| POS | Rank | Heat | BIB | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | RESULTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 441 | David GREENE |
GBR |
48.52 Q |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 882 | Cornel Fredericks |
RSA |
48.52 Q |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 900 | L.J. van Zyl |
RSA |
48.58 Q |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | 599 | Isa Phillips |
JAM |
48.64 Q SB |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 479 | Georg Fleischhauer |
GER |
48.72 Q PB |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | 306 | Felix Sánchez |
DOM |
48.74 Q SB |
| 7 | 1 | 5 | 1059 | Jeshua Anderson |
USA |
48.81 Q |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | 1070 | Kerron Clement |
USA |
48.91 Q |
| 9 | 1 | 3 | 865 | Javier Culson |
PUR |
48.95 Q |
| 10 | 2 | 5 | 465 | Nathan Woodward |
GBR |
49.06 Q |
| 11 | 3 | 5 | 1051 | Stanislav Melnykov |
UKR |
49.24 Q SB |
| 12 | 2 | 3 | 1126 | Angelo Taylor |
USA |
49.38 Q |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | 906 | Aleksandr Derevyagin |
RUS |
49.43 Q SB |
| 14 | 4 | 5 | 595 | Leford Green |
JAM |
49.45 Q |
| 15 | 4 | 3 | 1058 | Andrés Silva |
URU |
49.48 Q |
| 16 | 5 | 2 | 657 | Vincent Kiplangat Kosgei |
KEN |
49.49 q SB |
| 17 | 5 | 3 | 621 | Takayuki KISHIMOTO |
JPN |
49.51 q |
| 18 | 4 | 1 | 954 | Emir Bekric |
SRB |
49.67 Q |
| 19 | 5 | 1 | 277 | Omar Cisneros |
CUB |
49.69 q |
| 20 | 6 | 1 | 203 | Mahau SUGUIMATI |
BRA |
49.74 q |
| 21 | 1 | 4 | 1087 | Bershawn Jackson |
USA |
49.82 Q |
| 22 | 6 | 2 | 859 | Jorge Paula |
POR |
49.82 |
| 23 | 5 | 5 | 773 | Kurt Couto |
MOZ |
49.86 |
| 24 | 2 | 4 | 1010 | Jehue Gordon |
TTO |
49.90 Q |
| 25 | 7 | 2 | 868 | Jamele Mason |
PUR |
49.98 |
| 26 | 3 | 4 | 603 | Josef Robertson |
JAM |
50.29 Q |
| 27 | 4 | 4 | 440 | Jack Green |
GBR |
50.39 Q |
| 28 | 6 | 3 | 243 | Zhilong Li |
CHN |
50.44 |
| 29 | 5 | 4 | 236 | Wen Cheng |
CHN |
50.51 |
| 30 | 6 | 5 | 616 | Yuta Imazeki |
JPN |
50.92 |
| 31 | 7 | 5 | 774 | Jean Antonio Vieillesse |
MRI |
51.02 |
| 32 | 6 | 4 | 182 | Kenneth Medwood |
BIZ |
51.19 |
| 33 | 7 | 4 | 610 | Takatoshi ABE |
JPN |
51.90 |
| 34 | 7 | 3 | 692 | Seung-yoon Lee |
KOR |
52.98 |