Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	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		women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
30 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
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 hurdles event at the 1986 Commonwealth Games was held on 27 and 28 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Phil Beattie  Northern Ireland	Max Robertson  England	John Graham  Canada

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Phil Beattie	Northern Ireland	51.63	Q
2	2	Max Robertson	England	52.26	Q
3	2	Lloyd Guss	Canada	52.36	Q
4	1	John Graham	Canada	52.63	Q
5	1	Ken Gordon	Australia	52.66	Q
6	2	Pierre Leveille	Canada	52.75	q
7	1	Gary Oakes	England	53.02	Q
8	2	Mark Holtom	England	53.11	q
9	1	Wayne Paul	New Zealand	53.39
10	2	Dave McCutcheon	Scotland	53.58
11	1	Mark Hardie	Scotland	55.68
12	1	Mark Fulton	Scotland	57.90
	2	Joseph Rodan	Fiji	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Phil Beattie	Northern Ireland	49.60	PB
	3	Max Robertson	England	49.77
	5	John Graham	Canada	50.25
4	6	Lloyd Guss	Canada	50.56
5	2	Mark Holtom	England	50.58
6	1	Gary Oakes	England	50.82
7	8	Pierre Leveille	Canada	51.54
8	7	Ken Gordon	Australia	51.59