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Athletics at the 1972 München Summer Games:

Women's 400 metres Quarter-Finals

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: München, West Germany
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, München
Date Started: September 3, 1972
Date Finished: September 3, 1972
Format: Top four in each heat advanced to the final.

Gold: GDR Monika Zehrt
Silver: FRG Rita Jahn-Wilden
Bronze: USA Kathy Hammond

Quarter-Finals Heat One

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(A) L
1 Charlene Rendina 24 Australia AUS 51.96 5 QU
2 Helga Seidler 23 East Germany GDR 51.97 3 QU
3 Nadezhda Kolesnikova-Ilyina 23 Soviet Union URS 52.30 1 QU
4 Trudy Ruth 22 Netherlands NED 52.45 8 QU
5 Karoline Käfer 17 Austria AUT 52.82 6
6 Janette Roscoe 26 Great Britain GBR 53.01 7
7 Anette Rückes 20 West Germany FRG 53.22 2

Quarter-Finals Heat Two

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(A) L
1 Yvonne Saunders 20 Jamaica JAM 52.13 8 QU
2 Monika Zehrt 19 East Germany GDR 52.33 2 QU
3 Judith Ayaa 20 Uganda UGA 52.68 7 QU
4 Christel Frese 28 West Germany FRG 53.01 1 QU
5 Colette Besson 26 France FRA 53.39 3
6 Marika Eklund-Lindholm 24 Finland FIN 53.50 6
7 Tekla Chemabwai 22 Kenya KEN 53.54 5
8 Nataliya Pechyonkina-Chistyakova 26 Soviet Union URS 54.58 4

Quarter-Finals Heat Three

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(A) L
1 Györgyi Balogh-Szomov 24 Hungary HUN 51.71 2 QU/OR
2 Rita Jahn-Wilden 24 West Germany FRG 51.91 8 QU
3 Aurelia Pentón 31 Cuba CUB 52.02 6 QU
4 Kathy Hammond 20 United States USA 52.44 5 QU
5 Danuta Piecyk 21 Poland POL 52.62 4
6 Penny Hunt 24 New Zealand NZL 52.66 1
7 Olga Syrovatskaya-Minyeyeva 19 Soviet Union URS 53.42 7
8 Donata Govoni 28 Italy ITA 53.78 3

Quarter-Finals Heat Four

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(A) L
1 Dagmar Käsling 25 East Germany GDR 52.33 1 QU
2 Mona-Lisa Strandvall-Pursiainen 21 Finland FIN 52.53 3 QU
3 Mable Fergerson 17 United States USA 52.93 7 QU
4 Nicole Duclos 25 France FRA 52.96 8 QU
5 Verona Bernard-Elder 19 Great Britain GBR 53.29 2
6 Allison Ross-Edwards 19 Australia AUS 53.60 5
7 Karin Wallgren-Lundgren 28 Sweden SWE 53.87 6
8 Krystyna Kacperczyk 23 Poland POL 54.39 4