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

The men's 400 metres event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 8, 9 and 11 September 1979.[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Harald Schmid  West Germany	Franz-Peter Hofmeister  West Germany	Walter McCoy  United States

Results

Heats

[2][3]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Harald Schmid	West Germany	46.12	Q
2	1	Geraldo José Pegado	Brazil	46.49	Q
3	1	Takashi Nagao	Japan	48.45	Q
4	1	Kagwisagne	Uganda	49.75
5	1	Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	52.56
1	2	Walter McCoy	United States	46.00	Q
2	2	Jens Smedegaard	Denmark	46.32	Q
3	2	Alan Bell	Great Britain	47.22	Q
5	2	Antonis Georgallidis	Cyprus	48.61
1	3	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	46.93	Q
2	3	Robert Froissart	France	47.06	Q[4]
3	3	Avognan Nogboum	Ivory Coast	47.23	Q
4	3	António Mota	Angola	49.23
1	4	Nikolay Chernetsky	Soviet Union	45.45	Q
2	4	Lew Davis	Jamaica	46.39	Q
3	4	Jenaro Iritia	Spain	47.45	Q
4	4	Marcel Klarenbeek	Netherlands	47.54	q
5	4	Gabriel Leseku	Tanzania	48.46
1	5	Leslie Kerr	United States	46.79	Q
2	5	Alexander Fortelny	Austria	47.66	Q
3	5	Chum Darvall	Australia	47.96	Q[5]
4	5	Martínez	Mexico	49.86
1	6	Horia Toboc	Romania	46.15	Q[6]
2	6	Isidoro Hornillos	Spain	46.24	Q, NR[6]
3	6	Roberto Tozzi	Italy	46.34	Q, PB[6]
4	6	Rolf Gisler	Switzerland	46.46	q[6]
5	6	Ngare Kinywa	Kenya	50.26	[6]
6	6	Ibrahim Rashed	Saudi Arabia	51.69	[6]
7	6	Manuel Machado	Costa Rica	53.56	[6]
8	6	José Guillermo Brenes	Honduras	55.30	[6]
1	7	Koen Gijsbers	Netherlands	46.19	Q
2	7	Remigijus Valiulis	Soviet Union	46.32	Q
3	7	Eiji Natori	Japan	47.15	Q
4	7	Jean Rajaonarison	Madagascar	48.13	q
5	7	Pérez	Mexico	49.17
	?	Stefano Malinverni	Italy	DNF	[7]

Semifinals

[2] [8]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Nikolay Chernetsky	Soviet Union	45.12	Q
2	2	Walter McCoy	United States	45.16	Q
3	2	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	45.40	Q
4	3	Harald Schmid	West Germany	45.72	Q
5	2	Remigijus Valiulis	Soviet Union	45.73	q
6	1	Leslie Kerr	United States	45.79	Q
7	1	Horia Toboc	Romania	45.87	q
8	2	Koen Gijsbers	Netherlands	46.17
9	2	Geraldo José Pegado	Brazil	46.18
10	3	Robert Froissart	France	46.24	Q
11	3	Avognan Nogboum	Ivory Coast	46.25
12	3	Roberto Tozzi	Italy	46.28	PB
13	3	Isidoro Hornillos	Spain	46.51
14	2	Alan Bell	Great Britain	46.53
15	1	Eiji Natori	Japan	46.64
16	1	Marcel Klarenbeek	Netherlands	46.68	NJR
17	3	Rolf Gisler	Switzerland	46.76
18	1	Jens Smedegaard	Denmark	46.89
19	3	Takashi Nagao	Japan	47.49
20	2	Genaro Iritia	Spain	47.61
21	3	Alexander Fortelny	Austria	47.74
22	2	Jean Rajaonarison	Madagascar	47.83
23	1	Lew Davis	Jamaica	48.62
	1	Chum Darvall	Australia	DNS	[5]

Final

[9][10]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Harald Schmid	West Germany	44.98
	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	45.12
	Walter McCoy	United States	45.90
4	Leslie Kerr	United States	45.94
5	Horia Toboc	Romania	46.50
6	Remigijus Valiulis	Soviet Union	48.40
	Nikolay Chernetskiy	Soviet Union	DNS
	Robert Froissart	France	DNS	[4]

References

1. Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). Bartels & Wernitz. 39/1979: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.
2. [atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Athletics-Annual-1981.pdf Year top list]
3. "Heats results" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 10 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
4. French results
5. Australian results
6. Spanish sprint records chronology (p59)
7. "Atletica: tre azzuri nelle finali 100 metri" (in Italian). La Stampa. 10 September 1979. p. 12.
8. "Universiade, atletiek" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 11 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
9. "Final results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 12 September 1979. p. 22. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
10. "Final results". Democrat and Chronicle. 12 September 1979. p. 49. Retrieved 22 March 2020.