Athletics at the 1977 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1977 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia on 21, 22 and 23 August. ^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Tom Andrews   United States	Klaus Schönberger   East Germany	Rolf Ziegler   West Germany

Results

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Rolf Ziegler	West Germany	50.30	Q
2	4	Vasiliy Arkhipenko	Soviet Union	50.37	Q
3	3	Tom Andrews	United States	50.46	Q
4	3	Talib Faizal Al-Saffar	Iraq	50.54	Q
5	3	Oleg Bulatkin	Soviet Union	50.62	q
6	4	Slavcho Dimitrov	Bulgaria	51.00	Q
7	1	Klaus Schönberger	East Germany	51.14	Q
8	1	James Walker	United States	51.27	Q
8	2	Ulli Zunker	West Germany	51.27	Q
10	1	Krzysztof Węglarski	Poland	51.33	Q
10	4	Dámaso Alfonso	Cuba	51.33	Q
12	1	Horia Toboc	Romania	51.60	q
13	4	David West	Great Britain	51.61	q
14	2	Paweł Łankiewicz	Poland	51.63	Q
15	2	Yanko Bratanov	Bulgaria	51.79	Q
16	2	Claude Anicet	France	52.09	q [4]
17	4	Hiroyuki Oda	Japan	52.13
18	3	Hansjörg Haas	Switzerland	52.25
19	2	Takashi Nagao	Japan	52.35
20	2	Enrique Aguirre	Mexico	52.53
21	1	Luc Baggio	France	52.67	[4]
22	4	Roberto Minetti	Italy	52.75
23	4	Jean-Prosper Rajaonarison	Madagascar	53.58
24	2	Clive Beattie	Great Britain	54.59
25	1	Titus Kiboi	Kenya	58.22

Semifinals

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Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Tom Andrews	United States	49.50	Q
2	2	Vasiliy Arkhipenko	Soviet Union	49.72	Q
3	2	Talib Faizal Al-Saffar	Iraq	49.95	Q, NR
4	2	Yanko Bratanov	Bulgaria	49.99	q
5	1	Klaus Schönberger	East Germany	50.07	Q
6	1	Rolf Ziegler	West Germany	50.24	Q
7	2	Ulli Zunker	West Germany	50.64	q
8	2	Krzysztof Węglarski	Poland	50.77
9	1	James Walker	United States	50.92	Q
10	2	Dámaso Alfonso	Cuba	51.00
11	1	Oleg Bulatkin	Soviet Union	51.09	[6]
12	1	Slavcho Dimitrov	Bulgaria	51.15
13	2	David West	Great Britain	51.56
14	1	Horia Toboc	Romania	51.62
15	1	Claude Anicet	France	51.68	[4]
16	1	Paweł Łankiewicz	Poland	53.28

Final

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tom Andrews	United States	49.52
	Klaus Schönberger	East Germany	49.55
	Rolf Ziegler	West Germany	49.72
4	Vasiliy Arkhipenko	Soviet Union	49.90
5	Yanko Bratanov	Bulgaria	50.34
6	Talib Faizal Al-Saffar	Iraq	50.53
7	Ulli Zunker	West Germany	51.28
	James Walker	United States	DQ	[9]

References

1. Results at Tilastopaja
2. "Heats results". The Burlington Free Press. 22 August 1977. p. 26. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
3. "Heats results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 22 August 1977. p. 22. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
4. French results
5. Year list
6. Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p61)
7. "Final results". Chicago Tribune. 24 August 1977. p. 64. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
8. "Final results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 24 August 1977. p. 52. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
9. Lane infringement