Athletics at the 1970 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres event at the 1970 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale in Turin on 3 and 4 September 1970.^[1]

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Tom Ulan United States	Martin Jellinghaus West Germany	Jacques Carette France

Held on 3 September^[2]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Tommie Turner	United States	47.1	Q
2	1	Roland Rossmeissl	West Germany	47.5	Q
3	1	Claudio Trachelio	Italy	47.8	q
4	1	Ethelbert Nwagbo	Nigeria	49.3
5	1	João Merlin Nobre	Portugal	49.3
6	1	Alfred Wolf	Austria	49.6
7	1	Thanyan Al-Ghanim	Kuwait	55.5
1	2	Tom Ulan	United States	46.3	Q
2	2	Borys Savchuk	Soviet Union	46.8	Q
3	2	Antonio Álvarez	Cuba	47.1	q
4	2	József Fügedi	Hungary	47.4	q
5	2	Josef Sammt	Austria	50.9
6	2	Abdulghalil Al-Kassim	Kuwait	55.3
1	3	Mike Hauck	Great Britain	48.1	Q
2	3	Martin Jellinghaus	West Germany	48.2	Q
3	3	Jacques Anseeuw	Belgium	48.7
4	3	Sid Ali Djouadi	Algeria	49.0
5	3	Eduardo Marques	Portugal	49.4
1	4	Jacques Carette	France	47.2	Q^[3]
2	4	Jim Aukett	Great Britain	47.2	Q
3	4	Furio Fusi	Italy	47.3	q
4	4	Aleksandr Bratchikov	Soviet Union	47.5	q
5	4	José Triana Pérez	Cuba	48.5
6	4	Juan Argüello	Nicaragua	52.5
1	5	Gilles Bertould	France	47.5	Q^[3]
2	5	Fanahan McSweeney	Ireland	47.5	Q
3	5	István Bátori	Hungary	47.7	q
4	5	Emile Jung	Luxembourg	48.4
5	5	Salah Ghadri	Tunisia	48.5
6	5	Louis Nkanza	Congo	49.1

Held on 4 September^[4]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Tom Ulan	United States	46.5	Q
2	1	Jacques Carette	France	46.7	Q
3	1	Martin Jellinghaus	West Germany	46.7	Q
4	1	Aleksandr Bratchikov	Soviet Union	46.8	Q
5	1	Antonio Álvarez	Cuba	46.9
6	1	Mike Hauck	Great Britain	47.2	^[5]
7	1	József Fügedi	Hungary	47.2
8	1	Claudio Trachelio	Italy	47.4
1	2	Tommie Turner	United States	46.9	Q
2	2	Gilles Bertould	France	47.1	Q
3	2	Borys Savchuk	Soviet Union	47.1	Q
4	2	Roland Rossmeissl	West Germany	47.2	Q
5	2	Furio Fusi	Italy	47.4
6	2	Jim Aukett	Great Britain	47.5	^[5]
7	2	Fanahan McSweeney	Ireland	47.6	^[5]
8	2	István Bátori	Hungary	47.9

Held on 4 September^[6]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tom Ulan	United States	45.9	UR
	Martin Jellinghaus	West Germany	46.2
	Jacques Carette	France	46.3
4	Tommie Turner	United States	46.3
5	Borys Savchuk	Soviet Union	46.6
6	Roland Rossmeissl	West Germany	46.7
7	Gilles Bertould	France	46.8	^[3]
8	Aleksandr Bratchikov	Soviet Union	47.0

^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ "Trachelio e Fusi qualificati" (in Italian). La Stampa. 3 September 1970. p. 9. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c French results
^ "Saneiev già a 16,72" (in Italian). La Stampa. 4 September 1970. p. 8. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Three British victories in Universiade". Athletics Weekly. 24 (37). Athletics Weekly Ltd: 4, 38. 4 September 1970. ISSN 0004-6671.
^ "Glanzleistungen an der Universiade" (in German). Zurich Die Tat. 7 September 1970. p. 8. Retrieved 9 June 2020.