Athletics at the 1985 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres event at the 1985 Summer Universiade was held at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in Kobe on 30 and 31 August.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Innocent Egbunike Nigeria	Roberto Hernández Cuba	Sunday Uti Nigeria

Held on 30 August

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	45.55	Q
3	6	Sunday Uti	Nigeria	46.15	Q
4	7	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria	46.41	Q
5	4	Susumu Takano	Japan	46.47	Q
6	2	Clarence Daniel	United States	46.55	Q
7	6	Lázaro Martínez	Cuba	46.59	Q
8	7	Andre Smith	Canada	46.65	Q
9	4	Leroy Dixon	United States	46.76	Q
10	6	Gusztáv Menczer	Hungary	46.95	Q
11	2	Antonio Sánchez	Spain	47.01	Q
12	7	Wilson dos Santos	Brazil	47.10	q
13	1	Vladimir Prosin	Soviet Union	47.13	Q
14	6	Tim Bethune	Canada	47.14	q
15	3	Marek Sira	Poland	47.35	Q
16	1	Oddur Sigurðsson	Iceland	47.43	Q
17	5	Mark Rosenberg	Australia	47.49	Q^[2]
18	7?	Benjamín González	Spain	47.50	q
19	1	Luis Karin Toledo	Mexico	47.52	Q
20	2	Jorge Burgos	Mexico	47.61	Q
21	3	Takeo Suzuki	Japan	47.71	Q
22	5	Yevgeniy Lomtyev	Soviet Union	47.72	Q
23	2	Takale Tuna	Papua New Guinea	48.17
24	6	Fred Lwanga	Uganda	48.22
25	5	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	48.26	Q
26	3	Z. Shihan	Iraq	48.84	Q
27	4	Lee Davis	Jamaica	49.07	Q
28	1	Saïd M'hand	Morocco	49.15
29	2	Syed Meesaq Rizvi	Pakistan	49.27
30	1	Felix Haas	Switzerland	49.46
31	4	Sándor Vasvári	Hungary	49.89
32	3	V. Golea	Fiji	51.53
33	5	Arturo Leiva	Guatemala	51.98
34	3	Mohamed El Moctar	Mauritania	53.24
35	5	Tarik Ahmad	Afghanistan	56.73
36	4	M. Luveniyali	Fiji	57.74

Held on 31 August

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria	45.19	Q
2	3	Susumu Takano	Japan	45.30	Q,^[3] NR
3	2	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	45.34	Q^[4]
4	2	Vladimir Prosin	Soviet Union	45.66	Q^[4]
5	3	Antonio Sánchez	Spain	45.77	q^[5]
6	3	Gusztáv Menczer	Hungary	45.81	q^[3]
7	1	Leroy Dixon	United States	45.92	Q
8	3	Yevgeniy Lomtyev	Soviet Union	45.93	^[4]
9	2	Clarence Daniel	United States	45.96
10	1	Sunday Uti	Nigeria	46.09	Q
11	2	Andre Smith	Canada	46.65
12	3	Mark Rosenberg	Australia	46.72	^[2]
13	3	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	46.74
14	1	Lázaro Martínez	Cuba	46.88
14	3	Oddur Sigurðsson	Iceland	46.88
16	1	Wilson dos Santos	Brazil	46.92
17	2	Marek Sira	Poland	47.04
18	2	Takeo Suzuki	Japan	47.57
19	1	Benjamín González	Spain	47.63
20	1	Tim Bethune	Canada	47.75
21	1	Jorge Burgos	Mexico	47.75
22	2	Luis Karin Toledo	Mexico	47.85
23	1	Z. Shihan	Iraq	48.44
24	2	Lee Davis	Jamaica	49.24

Held on 31 August^[6]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria	45.10
	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	45.41
	Sunday Uti	Nigeria	45.58
4	Gusztáv Menczer	Hungary	46.06
5	Leroy Dixon	United States	46.20
6	Vladimir Prosin	Soviet Union	46.49
7	Antonio Sánchez	Spain	46.50	^[7]
	Susumu Takano	Japan	DNF