2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres explained

The men's 400 metres event at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 3 March 2017 at 10:20 (heats), at 18:05 (semifinals) and on 4 March 20:33 (final) local time.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Pavel Maslák	Rafał Omelko	Liemarvin Bonevacia

Records

Standing records prior to the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships
World record	44.57	Fayetteville, AR, United States	12 March 2005
European record	45.05	Sindelfingen, West Germany	5 February 1988
Championship record	45.33	Prague, Czech Republic	7 March 2015
World Leading	45.02	Clemson, United States	10 February 2017
European Leading	45.80	Toruń, Poland	10 February 2017

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinal.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	5	46.65	Q, PB
2	3	46.72	Q
3	1	46.91	Q
4	3	46.97	Q
4	5	46.97	Q, SB
6	1	47.13	Q
7	4	47.16	Q
8	3	47.25	q
9	3	47.28	q
10	1	47.39
11	4	47.44	Q
12	1	47.50
13	2	47.57	Q
14	2	47.62	Q
15	4	47.65
16	2	47.66
17	3	47.76
18	4	47.77
19	1	48.02
20	2	48.10
21	1	48.29
22	2	48.57
23	3	48.58
24	5	48.89
	4
	2		R162.7^[2]
	5		R163.3b^[3]
	5		R163.3b

Semifinals

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) advance to the Final.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	1	46.45	Q
2	1	46.60	Q, PB
3	1	46.62	Q
4	2	47.15	Q
5	2	47.21	Q
6	2	47.24	Q
7	1	47.49
8	2	47.64
9	2	47.83
10	2	47.87
11	1	47.89
12	1	48.08

Final

^[5]

Rank	Lane	Time	Note
	5	45.77	EL
	6	46.08	PB
	3	46.26	NR
4	4	46.33	PB
5	2	46.74
6	1	46.74

Notes and References

Web site: Heats results . 2017-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150401144339/http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM004900_C73B.pdf . 2015-04-01 . dead .
False start
Infringement of the inside border
Web site: Semifinals . 2017-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150401150709/http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM004200_C73B.pdf . 2015-04-01 . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2017-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180902083712/http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM004101_C73A.pdf . 2018-09-02 . dead .