Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Women's 400 metres

The women's 400 metres event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow on 16, 17 and 18 August.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Medalists[edit]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Nadezhda Kolesnikova Soviet Union	Judy Canty Australia	Carmen Trustée Cuba

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Inta Kļimoviča	Soviet Union	54.82	Q
2	1	Christiane Casapicola	Austria	55.17	Q
3	1	Maoper West	United States	55.61	Q^[4]
1	2	Pirjo Wilmi	Finland	54.98	Q^[5]
2	2	Brenda Walsh	Canada	55.28	Q
3	2	Jarvis Scott	United States	55.95	Q
4	2	Marjan Burggraaf	Netherlands	56.70	^[5]
1	3	Stefka Yordanova	Bulgaria	53.67	Q^[6]
2	3	Asunción Acosta	Cuba	54.07	Q
3	3	Vreni Leiser	Switzerland	54.40	Q^[6]
4	3	Joyce Sadowick	Canada	54.75	q
5	3	Zina Boniolo	Italy	56.0	^[7]
1	4	Carmen Trustée	Cuba	53.74	Q
2	4	Bernadette Dargent	France	54.32	Q^[8]
3	4	Jozefína Čerchlanová	Czechoslovakia	54.78	Q
4	4	Anna Bełtowska	Poland	55.39	PB
1	5	Nadezhda Kolesnikova	Soviet Union	52.50	Q
2	5	Judy Canty	Australia	53.73	Q^[9]
3	5	Dawn Webster	Great Britain	55.54	Q
4	5	Chantal Jouvhomme	France	56.11	^[8]
5	5	Brigitte Baégné	Congo	1:00.4

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Judy Canty	Australia	53.27	Q^[9]
2	1	Carmen Trustée	Cuba	53.4	Q
3	1	Joyce Sadowick	Canada	53.53	Q
4	1	Pirjo Wilmi	Finland	53.8	Q
5	1	Asunción Acosta	Cuba	53.8
6	1	Christiane Casapicola	Austria	54.2
7	1	Dawn Webster	Great Britain	54.8
8	1	Maoper West	United States	56.7
1	2	Nadezhda Kolesnikova	Soviet Union	52.6	Q
2	2	Inta Kļimoviča	Soviet Union	53.51	Q
3	2	Stefka Yordanova	Bulgaria	53.59	Q
4	2	Jozefína Čerchlanová	Czechoslovakia	53.71	Q
5	2	Vreni Leiser	Switzerland	54.4	^[11]
6	2	Brenda Walsh	Canada	54.4
7	2	Bernadette Dargent	France	54.68	^[8]
8	2	Jarvis Scott	United States	55.8

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nadezhda Kolesnikova	Soviet Union	52.04
	Judy Canty	Australia	52.82
	Carmen Trustée	Cuba	53.44
4	Pirjo Wilmi	Finland	53.82
5	Joyce Sadowick	Canada	54.0
6	Jozefína Čerchlanová	Czechoslovakia	54.12
7	Inta Kļimoviča	Soviet Union	54.33	^[14]
	Stefka Yordanova	Bulgaria	DNS

^ "Zweite Plätze für Schiitenhelm und Karst" [Second places for Schiitenhelm und Karst]. Leichtathletik (in German). 34/1973. Bartels & Wernitz: 1202–1204. 21 August 1973. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ "Nur ein Finale ohne einheimische Athleten" [Only one final without local athletes]. Leichtathletik (in German). 35/1973. Bartels & Wernitz: 1250–1251. 28 August 1973. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ "American results". Hartford Courant. 17 August 1973. p. 53. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Marjan Burggraaf op Universiade niet in finale 400 m" (in Dutch). Tubantia. 17 August 1973. p. 19. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Vreni Leiser und Beat Pfister im Halbfinal" (in German). Zurich Die Tat. 19 August 1973. p. 10. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
^ "I risultati delle gare di ieri" (in Italian). La Stampa. 17 August 1973. p. 14. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c French results
^ ^a ^b Australian results
^ "El frncés Tracanelli (5'42) segunda mejor marca del año" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 18 August 1973. p. 11. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
^ "Swiss results" (in German). Brig Glis Walliser Volksfreund. 20 August 1973. p. 8. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
^ "Final results". The Spokesman-Review. 19 August 1973. p. 3. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ "Final results". The Sacramento Bee. 19 August 1973. p. 94. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p121)

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