Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1981 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 21 and 22 July 1981.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
David Lee United States	Dmitriy Shkarupin Soviet Union	Antônio Dias Ferreira Brazil

Held on 21 July^[2]^[3]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	David Lee	United States	50.47	Q
2	1	Hugo Pont	Netherlands	50.71	Q
3	1	Krzysztof Węglarski	Poland	50.87	Q
4	1	Nikolay Vasilyev	Soviet Union	50.95	Q
5	1	Dumitru Iacob	Romania	50.98	q
6	4	Carlos Azulay	Spain	51.27	Q
7	2	Frank Czioska	West Germany	51.38	Q
8	3	Antônio Dias Ferreira	Brazil	51.43	Q
9	3	David Patrick	United States	51.44	Q
10	2	Dmitriy Shkarupin	Soviet Union	51.58	Q
11	1	Takashi Nagao	Japan	51.67	q
12	2	Ian Newhouse	Canada	51.67	Q
13	3	José Casabona	Spain	51.73	Q
14	2	Jorge Batista	Cuba	51.81	q
15	4	Shigenobu Omori	Japan	51.84	Q
16	1	Carlo Putetto	Italy	51.96	q
17	3	Riccardo Trevisan	Italy	52.09
18	4	Jacek Birek	Poland	52.20
19	3	Iosif Korodi	Romania	52.25
20	2	Peter Paulinyi	Hungary	52.29
21	4	Jean-Claude Curtil	France	52.51	^[4]
22	3	Wolfgang Richter	West Germany	52.78
23	3	Rafael Echavarría	Mexico	53.02
24	2	Lars-Åke Welander	Sweden	53.11
25	4	Marc Eyckmans	Belgium	53.77
26	4	Nasir Sati	Iraq	55.70

Held on 22 July^[2]^[5]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Dmitriy Shkarupin	Soviet Union	50.31	Q
2	2	Hugo Pont	Netherlands	50.51	Q
3	2	Frank Czioska	West Germany	50.53	Q
4	1	David Lee	United States	50.70	Q
5	2	David Patrick	United States	50.86	q
6	1	Antônio Dias Ferreira	Brazil	51.10	Q
7	2	Takashi Nagao	Japan	51.37	q
8	1	Nikolay Vasilyev	Soviet Union	51.41	Q
9	1	José Casabona	Spain	51.50
10	2	Carlos Azulay	Spain	51.62
11	1	Dumitru Iacob	Romania	51.66
12	1	Shigenobu Omori	Japan	51.73
13	2	Jorge Batista	Cuba	52.08
14	2	Krzysztof Węglarski	Poland	52.14
15	1	Ian Newhouse	Canada	52.85
16	1	Carlo Putetto	Italy	1:02.23

Held on 22 July^[6]^[7]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	David Lee	United States	49.05
	Dmitriy Shkarupin	Soviet Union	49.52
	Antônio Dias Ferreira	Brazil	50.04
4	Nikolay Vasilyev	Soviet Union	50.11
5	David Patrick	United States	50.40
6	Frank Czioska	West Germany	50.84
7	Takashi Nagao	Japan	51.69
	Hugo Pont	Netherlands	DNS	^[5]

^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b Year list
^ "Jury achter Comaneci" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 22 July 1981. p. 9.
^ French results
^ ^a ^b "Pont valt uit op Universiade" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 23 July 1981. p. 9.
^ "Final results". The Town Talk. 23 July 1981. p. 30. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
^ "Final results". United Press International. 22 July 1981. Retrieved 9 February 2020.