Athletics at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Men's 440 yards

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) qualify directly for the quarterfinals.[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	John MacIsaac	Scotland	48.3	Q
2	1	Kevan Gosper	Australia	48.3	Q
3	1	Ignatius Okello	Uganda	48.7	Q
4	1	Gerard Leroy	Mauritius	50.5
5	1	Charles Flower	Gibraltar	53.1
1	2	Malcolm Spence	South Africa	47.6	Q
2	2	Basil Ince	Trinidad and Tobago	47.9	Q
3	2	Ted Sampson	England	48.4	Q
4	2	Doug Clement	Canada	49.4
5	2	Robert Hay	Scotland	49.9
1	3	Malcolm Spence	Jamaica	48.3	Q
2	3	John Salisbury	England	48.7	Q
3	3	James Paterson	Scotland	48.9	Q
4	3	Frederick Owusu	Ghana	49.2
5	3	Rasaki Adenola	Nigeria	52.3
1	4	George Kerr	Jamaica	48.4	Q
2	4	Derek Johnson	England	49.0	Q
3	4	John Quartey	Ghana	50.0	Q
4	4	William Dundas	Northern Ireland	51.0
5	4	Francis Tommy	Sierra Leone	52.0
1	5	Milkha Singh	India	48.9	Q
2	5	Samuel Chemweno	Kenya	48.9	Q
3	5	Wilton Jackson	Trinidad and Tobago	49.2	Q
4	5	Melville Spence	Jamaica	50.2
5	5	I. Benjamin	Sierra Leone	52.1
1	6	Gerald Evans	South Africa	48.9	Q
2	6	Barry Robinson	New Zealand	48.9	Q
3	6	George Shepherd	Canada	49.6	Q
4	6	Muhammad Yaqub	Pakistan	50.1
5	6	Richard Ampadu	Ghana	50.2
6	6	Clyde James	Trinidad and Tobago	54.6
1	7	John Wrighton	England	49.5	Q
2	7	Kipkorir Boit Kibet	Kenya	49.6	Q
3	7	Ronald Thomson	Scotland	49.7	Q
4	7	Daljit Singh	India	50.2
5	7	Adebayo Oladapo	Nigeria	50.7
1	8	Terry Tobacco	Canada	48.2	Q
2	8	Bartonjo Rotich	Kenya	49.1	Q
3	8	Abdul Rahim bin Ahmed	Malaya	49.7	Q
4	8	Gerald James	Jamaica	49.9
5	8	Tham Siew-kai	Sarawak	53.9
	8	Clifton Bertrand	Trinidad and Tobago	DNF

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) qualify directly for the semifinals.[3]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Ted Sampson	England	46.8	Q
2	1	Kevan Gosper	Australia	47.4	Q
3	1	Gerald Evans	South Africa	47.9	Q
4	1	Ronald Thomson	Scotland	48.8
5	1	Wilton Jackson	Trinidad and Tobago	49.2
	1	John Quartey	Ghana	DNS
1	2	Malcolm Spence	South Africa	46.7	Q
2	2	John Salisbury	England	47.3	Q
3	2	Kipkorir Boit Kibet	Kenya	48.0	Q
4	2	Ignatius Okello	Uganda	48.9
5	2	Abdul Rahim bin Ahmed	Malaya	49.4
	2	Barry Robinson	New Zealand	DNF
1	3	Terry Tobacco	Canada	46.8	Q
2	3	John Wrighton	England	47.2	Q
3	3	George Kerr	Jamaica	47.2	Q
4	3	Basil Ince	Trinidad and Tobago	47.9
5	3	Samuel Chemweno	Kenya	48.3
6	3	James Paterson	Scotland	48.6
1	4	Milkha Singh	India	47.0	Q
2	4	John MacIsaac	Scotland	47.3	Q
3	4	Bartonjo Rotich	Kenya	47.5	Q
4	4	Derek Johnson	England	47.7
5	4	Malcolm Spence	Jamaica	48.4
	4	George Shepherd	Canada	DNS

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) qualify directly for the final.[4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Malcolm Spence	South Africa	47.3	Q
2	1	John Wrighton	England	47.5	Q
3	1	Terry Tobacco	Canada	47.9	Q
4	1	Ted Sampson	England	48.2
5	1	George Kerr	Jamaica	48.4
6	1	Kipkorir Boit Kibet	Kenya	49.8
1	2	Milkha Singh	India	47.4	Q
2	2	John Salisbury	England	47.4	Q
3	2	John MacIsaac	Scotland	48.1	Q
4	2	Kevan Gosper	Australia	48.1
5	2	Bartonjo Rotich	Kenya	48.2
6	2	Gerald Evans	South Africa	48.96

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Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Milkha Singh	India	46.71
	1	Malcolm Spence	South Africa	46.9
	2	Terry Tobacco	Canada	47.05
4	3	John Salisbury	England	47.1
5	4	John Wrighton	England	47.2
6	5	John MacIsaac	Scotland	48.9