Athletics at the 1965 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres event at the 1965 Summer Universiade was held at the People's Stadium in Budapest on 25, 26 and 27 August 1965.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sergio Bello  Italy	Fred van Herpen  Netherlands	Lynn Saunders  United States

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Bruno Bianchi	Italy	48.9	Q[2]
2	1	Werner Thiemann	West Germany	49.1	Q
3	1	Lynn Saunders	United States	49.5	Q
4	1	Pierre Gaudry	France	49.5	Q[3][4]
5	1	Alan Brereton	Canada	50.1
6	1	Yoshinori Sakai	Japan	50.2
1	2	Manfred Hanike	West Germany	48.6	Q[5]
2	2	Marian Filipiuk	Poland	48.7	Q[5]
3	2	Anders Lärkert	Sweden	48.9	Q
4	2	Jean-Pierre Boccardo	France	49.5	Q[3]
5	2	Niklaus Haas	Switzerland	49.9
6	2	Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	50.6
1	3	Masami Yoshida	Japan	50.0	Q
2	3	Wojciech Lipoński	Poland	51.4	Q
3	3	Enrique Bondía	Spain	52.2	Q[6]
4	3	Josef Hegyes	Czechoslovakia	53.2	Q
1	4	Fred van Herpen	Netherlands	48.5	Q[5]
2	4	Sergio Bello	Italy	48.7	Q[2]
3	4	Bo Althoff	Sweden	49.0	Q
4	4	Rogelio Rivas	Spain	49.0	Q[6]
5	4	Jaromír Haisl	Czechoslovakia	49.3
6	4	Vladimir Koshchakov	Soviet Union	49.6	[7]

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Sergio Bello	Italy	47.7	Q[8]
2	1	Pierre Gaudry	France	48.0	Q[3]
3	1	Lynn Saunders	United States	48.1	Q
4	1	Wojciech Lipoński	Poland	48.1	Q
5	1	Manfred Hanike	West Germany	48.2
6	1	Anders Lärkert	Sweden	48.4
7	1	Rogelio Rivas	Spain	48.4	PB[9]
8	1	Josef Hegyes	Czechoslovakia	49.7
1	2	Bo Althoff	Sweden	48.2	Q
2	2	Werner Thiemann	West Germany	48.3	Q
3	2	Jean-Pierre Boccardo	France	48.3	Q[3]
4	2	Fred van Herpen	Netherlands	48.6	Q[10]
5	2	Marian Filipiuk	Poland	48.8
6	2	Bruno Bianchi	Italy	48.9
7	2	Masami Yoshida	Japan	49.9
8	2	Enrique Bondía	Spain	51.0	[9]

Final

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sergio Bello	Italy	46.8
	Fred van Herpen	Netherlands	46.9	=NR
	Lynn Saunders	United States	47.2
4	Bo Althoff	Sweden	47.3
5	Wojciech Lipoński	Poland	47.7
6	Werner Thiemann	West Germany	47.8
7	Pierre Gaudry	France	47.8	[3]
8	Jean-Pierre Boccardo	France	48.1	[3]

References

1. Results at Tilastopaja
2. Preve, Vittorio (27 August 1965). "La Riedl si afferma nel tennis, Berruti eliminato nei 100 metri" (in Italian). La Stampa. p. 8.
3. French results
4. Year list
5. "Fred van Herpen loopt snelste 400 meter" (in Dutch). De Tijd De Maasbode. 26 August 1965. p. 6.
6. García, Gerardo (26 August 1965). "España perdió con Francia en la prórroga" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 6. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
7. Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p35)
8. Preve, Vittorio (28 August 1965). "Per le tenisiste italiane secondo successo a Budapest" (in Italian). La Stampa. p. 8.
9. García, Gerardo (27 August 1965). "El japonés Iljima con 10"1 superó el record universitario" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 5. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
10. "Brons voor Anja Lepoutre bij Universiade Boedapest" (in Dutch). Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. 26 August 1965. p. 6.
11. García, Gerardo (28 August 1965). "Iljima (sic) en los 5.000 marcó record japonés, con 13'45" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 2. Retrieved 13 February 2021.