Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games – Women's 400 metres

Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 400 metres event at the 1986 Commonwealth Games was held on 26 and 27 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Debbie Flintoff  Australia	Jillian Richardson  Canada	Kathy Cook  England

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Debbie Flintoff	Australia	52.92	Q
2	2	Jillian Richardson	Canada	53.11	Q
3	1	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	53.39	Q
4	2	Marita Payne	Canada	53.51	Q
5	1	Kathy Cook	England	53.69	Q
6	1	Maree Chapman	Australia	53.84	Q
7	2	Sharon Stewart	Australia	53.91	q
8	2	Angela Piggford	England	54.18	q
9	1	Helen Barnett	England	54.29
10	1	Sian Morris	Wales	54.75
11	2	Dawn Kitchen	Scotland	55.52
12	1	Fiona Hargreaves	Scotland	55.76
13	1	Linsey Macdonald	Scotland	58.26
14	2	Mary-Estelle Kapalu	Vanuatu	58.43

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Debbie Flintoff	Australia	51.29
	3	Jillian Richardson	Canada	51.62
	8	Kathy Cook	England	51.88
4	4	Marita Payne	Canada	52.00
5	5	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	52.02
6	1	Maree Chapman	Australia	52.08
7	7	Sharon Stewart	Australia	53.53
8	2	Angela Piggford	England	53.97