1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres

1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men
60 m hurdles	men	women
4 × 170 m relay		women
4 × 340 m relay	men	women
4 × 680 m relay	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
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The men's 400 metres event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 and 11 March in Rotterdam.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Luciano Sušanj  Yugoslavia	Benno Stops  East Germany	Dariusz Podobas  Poland

Held on 10 March.

First 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Luciano Sušanj	Yugoslavia	46.83	Q
2	4	Dariusz Podobas	Poland	47.55	Q
3	4	Michael Fredriksson	Sweden	47.70
4	1	Falko Geiger	West Germany	47.88	Q
5	1	Benno Stops	East Germany	48.06	Q
6	2	Hermann Köhler	West Germany	48.19	Q
7	3	Gerd Pollakowski	East Germany	48.20	Q
8	3	Ulrich Reich	West Germany	48.28	Q
9	1	Jan Balachowski	Poland	48.31
10	3	Patrick Salvador	France	48.33
11	2	Manuel Soriano	Spain	48.41	Q
12	2	Jim Aukett	Great Britain	48.47
13	3	Miroslav Tulis	Czechoslovakia	48.48
14	4	Bjarni Stefánsson	Iceland	48.73	NR
15	2	Khadzhi Rakhmanov	Soviet Union	48.74
16	1	Lucien Sainte-Rose	France	48.80

Held on 10 March.

First 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Luciano Sušanj	Yugoslavia	46.73	Q
2	1	Benno Stops	East Germany	47.28	Q
3	2	Dariusz Podobas	Poland	47.55	Q
4	1	Ulrich Reich	West Germany	47.62
5	2	Gerd Pollakowski	East Germany	47.75	Q
6	2	Falko Geiger	West Germany	47.84
7	2	Manuel Soriano	Spain	48.01
	1	Hermann Köhler	West Germany	DNS

Held on 11 March.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Luciano Sušanj	Yugoslavia	46.38	WB
	Benno Stops	East Germany	47.31
	Dariusz Podobas	Poland	47.40
4	Gerd Pollakowski	East Germany	48.28