2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres

The women's 400 metres event at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 9–11.

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sandie Richards Jamaica	Olga Kotlyarova Russia	Olesya Zykina Russia

First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	52.11	Q
2	1	Olesya Zykina	Russia	52.48	Q
3	4	Shanta Ghosh	Germany	52.49	Q
4	4	Nadjina Kaltouma	Chad	52.53	Q, NR
5	2	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	52.61	Q
5	3	Catherine Murphy	Great Britain	52.61	Q
7	3	Suziann Reid	United States	52.65	Q
8	2	Monique Hennagan	United States	52.99	Q
9	3	Ionela Târlea	Romania	53.05	q
10	1	Natalya Sologub	Belarus	53.10	q
11	1	Aliann Pompey	Guyana	53.32	q
12	1	Foy Williams	Canada	53.39	q
13	2	Chrysoula Goudenoudi	Greece	53.62
14	2	Žana Minina	Lithuania	53.68	NR
15	3	Catherine Scott	Jamaica	53.82
15	4	LaDonna Antoine	Canada	53.82
15	4	Maria do Carmo Tavares	Portugal	53.82
18	4	Karen Shinkins	Ireland	53.90
	2	Damayanthi Dharsha	Sri Lanka	DNF

First 3 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	51.63	Q
2	2	Suziann Reid	United States	51.84	Q, SB
3	2	Nadjina Kaltouma	Chad	51.92	Q, NR
4	2	Shanta Ghosh	Germany	51.93
5	1	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	51.98	Q
6	1	Olesya Zykina	Russia	52.18	Q
7	1	Monique Hennagan	United States	52.43	Q
8	1	Catherine Murphy	Great Britain	52.45
9	1	Ionela Târlea	Romania	52.87
10	2	Aliann Pompey	Guyana	53.18
11	2	Natalya Sologub	Belarus	53.60
12	1	Foy Williams	Canada	53.61

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	51.04
	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	51.56
	Olesya Zykina	Russia	51.71
4	Nadjina Kaltouma	Chad	52.49
5	Monique Hennagan	United States	52.93
6	Suziann Reid	United States	1:11.50