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

The men's 400 metres event at the 1987 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadion Maksimir in Zagreb on 13, 14 and 15 July 1987.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Michael Franks United States	Moses Ugbusien Nigeria	Raymond Pierre United States

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Moses Ugbisien	Nigeria	45.98	Q
2	5	Raymond Pierre	United States	46.59	Q
3	1	Howard Burnett	Jamaica	46.65	Q
4	1	Ismail Mačev	Yugoslavia	46.77	q
5	2	Antonio Sánchez	Spain	46.78	Q
6	3	Michael Franks	United States	46.80	Q
6	9	Vladimir Prosin	Soviet Union	46.80	Q
8	2	Slobodan Branković	Yugoslavia	46.92	Q
9	2	Carlos Morales	Chile	46.96	q
10	3	Andre Smith	Canada	47.19	Q
11	9	Joseph Falaye	Nigeria	47.21	Q
12	7	Andrea Montanari	Italy	47.41	Q
13	6	Anatole Zongo Kuyo	Ivory Coast	47.54	Q
14	1	Marcello Pantone	Italy	47.56	q
15	8	Ervin Katona	Hungary	47.59	Q
16	6	António Abrantes	Portugal	47.65	Q
17	7	Manuel González	Spain	47.89	Q
18	5	Sylvain Lake	Canada	48.08	Q
19	1	Domingo Cordero	Puerto Rico	48.18	q
20	6	Donald Porter	Jamaica	48.30	q
21	1	Moisés del Castillo	Peru	48.58
22	5	Jonathan Njau	Tanzania	48.60
23	5	Irving Gil	Panama	48.68
24	9	Pedro Curvelo	Portugal	48.85	^[4]
25	1	David Ince	Barbados	48.92
26	6	Melvin Morales	Puerto Rico	48.99
27	2	Muhammad Fayyaz	Pakistan	49.09
27	5	Alejandro Krauss	Chile	49.09
29	7	Faustino Kiwa	Uganda	49.38
30	3	Fikret Tulumtaş	Turkey	49.56
31	4	Marek Sira	Poland	49.59	Q
32	7	Alberto Izu	Peru	49.81
33	4	Omar Abdulkadir Arale	Somalia	49.83	Q
34	2	Andrew Scully	Malaysia	49.97
35	8	Charalambos Papadopoulos	Cyprus	50.18	Q
36	3	Sekou Diakite	Guinea	50.69
37	2	Clement Taipala	Papua New Guinea	50.92
38	3	Naderi Mirwais	Afghanistan	50.93
39	4	Ekoue Ekoue-Totou	Togo	51.53
40	5	Manuel Youness	Lebanon	51.94
41	5	Chung Man Biu	Hong Kong	52.28
42	7	Lee Ka Kit	Hong Kong	53.59
43	8	Maher Abou Hajleh	Jordan	53.63
44	3	Soliman Ismailalazhari	Sudan	54.31

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Michael Franks	United States	45.56	Q
2	1	Vladimir Prosin	Soviet Union	45.63	Q
3	2	Raymond Pierre	United States	45.71	Q
4	1	Antonio Sánchez	Spain	45.99	q
5	2	Howard Burnett	Jamaica	46.15	Q
6	3	Moses Ugbisien	Nigeria	46.18	Q
7	3	Andre Smith	Canada	46.38	Q
8	3	Ismail Mačev	Yugoslavia	46.44	q
9	3	Marek Sira	Poland	46.59
10	2	Slobodan Branković	Yugoslavia	46.73
11	1	Andrea Montanari	Italy	47.17
12	2	Marcello Pantone	Italy	47.23
13	2	Joseph Falaye	Nigeria	47.27
14	1	Carlos Morales	Chile	47.45
15	2	António Abrantes	Portugal	47.53
16	3	Ervin Katona	Hungary	47.61
17	1	Donald Porter	Jamaica	47.83
18	3	Manuel González	Spain	47.84
19	1	Anatole Zongo Kuyo	Ivory Coast	47.87
20	1	Moisés del Castillo	Peru	48.04
21	3	Sylvain Lake	Canada	48.15
22	2	Charalambos Papadopoulos	Cyprus	49.87
23	2	Omar Abdulkadir Arale	Somalia	50.06
	3	Domingo Cordero	Puerto Rico	?

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	3	Michael Franks	United States	45.33
	2	Moses Ugbisien	Nigeria	45.37
	6	Raymond Pierre	United States	45.67
4	5	Antonio Sánchez	Spain	45.82
5	4	Vladimir Prosin	Soviet Union	45.91
6	7	Ismail Mačev	Yugoslavia	46.17
7	8	Andre Smith	Canada	46.30
8	1	Howard Burnett	Jamaica	47.32

^ 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". Los Angeles Times. 14 July 1987. p. 35. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
^ Portuguese results
^ "Semifinals results". The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 July 1987. p. 40. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
^ "Final results". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 July 1987. p. 32. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

Athletics at the 1987 Summer Universiade

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
5 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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