1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 18 September.

Medalists

Gold	Ashraf Saber Italy
Silver	Sammy Biwott Kenya
Bronze	William Porter United States

Results

Final

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ashraf Saber	Italy	50.02
	Sammy Biwott	Kenya	50.75
	William Porter	United States	51.37
4	Wessel Dippenaar	South Africa	51.50
5	Steffen Kolb	Germany	51.73
6	Kehinde Aladefa	Nigeria	51.85
7	Alejandro Argudin	Cuba	52.05
8	Gary Brown	Australia	53.45

Semifinals

17 September

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ashraf Saber	Italy	50.42	Q
2	Sammy Biwott	Kenya	50.62	Q
3	Alejandro Argudin	Cuba	51.25	Q
4	Wessel Dippenaar	South Africa	51.63	Q
5	Regan Nichols	United States	51.84
6	Kostas Pochanis	Cyprus	51.85
7	Carlos Silva	Portugal	52.57
8	Seiji Inagaki	Japan	53.15

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	William Porter	United States	51.27	Q
2	Kehinde Aladefa	Nigeria	52.08	Q
3	Steffen Kolb	Germany	52.08	Q
4	Gary Brown	Australia	52.25	Q
5	Chiu Wensheng	Chinese Taipei	52.51
6	Kenko Matsue	Japan	52.77
7	Albert Ramírez	Cuba	53.63
8	Victor Mendoza	Peru	54.42

Heats

16 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Steffen Kolb	Germany	51.82	Q
2	Albert Ramírez	Cuba	52.15	Q
3	Regan Nichols	United States	52.30	q
4	Gary Brown	Australia	52.88	q
5	Abdurrahim Nayeem	Bangladesh	53.77
6	Ian Weakley	Jamaica	57.50

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ashraf Saber	Italy	52.10	Q
2	Victor Mendoza	Peru	52.77	Q
3	Arturo Castillon	Mexico	52.97
4	Petteri Pulkkinen	Finland	53.25
5	Shawn Browne	Barbados	55.09
	Everson Teixeira	Brazil	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sammy Biwott	Kenya	51.39	Q
2	Kostas Pochanis	Cyprus	52.17	Q
3	Wessel Dippenaar	South Africa	52.45	q
4	Daniel Blochwitz	Germany	53.05
5	Jean-Sébastien Dauch	France	53.33
6	Rok Kop	Slovenia	55.93
7	Chris Carroll	Australia	56.39

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	William Porter	United States	51.75	Q
2	Kehinde Aladefa	Nigeria	51.77	Q
3	Alejandro Argudin	Cuba	52.03	q
4	Chiu Wensheng	Chinese Taipei	52.23	q
5	Seiji Inagaki	Japan	52.50	q
6	Salvador Chamor	Mexico	53.32
7	Sérgio Ribeiro	Brazil	54.10

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Carlos Silva	Portugal	52.56	Q
2	Kenko Matsue	Japan	52.73	Q
3	Lee Jung-Ho	South Korea	53.00
4	Mohamed Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	53.17
5	Alexander Ponev	Bulgaria	53.19
6	Silvio Pelissero	Italy	53.30

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 24 countries participated in the event.

• Australia (2)
• Bangladesh (1)
• Barbados (1)
• Brazil (2)
• Bulgaria (1)
• Chinese Taipei (1)
• Cuba (2)
• Cyprus (1)
• Finland (1)
• France (1)
• Germany (2)
• Italy (2)
• Jamaica (1)
• Japan (2)
• Kenya (1)
• Mexico (2)
• Nigeria (1)
• Peru (1)
• Portugal (1)
• Saudi Arabia (1)
• Slovenia (1)
• South Africa (1)
• South Korea (1)
• United States (2)