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

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

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

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	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

^ "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.
^ "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.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ "Heats results". Hartford Courant. 17 August 1973. p. 53. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ "Heats results". Chicago Tribune. 17 August 1973. p. 57. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ "Korica (YUG) gano la final de los 10.000 m." (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 17 August 1973. p. 17. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
^ "Semifinals results". Poughkeepsie Journal. 18 August 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ "Semifinals results". Spokane Chronicle. 18 August 1973. p. 10. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ "Universiade lokt IOC-kritiek uit" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 18 August 1973. p. 31. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ "El francés Tracanelli (5'42) segunda mejor marca del año" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 18 August 1973. p. 11. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Pigni oro, Mennea solo bronzo" (in Italian). La Stampa. 18 August 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
^ Year list
^ "Final results". The Spokesman-Review. 19 August 1973. p. 3. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ "Final results". The Sacramento Bee. 19 August 1973. p. 94. Retrieved 20 April 2020.