Athletics at the 1955 Summer International University Sports Week – Men's 400 metres

Athletics at the 1955 Summer International University Sports Week

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Medley relay	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
Pentathlon	men
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The men's 400 metres event at the 1955 International University Sports Week was held in San Sebastián on 12, 13 and 14 August 1955.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Grant Scruggs United States	Jean-Jacques Hegg Switzerland	John Wrighton Great Britain

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Grant Scruggs	United States	50.5	Q
2	1	Roger Baker	Great Britain	50.6	Q
3	1	Mario Paoletti	Italy	51.0	Q
4	1	Heinrich Moser	West Germany	51.3
5	1	Jacques Bierlaire	Belgium	51.4
6	1	Puertas	Spain	54.8
1	2	Juan Cruz Echeandía	Spain	51.1	Q
2	2	John Wrighton	Great Britain	51.3	Q
3	2	Rolf Ude	West Germany	52.2	Q
4	2	Walter Kratz	Saar	53.3
1	3	Kanji Akagi	Japan	50.3	Q
2	3	Enrico Archilli	Italy	50.7	Q
3	3	Urban Cleve	West Germany	51.0	Q
4	3	Fernando Bremón	Spain	51.5
5	3	Roger Bofferding	Luxembourg	51.6
1	4	Jean-Jacques Hegg	Switzerland	49.6	Q
2	4	João Coutinho	Portugal	50.5	Q
3	4	Shigeharu Suzuki	Japan	50.7	Q
4	4	Jim Paterson	Great Britain	50.9
5	4	Arie Gluck	Israel	55.4

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Grant Scruggs	United States	49.5	Q
2	1	João Coutinho	Portugal	49.8	Q
3	1	Enrico Archilli	Italy	49.9	Q
4	1	Roger Baker	Great Britain	50.7
5	1	Urban Cleve	West Germany	51.1
6	1	Shigeharu Suzuki	Japan	53.2
1	2	Kanji Akagi	Japan	49.9	Q
2	2	Jean-Jacques Hegg	Switzerland	50.0	Q
3	2	John Wrighton	Great Britain	50.3	Q
4	2	Mario Paoletti	Italy	50.8
5	2	Rolf Ude	West Germany	50.9
6	2	Juan Cruz Echeandía	Spain	54.2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Grant Scruggs	United States	48.0
	Jean-Jacques Hegg	Switzerland	48.2
	John Wrighton	Great Britain	48.9
4	Kanji Akagi	Japan	49.6
5	João Coutinho	Portugal	49.9
6	Enrico Archilli	Italy	49.9

^ García, Gerardo. "Resultados de la IV Semana Internacional Deportiva Universitaria" (PDF). Atletismo (in Spanish). October 1955: 15–19. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
^ García, Gerardo (14 August 1955). "La IV Semana Internacional Universitaria" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 3. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
^ García, Gerardo (15 August 1955). "El brasileño Da Silva estableció un nuevo récord de triple salto con 15 metros y 99 centímetros" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 3. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

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