2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres explained

The men's 400 metres event at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 1 March 2019 at 10:20 (heats), at 21:00 (semifinals) and on 2 March 2019 at 20:22 (final) local time.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Karsten Warholm	Óscar Husillos	Tony van Diepen

Records

Standing records prior to the 2019 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	45.04	Birmingham, United States	23 February 2019
European Leading	45.56	Ulsteinvik, Norway	25 January 2019

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinal.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	1	46.88	Q
2	1	46.99	Q
3	3	47.00	Q
4	4	47.05	Q
5	1	47.18	q
6	4	47.22	Q
7	3	47.32	Q
8	4	47.33	q
9	1	47.34	q, SB
9	2	47.34	Q
11	3	47.45	q
12	2	47.50	Q
13	2	47.59
14	2	47.63
15	2	47.69
16	1	47.83
17	1	47.86
18	4	47.88
19	4	48.22
20	3	49.50
21	3
	3

Semifinals

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

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	2	45.95	Q
2	1	46.31	Q, SB
3	1	46.60	Q
4	2	46.62	Q, PB
5	2	46.81	q
6	1	47.07	q
7	2	47.20
8	2	47.34
9	1	47.36
10	1	47.39
11	2	47.83
	1

Final

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time	Note
	5		45.05	=AR, CR
	6		45.66	NR
	4	Tony van Diepen	46.13	NR
4	3	Luka Janežič	46.15
5	2	Fabrisio Saidy	46.80
6	1	Lucas Búa	46.92

Notes and References

Web site: Heats results . . 5 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190329025154/https://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM004900_C74A.pdf . 29 March 2019 . dead .
Web site: Semifinals results . . 5 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190311070602/https://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM004200_C74A.pdf . 11 March 2019 . dead .
Web site: Final results . . 5 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170311070602/https://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM004101_C73A.pdf . 11 March 2017 . dead .