Athletics at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metres

Athletics at the 1971 Pan American Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
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
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 400 metres event at the 1971 Pan American Games was held in Cali on 31 July and 1 August.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
John Smith  United States	Fred Newhouse  United States	Fernando Acevedo  Peru

Results[]

Heats[]

Held on 31 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Fernando Acevedo	Peru	45.81	Q
2	2	Fred Newhouse	United States	45.83	Q
3	4		Jamaica	46.94	Q
4	2	Kent Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	47.00	Q
5	4		Cuba	47.18	Q
6	2	Alfred Daley	Jamaica	47.24	Q
7	4		Venezuela	47.33	Q
8	1	John Smith	United States	47.49	Q
9	2	Melesio Piña	Mexico	47.67	Q
10	3	Jimmy Sierra	Colombia	47.74	Q
11	1	Raúl Dome	Venezuela	48.00	Q
12	2	Pedro Grajales	Colombia	48.06
13	3		Brazil	48.17	Q
14	3		Canada	48.25	Q
15	4		Peru	48.32	Q
16	3		Cuba	48.37	Q
17	1		Argentina	48.55	Q
18	1	Ian Gordon	Canada	48.64
19	4		Costa Rica	48.66
20	3			48.84
21	3		Argentina	48.92
22	1		Mexico	49.05
23	4		Dominican Republic	49.10
24	3		Trinidad and Tobago	49.15
25	2		Dominican Republic	50.09

Semifinals[]

Held on 31 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Fred Newhouse	United States	45.68	Q
2	1	John Smith	United States	46.11	Q
3	1	Fernando Acevedo	Peru	46.33	Q
4	2		Jamaica	46.77	Q
5	1	Alfred Daley	Jamaica	47.01	Q
6	1	Kent Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	47.25	Q
7	2		Cuba	47.69	Q
8	1	Melesio Piña	Mexico	47.74
9	1	Raúl Dome	Venezuela	47.82
10	2		Canada	47.87	Q
11	1		Cuba	48.10
12	2		Venezuela	48.46
13	2		Peru	48.66
14	1		Brazil	50.24
	2		Argentina	DNS
	2	Jimmy Sierra	Colombia	DNS

Final[]

Held on 1 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	John Smith	United States	44.60	GR
	Fred Newhouse	United States	45.08
	Fernando Acevedo	Peru	45.30
4	Alfred Daley	Jamaica	46.52
5		Jamaica	46.82
6		Canada	47.28
7	Kent Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	47.43
8		Cuba	47.46

References[]