	1	Tan Chunhua	China	50.50	Q
4	2	Yoshihiro Chiba	Japan	50.57	Q
5	1	Erkin Isakov	Uzbekistan	51.30	Q
6	1	Bader Aman Abdulrahman	Kuwait	51.42	q
6	2	Zahr-el-Din El-Najem	Syria	51.42	Q
8	1	Lin Chin-Fu	Chinese Taipei	51.76	q
9	2	Majid Furootania	Iran	51.99
10	2	Chen Tien-Wen	Chinese Taipei	53.15
11	2	Purba Zulkarnaen	Indonesia	53.50
12	2	Lee Doo-Yeon	South Korea	53.57
13	1	Baymurad Ashimuradov	Turkmenistan	54.51
14	1	Saleh Abu Ayesh	Saudi Arabia	55.75

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	49.13
	Harijan Ratnayake	Sri Lanka	49.44	NR
	Zahr-el-Din El-Najem	Syria	49.67
4	Tan Chunhua	China	50.04
5	Yoshihiro Chiba	Japan	50.96
6	Lin Chin-Fu	Chinese Taipei	51.06
7	Erkin Isakov	Uzbekistan	51.27
8	Bader Aman Abdulrahman	Kuwait	51.53