Athletics at the 1991 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	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
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 400 metres event at the 1991 Summer Universiade was held at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield on 21 and 22 July 1991.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Maicel Malone  United States	Gretha Tromp  Netherlands	Galina Moskvina  Soviet Union

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Maicel Malone	United States	51.50	Q
2	1	Yelena Golesheva	Soviet Union	52.30	Q
3	2	Galina Moskvina	Soviet Union	53.17	Q
4	3	Gretha Tromp	Netherlands	53.20	Q
5	1	Renee Poetschka	Australia	53.55	Q
6	1	Sylwia Pachut	Poland	53.66	q
7	2	Tasha Downing	United States	53.85	Q
8	1	Orit Kolodni	Israel	54.70	q
9	1	Camelia Jianu	Romania	54.71
10	3	Barbara Grzywocz	Poland	54.82
11	3	Francesca Carbone	Italy	54.99
12	2	Maria Vicenza Marasco	Italy	55.75
12	3	Emma Nicholson	Ireland	55.75
14	2	Ester Sumah	Indonesia	56.92
15	2	Lin Shu-huei	Chinese Taipei	57.29
16	1	Jacqueline Solíz	Bolivia	59.10
17	2	Mirta Jackson	Costa Rica	1:01.61
18	3	Mariyam Shifa	Maldives	1:10.67

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Maicel Malone	United States	50.65
	Gretha Tromp	Netherlands	52.06
	Galina Moskvina	Soviet Union	52.34
4	Renee Poetschka	Australia	52.66
5	Yelena Golesheva	Soviet Union	52.74
6	Tasha Downing	United States	52.99
7	Sylwia Pachut	Poland	53.59
8	Orit Kolodni	Israel	53.66