The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 9, 10 and 11 July.

Medalists Gold Jeshua Anderson Silver Johnny Dutch Bronze Amaurys Valle

Results Final 11 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jeshua Anderson 48.68 Johnny Dutch 49.25 Amaurys Valle 49.56 4 Cornel Fredericks 50.39 5 PC Beneke 50.78 6 Taras Shcherenko 51.35 7 John Kituu Wambua 51.70 8 David Gollnow 53.63

Semifinals 10 July

Semifinal 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Johnny Dutch 50.40 Q 2 Amaurys Valle 51.17 Q 3 PC Beneke 51.46 q 4 David Gollnow 51.48 q 5 Kohei Tamemoto 51.89 6 Valdas Valintelis 52.07 7 Julius Oletygor 52.14 8 Emanuel Mayers 52.39

Semifinal 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Jeshua Anderson 49.90 Q 2 Taras Shcherenko 51.60 Q 3 Giacomo Panizza 51.73 4 Sebastian Knorr 52.31 5 Leslie Murray 52.51 6 Adel Al-Nasser 52.60 7 Shane Brathwaite 53.09 Nikita Andriyanov DNS

Semifinal 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Cornel Fredericks 51.11 Q 2 John Kituu Wambua 51.51 Q 3 Tomoharu Kino 51.96 4 Michał Pietrzak 52.22 5 Jehue Gordon 52.26 6 Jassim Waleed Al-Mas 53.05 7 Silvestras Guogis 53.46 Artyom Dyatlov DQ IAAF rule 163.3

Heats 9 July

Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Jeshua Anderson 51.12 Q 2 Taras Shcherenko 51.44 Q 3 Shane Brathwaite 51.66 Q 4 Jehue Gordon 52.30 q 5 Jassim Waleed Al-Mas 52.43 q 6 Driss Sassi 53.97 7 Victor Valentin 54.05 8 Stephan Ender 54.55

Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Tomoharu Kino 51.77 Q 2 John Kituu Wambua 52.02 Q 3 Valdas Valintelis 52.83 Q 4 Hamada Al-Bishi 53.61 5 Tomasz Baranowski 53.85 6 Jithin Paul 54.01 7 René Claudio 54.51 8 Chen Yu-Te 55.57

Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Johnny Dutch 52.21 Q 2 David Gollnow 52.34 Q 3 Silvestras Guogis 52.48 Q 4 Julius Oletygor 52.54 q 5 Fahad Faraj 53.40 6 Aleksandr Korovka 53.94 7 Nejmi Burnside 55.21

Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Amaurys Valle 51.67 Q 2 Cornel Fredericks 51.96 Q 3 Kohei Tamemoto 52.05 Q 4 Nikita Andriyanov 52.14 q 5 Emanuel Mayers 52.29 q 6 Leslie Murray 52.64 q 7 Tibor Koroknai 53.33 8 Kenneth Karosich 58.36

Heat 5 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Michał Pietrzak 51.89 Q 2 PC Beneke 51.90 Q 3 Artyom Dyatlov 52.62 Q 4 Hugo Grillas 52.98 5 Nathan Woodward 53.42 6 Faysal Mehdioui 54.41 7 Shejil Varghese 54.48 8 Fernando Semedo 61.09

Heat 6 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Giacomo Panizza 52.77 Q 2 Adel Al-Nasser 52.84 Q 3 Sebastian Knorr 53.25 Q 4 Lyes Bouzid 54.10 5 Jeffery Gibson 54.37 6 Shih Yu-Fan 55.43 7 Wilmer Valor 59.26

Participation According to an unofficial count, 46 athletes from 31 countries participated in the event.

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