Athletics at the 1987 Summer Universiade – Women's 400 metres

The women's 400 metres event at the 1987 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadion Maksimir in Zagreb on 13 and 15 July 1987.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Denean Howard United States	Lyudmila Dzhigalova Soviet Union	Sandie Richards Jamaica

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	52.42	Q
2	2	Denean Howard	United States	52.45	Q
3	4	Maria Magnólia Figueiredo	Brazil	52.61	q
4	3	Lyudmila Dzhigalova	Soviet Union	52.77	Q
5	1	Sonja Fridy	United States	52.90	Q
6	3	Ronny Uibel	East Germany	53.14	q
7	1	Maria Usifo	Nigeria	53.20	q
8	3	Erzsébet Szabó	Hungary	53.25	q
9	2	Tatyana Ledovskaya	Soviet Union	53.28	^[4]
10	4	Patricia Walsh	Ireland	53.40
11	2	Marzena Wojdecka	Poland	53.86
12	3	Sharon Ellis	Australia	53.99	^[5]
13	3	Geraldine Shitandayi	Kenya	54.47
14	1	Nicole Azar	Australia	54.54	^[5]
15	3	Esther Lahoz	Spain	54.90
16	3	Roxanne Oliver	Puerto Rico	56.77
17	1	Anne Purvis	Great Britain	57.23
18	4	Letica Gracia	Mexico	57.38
19	2	Waleska Ramos	Puerto Rico	57.79
20	4	Moré Galetovic	Bolivia	58.30
21	4	May Sardouk	Lebanon	1:01.98

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Denean Howard	United States	51.07
	Lyudmila Dzhigalova	Soviet Union	51.32
	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	51.42
4	Maria Magnólia Figueiredo	Brazil	51.74
5	Ronny Uibel	East Germany	51.93
6	Maria Usifo	Nigeria	52.18
7	Sonja Fridy	United States	52.43
8	Erzsébet Szabó	Hungary	53.00

^ Treutlein, Gerhard (4 August 1987). "Die Universiade in Zagreb – Ausblick und Eindrücke" [The Universiade in Zagreb – outlook and impressions]. Leichtathletik (in German). 32/1987. Bartels & Wernitz: 1015–1018. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ "Heats results". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 July 1987. p. 56. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
^ Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p122)
^ ^a ^b Australian results
^ "Final results". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 July 1987. p. 32. Retrieved 14 January 2020.