Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade

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]^[2]

Medalists

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

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Nikolay Chernetsky	Soviet Union	45.45	Q
2	2	Walter McCoy	United States	46.00	Q
3	1	Harald Schmid	West Germany	46.12	Q
4	6	Horia Toboc	Romania	46.15	Q^[5]
5	7	Koen Gijsbers	Netherlands	46.19	Q
6	6	Isidoro Hornillos	Spain	46.24	Q, NR^[5]
7	2	Jens Smedegaard	Denmark	46.32	Q
7	7	Remigijus Valiulis	Soviet Union	46.32	Q
9	6	Roberto Tozzi	Italy	46.34	Q, PB^[5]
10	4	Lew Davis	Jamaica	46.39	Q
11	1	Geraldo José Pegado	Brazil	46.49	Q
12	6	Rolf Gisler	Switzerland	46.69	q^[5]
13	5	Leslie Kerr	United States	46.79	Q
14	3	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	46.93	Q
15	3	Robert Froissart	France	47.06	Q^[6]
16	7	Eiji Natori	Japan	47.15	Q
17	2	Alan Bell	Great Britain	47.22	Q
18	3	Avognan Nogboum	Ivory Coast	47.23	Q
19	4	Jenaro Iritia	Spain	47.45	Q
20	4	Marcel Klarenbeek	Netherlands	47.54	q
21	5	Alexander Fortelny	Austria	47.66	Q
22	5	Chum Darvall	Australia	47.96	Q^[7]
23	7	Jean-Prosper Rajaonarison	Madagascar	48.13	q
24	1	Takashi Nagao	Japan	48.45	Q
25	4	Gabriel Leseku	Tanzania	48.46
26	2	Antonis Georgallidis	Cyprus	48.61
27	7	Alfonso Pérez	Mexico	49.17
28	3	António Mota Gomes	Angola	49.23
29	4	Adodo Djobokou	Togo	49.68
30	1	Patrick Kagwisagne	Uganda	49.75
31	5	David Martínez	Mexico	49.86
32	6	Ngare Kinywa	Kenya	50.26	^[5]
33	7	Orlando Ruano	Guatemala	50.39
34	2	Lauwi Adjambao	Togo	50.47
35	2	David Beylon	Kenya	50.50
36	2	Nelson González	Guatemala	50.75
37	3	E. N. Quargraine	Ghana	50.90
38	5	Roberto Prado	Bolivia	51.23
39	6	Ibrahim Rashed	Saudi Arabia	51.69	^[5]
40	7	Jorge Camacho	Costa Rica	51.92
41	1	Fahad Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	52.56
42	5	Miguel Banegas	Honduras	53.05
43	6	Manuel Machado	Costa Rica	53.56	^[5]
44	6	José Guillermo Brenes	Honduras	55.30	^[5]
	7	Stefano Malinverni	Italy	DNF	^[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-Prosper Rajaonarison	Madagascar	47.83
23	1	Lew Davis	Jamaica	48.62
	1	Chum Darvall	Australia	DNS	^[7]

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	46.56
6	Remigijus Valiulis	Soviet Union	48.40
	Nikolay Chernetskiy	Soviet Union	DNS
	Robert Froissart	France	DNS	^[6]

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^ ^a ^b French results
^ ^a ^b Australian results
^ "Atletica: tre azzuri nelle finali 100 metri" (in Italian). La Stampa. 10 September 1979. p. 12.
^ "Universiade, atletiek" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 11 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
^ "Final results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 12 September 1979. p. 22. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Final results". Democrat and Chronicle. 12 September 1979. p. 49. Retrieved 22 March 2020.