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

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

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

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]

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