Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Harry Schulting Netherlands	Vasyl Arkhypenko Soviet Union	James Walker United States

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Harry Schulting	Netherlands	49.78	Q
2	2	Bart Williams	United States	50.15	Q
3	2	Nikolay Vasilyev	Soviet Union	50.25	q
4	1	Hugo Pont	Netherlands	50.60	Q
5	5	James Walker	United States	50.78	Q
6	2	Ian Newhouse	Canada	50.92	q
7	3	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia	50.98	Q
8	5	Fulvio Zorn	Italy	51.08	Q
9	1	Peter Haas	Switzerland	51.15	Q
9	4	Vasyl Arkhypenko	Soviet Union	51.15	Q
11	5	Lloyd Guss	Canada	51.18	q
12	5	Donizete Soares	Brazil	51.29	q
13	5	José Casabona	Spain	51.30	q
14	4	Felix Rümmele	Austria	51.38	Q
15	4	Germán Tejada	Spain	51.47	q
16	1	Takashi Nagao	Japan	51.50	q
17	2	Patrick Chazot	France	51.81	^[6]
18	4	Robert Williamson	Great Britain	51.84
19	1	Mountage Diakhité	Senegal	51.85
20	5	Peter Allen	New Zealand	52.02
21	4	Jean-Claude Curtil	France	52.30	^[6]
22	3	Horia Toboc	Romania	52.41	Q
23	4	Washington Njiri	Kenya	52.41
24	3	Bernd Herrmann	West Germany	53.02
25	5	Bopaiah Kokkalera	India	53.03
26	3	Jean-Prosper Rajaonarison	Madagascar	53.28
27	2	Carlos Leal	Mexico	54.21
28	3	Mohamed Jasem Al-Yagout	Kuwait	54.70
29	3	Gabriel Leseku	Tanzania	55.97
30	2	Arturo Girón	Guatemala	56.85

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Vasyl Arkhypenko	Soviet Union	48.70	Q
2	2	Nikolay Vasilyev	Soviet Union	48.98	Q
3	1	Harry Schulting	Netherlands	49.06	Q
4	2	Hugo Pont	Netherlands	49.40	Q
5	1	James Walker	United States	49.79	Q
6	2	Bart Williams	United States	49.91	Q
7	1	Ian Newhouse	Canada	50.04	Q
8	1	José Casabona	Spain	50.06	NR
8	2	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia	50.06	Q
10	2	Lloyd Guss	Canada	50.22
11	2	Felix Rümmele	Austria	50.68
12	1	Fulvio Zorn	Italy	51.54
13	1	Donizete Soares	Brazil	51.85
13	2	Germán Tejada	Spain	51.85
	1	Horia Toboc	Romania	??.??
	2	Peter Haas	Switzerland	DQ

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Harry Schulting	Netherlands	48.44	UR, NR
	Vasyl Arkhypenko	Soviet Union	48.60	NR
	James Walker	United States	48.88
4	Nikolay Vasilyev	Soviet Union	49.44
5	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia	49.55
6	Bart Williams	United States	49.70
7	Hugo Pont	Netherlands	50.46
8	Ian Newhouse	Canada	51.47

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^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b Year list
^ ^a ^b [atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Athletics-Annual-1981.pdf Year list]
^ "Uitslagen Universiade" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 12 September 1979. p. 19. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b French results
^ "Na hordenexplosie bij Universiade Pont tiende ter wereld" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 13 September 1979. p. 19. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
^ Spanish hurdling records Archived 2021-09-15 at the Wayback Machine (p160)
^ "Final results". The News-Press. 13 September 1979. p. 30. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Final results". Victoria Advocate. 13 September 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 22 March 2020.