Events at the 2000 Asian Athletics Championships
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
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
10,000 m walk		women
20 km walk	men
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 women's 400 metres event at the 2000 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 28–30 August.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Damayanthi Dharsha  Sri Lanka	K. M. Beenamol  India	Chen Yuxiang  China

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Damayanthi Dharsha	Sri Lanka	51.87	Q
2	2	K. M. Beenamol	India	52.79	Q
3	1	Oksana Luneva	Kyrgyzstan	53.56	Q
4	2	Chen Yuxiang	China	53.60	Q
5	1	Paramjeet Kaur	India	53.75	Q
6	2	Kazue Kakinuma	Japan	54.44	Q
7	1	Yelena Piskunova	Uzbekistan	55.14	q
8	2	Alyona Petrova	Turkmenistan	55.42	q
9	1	Miho Sugimori	Japan	55.51
10	1	Jeon Mi-Young	South Korea	57.65
11	2	Kim Dong-Hyun	South Korea	57.92
12	1	Raquel Perera Soselisa	Indonesia	59.87
13	2	Beauty Nazmun Nahar	Bangladesh	60.75
14	2	Yaznee Nasheeda	Maldives	62.43	NR

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Damayanthi Dharsha	Sri Lanka	51.05	CR, NR
	K. M. Beenamol	India	51.41
	Chen Yuxiang	China	52.81
4	Paramjeet Kaur	India	53.08
5	Oksana Luneva	Kyrgyzstan	53.93
6	Kazue Kakinuma	Japan	54.05
7	Alyona Petrova	Turkmenistan	54.40
8	Yelena Piskunova	Uzbekistan	54.96