The men's 400 metres event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 16 and 18 July.
Medalists Gold Miles Murphy Silver Roberto Hernández Bronze Edgar Itt
Results Final 18 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Miles Murphy 45.64 Roberto Hernández 45.64 Edgar Itt 45.72 4 Eulogio Mordoche 46.52 5 Clifton Campbell 46.52 6 Joseph Falaye 46.81 7 Peter Crampton 47.26 8 Chip Rish 47.50
Semifinals 18 July
Semifinal 1
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Clifton Campbell 45.94 Q 2 Edgar Itt 46.41 Q 3 Yusuf Bakare 46.82 4 Aleksandr Ovchinnikov 46.86 5 Roland Moens 47.65 6 Krzysztof Sidowski 47.92 7 Keiichi Adachi 47.94 8 Seibert Straughn 48.29
Semifinal 2
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Eulogio Mordoche 46.34 Q 2 Joseph Falaye 46.51 Q 3 Mark Tyler 46.95 4 Joseph Sainah 46.96 5 Tibor Martina 47.11 6 Yvan Delrue 47.32 7 Slobodan Branković 47.44 8 António Abrantes 48.33
Semifinal 3
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Roberto Hernández 45.53 Q 2 Miles Murphy 46.02 Q 3 Chip Rish 46.33 q 4 Peter Crampton 46.78 q 5 Tamás Molnár 46.96 6 Vladimir Lytkin 47.44 7 Dawda Jallow 48.01 8 Carl Folkes 48.27
Heats 16 July
Heat 1
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Joseph Falaye 46.63 Q 2 Aleksandr Ovchinnikov 46.99 Q 3 Dawda Jallow 47.16 Q 4 Tamás Molnár 47.17 q 5 Željko Kerošević 48.83 6 Hossain Milzer 48.96 7 Ali Yacoub Ismail Ishaq 49.52 8 Awad Ead Awad 50.42
Heat 2
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Clifton Campbell 46.60 Q 2 Roland Moens 47.33 Q 3 Seibert Straughn 47.70 Q 4 Manuel Moreno 48.29 5 Tshokolo Peloethata 48.66 6 James Dunda 48.78 7 Washington Rodrigues 49.79 8 Horace Dove-Edwin 52.12
Heat 3
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Edgar Itt 47.02 Q 2 Tibor Martina 47.49 Q 3 Vladimir Lytkin 47.83 Q 4 Nicola Mastroianni 48.28 5 Yeóryios Panayiotopoulos 48.82 6 Sultan Abdulrahman 48.97 7 Omar Ibrahim 51.14
Heat 4
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Miles Murphy 46.83 Q 2 Joseph Sainah 47.17 Q 3 Slobodan Branković 47.28 Q 4 António Abrantes 47.91 q 5 Dariusz Rychter 48.30 6 Moses Phiri 50.39 7 Paul Prea 50.69
Heat 5
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Chip Rish 47.34 Q 2 Yvan Delrue 47.75 Q 3 Mark Tyler 47.80 Q 4 Keiichi Adachi 48.18 q 5 Nicos Adamou 48.93 6 Khayar Seck 49.12 7 M.Adam Salih 50.81
Heat 6
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Roberto Hernández 46.75 Q 2 Carl Folkes 47.58 Q 3 Peter Crampton 48.17 Q 4 Craig Purdy 48.81 5 Legesse Dereba 48.99 6 Yuji Yoshioka 49.39 7 Marco Tamagnini 52.33 8 Salem Matar 53.23
Heat 7
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Eulogio Mordoche 46.91 Q 2 Yusuf Bakare 47.45 Q 3 Krzysztof Sidowski 47.79 Q 4 Scott Bowden 48.46 5 Christopher Mbilo 48.76 6 Nikólaos Doúbas 49.25 7 Pedro Maroto 50.56 8 Oum Sidet 53.17
Participation According to an unofficial count, 53 athletes from 38 countries participated in the event.
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