Events at the 2011 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	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	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 at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium on the 8 and 9 of July.^[1]

Gold	Takatoshi Abe  Japan
Silver	Yuta Imazeki  Japan
Bronze	Chieh Chen  Chinese Taipei

2011 Asian Athletics Championships
World record	Kevin Young (USA)	46.78	Barcelona, Spain	6 August 1992
Asian record	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily (KSA)	47.53	Sydney, Australia	27 September 2000
Championship record	Mubarak Al-Nubi (QAT)	48.67	Colombo, Sri Lanka	2002

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the Final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Takatoshi Abe	Japan	50.41	Q
2	2	Takayuki Kishimoto	Japan	50.50	Q
3	1	Yuta Imazeki	Japan	50.78	Q
4	2	Chieh Chen	Chinese Taipei	50.81	Q
5	2	Joseph Abraham	India	50.94	Q
6	1	Satinder Singh	India	50.95	Q
7	2	Lee Seung-Yoon	South Korea	51.05	q
8	1	Hassan Aman Salmeen	Qatar	51.38	q, PB
9	2	Abdullah Al-Hidi	Oman	51.64
10	2	Dmitriy Komkov	Kazakhstan	52.52
11	1	Andrian Andrian	Indonesia	52.83	PB
12	2	Chen Yu-Te	Chinese Taipei	52.89
13	1	Fawaz Al-Shammari	Kuwait	58.76

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Takatoshi Abe	Japan	49.64	SB
	4	Yuta Imazeki	Japan	50.22
	5	Chieh Chen	Chinese Taipei	50.39
4	9	Joseph Abraham	India	50.82
5	3	Lee Seung-Yoon	South Korea	51.40
6	8	Satinder Singh	India	51.93
	2	Hassan Aman Salmeen	Qatar	DQ	FS
	7	Takayuki Kishimoto	Japan	DQ	FS