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Athletics at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games:

Men's 400 metres Semi-Finals

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: Moskva, Soviet Union
Venue(s): Grand Arena, Central Lenin Stadium Area, Moskva
Date Started: July 28, 1980
Date Finished: July 28, 1980
Format: Top four in each heat advanced to the final.

Gold: URS Viktor Markin
Silver: AUS Rick Mitchell
Bronze: GDR Frank Schaffer

Semi-Finals Heat One

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(A) L
1 Fons Brijdenbach 25 Belgium BEL 45.46 5 QU
2 Rick Mitchell 25 Australia AUS 45.48 4 QU
3 David Jenkins 28 Great Britain GBR 45.59 7 QU
4 Mike Solomon 25 Trinidad and Tobago TTO 45.61 8 QU
5 Dele Udo 23 Nigeria NGR 45.88 3
6 Nikolay Chernetsky 20 Soviet Union URS 45.94 2
7 Mauro Zuliani 20 Italy ITA 46.01 6
8 Karel Kolář 24 Czechoslovakia TCH 46.11 1

Semi-Finals Heat Two

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(A) L
1 Frank Schaffer 21 East Germany GDR 45.47 7 QU
2 Viktor Markin 23 Soviet Union URS 45.60 1 QU
3 Alberto Juantorena 29 Cuba CUB 45.95 8 QU
4 Joseph Coombs 28 Trinidad and Tobago TTO 45.96 3 QU
5 Viktor Burakov 25 Soviet Union URS 45.97 6
6 Didier Dubois 22 France FRA 46.72 4
7 Jens Smedegaard Hansen 23 Denmark DEN 47.00 5
8 Alan Bell 23 Great Britain GBR 48.50 2