Athletics at the 1970 Summer Universiade – Women's 400 metres

The women's 400 metres event at the 1970 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale in Turin on 2 and 4 September 1970.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Maria Sykora Austria	Carmen Trustée Cuba	Aurelia Pentón Cuba

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Carmen Trustée	Cuba	55.2	Q
2	1	Kamaljit Sandhu	India	57.7	Q
3	1	Natalya Pechonkina	Soviet Union	59.3	^[3]
4	1	Elisabeth Fritscher	Austria	1:00.0
1	2	Maria Sykora	Austria	53.9	Q
2	2	Marie-Claude Druel	France	54.7	Q^[4]
3	2	Irenice Rodrigues	Brazil	54.7	q
4	2	Éva Pusztai	Hungary	55.8
5	2	Silvana Zangirolami	Italy	56.0
1	3	Aurelia Pentón	Cuba	54.4	Q
2	3	Gale Fitzgerald	United States	55.1	Q
3	3	Hanna Kowal	Poland	55.2	q
4	3	Silvia Chersoni	Italy	56.2
5	3	Libuše Macounová	Czechoslovakia	56.4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Maria Sykora	Austria	52.8	UR
	Carmen Trustée	Cuba	53.5
	Aurelia Pentón	Cuba	53.8
4	Hanna Kowal	Poland	54.4
5	Marie-Claude Druel	France	54.4
6	Irenice Rodrigues	Brazil	54.5
7	Gale Fitzgerald	United States	56.5
8	Kamaljit Sandhu	India	56.5

^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ García, Gerardo (3 September 1970). "Tallón, Octavo en la final de jabalina, y Jones clasificado para la semifinal en 100 m." (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 19. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
^ Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p121)
^ French results
^ "Glanzleistungen an der Universiade" (in German). Zurich Die Tat. 7 September 1970. p. 8. Retrieved 9 June 2020.

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