Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade – Women's 400 metres hurdles

Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade
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
20 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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1981 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 24 and 25 July 1981.^[1] It was the first time that this event was contested by women at the Universiade.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Anna Kastyetskaya  Soviet Union	Birgit Sonntag  East Germany	Tatyana Zubova  Soviet Union

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Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Anna Kastyetskaya	Soviet Union	56.24	Q
2	2	Anne Michel	Belgium	57.16	Q
3	1	Birgit Sonntag	East Germany	57.29	Q
4	2	Tatyana Zubova	Soviet Union	57.63	Q
5	1	Cristina Cojocaru	Romania	57.67	Q
5	2	Yvette Wray	Great Britain	57.67	Q
7	1	Giuseppina Cirulli	Italy	57.80	q
8	1	Tammy Ettenne	United States	58.18	q
9	2	Patrizia Lombardo	Italy	59.05
10	2	Kirsi Ulvinem	Sweden	59.53
11	1	Esther Kaufmann	Switzerland	1:00.06

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Anna Kastyetskaya	Soviet Union	55.52
	Birgit Sonntag	East Germany	55.90
	Tatyana Zubova	Soviet Union	57.07
4	Anne Michel	Belgium	57.57
5	Yvette Wray	Great Britain	57.62
6	Giuseppina Cirulli	Italy	57.77
7	Cristina Cojocaru	Romania	58.64
8	Tammy Ettenne	United States	58.90