400 Metres Summary | 7th IAAF World Championships in Athletics

POS	Rank	Heat	BIB	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	RESULTS
1	1	3	402	Grit Breuer	GER	50.41 Q
2	2	3	706	Olabisi Afolabi	NGR	50.47 Q SB
3	3	3	26	Cathy Freeman	AUS	50.49 Q
4	1	4	714	Falilat Ogunkoya	NGR	50.59 Q
5	1	2	415	Anja Rücker	GER	50.62 Q PB
6	2	2	1002	Michelle Collins	USA	50.75 Q PB
7	2	4	849	Natalya Nazarova	RUS	50.77 Q
8	1	1	715	Charity Opara	NGR	50.82 Q SB
9	3	4	1029	Maicel Malone-Wallace	USA	50.82 Q SB
10	2	1	375	Katharine Merry	GBR	50.86 Q
11	3	2	556	Lorraine Fenton	JAM	51.02 Q
12	4	4	890	Amy Mbacke Thiam	SEN	51.05 Q
13	4	3	671	Ana Guevara	MEX	51.08 Q
14	3	1	225	Helena Fuchsová	CZE	51.18 Q
15	4	1	1039	Suziann Reid	USA	51.19 Q
16	4	2	841	Olga Kotlyarova	RUS	51.21 Q
17	5	1	564	Claudine Williams	JAM	51.40 SB
18	5	4	416	Uta Rohländer-Fromm	GER	51.45
19	5	2	184	Claudine Komgang	CMR	51.73
20	6	1	798	Otilia Ruicu-Esanu	ROU	51.86
21	7	1	185	Mireille Nguimgo	CMR	51.98
22	6	4	368	Donna Fraser	GBR	52.01
23	6	2	23	Susan Andrews	AUS	52.05
24	5	3	346	Francine Landre	FRA	52.07
25	7	2	517	Karen Shinkins	IRL	52.08
26	6	3	150	Kaltouma Nadjina	CHA	52.47
27	7	4	223	Jitka Burianová	CZE	52.52
28	7	3	536	Virna De Angeli	ITA	52.78
29	8	3	769	Carmo Tavares	POR	52.86
30	8	2	154	Yuxiang Chen	CHN	52.93
31	8	4	915	K.V.Damayanthi Dharsha	SRI	53.33
32	8	1	132	Foy Williams	CAN	54.34

400 Metres women