2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
Venue	National Stadium
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	15 September (heats) 17 September (semi-finals) 19 September (final)
Winning time	46.52
Medalists
Rai Benjamin    United States   Alison dos Santos    Brazil   Abderrahman Samba    Qatar
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The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 15, 17 and 19 September 2025. ^[1]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: ^[2]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Karsten Warholm  (NOR)	45.94	Tokyo, Japan	3 August 2021
Championship record	Alison dos Santos  (BRA)	46.29	Eugene, United States	19 July 2022
2025 World Leading	Karsten Warholm  (NOR)	46.28	Chorzów, Poland	16 August 2025
African Record	Samuel Matete  (ZAM)	47.10	Zürich, Switzerland	7 August 1991
Asian Record	Abderrahman Samba  (QAT)	46.98	Paris, France	30 June 2018
European Record	Karsten Warholm  (NOR)	45.94	Tokyo, Japan	3 August 2021
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Rai Benjamin  (USA)	46.17
Oceanian record	Rohan Robinson  (AUS)	48.28	Atlanta, United States	31 July 1996
South American Record	Alison dos Santos  (BRA)	46.29	Eugene, United States	19 July 2022

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 48.50. ^[3]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows: ^[1]

Date	Time	Round
15 September	19:35	Heats
17 September	21:30	Semi-finals
19 September	21:15	Final

Results

Heats

The heats took place on 15 September. The first four athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next four fastest ( q ) qualified for the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar	48.03	Q
2	6	Tyri Donovan	Great Britain & N.I.	48.26	Q, PB
3	3	Chris Robinson	United States	48.27 [.263]	Q
4	8	Malik James-King	Jamaica	48.27 [.267]	Q, SB
5	2	Wiseman Were Mukhobe	Kenya	48.27 [.269]	q, PB
6	4	Oskar Edlund	Sweden	48.52	q, PB
7	1	Jesús David Delgado	Spain	48.98	q
8	5	Shunta Inoue	Japan	49.73
9	9	Chi Chong Cheong	Macau	52.76
[4]

Heat 2

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	9	Bassem Hemeida	Qatar	48.43	Q
2	4	Alison dos Santos	Brazil	48.48	Q
3	6	Owe Fischer-Breiholz	Germany	48.81	Q
4	1	Matic Ian Guček	Slovenia	48.92	Q
5	3	Kyron McMaster	British Virgin Islands	49.89
6	2	Daiki Ogawa	Japan	50.08
7	5	Marc Anthony Ibrahim  [ de ]	Lebanon	50.20
8	8	Akanye Francis	Saint Kitts and Nevis	53.26
—	7	Alessandro Sibilio	Italy	DNF
[4]

Heat 3

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	Matheus Lima	Brazil	48.15	Q
2	6	Ismail Abakar	Qatar	48.34	Q
3	9	Karsten Warholm	Norway	48.56	Q
4	4	Berke Akçam	Turkey	48.68	Q, SB
5	7	Kemorena Tisang	Botswana	48.72	q
6	8	Joshua Abuaku	Germany	49.41
7	1	Carl Bengtström	Sweden	49.74
8	3	Assinie Wilson	Jamaica	49.91
9	5	Jun Jie Calvin Quek	Singapore	50.17
[4]

Heat 4

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	9	Rai Benjamin	United States	48.15	Q
2	3	Emil Agyekum	Germany	48.33	Q
3	1	Victor Ntweng	Botswana	48.54	Q, PB
4	8	Gerald Drummond	Costa Rica	48.81	Q, SB
5	7	Roshawn Clarke	Jamaica	48.83	q
6	2	Vít Müller	Czech Republic	49.02
7	4	Seamus Derbyshire	Great Britain & N.I.	49.20
8	5	Dennick Luke	Dominica	49.32
9	6	Julien Bonvin	Switzerland	49.53
[4]

Heat 5

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Ezekiel Nathaniel	Nigeria	48.37	Q
2	5	Caleb Dean	United States	48.67	Q
3	3	Francisco Guilherme dos Reis Viana	Brazil	48.69	Q, PB
4	4	Alastair Chalmers	Great Britain & N.I.	48.86	Q
5	8	Sabelo Dhlamini	South Africa	49.50
6	1	İsmail Nezir	Turkey	49.66
7	9	Patrik Dömötör	Slovakia	49.91
8	6	Ken Toyoda	Japan	51.80
9	2	Najimul Hossain Roni	Bangladesh	52.47
[4]

Semi-finals

The semi-finals took place on 17 September. The first two athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final.

Heat 1

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	8	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar	47.63	Q
2	4	Karsten Warholm	Norway	47.72	Q
3	5	Emil Agyekum	Germany	47.83	q, PB
4	7	Tyri Donovan	Great Britain & N.I.	48.21	PB
5	2	Matic Ian Guček	Slovenia	48.51
6	9	Francisco Guilherme dos Reis Viana	Brazil	49.01
—	6	Chris Robinson	United States	DNF
	3	Kemorena Tisang	Botswana	DQ	TR17.2.3
[5]

Heat 2

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	8	Ezekiel Nathaniel	Nigeria	47.47	Q
2	6	Ismail Abakar	Qatar	47.61	Q, PB
3	5	Caleb Dean	United States	47.85	q
4	4	Malik James-King	Jamaica	48.01	SB
5	7	Matheus Lima	Brazil	48.16
6	3	Wiseman Were Mukhobe	Kenya	48.65
7	2	Oskar Edlund	Sweden	48.81
8	9	Jesús David Delgado	Spain	49.41
[5]

Heat 3

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Rai Benjamin	United States	47.95	Q
2	6	Alison dos Santos	Brazil	48.16	Q
3	7	Bassem Hemeida	Qatar	48.29	PB
4	2	Roshawn Clarke	Jamaica	48.37
5	9	Berke Akçam	Turkey	49.10
6	3	Alastair Chalmers	Great Britain & N.I.	49.49
7	4	Gerald Drummond	Costa Rica	49.58
8	8	Victor Ntweng	Botswana	49.61
[5]

Final

Rai Benjamin was temporarily disqualified minutes after winning the gold medal, before the decision was reversed and he was reinstated as champion. ^{[6] [7]}

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	7	Rai Benjamin	United States	46.52	SB
	9	Alison dos Santos	Brazil	46.84
	5	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar	47.06	SB
4	6	Ezekiel Nathaniel	Nigeria	47.11	NR
5	4	Karsten Warholm	Norway	47.58
6	3	Emil Agyekum	Germany	47.98
7	2	Caleb Dean	United States	48.20
8	8	Ismail Abakar	Qatar	49.82
[8]

References

1. "Timetable - Tokyo 25 - World Athletics Championship - Men's 400 metres hurdles". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
2. "400 metres hurdles Men − Records". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
3. "World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 – Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
4. "Men's 400 metres hurdles - Round 1 results" (PDF). World Athletics. 15 September 2025. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
5. "Men's 400 metres hurdles - Semi-finals results" (PDF). World Athletics. 17 September 2025. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
6. "Rai Benjamin reinstated as world champion after controversial disqualification". The Independent. 2025-09-19. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
7. "Rai Benjamin Won Gold, Then Was Disqualified, Then Was Reinstated". Runner's World. 2025-09-19. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
8. "Men's 400 metres hurdles - Final results" (PDF). World Athletics. 19 September 2025. Retrieved 19 September 2025.