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The women's 400 metres event at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 5–7.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Grit Breuer Germany	Falilat Ogunkoya Nigeria	Jearl Miles Clark United States

First 2 of each heat (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Grit Breuer	Germany	51.13	Q
2	1	Natalya Nazarova	Russia	51.51	Q
3	2	Jearl Miles Clark	United States	51.79	Q, SB
4	1	Ester Goossens	Netherlands	52.05	q, SB
5	4	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	52.06	Q
6	2	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	52.10	Q
7	2	Charity Opara	Nigeria	52.11	q, SB
8	3	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	52.40	Q
9	4	Ana Guevara	Mexico	52.43	Q
10	1	Virna de Angeli	Italy	52.50	q, SB
11	1	Alina Rîpanu	Romania	52.64	q, PB
11	3	Falilat Ogunkoya	Nigeria	52.64	Q
13	3	Susan Andrews	Australia	52.65
14	3	Shanelle Porter	United States	52.65
15	4	Sinead Dudgeon	Great Britain	52.84	PB
16	2	Sakie Nobuoka	Japan	54.11
17	2	Kaltouma Nadjina	Chad	54.30	NR
18	4	Tonique Williams	Bahamas	54.65
19	4	Chen Yuxiang	China	55.14
	2	Helena Dziurova-Fuchsová	Czech Republic	DNS
	3	Amy Mbacké Thiam	Senegal	DNS
	4	Ameerah Bello	United States Virgin Islands	DNS

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Jearl Miles Clark	United States	50.83	Q, WL
2	1	Grit Breuer	Germany	50.88	Q, WL
3	2	Ana Guevara	Mexico	50.93	Q, NR
4	1	Falilat Ogunkoya	Nigeria	51.44	Q, PB
5	2	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	51.47	q, PB
6	1	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	51.54	q, SB
7	2	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	51.69
8	1	Ester Goossens	Netherlands	52.09
9	2	Charity Opara	Nigeria	52.31
10	2	Virna de Angeli	Italy	52.95
11	1	Alina Rîpanu	Romania	53.29
	1	Natalya Nazarova	Russia	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Grit Breuer	Germany	50.80	WL
	Falilat Ogunkoya	Nigeria	51.25	PB
	Jearl Miles Clark	United States	51.45
4	Ana Guevara	Mexico	51.55
5	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	51.75
6	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica	52.04