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The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1959 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale di Torino in Turin on 4 and 6 September 1959.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Salvatore Morale Italy	Germano Gimelli Italy	Wiesław Król Poland

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Germano Gimelli	Italy	53.5	Q
2	1	Paul Haennig	France	53.7	Q^[3]
3	1	Mike Robinson	Great Britain	53.8
4	1	Jacques Pennewaert	Belgium	55.1
5	1	Mongi Soussi Zarrouki	Tunisia	55.2
6	1	Costa Martins	Portugal	57.1
1	2	Salvatore Morale	Italy	52.2	Q
2	2	Wiesław Król	Poland	53.5	Q
3	2	Aimo Kuukka	Finland	54.5
4	2	Francisco Sáinz	Spain	55.3	^[4]
5	2	Alexandros Froussios	Greece	55.8
6	2	Michel Tawil	Lebanon	59.0
1	3	Jean-Marie Kling	France	54.1	Q^[3]
2	3	Dimitrios Skourtis	Greece	54.5	Q
3	3	Albert Grawitz	West Germany	54.7
4	3	Per-Olof Swartz	Sweden	54.8
5	3	Bernardino Lombao	Spain	54.8	^[4]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Salvatore Morale	Italy	52.1
	Germano Gimelli	Italy	52.8
	Wiesław Król	Poland	53.2
4	Paul Haennig	France	53.8
5	Jean-Marie Kling	France	54.5
6	Dimitrios Skourtis	Greece	55.6

^ "Resultados Universiada - 1959" (PDF). Atletismo (in Spanish). November 1959: 8. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b French results
^ ^a ^b García, Gerardo (5 September 1959). "Una gran finale de finales en atletismo" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 2. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
^ García, Gerardo (7 September 1959). "Terminaron los Juegos de la Universiada" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 6. Retrieved 26 February 2021.