1994 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres

1994 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m		women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 400 metres event at the 1994 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 8, 9, and 11 August 1994.^[1]

Gold	Du'aine Thorne-Ladejo  Great Britain
Silver	Roger Black  Great Britain
Bronze	Matthias Rusterholz   Switzerland

11 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Du'aine Thorne-Ladejo	Great Britain	45.09
	Roger Black	Great Britain	45.20
	Matthias Rusterholz	Switzerland	45.96
4	Dmitriy Golovastov	Russia	46.01
5	Anton Ivanov	Bulgaria	46.20
6	Mikhail Vdovin	Russia	46.23
7	Štefan Balošák	Slovakia	46.64
8	Dmitriy Kosov	Russia	46.69

9 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Du'aine Thorne-Ladejo	Great Britain	45.70	Q
2	Mikhail Vdovin	Russia	45.85	Q
3	Matthias Rusterholz	Switzerland	45.88	Q
4	Anton Ivanov	Bulgaria	46.10	Q
5	Daniel Bittner	Germany	46.44
6	Marco Vaccari	Italy	46.57
7	David McKenzie	Great Britain	46.65
8	Nenad Đurović	Independent European Participants	47.44

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roger Black	Great Britain	45.79	Q
2	Dmitriy Golovastov	Russia	46.05	Q
3	Dmitriy Kosov	Russia	46.23	Q
4	Štefan Balošák	Slovakia	46.32	Q
5	Alessandro Aimar	Italy	46.33
6	Pierre-Marie Hilaire	France	46.39
7	Tomasz Czubak	Poland	47.05
8	Kari Louramo	Finland	47.37

8 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roger Black	Great Britain	45.88	Q
2	Pierre-Marie Hilaire	France	46.25	Q
3	Anton Ivanov	Bulgaria	46.29	Q
4	Marco Vaccari	Italy	46.32	Q
5	Dmitriy Golovastov	Russia	46.48	q
6	Daniel Bittner	Germany	46.62	q
7	Kari Louramo	Finland	46.83	q

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Du'aine Thorne-Ladejo	Great Britain	46.50	Q
2	Alessandro Aimar	Italy	46.52	Q
3	Dmitriy Kosov	Russia	46.79	Q
4	Tomasz Czubak	Poland	46.95	Q
5	Tom McGuirk	Ireland	47.14
6	Lutz Becker	Germany	47.52
	Slobodan Branković	Independent European Participants	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Matthias Rusterholz	Switzerland	46.12	Q
2	Mikhail Vdovin	Russia	46.61	Q
3	Štefan Balošák	Slovakia	46.62	Q
4	David McKenzie	Great Britain	46.78	Q
5	Nenad Đurović	Independent European Participants	46.84	q
6	Andrea Nuti	Italy	46.87
7	Kai Karsten	Germany	47.22
8	Evripides Demosthenous	Cyprus	47.40

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.