Athletics at the 1963 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	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
Decathlon	men
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The men's 400 metres event at the 1963 Summer Universiade was held at the Estádio Olímpico Monumental in Porto Alegre in September 1963.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Adrian Metcalfe  Great Britain	Hans-Joachim Reske  West Germany	Jacques Pennewaert  Belgium

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Johannes Schmitt	West Germany	48.6	Q
2	1	Mario Fraschini	Italy	49.1	Q
3	1	Hirotada Hayase	Japan	49.5
4	1	Gaston Fouchard	France	49.6
1	2	Hans-Joachim Reske	West Germany	47.45	Q
2	2	István Gyulai	Hungary	47.81	Q
3	2	Menzies Campbell	Great Britain	47.92
4	2	Sergio Bello	Italy	48.6
5	2	Ademar Rocha Filho	Brazil	52.2
1	3	Jacques Pennewaert	Belgium	48.03	Q
2	3	Adrian Metcalfe	Great Britain	48.14	Q
3	3	Jean-Pierre Vitasse	France	48.4
4	3	Shlomo Nitzani	Israel	48.7
5	3	Carlo Milani	Brazil	52.2

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Adrian Metcalfe	Great Britain	46.75
	Hans-Joachim Reske	West Germany	46.92
	Jacques Pennewaert	Belgium	47.02
4	Johannes Schmitt	West Germany	47.49
5	István Gyulai	Hungary	48.40
6	Mario Fraschini	Italy	48.54