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Show medals won by any nation at the Universiade in 400m · all years

2025 Bochum

1 400m Men RSA Lythe Pillay 44.84
1 400m Women CZE Barbora Malikova 51.52

2023 Chengdu

1 400m Women RSA Marlie Viljoen 52.38
1 400m Men POR Joao Coelho 44.79 CR=NR

2019 Naples

1 400m Men MEX Valente Mendoza 45.63
1 400m Women MEX Paola Moran 51.52

2017 Taipei

1 400m Men DOM Luguelin Santos 45.24
1 400m Women POL Malgorzata Holub-Kowalik OG 51.76

2015 Gwangju

1 400m Men DOM Luguelin Santos 44.91
1 400m Women RSA Justine Palframan 51.27

2013 Kazan

1 400m Women RUS Ksenia Ustalova 50.60
1 400m Men RUS Vladimir Krasnov 45.49

2011 Shenzhen

1 400m Women RUS Olga Topilskaya 51.63
1 400m Men HUN Marcell Deak-Nagy 45.50

2009 Belgrade

1 400m Women SEN Fatou Bintou Fall 51.65
1 400m Men JPN Yuzo Kanemaru 45.68

2007 Bangkok

1 400m Men AUS Sean Wroe 45.49
1 400m Women KAZ Olga Tereshkova 51.62

2005 Izmir

1 400m Men JAM Marvin Essor 45.99
1 400m Women RUS Natalya Nazarova 51.31

2003 Daegu

1 400m Women RUS Tatyana Firova 51.81
1 400m Men UKR Andriy Tverdostup 46.08

2001 Beijing

1 400m Women USA Demetria Washington 51.22
1 400m Men USA Andrew Pierce 45.34

1999 Palma de Mallorca

1 400m Men USA Jerome Davis 44.91
1 400m Women ROU Ionela Tirlea 49.88 CR

1997 Sicily

1 400m Women GBR Allison Curbishley 50.84
1 400m Men NGR Clement Chukwu OG 44.81 CR

1995 Fukuoka

1 400m Men VIN Eswort Coombs 45.38
1 400m Women NGR Olabisi Afolabi 50.50

1993 Buffalo

1 400m Men GHA Ibrahim Hassan 45.87
1 400m Women USA Michelle Collins 52.01

1991 Sheffield

1 400m Women USA Maicel Malone OG 50.65
1 400m Men JAM Patrick O'Connor 45.52

1989 Duisburg

1 400m Men CUB Roberto Hernandez 45.42
1 400m Women CUB Ana Fidelia Quirot 50.73

1987 Zagreb

1 400m Men USA Michael Franks 45.33
1 400m Women USA Denean Howard OG 51.07

1985 Kobe

1 400m Women URS Tatyana Alekseyeva 51.49
1 400m Men NGR Innocent Egbunike 45.10

1983 Edmonton

1 400m Men NGR Sunday Uti 45.32
1 400m Women URS Mariya Pinigina OG 50.47

1981 Bucharest

1 400m Men USA Cliff Wiley 45.18
1 400m Women URS Irina Baskakova 51.45

1979 Mexico City ↗

1 400m Men GER Harald Schmid 44.98 CR note
1 400m Women URS Mariya Kulchunova OG 50.35 CR

1977 Sofia

1 400m Women USA Rosalyn Bryant 52.10
1 400m Men BEL Alfons Brydenbach 45.18 CR

1975 Rome

1 400m Women FIN Pirjo Haggman 51.80 CR
1 400m Men POL Jerzy Pietrzyk 46.26

1973 Moscow

1 400m Women URS Nadezhda Kolesnikova 52.04 CR
1 400m Men CUB Alberto Juantorena OG 45.36 CR

1970 Turin

1 400m Women AUT Maria Sykora 52.8 CR
1 400m Men USA Tom Ulan 45.9 CR

1967 Tokyo

1 400m Men GER Ingo Roper 46.0 CR note
1 400m Women SWE Elisabeth Östberg 55.4

1965 Budapest

1 400m Men ITA Sergio Bello 46.8

1963 Porto Alegre

1 400m Men GBR Adrian Metcalfe 46.75 CR

1961 Sofia

1 400m Men CZE Josef Trousil 47.51 CR note

1959 Turin

1 400m Men JUG Viktor Snajder 47.5