Women's 400 metres at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	Gelora Bung Karno Stadium
Date	25–26 August 2018
Competitors	18 from 12 nations
Medalists
Salwa Eid Naser    Bahrain   Hima Das    India   Elina Mikhina    Kazakhstan
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Athletics at the 2018 Asian Games
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
	mixed
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 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 competition at the 2018 Asian Games took place on 25 and 26 August 2018 at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium.^[1]

All times are Western Indonesia Time (UTC+07:00)

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Marita Koch (GDR)	47.60	Canberra, Australia	6 October 1985
Asian Record	Salwa Eid Naser (BRN)	49.08	Monaco	20 July 2018
Games Record	Kemi Adekoya (BRN)	51.11	Incheon, South Korea	27 September 2014

• Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Salwa Eid Naser (BRN)	50.86	Q, GR
2	Hima Das (IND)	51.00	Q
3	Elina Mikhina (KAZ)	53.75	q
4	Dewi Ayu Agung Kurniayanti (INA)	56.09
5	Supanich Poolkerd (THA)	56.62
6	Aishath Himna Hassan (MDV)	1:00.59

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Iman Essa Jassim (BRN)	54.10	Q
2	Huang Guifen (CHN)	54.30	Q
3	Nguyễn Thị Hằng (VIE)	54.99	q
4	Lyubov Ushakova (KAZ)	56.00
5	Kristina Pronzhenko (TJK)	56.59
6	Dana Al-Shehri (KSA)	1:06.33

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Nirmala Sheoran (IND)	54.09	Q
2	Tong Zenghuan (CHN)	54.29	Q
3	Sri Maya Sari (INA)	56.47
4	Sumi Aktar (BAN)	57.16
5	Rawiwan Pratike (THA)	1:00.78
6	Hanin Thabit (YEM)	1:05.79

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Salwa Eid Naser (BRN)	50.09	GR
	Hima Das (IND)	50.79
	Elina Mikhina (KAZ)	52.63
4	Huang Guifen (CHN)	53.89
5	Tong Zenghuan (CHN)	53.95
6	Iman Essa Jassim (BRN)	54.19
7	Nguyễn Thị Hằng (VIE)	54.30
DQ	Nirmala Sheoran (IND)	52.96

• Nirmala Sheoran of India originally finished 4th, but due to the positive result of the test for Drostanolone and Metenolone, the Athletics Integrity Unit declared to invalidate all results achieved from 15 August 2016 by her.^[2]

• Results