2008 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2008 African Championships in Athletics was held at the Addis Ababa Stadium on May 1–May 2.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
L.J. van Zyl  South Africa	Abderahmane Hamadi  Algeria	Ibrahim Maïga  Mali

Results

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	L.J. van Zyl	South Africa	50.06	Q
2	2	Abderahmane Hamadi	Algeria	50.53	Q
3	2	Ockert Cilliers	South Africa	50.66	Q
4	2	Julius Bungei	Kenya	50.87	q
5	3	Wright O'Neil	Liberia	51.42	Q
6	2	El Hadj Seth Mbow	Senegal	51.70	q
7	1	Elamine Badr	Morocco	51.87	Q
8	1	Ibrahim Maïga	Mali	51.93	Q
9	3	Antonio Vieillesse	Mauritius	52.35
10	1	Laroussi Titi	Tunisia	52.56
11	3	Mamadou Kasse Hanne	Senegal	53.29
12	3	Mohamed Hafid	Sudan	53.30
13	1	Kurt Couto	Mozambique	53.84
14	1	Abdulagadir Idriss	Sudan	53.84
15	3	Osita Okagu	Nigeria	54.08
16	2	Getachew Alemu	Ethiopia	55.37
17	1	Houssein Nour Ali	Djibouti	55.41
18	3	Worku Dibaba	Ethiopia	57.01
19	2	Joseph Ndongo Abomo	Cameroon	57.18
20	1	Feleke Degela	Ethiopia	58.10
	2	Kayembe Ntumba	Democratic Republic of the Congo	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	L.J. van Zyl	South Africa	48.91
	5	Abderahmane Hamadi	Algeria	49.84	NR
	8	Ibrahim Maïga	Mali	49.84
4	4	Ockert Cilliers	South Africa	49.93
5	3	Elamine Badr	Morocco	50.57
6	1	Julius Bungei	Kenya	51.03
7	2	El Hadj Seth Mbow	Senegal	51.83
8	7	Wright O'Neil	Liberia	52.68

References

• Results^[usurped] (Archived)