# Athletics at the 1985 Summer Universiade – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres event at the 1985 Summer Universiade was held at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in Kobe on 30 and 31 August.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Innocent Egbunike Nigeria | Roberto Hernández Cuba | Sunday Uti Nigeria |

## Results
### Heats

Held on 30 August
| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | Roberto Hernández | Cuba | 45.55 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Sunday Uti | Nigeria | 46.15 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Innocent Egbunike | Nigeria | 46.41 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Susumu Takano | Japan | 46.47 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Clarence Daniel | United States | 46.55 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | Lázaro Martínez | Cuba | 46.59 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | Andre Smith | Canada | 46.65 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | Leroy Dixon | United States | 46.76 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | Gusztáv Menczer | Hungary | 46.95 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | Antonio Sánchez | Spain | 47.01 | Q |
| 12 | 7 | Wilson dos Santos | Brazil | 47.10 | q |
| 13 | 1 | Vladimir Prosin | Soviet Union | 47.13 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | Tim Bethune | Canada | 47.14 | q |
| 15 | 3 | Marek Sira | Poland | 47.35 | Q |
| 16 | 1 | Oddur Sigurðsson | Iceland | 47.43 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | Mark Rosenberg | Australia | 47.49 | Q |
| 18 | 7? | Benjamín González | Spain | 47.50 | q |
| 19 | 1 | Luis Karin Toledo | Mexico | 47.52 | Q |
| 20 | 2 | Jorge Burgos | Mexico | 47.61 | Q |
| 21 | 3 | Takeo Suzuki | Japan | 47.71 | Q |
| 22 | 5 | Yevgeniy Lomtyev | Soviet Union | 47.72 | Q |
| 23 | 2 | Takale Tuna | Papua New Guinea | 48.17 | |
| 24 | 6 | Fred Lwanga | Uganda | 48.22 | |
| 25 | 5 | Slobodan Popović | Yugoslavia | 48.26 | Q |
| 26 | 3 | Z. Shihan | Iraq | 48.84 | Q |
| 27 | 4 | Lee Davis | Jamaica | 49.07 | Q |
| 28 | 1 | Saïd M'hand | Morocco | 49.15 | |
| 29 | 2 | Syed Meesaq Rizvi | Pakistan | 49.27 | |
| 30 | 1 | Felix Haas | Switzerland | 49.46 | |
| 31 | 4 | Sándor Vasvári | Hungary | 49.89 | |
| 32 | 3 | V. Golea | Fiji | 51.53 | |
| 33 | 5 | Arturo Leiva | Guatemala | 51.98 | |
| 34 | 3 | Mohamed El Moctar | Mauritania | 53.24 | |
| 35 | 5 | Tarik Ahmad | Afghanistan | 56.73 | |
| 36 | 4 | M. Luveniyali | Fiji | 57.74 | |

### Semifinals

Held on 31 August
| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Innocent Egbunike | Nigeria | 45.19 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Susumu Takano | Japan | 45.30 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 2 | Roberto Hernández | Cuba | 45.34 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Vladimir Prosin | Soviet Union | 45.66 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Antonio Sánchez | Spain | 45.77 | q |
| 6 | 3 | Gusztáv Menczer | Hungary | 45.81 | q |
| 7 | 1 | Leroy Dixon | United States | 45.92 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | Yevgeniy Lomtyev | Soviet Union | 45.93 | |
| 9 | 2 | Clarence Daniel | United States | 45.96 | |
| 10 | 1 | Sunday Uti | Nigeria | 46.09 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | Andre Smith | Canada | 46.65 | |
| 12 | 3 | Mark Rosenberg | Australia | 46.72 | |
| 13 | 3 | Slobodan Popović | Yugoslavia | 46.74 | |
| 14 | 1 | Lázaro Martínez | Cuba | 46.88 | |
| 14 | 3 | Oddur Sigurðsson | Iceland | 46.88 | |
| 16 | 1 | Wilson dos Santos | Brazil | 46.92 | |
| 17 | 2 | Marek Sira | Poland | 47.04 | |
| 18 | 2 | Takeo Suzuki | Japan | 47.57 | |
| 19 | 1 | Benjamín González | Spain | 47.63 | |
| 20 | 1 | Tim Bethune | Canada | 47.75 | |
| 21 | 1 | Jorge Burgos | Mexico | 47.75 | |
| 22 | 2 | Luis Karin Toledo | Mexico | 47.85 | |
| 23 | 1 | Z. Shihan | Iraq | 48.44 | |
| 24 | 2 | Lee Davis | Jamaica | 49.24 | |

### Final

Held on 31 August
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Innocent Egbunike | Nigeria | 45.10 |
| | Roberto Hernández | Cuba | 45.41 |
| | Sunday Uti | Nigeria | 45.58 |
| 4 | Gusztáv Menczer | Hungary | 46.06 |
| 5 | Leroy Dixon | United States | 46.20 |
| 6 | Vladimir Prosin | Soviet Union | 46.49 |
| 7 | Antonio Sánchez | Spain | 46.50 |
| | Susumu Takano | Japan | DNF |