400 Metres Summary | 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics

POS	Rank	Heat	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	RESULTS
1	1	7	Fatima Yusuf	NGR	50.60 Q
2	1	5	Falilat Ogunkoya	NGR	50.72 Q
3	2	5	Jearl Miles Clark	USA	50.94 Q
4	1	4	Sandra Myers	ESP	51.18 Q
5	2	4	Pauline Davis-Thompson	BAH	51.21 Q
6	1	2	Maicel Malone-Wallace	USA	51.22 Q
7	1	3	Marie-José Pérec	FRA	51.24 Q
8	2	7	Renée Poetschka	AUS	51.26 Q
9	1	1	Cathy Freeman	AUS	51.29 Q
10	1	6	Sandie Richards	JAM	51.30 Q
11	3	5	Claudine Williams	JAM	51.32 Q
12	2	6	Olena Rurak	UKR	51.32 Q
13	3	6	Daniela Georgieva	BUL	51.37 Q
14	2	3	Yuliya Sotnikova	RUS	51.39 Q
15	3	4	Kim Graham	USA	51.39 Q
16	2	1	Melanie Neef	GBR	51.39 Q
17	4	5	Nancy McLeon	CUB	51.39 q
18	4	4	Jing Li	CHN	51.50 q
19	3	3	Hengyun Zhang	CHN	51.51 Q
20	3	2	Olga V. Nazarova	RUS	51.55 Q
21	2	2	Julia Duporty	CUB	51.55 Q
22	3	7	Ximena Restrepo	COL	51.57 Q
23	3	1	Tatyana Chebykina	RUS	51.58 Q
24	4	3	Uta Rohländer-Fromm	GER	51.68 q
25	4	2	Olabisi Afolabi	NGR	51.79
26	4	6	Helena Fuchsová	CZE	51.96
27	5	3	Norfalia Carabali	COL	51.96
28	4	1	Linda Kisabaka	GER	51.96
29	5	4	Sandra Kuschmann	GER	51.99
30	4	7	Ludmila Formanová	CZE	52.05
31	5	1	Idalmis Bonne	CUB	52.10
32	5	7	Merlene Frazer	JAM	52.24
33	6	4	Olga Moroz	UKR	52.31
34	5	6	Lee Naylor	AUS	52.37
35	6	7	Dora Kyriakou	CYP	52.81
36	5	5	Evelyne Élien	FRA	53.34
37	6	1	Zoila Stewart	CRC	53.48
38	5	2	Grace Birungi	UGA	53.92
39	6	2	Ngozi Mwanamwambwa	ZAM	53.92
40	7	7	Mary-Estelle Kapalu	VAN	53.92
41	6	3	Öznur Dursun	TUR	54.21
42	6	5	Mercy Addy	GHA	54.29
43	7	1	Pei-Chin Hsu	TPE	54.93
44	6	6	Vernetta Lesforis	LCA	56.43
45	7	2	Xifang Lu	CHN	56.64
46	7	6	Mirna El-Laz	LBN	59.96
47	7	4	Sharron Celecia	GIB	1:01.03
48	8	7	Bipendu Mbombo	COD	1:01.60
		5	Bernice Morton	SKN	DQ
		6	Francine Landre	FRA	DNF
		3	Kannan Solaimathi	IND	DNS
		4	Kate Clarke	LBR	DNS

400 Metres women