Events at the 2002 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
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
v t e

The men's 400 metres event at the 2002 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 9–10 August.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Fawzi Al-Shammari  Kuwait	Hamdan Odha Al-Bishi  Saudi Arabia	Sugath Thilakaratne  Sri Lanka

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Hamdan Odha Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	45.82	Q
2	2	Rohan Pradeep Kumara	Sri Lanka	45.91	Q
3	2	Salaheddine Safi Bakar	Qatar	46.51	q, SB
4	3	Sugath Thilakaratne	Sri Lanka	46.90	Q
5	2	Ernie Candelario	Philippines	46.98	q
6	1	Fawzi Al-Shammari	Kuwait	47.20	Q
7	3	Satbir Singh	India	47.41	Q
8	1	Prasanna Amarasekara	Sri Lanka	47.60	Q
9	2	Mohd Zaiful Zainal Abidin	Malaysia	47.61
10	1	Suguru Matsumoto	Japan	47.70
11	3	Yukihiro Mukai	Japan	48.20
12	3	Idris Abdelaziz Al-Housaoui	Saudi Arabia	49.11	SB
13	1	Jimar Aing	Philippines	49.50	SB
14	1	Leung Tat Wai	Hong Kong	50.30
15	1	Chao Un Kei	Macau	50.40	SB
16	2	Ku King Kit	Hong Kong	50.71
17	3	Khaled Ibrahim	Jordan	51.38	PB
18	3	Mohamed Amir	Maldives	52.33	SB
	1	Mohamed Akefian	Iran	DQ
	2	Abdullah Ibrahim	Iran	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Fawzi Al-Shammari	Kuwait	45.21
	Hamdan Odha Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia	45.43
	Sugath Thilakaratne	Sri Lanka	45.73	=SB
4	Rohan Pradeep Kumara	Sri Lanka	45.87
5	Satbir Singh	India	46.64
6	Prasanna Amarasekara	Sri Lanka	46.78	SB
7	Ernie Candelario	Philippines	47.60
8	Salaheddine Safi Bakar	Qatar	47.76