Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metres

Women's 400 metres
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad

Venue

Olympic Stadium

Date

25–29 July

Competitors

40 from 19 nations

Winning time

49.29 WR

Medalists

	Irena Szewińska	Poland
	Christina Lathan	East Germany
	Ellen Streidt	East Germany

Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The Women's 400 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on 25–29 July.

Competition format

The Women's 400m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Quarterfinals, Semifinals and a Final. The five fastest competitors from each race in the heats plus the next two fastest overall qualified for the Quarterfinals. The four fastest competitors from each of the Quarterfinal races qualified for the Semifinals, where again the four fastest runners from each heat advanced to the final.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Irena Szewińska (POL)	49.75	Bydgoszcz, Poland	22 June 1976
Olympic record	Monika Zehrt (GDR)	51.08	Munich, West Germany	7 September 1972

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 5 of each heat (Q) plus the two fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lathan, ChristinaChristina Lathan	East Germany	52.45	Q
2	Bernard-Elder, VeronaVerona Bernard-Elder	Great Britain	52.60	Q
3	Wilden, RitaRita Wilden	West Germany	53.08	Q
4	Forde, LornaLorna Forde	Barbados	53.93	Q
5	Campbell, RachelleRachelle Campbell	Canada	54.54	Q

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Sapenter, DebraDebra Sapenter	United States	52.33	Q
2	Hartley, DonnaDonna Hartley	Great Britain	52.75	Q
3	Koch, MaritaMarita Koch	East Germany	52.78	Q
4	Berg, ReginaRegina Berg	Belgium	53.66	Q
5	Hollmann, SilviaSilvia Hollmann	West Germany	53.73	Q
6	Blake, HelenHelen Blake	Jamaica	53.93
7	Hocking, IleanaIleana Hocking	Puerto Rico	57.85

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Streidt, EllenEllen Streidt	East Germany	52.56	Q
2	Casapicola, ChristianeChristiane Casapicola	Austria	52.65	Q
3	Canty, JudyJudy Canty	Australia	52.88	Q
4	Neufville, MarilynMarilyn Neufville	Jamaica	52.93	Q
5	Wallez, RosineRosine Wallez	Belgium	52.94	Q
6	Pavličić, JelicaJelica Pavličić	Yugoslavia	54.11

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ingram, SheilaSheila Ingram	United States	51.83	Q
2	Sokolova, NataliyaNataliya Sokolova	Soviet Union	52.45	Q
3	Szewińska, IrenaIrena Szewińska	Poland	52.75	Q
4	Yakubowich, JoyceJoyce Yakubowich	Canada	53.35	Q
5	Taylor, GladysGladys Taylor	Great Britain	53.46	Q
6	Eklund-Lindholm, MarikaMarika Eklund-Lindholm	Finland	53.64	q
7	N'Drin, CélestineCélestine N'Drin	Ivory Coast	54.13

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Bryant, RosalynRosalyn Bryant	United States	52.01	Q
2	Salin, RiittaRiitta Salin	Finland	52.57	Q
3	Aksyonova, LyudmilaLyudmila Aksyonova	Soviet Union	52.90	Q
4	Nail, BethanieBethanie Nail	Australia	52.98	Q
5	Williams-Simpson, RuthRuth Williams-Simpson	Jamaica	54.07	Q
6	Ritter, HelenHelen Ritter	Liechtenstein	58.52

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ilyina, NadezhdaNadezhda Ilyina	Soviet Union	51.97	Q
2	Burnard, VernaVerna Burnard	Australia	52.10	Q
3	Fuhrmann, DagmarDagmar Fuhrmann	West Germany	52.58	Q
4	Wilmi-Häggman, PirjoPirjo Wilmi-Häggman	Finland	52.73	Q
5	Stride, MargaretMargaret Stride	Canada	53.21	Q
6	Bottiglieri, RitaRita Bottiglieri	Italy	53.37	q
7	Gauthier, Rose-MarieRose-Marie Gauthier	Haiti	1:13.27

Quarterfinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ingram, SheilaSheila Ingram	United States	51.31	Q
2	Streidt, EllenEllen Streidt	East Germany	51.33	Q
3	Wilmi-Häggman, PirjoPirjo Wilmi-Häggman	Finland	51.65	Q
4	Aksyonova, LyudmilaLyudmila Aksyonova	Soviet Union	51.73	Q
5	Fuhrmann, DagmarDagmar Fuhrmann	West Germany	52.02
6	Canty, JudyJudy Canty	Australia	52.65
7	Forde, LornaLorna Forde	Barbados	53.62
8	Campbell, RachelleRachelle Campbell	Canada	54.16

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Sokolova, NataliyaNataliya Sokolova	Soviet Union	51.63	Q
2	Lathan, ChristinaChristina Lathan	East Germany	51.67	Q
3	Burnard, VernaVerna Burnard	Australia	51.79	Q
4	Wilden, RitaRita Wilden	West Germany	52.41	Q
5	Taylor, GladysGladys Taylor	Great Britain	53.71
6	Eklund-Lindholm, MarikaMarika Eklund-Lindholm	Finland	54.07
7	Stride, MargaretMargaret Stride	Canada	55.02
N/A	Neufville, MarilynMarilyn Neufville	Jamaica	DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Sapenter, DebraDebra Sapenter	United States	51.23	Q
2	Ilyina, NadezhdaNadezhda Ilyina	Soviet Union	51.32	Q
3	Nail, BethanieBethanie Nail	Australia	51.71	Q
4	Casapicola, ChristianeChristiane Casapicola	Austria	52.25	Q
5	Bernard-Elder, VeronaVerona Bernard-Elder	Great Britain	52.70
6	Wallez, RosineRosine Wallez	Belgium	53.04
7	Hollmann, SilviaSilvia Hollmann	West Germany	53.77
8	Williams-Simpson, RuthRuth Williams-Simpson	Jamaica	53.88

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Salin, RiittaRiitta Salin	Finland	51.62	Q
2	Bryant, RosalynRosalyn Bryant	United States	51.74	Q
3	Koch, MaritaMarita Koch	East Germany	51.87	Q
4	Szewińska, IrenaIrena Szewińska	Poland	52.00	Q
5	Hartley, DonnaDonna Hartley	Great Britain	52.29
6	Bottiglieri, RitaRita Bottiglieri	Italy	52.51
7	Berg, ReginaRegina Berg	Belgium	53.14
8	Yakubowich, JoyceJoyce Yakubowich	Canada	53.14

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Szewińska, IrenaIrena Szewińska	Poland	50.48	Q OR
2	Streidt, EllenEllen Streidt	East Germany	50.51	Q
3	Ingram, SheilaSheila Ingram	United States	50.90	Q
4	Salin, RiittaRiitta Salin	Finland	51.26	Q
5	Nail, BethanieBethanie Nail	Australia	51.44
6	Aksyonova, LyudmilaLyudmila Aksyonova	Soviet Union	51.55
7	Casapicola, ChristianeChristiane Casapicola	Austria	52.20
N/A	Koch, MaritaMarita Koch	East Germany	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Bryant, RosalynRosalyn Bryant	United States	50.62	Q
2	Lathan, ChristinaChristina Lathan	East Germany	50.86	Q
3	Wilmi-Häggman, PirjoPirjo Wilmi-Häggman	Finland	51.03	Q
4	Sapenter, DebraDebra Sapenter	United States	51.34	Q
5	Ilyina, NadezhdaNadezhda Ilyina	Soviet Union	51.42
6	Burnard, VernaVerna Burnard	Australia	51.71
7	Wilden, RitaRita Wilden	West Germany	51.82
8	Sokolova, NataliyaNataliya Sokolova	Soviet Union	51.95

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
01 !	Szewińska, IrenaIrena Szewińska	Poland	49.29	WR
02 !	Lathan, ChristinaChristina Lathan	East Germany	50.51
03 !	Streidt, EllenEllen Streidt	East Germany	50.55
4	Wilmi-Häggman, PirjoPirjo Wilmi-Häggman	Finland	50.56
5	Bryant, RosalynRosalyn Bryant	United States	50.65
6	Ingram, SheilaSheila Ingram	United States	50.90
7	Salin, RiittaRiitta Salin	Finland	50.98
8	Sapenter, DebraDebra Sapenter	United States	51.66

References

Official Olympic Report, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 20, 2012.

400 metres at the Olympic Games

Summary

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Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012

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