Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games – Women's 400 metres

Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
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
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
30 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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The women's 400 metres event at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was held on 3 and 4 October at the QE II Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Raelene Boyle  Australia	Michelle Scutt  Wales	Joslyn Hoyte-Smith  England

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Michelle Scutt	Wales	52.49	Q
2	2	Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	England	52.50	Q
3	3	Gladys Taylor	England	52.64	Q
4	1	Linsey MacDonald	Scotland	52.70	Q
5	1	Raelene Boyle	Australia	52.71	Q
6	3	Leanne Evans	Australia	53.02	Q
7	1	Molly Killingbeck	Canada	53.03	Q
8	3	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	53.10	Q
9	2	Cathy Rattray	Jamaica	53.20	Q
10	1	Kim Robertson	New Zealand	53.39	Q
11	2	Maxine Corcoran	Australia	53.64	Q
12	1	Mercy Addy	Ghana	53.69	Q
13	2	Marita Payne	Canada	53.71	Q
14	3	June Griffith	Guyana	53.72	Q
15	1	Carmen Smart	Wales	53.82	q
16	1	Ruth Waithera	Kenya	53.82	q
17	2	Angela Bridgeman	Scotland	53.91	Q
18	3	Sadia Sowunmi	Nigeria	56.20	q
19	3	Rose Tata-Muya	Kenya	56.27
20	2	Yolande Small	Trinidad and Tobago	56.32
21	2	Ruth Atuti	Kenya	56.52
22	2	Elanga Buala	Papua New Guinea	57.81
23	3	Mary-Estelle Kapalu	Vanuatu	59.85
	1	Linda Forsyth	England	DNF

Semifinals

Qualification: First 4 in each semifinal (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualify for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	England	52.6	Q
2	1	Raelene Boyle	Australia	52.64	Q
3	2	Michelle Scutt	Wales	52.86	Q
4	1	June Griffith	Guyana	52.88	Q
5	1	Kim Robertson	New Zealand	52.94	Q
6	1	Molly Killingbeck	Canada	53.04	q
7	2	Linsey MacDonald	Scotland	53.21	Q
8	2	Gladys Taylor	England	53.28	Q
9	1	Maxine Corcoran	Australia	53.29
10	2	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	53.34	Q
11	2	Cathy Rattray	Jamaica	53.60
12	2	Leanne Evans	Australia	53.60
13	1	Marita Payne	Canada	54.06
14	2	Angela Bridgeman	Scotland	54.09
15	2	Sadia Sowunmi	Nigeria	54.43
16	1	Carmen Smart	Wales	54.75
17	2	Ruth Waithera	Kenya	56.37
	1	Mercy Addy	Ghana	DNF

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Raelene Boyle	Australia	51.97
	7	Michelle Scutt	Wales	51.26
	1	Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	England	52.53
4	2	Gladys Taylor	England	52.56
5	5	Kim Robertson	New Zealand	53.02
6	3	Molly Killingbeck	Canada	53.10
7	6	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	53.16
8	8	June Griffith	Guyana	53.67
9	9	Linsey MacDonald	Scotland	53.87

References

• Heats & semifinals results (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Final results (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Heats & Semifinals results (The Canberra Times)
• Final results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results Archived 14 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine

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