2002 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres event at the 2002 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 1–3.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Marek Plawgo  Poland	Jimisola Laursen  Sweden	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	5	Jimisola Laursen	Sweden	46.18	Q, NR
2	5	Ioan Vieru	Romania	46.19	Q, NR
3	5	Cédric Van Branteghem	Belgium	46.39	q, NR
4	1	Marek Plawgo	Poland	46.46	Q
5	1	Tom Coman	Ireland	46.49	Q, NR
6	2	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	46.77	Q
7	1	Marc Foucan	France	46.91	q
8	3	Piotr Rysiukiewicz	Poland	46.92	Q
9	4	Bastian Swillims	Germany	46.96	Q
10	1	Karel Blaha	Czech Republic	47.01
11	2	David McCarthy	Ireland	47.07	Q
12	3	Dmitriy Chumichkin	Azerbaijan	47.15	Q, NR
13	3	Ashraf Saber	Italy	47.20
14	5	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	47.35	SB
15	1	Alberto Martínez	Spain	47.39
15	2	Yevgeniy Lebedev	Russia	47.39
15	4	Salvador Rodríguez	Spain	47.39	Q
18	2	Marcel Lopuchovský	Slovakia	47.40	SB
19	4	Dmitrijs Miļkevičs	Latvia	47.61	PB
20	4	Artur Gąsiewski	Poland	47.62
21	5	Robert Daly	Ireland	47.75
22	2	Christian Birk	Denmark	48.09
23	3	Inguns Sviklins	Latvia	48.46	SB
24	4	Stelios Dimotsios	Greece	48.51
	3	David Canal	Spain	DQ
	4	Aleksandr Usov	Russia	DQ
	3	Dmitriy Golovastov	Russia	DNF
	5	Andreas Rechbauer	Austria	DNF
	2	Matija Šestak	Slovenia	DNS

Semifinals

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Marek Plawgo	Poland	45.49	Q, CR, NR
2	2	Ioan Vieru	Romania	45.94	Q, NR
3	1	Jimisola Laursen	Sweden	46.00	Q, NR
4	1	Piotr Rysiukiewicz	Poland	46.28	Q, PB
5	2	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	46.32	Q, PB
6	2	Tom Coman	Ireland	46.34	NR
7	1	Marc Foucan	France	46.49	Q, PB
8	1	Bastian Swillims	Germany	46.54
9	1	David McCarthy	Ireland	46.86
10	2	Cédric Van Branteghem	Belgium	46.95
11	2	Salvador Rodríguez	Spain	47.01
	1	Dmitriy Chumichkin	Azerbaijan	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Marek Plawgo	Poland	45.39	CR, NR
	6	Jimisola Laursen	Sweden	45.59	NR
	3	Ioan Vieru	Romania	46.17
4	4	Piotr Rysiukiewicz	Poland	46.32
5	2	Jiří Mužík	Czech Republic	46.36
6	1	Marc Foucan	France	47.40

References

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