Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow on 16, 17 and 18 August. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Alberto Juantorena   Cuba	Semyon Kocher   Soviet Union	David Jenkins   Great Britain

Results

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Valeriy Yurchenko	Soviet Union	47.30	Q
2	1	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	49.6	Q
3	1	Abbas Hassan Ahmed	Kuwait	50.5
4	1	Ikaka Cheya	Sudan	53.4
1	2	Joe Chivers	Great Britain	48.12	Q
2	2	Claudio Trachello	Italy	48.26	Q
3	2	Stig Lönnquist	Finland	48.6
4	2	Ruvuna Francis	Uganda	49.7
5	2	Carlos Abbott	Costa Rica	50.5
6	2	Hassan Radhi Makki	Kuwait	50.9
7	2	Ahmed Javed	Pakistan	54.1
1	3	Semyon Kocher	Soviet Union	47.23	Q
2	3	Pedro Ferrer	Puerto Rico	47.46	Q
3	3	Lech Chludziński	Poland	47.94	q
4	3	Siegfried Götz	West Germany	49.18
5	3	Emmanuil Wellington	Ghana	49.5
6	3	Mohamed Hassan	Iraq	49.7
	3	Romain Roels	Belgium	DNF
1	4	Dennis Schultz	United States	47.88	Q
2	4	Constantin Stan	Romania	48.10	Q
3	4	Iván Mangual	Puerto Rico	48.59	q
4	4	Julius Sang	Kenya	49.12
5	4	David Steyskal	Czechoslovakia	49.7
6	4	Houshemy Yar Arshadi	Iran	50.6
1	5	Ivan Daniš	Czechoslovakia	47.88	Q
2	5	Milorad Čikić	Yugoslavia	48.6	Q
3	5	Susumu Shimizu	Japan	49.3
4	5	Ahmad Lotfabady	Iran	50.2
5	5	Ahmed El-Werdaney	Egypt	53.4
6	5	Sékou Barry	Guinea	56.1
1	6	Alberto Juantorena	Cuba	47.01	Q
2	6	David Jenkins	Great Britain	47.05	Q
3	6	Darwin Bond	United States	47.25	q
4	6	Wolfgang Druschky	West Germany	48.29	q
5	6	Alphonse Mandonda	Congo	48.8
6	6	José Antônio Rabaca	Brazil	50.5
7	6	Dangaajav Battulga	Mongolia	53.02

Semifinals

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Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	David Jenkins	Great Britain	46.1	Q
2	1	Dennis Schultz	United States	46.4	Q
3	1	Semyon Kocher	Soviet Union	46.7	Q
4	1	Milorad Čikić	Yugoslavia	46.8	Q
5	1	Lech Chludziński	Poland	47.6
6	1	Iván Mangual	Puerto Rico	48.1
7	1	Constantin Stan	Romania	48.1
	1	Claudio Trachello	Italy	DNS	[11]
1	2	Alberto Juantorena	Cuba	46.3	Q
2	2	Pedro Ferrer	Puerto Rico	46.6	Q
3	2	Ivan Daniš	Czechoslovakia	46.6	Q [12]
4	2	Darwin Bond	United States	46.7	Q
5	2	Valeriy Yurchenko	Soviet Union	46.9
6	2	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	47.6	[11]
7	2	Wolfgang Druschky	West Germany	47.7
8	2	Joe Chivers	Great Britain	47.9

Final

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alberto Juantorena	Cuba	45.36
	Semyon Kocher	Soviet Union	46.32
	David Jenkins	Great Britain	46.39
4	Dennis Schultz	United States	46.40
5	Darwin Bond	United States	46.71
6	Pedro Ferrer	Puerto Rico	46.76
7	Ivan Daniš	Czechoslovakia	47.18
8	Milorad Čikić	Yugoslavia	47.35

References

1. "Zweite Plätze für Schiitenhelm und Karst" [Second places for Schiitenhelm und Karst]. Leichtathletik (in German). 34/1973. Bartels & Wernitz: 1202–1204. 21 August 1973. ISSN   0343-5369.
2. "Nur ein Finale ohne einheimische Athleten" [Only one final without local athletes]. Leichtathletik (in German). 35/1973. Bartels & Wernitz: 1250–1251. 28 August 1973. ISSN   0343-5369.
3. Results at Tilastopaja
4. "Heats results". Hartford Courant. 17 August 1973. p. 53. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
5. "Heats results". Chicago Tribune. 17 August 1973. p. 57. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
6. "Korica (YUG) gano la final de los 10.000 m." (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 17 August 1973. p. 17. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
7. "Semifinals results". Poughkeepsie Journal. 18 August 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
8. "Semifinals results". Spokane Chronicle. 18 August 1973. p. 10. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
9. "Universiade lokt IOC-kritiek uit" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 18 August 1973. p. 31. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
10. "El francés Tracanelli (5'42) segunda mejor marca del año" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 18 August 1973. p. 11. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
11. "Pigni oro, Mennea solo bronzo" (in Italian). La Stampa. 18 August 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
12. Year list
13. "Final results". The Spokesman-Review. 19 August 1973. p. 3. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
14. "Final results". The Sacramento Bee. 19 August 1973. p. 94. Retrieved 20 April 2020.