| POS | Rank | Heat | BIB | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | RESULTS | ms* | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 5 | 1757 | Antti SAINIO | 
 FIN                 | 
                51.19 Q | |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 1967 | Kairi GONDA | 
 JPN                 | 
                51.21 Q | |
| 3 | 1 | 7 | 1971 | Kyo KIKUTA | 
 JPN                 | 
                51.24 Q | |
| 4 | 1 | 6 | 2190 | Njabulo MBATHA | 
 RSA                 | 
                51.42 Q | .414 | 
| 5 | 1 | 2 | 1966 | Daniel WRIGHT | 
 JAM                 | 
                51.42 Q | .417 | 
| 6 | 2 | 2 | 1637 | Jingwei GUO | 
 CHN                 | 
                51.72 Q | |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | 1698 | Joel VON DE AHÉ | 
 DEN                 | 
                51.80 Q NU20R | |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | 1790 | Sam LUNT | 
 GBR                 | 
                51.87 Q | |
| 9 | 2 | 5 | 2360 | Premier WYNN | 
 USA                 | 
                51.89 Q | |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | 2214 | Mitja ZUBIN | 
 SLO                 | 
                51.90 Q | |
| 11 | 1 | 4 | 2340 | Vance NILSSON | 
 USA                 | 
                51.98 Q | |
| 12 | 4 | 2 | 2222 | Akalanka KUDA LIYANAGE | 
 SRI                 | 
                52.04 q | |
| 13 | 3 | 6 | 2065 | Maximiliano NUÑEZ | 
 MEX                 | 
                52.09 Q | .082 | 
| 14 | 3 | 5 | 2059 | Jose Eduardo AGUADO | 
 MEX                 | 
                52.09 Q | .084 | 
| 15 | 4 | 6 | 1963 | Trevoy SMITH | 
 JAM                 | 
                52.15 q | |
| 16 | 4 | 5 | 2283 | Cheyne WEST | 
 TTO                 | 
                52.18 q PB | |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | 1681 | Michal RADA | 
 CZE                 | 
                52.26 Q | |
| 18 | 2 | 4 | 1901 | Fintan DEWHIRST | 
 IRL                 | 
                52.39 Q | |
| 19 | 3 | 3 | 2014 | Ali Abdulfattah ALRUMAYH | 
 KSA                 | 
                52.43 Q PB | |
| 20 | 2 | 7 | 1709 | Joaquin ALONSO | 
 ESP                 | 
                52.47 Q | |
| 21 | 4 | 3 | 1900 | David DAVITT | 
 IRL                 | 
                52.51 | .509 | 
| 22 | 3 | 7 | 1835 | Vladimiros ANDREADIS | 
 GRE                 | 
                52.51 Q | .510 | 
| 23 | 5 | 3 | 2050 | Zakaria SABIR | 
 MAR                 | 
                52.56 PB | |
| 24 | 2 | 1 | 1626 | Ramón FUENZALIDA | 
 CHI                 | 
                52.58 Q | |
| 25 | 5 | 5 | 2048 | Oussama FAGRACH | 
 MAR                 | 
                52.67 PB | |
| 26 | 3 | 4 | 1584 | Lucas DE ALMEIDA | 
 BRA                 | 
                52.76 Q | |
| 27 | 5 | 6 | 2170 | David Stefan DAMIAN | 
 ROU                 | 
                52.79 | |
| 28 | 3 | 1 | 1914 | Paolo BOLOGNESI | 
 ITA                 | 
                52.84 Q | .834 | 
| 29 | 6 | 5 | 1537 | Matthew HUNT | 
 AUS                 | 
                52.84 | .838 | 
| 30 | 4 | 1 | 1896 | Murad Kalubhai SIRMAN | 
 IND                 | 
                52.85 | |
| 31 | 4 | 4 | 2071 | Edio MUSSACATE | 
 MOZ                 | 
                53.15 | |
| 32 | 6 | 3 | 1908 | Abbas Oudah ALKHAWAF | 
 IRQ                 | 
                53.46 | |
| 33 | 5 | 1 | 2055 | Muh. Aiman NAJMI | 
 MAS                 | 
                53.47 | |
| 34 | 4 | 7 | 2015 | Naif Rashid ALSUBAIE | 
 KSA                 | 
                53.56 | |
| 35 | 6 | 6 | 1655 | Jose David MOSQUERA | 
 COL                 | 
                53.61 | |
| 36 | 5 | 2 | 2274 | Dorian CHARLES | 
 TTO                 | 
                53.65 | |
| 37 | 7 | 3 | 2365 | Roineld LARA | 
 VEN                 | 
                53.69 | |
| 38 | 5 | 4 | 2243 | Alexis PERROUD | 
 SUI                 | 
                53.74 | |
| 39 | 6 | 2 | 1878 | Karthik Raja ARUMUGAM | 
 IND                 | 
                53.75 | |
| 40 | 7 | 5 | 2090 | Oseiwe SALAMI | 
 NGR                 | 
                54.06 | |
| 41 | 7 | 2 | 2159 | Mahamat Abakar ABDRAHMAN | 
 QAT                 | 
                54.26 | |
| 42 | 6 | 1 | 1907 | Muqtada Ali AI-HIAICH | 
 IRQ                 | 
                54.33 | |
| 43 | 7 | 1 | 2248 | Colin ZUMBÜHL | 
 SUI                 | 
                54.42 | |
| 44 | 7 | 6 | 2166 | Mahamat Moussa Abdallah MAHAMOUD | 
 QAT                 | 
                54.44 | |
| 45 | 8 | 5 | 1501 | Ziad BOUHADDAD | 
 ALG                 | 
                54.62 | |
| 46 | 8 | 2 | 2122 | Evian Mateo SOLORZANO | 
 PER                 | 
                59.10 PB | |
| 7 | 2195 | Ntiyiso NKANYANI | 
 RSA                 | 
                DNF | |||
| 7 | 2006 | Jeong-hyun KIM | 
 KOR                 | 
                DNF | |||
| 7 | 1940 | Giulio VANARELLI | 
 ITA                 | 
                DNF | |||
| 4 | 1646 | Xinfeng XU | 
 CHN                 | 
                DNS | |||
| 4 | 1503 | Abdennour BOURMAKI | 
 ALG                 | 
                DNS | |||
| 1 | 1766 | Thomas CANIVET | 
 FRA                 | 
                DNS | |||
| 3 | 2039 | David FRIEDERICH | 
 LUX                 | 
                DNS | 
ms - Milliseconds - shown when two or more competitors finish with the same time down to hundredths of a second