Athletics at the 2025 Summer World University Games – Women's 400 metres

Women's 400 metres at the 2025 Summer World University Games
Venue	Lohrheidestadion
Location	Bochum, Germany
Dates	21 July (heats) 22 July (semi-finals) 23 July (final)
Competitors	42 from 34 nations
Winning time	51.52 SB
Medalists
Barbora Malíková    Czech Republic   Veronika Drljacic  [ de ]    Croatia   Alessandra Bonora    Italy
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The women's 400 metres event at the 2025 Summer World University Games was held in Bochum, Germany, at Lohrheidestadion on 21, 22 and 23 July. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
Games record	Ionela Târlea  (ROU)	49.88	Palma de Mallorca, Spain	12 July 1999

Results

Heats

First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semi-finals. ^[3]

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Catia Gubelmann  [ de; es ]	Switzerland	52.68	Q
2	Maryana Shostak	Ukraine	52.76	Q, SB
3	Alessandra Bonora	Italy	53.39	Q
4	Letícia Lima  [ de; ro ]	Brazil	53.96	q
5	Hana Grobovšek  [ de ]	Slovenia	54.64	PB
6	Itzel Cervantes	Mexico	56.54
7	Evelīna Krakope	Latvia	60.74
8	Malaika Shahzadi	Pakistan	64.04
[4]

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Jana Lakner	Germany	52.26	Q
2	Kinga Gacka	Poland	53.12	Q
3	Precious Molepo	South Africa	53.48	Q
4	Benny Nontanam  [ de ]	Thailand	53.49	q
5	Paige Willems	Canada	54.27	q
6	Chelsea Cassiopea Evali Bopulas  [ de ]	Malaysia	56.36
7	Martha Spiteri	Malta	56.60
[5]

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Aleksandra Formella	Poland	52.66	Q
2	Favour Okpali	Canada	52.96	Q
3	Isabel Neal  [ d ]	New Zealand	53.81	Q
4	Alexandra Zalyubovskaya  [ de ]	Kazakhstan	54.02	q
5	Kaitesi Ertzgaard  [ no ]	Norway	55.04
6	Isabelle Skelton	Great Britain	55.65
[6]

Heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Veronika Drljacic  [ de ]	Croatia	52.80	Q
2	Annkathrin Hoven  [ de ]	Germany	53.35	Q
3	Lakshima Mendis  [ de ]	Sri Lanka	53.75	Q
4	Batisane Kennekae  [ d ]	Botswana	54.35	q
5	Jonbibi Hukmova  [ de ]	Uzbekistan	55.21
6	Luciana Quinto	Colombia	57.03
7	Dorothy Abeja	Uganda	58.87
[7]

Heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Charlee Crawford	United States	53.52	Q
2	Barbora Malíková	Czech Republic	53.62	Q
3	Natasha Harrison  [ es ]	Great Britain	54.13	Q
4	Laavinia Jaiganth  [ de ]	Singapore	55.90
5	Iris Morales	Mexico	56.39
6	Chioma Christabel Offor	Nigeria	59.81
7	Christine Kabwe	Zambia	63.87
[8]

Heat 6

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Marlie Viljoen	South Africa	53.48	Q
2	Annalies Kalma	New Zealand	53.89	Q
3	Chinenye Onuorah  [ de ]	Thailand	54.42	Q
4	Virág Simon  [ d ]	Hungary	54.60	q
5	Edanur Tulum  [ de; no ]	Turkey	55.55
6	Pamela Nicol Barreto	Ecuador	56.64
7	Kim Thanh Nguyen Thi	Vietnam	58.28
[9]

Semi-finals

First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final. ^[10]

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Veronika Drljacic  [ de ]	Croatia	52.13	Q
2	Catia Gubelmann  [ de; es ]	Switzerland	52.44	Q
3	Kinga Gacka	Poland	52.86	=SB
4	Annkathrin Hoven  [ de ]	Germany	52.95
5	Alexandra Zalyubovskaya  [ de ]	Kazakhstan	53.15
6	Precious Molepo	South Africa	53.30
7	Isabel Neal  [ d ]	New Zealand	53.72
8	Paige Willems	Canada	54.82
[11]

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Barbora Malíková	Czech Republic	52.46	Q
2	Aleksandra Formella	Poland	52.62	Q
3	Favour Okpali	Canada	52.84	q
4	Marlie Viljoen	South Africa	52.99
5	Benny Nontanam  [ de ]	Thailand	53.68
6	Lakshima Mendis  [ de ]	Sri Lanka	54.26
7	Natasha Harrison  [ es ]	Great Britain	54.49
8	Batisane Kennekae  [ d ]	Botswana	55.33
[12]

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Jana Lakner	Germany	52.37	Q
2	Alessandra Bonora	Italy	52.63	Q
3	Charlee Crawford	United States	52.82	q
4	Maryana Shostak	Ukraine	52.95
5	Annalies Kalma	New Zealand	53.63
6	Chinenye Onuorah  [ de ]	Thailand	54.11
7	Virág Simon  [ d ]	Hungary	54.46
8	Letícia Lima  [ de; ro ]	Brazil	54.48
[13]

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Barbora Malíková	Czech Republic	51.52	SB
	Veronika Drljacic  [ de ]	Croatia	51.66	PB
	Alessandra Bonora	Italy	52.41
4	Aleksandra Formella	Poland	52.56
5	Jana Lakner	Germany	52.57
6	Catia Gubelmann  [ de; es ]	Switzerland	52.83
7	Charlee Crawford	United States	52.85
8	Favour Okpali	Canada	53.87
[14]

References

1. "2025 Summer World University Games - Athletics schedule" (PDF). 20 July 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
2. "2025 FISU World University Games Rhine-Ruhr: All final results and medallists - Full list". Olympics. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
3. "Women's 400 metres - Round 1 - Start list" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 22 July 2025. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
4. "Women's 400 metres - Round 1 - Heat 1/6 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 21 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
5. "Women's 400 metres - Round 1 - Heat 2/6 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 21 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
6. "Women's 400 metres - Round 1 - Heat 3/6 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 21 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
7. "Women's 400 metres - Round 1 - Heat 4/6 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 21 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
8. "Women's 400 metres - Round 1 - Heat 5/6 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 21 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
9. "Women's 400 metres - Round 1 - Heat 6/6 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 21 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
10. "Women's 400 metres - Semi-finals - Start list" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 21 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
11. "Women's 400 metres - Semi-finals - Heat 1/3 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 22 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
12. "Women's 400 metres - Semi-finals - Heat 2/3 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 22 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
13. "Women's 400 metres - Semi-finals - Heat 3/3 results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 22 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
14. "Women's 400 metres - Final results" (PDF). Rhine-Ruhr 2025. 23 July 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.