Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres

Men's 400 metres at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Empire Stadium
Dates	August 4 (heats and quarterfinals) August 5 (semifinals and final)
Competitors	6 known from 3 known nations
Medalists
Arthur Wint Jamaica   Herb McKenley Jamaica   Mal Whitfield United States
«1936	1952»

Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
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
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 400 metres sprint event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between August 4 and August 5. The final was won by Jamaican Arthur Wint.

Results

Heats

The fastest two runners in each of the twelve heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jimmy Reardon	Ireland	48.4
2	Marko Račič	Yugoslavia	50.5
3	Chen Yinglang	China	50.9
4	Georgios Karageorgos	Greece	54.5

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	48.4
2	Rune Larsson	Sweden	49.2
3	Ferenc Bánhalmi	Hungary	49.6
4	Jaime Aparicio	Colombia	50.8
5	Guillermo Evans	Argentina	51.8

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Zvonko Sabolović	Yugoslavia	49.9
2	Kurt Lundquist	Sweden	50.0
3	Antonio Pocoví	Argentina	50.7
4	Mario Rosas	Colombia	51.4
5	L. Hasso	Iraq	56.8

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	George Rhoden	Jamaica	48.4
2	Dennis Shore	South Africa	49.0
3	Oskar Hardmeier	Switzerland	49.2
4	Angel García	Cuba	50.2
5	Bill Ramsay	Australia	50.3

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jacques Lunis	France	49.3
2	Folke Alnevik	Sweden	50.2
3	Carlos Monges	Mexico	50.9

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dave Bolen	United States	50.1
2	John Bartram	Australia	50.8
3	Hazzard Dill	Bermuda	53.0

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Les Lewis	Great Britain	48.9
2	Bjørn Vade	Norway	49.6
3	Ernie McCullough	Canada	49.9
4	Walter Keller	Switzerland	50.3
5	Runar Holmberg	Finland	50.6

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mal Whitfield	United States	48.3
2	Bill Roberts	Great Britain	48.9
3	Don McFarlane	Canada	49.5
4	Olavi Talja	Finland	50.4
5	Max Trepp	Switzerland	50.9

Heat nine

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Arthur Wint	Jamaica	47.7
2	Francis Schewetta	France	48.9
3	John De Saram	Sri Lanka	51.2
4	Tauno Suvanto	Finland	51.5
5	Doğan Acarbay	Turkey	53.0

Heat ten

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Morris Curotta	Australia	49.1
2	Rosalvo Ramos	Brazil	49.2
3	Raymond Crapet	France	49.4
4	Kemal Horulu	Turkey	51.5

Heat eleven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	George Guida	United States	49.0
2	Derek Pugh	Great Britain	49.3
3	Gustavo Ehlers	Chile	49.5
4	Stefanos Petrakis	Greece	54.5

Heat twelve

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Herman Kunnen	Belgium	50.0
2	Bob McFarlane	Canada	50.6
3	Reynir Sigurðsson	Iceland	51.4
4	Jaime Itlmann	Chile	51.5
5	Stylianos Stratakos	Greece	52.8

Quarterfinals

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mal Whitfield	United States	48.0
2	George Rhoden	Jamaica	48.6
3	Rosalvo Ramos	Brazil	48.7
4	Les Lewis	Great Britain	49.2
5	Zvonko Sabolović	Yugoslavia	49.5
6	Folke Alnevik	Sweden	50.6

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Arthur Wint	Jamaica	47.7
2	Morris Curotta	Australia	48.4
3	Dennis Shore	South Africa	48.5
4	Bill Roberts	Great Britain	48.6
5	Bjørn Vade	Norway	49.7

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	48.0
2	George Guida	United States	48.0
3	Rune Larsson	Sweden	48.8
4	John Bartram	Australia	49.9
5	Francis Schewetta	France	49.9
6	Marko Račič	Yugoslavia	52.1

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dave Bolen	United States	48.0
2	Jimmy Reardon Jacques Lunis	Ireland	48.3
3	Bob McFarlane	Canada	48.4
4	Kurt Lundquist	Sweden	48.4
5	Derek Pugh	Great Britain	48.8
6	Jacques Lunis	France	48.9

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1 !	Arthur Wint	Jamaica	46.2	=OR
2 !	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	46.4
3 !	Mal Whitfield	United States	46.9
4	Dave Bolen	United States	47.2
5	Morris Curotta	Australia	47.9
6	George Guida	United States	50.2

Key: =OR = Equalled Olympic record

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's 400 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-06-04.