2008 African Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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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.

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

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

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

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