The Men's 400 metres event at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 4 & 5 with the final being held on March 5 at 17:45 local time.

Records Standing records prior to the 2011 European Athletics Indoor ChampionshipsWorld record44.57Fayetteville, United States12 March 2005European record45.05Sindelfingen, West Germany5 February 1988Championship record45.39Vienna, Austria3 March 2002World Leading44.80Fayetteville, United States27 February 2011European Leading45.99Fayetteville, United States27 February 2011

Results

Heats First 2 in each heat and 2 best performers advanced to the Semifinals. The heats were held at 10:45.

Rank Heat Name Nationality React Time Notes 1 1 Richard Buck 0.176 46.57 Q 2 5 Leslie Djhone 0.193 46.63 Q 3 5 Dmitriy Buryak 0.199 46.84 Q 4 1 Yoan Décimus 0.200 46.90 Q 5 3 Thomas Schneider 0.259 47.10 Q 6 1 Mark Ujakpor 0.166 47.31 q 7 5 Dmytro Ostrovskyy 0.162 47.33 q 8 3 Clemens Zeller 0.202 47.37 Q 9 3 Serdar Tamaç 0.186 47.46 10 2 Richard Strachan 0.186 47.54 Q 11 3 Brian Gregan 0.222 47.63 12 4 Nigel Levine 0.211 47.73 Q 13 4 David Gollnow 0.212 47.74 Q 14 1 Yevgen Hutsol 0.175 47.81 15 2 Ansoumane Fofana 0.306 47.89 Q 16 2 Marc Orozco 0.160 47.92 17 4 Johan Wissman 0.192 47.95 18 2 Endrik Zilbershtein 0.239 48.07 NR 19 2 Vladimir Krasnov 0.283 48.10 20 4 Pavel Maslák 0.208 48.14 21 5 Emir Bekrić 0.180 48.34 22 4 Rasmus Mägi 0.277 48.49 23 5 Nick Ekelund-Arenander 0.206 48.55 24 2 Nil de Oliveira 0.197 48.64 25 1 Aram Davtyan 0.288 48.96 NR 26 3 Kristijan Efremov 0.269 50.35 PB

Semifinals First 3 in each heat advanced to the Final. The semifinals were held at 18:10.

Rank Heat Name Nationality React Time Notes 1 1 Leslie Djhone 0.199 46.26 Q 2 1 Thomas Schneider 0.255 46.72 Q 3 2 Richard Buck 0.202 46.79 Q 4 2 Richard Strachan 0.181 46.94 Q 5 2 Yoan Décimus 0.215 46.98 Q 6 1 Dmitriy Buryak 0.221 47.09 Q 7 1 Nigel Levine 0.175 47.17 8 2 Clemens Zeller 0.230 47.35 9 2 Dmytro Ostrovskyy 0.192 47.58 10 1 Mark Ujakpor 0.190 47.82 11 2 David Gollnow 0.260 48.07 12 1 Ansoumane Fofana 0.276 48.19

Final The final was held at 17:45. Rank Lane Name Nationality React Time Notes 6 Leslie Djhone 0.181 45.54 EL 3 Thomas Schneider 0.286 46.42 5 Richard Buck 0.207 46.62 4 2 Dmitriy Buryak 0.173 46.70 5 4 Richard Strachan 0.164 46.74 6 1 Yoan Décimus 0.276 46.91

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