1985 IAAF World Indoor Games – Men's 400 metres

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1985 IAAF World Indoor Games
Track events
60 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m walk		women
5000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
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The men's 400 metres event at the 1985 IAAF World Indoor Games was held at the Palais Omnisports Paris-Bercy on 18 and 19 January.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Thomas Schönlebe  East Germany	Todd Bennett  Great Britain	Mark Rowe  United States

Results

Heats

First 2 of each heat (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Todd Bennett	Great Britain	47.19	Q
2	5	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	47.55	Q
3	5	Phil Brown	Great Britain	47.60	Q
4	3	Mark Rowe	United States	47.70	Q
5	5	Carlos Reyté	Cuba	47.82	q
6	2	Ángel Heras	Spain	47.88	Q
7	2	Clarence Daniel	United States	47.96	Q
7	4	Allan Ellsworth	Netherlands	47.96	Q
9	4	Lázaro Martínez	Cuba	48.06	q
10	3	Arjen Visserman	Netherlands	48.12	Q
11	3	Allan Ingraham	Bahamas	48.14
12	5	Isidro del Prado	Philippines	48.35	NR
13	4	Ahmed Abdelhalim Ghanem	Egypt	48.77
14	3	Ahmed Hamada	Bahrain	48.80	NR
15	4	Abdelali Kasbane	Morocco	48.93	NR
16	1	Thomas Schönlebe	East Germany	48.95	Q
16	2	Ali St. Louis	Trinidad and Tobago	48.95
18	1	René Djédjémel Mélédjé	Ivory Coast	49.36	Q
19	4	Djétenan Kouadio	Ivory Coast	49.45
20	5	Gerry Delaney	Ireland	49.83
21	2	Mike Okot	Uganda	50.19
22	1	Aðalsteinn Bernhardsson	Iceland	50.37
23	1	Khaled Hussain	Kuwait	50.50	NR
24	5	Alberto Izu	Peru	51.19	NR
	1	David Kitur	Kenya	DNS
	1	David Peltier	Barbados	DNS
	2	Nabil Nahri	Syria	DNS
	3	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	DNS
	3	Roberto Ribaud	Italy	DNS

Semifinals

First 3 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Thomas Schönlebe	East Germany	46.62	Q
2	2	Todd Bennett	Great Britain	46.69	Q
3	2	Mark Rowe	United States	46.70	Q
4	1	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	47.86	Q
5	1	Ángel Heras	Spain	47.89	Q
6	1	Phil Brown	Great Britain	47.93	Q
7	1	Clarence Daniel	United States	48.01
8	1	Arjen Visserman	Netherlands	48.08
9	2	Allan Ellsworth	Netherlands	48.09
10	1	Lázaro Martínez	Cuba	48.67
11	2	René Djédjémel Mélédjé	Ivory Coast	49.09
12	2	Carlos Reyté	Cuba	49.39

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Thomas Schönlebe	East Germany	45.60	WB
	Todd Bennett	Great Britain	45.97	NR
	Mark Rowe	United States	46.31	PB
4	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	46.94	NR
5	Phil Brown	Great Britain	47.84
6	Ángel Heras	Spain	54.09

References

1. ^ Heats results (archived)
2. ^ Semifinals results (archived)
3. ^ Final results (archived)