1958 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 400 metres at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 19 and 21 August 1958.^[1] This was the first time that women competed in the 400 metres at the European Championships.

Gold	Mariya Itkina  Soviet Union
Silver	Yekaterina Parlyuk  Soviet Union
Bronze	Moyra Hiscox  Great Britain

21 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mariya Itkina	Soviet Union	53.7	CR
	Yekaterina Parlyuk	Soviet Union	54.8
	Moyra Hiscox	Great Britain	55.7
4	Shirley Pirie	Great Britain	55.7
5	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	56.3
6	Ida Németh	Hungary	56.3

19 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mariya Itkina	Soviet Union	54.0	CR Q
2	Shirley Pirie	Great Britain	56.2	Q
3	Ida Németh	Hungary	56.8	Q
4	Bärbel Reinnagel	East Germany	57.7
5	Lesley MacKinnon	Great Britain	58.2
6	Gül Çıray	Turkey	60.8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yekaterina Parlyuk	Soviet Union	55.4	Q
2	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	55.7	Q
3	Moyra Hiscox	Great Britain	55.7	Q
4	Maria Jeibmann	West Germany	55.9
5	Beata Żbikowska	Poland	57.2
6	Jytte Kort	Denmark	57.9

According to an unofficial count, 12 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.