Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metres

Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		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
30 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 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 6 and 7 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Rick Mitchell  Australia	Joseph Coombs  Trinidad and Tobago	Glenn Bogue  Canada

Results[]

Heats[]

Held on 6 August

Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the quarterfinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6		Kenya	46.50	Q
2	4	Rick Mitchell	Australia	46.74	Q
3	5	Glenn Bogue	Canada	46.77	Q
4	5	Clyde Edwards	Barbados	46.78	Q
5	6	Glen Cohen	England	47.15	Q
6	4		Kenya	47.20	Q
7	5		Australia	47.42	Q
7	6		Ghana	47.42	Q
9	2		England	47.50	Q
10	3	Terry Whitehead	England	47.52	Q
11	2	Joseph Coombs	Trinidad and Tobago	47.53	Q
12	4		Wales	47.56	Q
13	2		Kenya	47.61	Q
14	3		Guyana	47.77	Q
15	1	David Jenkins	Scotland	47.78	Q
16	1	Fred Sowerby	Antigua and Barbuda	47.82	Q
17	4		Northern Ireland	47.83	Q
18	1		Trinidad and Tobago	47.87	Q
19	5	Roger Jenkins	Scotland	47.93	Q
20	1		Wales	47.97	Q
21	6	Bevan Smith	New Zealand	48.02	Q
22	4	Mike Solomon	Trinidad and Tobago	48.14	Q
23	2	Brian Saunders	Canada	48.26	Q
24	3		Australia	48.27	Q
25	6	Appunidage Premachandra	Sri Lanka	48.30	Q
26	3		Canada	48.31	Q
27	2	Elroy Turner	Antigua and Barbuda	48.46	Q
28	1	Bertland Cameron	Jamaica	48.49	Q
29	3		Ghana	48.53	Q
30	6		Bermuda	48.77	q
31	2	Renelda Swan	Bermuda	48.78	q
32	3	David Anderson	Isle of Man	48.80
33	1		Bermuda	48.86
34	5		Grenada	49.19	Q
35	4		Antigua and Barbuda	49.42
36	6		Belize	49.64
37	5		Saint Lucia	50.04
38	2		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	50.15
39	4		Mauritius	50.76
40	5		Gambia	50.98
41	3		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	51.15
42	1		Saint Lucia	51.39

Quarterfinals[]

Held on 6 August

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualify for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Glenn Bogue	Canada	46.06	Q
2	2		England	46.27	Q
3	4	Rick Mitchell	Australia	46.36	Q
4	1	Clyde Edwards	Barbados	46.38	Q
5	2	Joseph Coombs	Trinidad and Tobago	46.40	Q
6	3		Kenya	46.43	Q
7	3	Glen Cohen	England	46.45	Q
8	2		Kenya	46.46	Q
9	1	Terry Whitehead	England	46.52	Q
10	1	Brian Saunders	Canada	46.59	Q
11	2	David Jenkins	Scotland	46.66	q
12	2		Australia	46.71	q
13	1	Bevan Smith	New Zealand	46.77	q
14	4	Fred Sowerby	Antigua and Barbuda	46.80	Q
15	4	Mike Solomon	Trinidad and Tobago	46.89	Q
16	1		Guyana	47.07	q
17	1	Bertland Cameron	Jamaica	47.20
18	3		Ghana	47.21
19	4		Kenya	47.31
20	1		Wales	47.41
21	4		Wales	47.41
22	3	Roger Jenkins	Scotland	47.44
23	4		Northern Ireland	47.77
24	3		Trinidad and Tobago	47.83
25	3		Australia	47.84
26	4		Canada	48.20
27	4		Ghana	48.29
28	2	Elroy Turner	Antigua and Barbuda	48.35
29	2	Renelda Swan	Bermuda	48.77
30	3		Bermuda	48.99
31	2		Grenada	50.45
	1	Appunidage Premachandra	Sri Lanka	DNS

Semifinals[]

Held on 7 August

Qualification: First 4 in each semifinal (Q) qualify directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Fred Sowerby	Antigua and Barbuda	46.86	Q
2	1	Joseph Coombs	Trinidad and Tobago	46.87	Q
3	1		England	46.88	Q
3	2	Rick Mitchell	Australia	46.88	Q
5	2	Glen Cohen	England	47.00	Q
6	1	Brian Saunders	Canada	47.32	Q
6	2	Glenn Bogue	Canada	47.32	Q
8	1	David Jenkins	Scotland	47.37
9	1		Australia	47.41
10	2	Mike Solomon	Trinidad and Tobago	47.61	Q
11	1	Clyde Edwards	Barbados	47.62
12	2		Kenya	47.64
13	2	Terry Whitehead	England	47.85
14	2		Guyana	48.05
15	2	Bevan Smith	New Zealand	48.25
16	1		Kenya	48.55

Final[]

Held on 7 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rick Mitchell	Australia	46.34
	Joseph Coombs	Trinidad and Tobago	46.54
	Glenn Bogue	Canada	46.63
4	Mike Solomon	Trinidad and Tobago	46.97
5	Glen Cohen	England	46.99
6		England	47.32
7	Fred Sowerby	Antigua and Barbuda	47.51
8	Brian Saunders	Canada	48.01

References[]

• Heats & Quarterfinals results (The Canberra Times)
• Semifinals & Final results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results