Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

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Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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
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
20 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
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California had an entrylist of 45 competitors, with six qualifying heats (45 runners) and two semifinals (16) before the final (8) took place on Sunday August 5, 1984.

Edwin Moses won his second Olympic gold medal after 1976, while 18 year old Danny Harris took the silver medal. Harald Schmid of West Germany took bronze

Medalists

Gold	Edwin Moses United States (USA)
Silver	Danny Harris United States (USA)
Bronze	Harald Schmid West Germany (FRG)

Records

These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics.

World Record	47.02	Edwin Moses	Koblenz (FRG)	August 31, 1983
Olympic Record	47.64	Edwin Moses	Montreal (CAN)	July 25, 1976

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME	LANE
	Edwin Moses (USA)	47.75	6
	Danny Harris (USA)	48.13	4
	Harald Schmid (FRG)	48.19	5
4.	Sven Nylander (SWE)	48.97	3
5.	Amadou Dia Bâ (SEN)	49.28	7
6.	Tranel Hawkins (USA)	49.42	1
7.	Michel Zimmermann (BEL)	50.69	8
8.	Henry Amike (NGR)	53.78	2

Semi finals

• Held on Saturday August 4, 1984.

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Edwin Moses (USA)	48.51
2.	Tranel Hawkins (USA)	48.94
3.	Amadou Dia Bâ (SEN)	49.44
4.	Michel Zimmermann (BEL)	49.79
5.	Simon Kitur (KEN)	49.80
6.	Uwe Schmitt (FRG)	50.08
7.	Greg Rolle (BAH)	50.16
8.	Antônio Ferreira (BRA)	50.70

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Danny Harris (USA)	48.92
2.	Sven Nylander (SWE)	49.03
3.	Harald Schmid (FRG)	49.04
4.	Henry Amike (NGR)	49.36
5.	Karl Smith (JAM)	49.58
6.	Franz Meier (SUI)	49.89
7.	Ryoichi Yoshida (JPN)	49.92
8.	Rik Tommelein (BEL)	50.06

Qualifying heats

• Held on Friday August 3, 1984.

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Edwin Moses (USA)	49.33
2.	Antônio Ferreira (BRA)	49.85
3.	Michel Zimmermann (BEL)	49.90
4.	Thomas Futterknecht (AUT)	50.25
5.	Thomas Nyberg (SWE)	50.47
6.	Gérard Brunel (FRA)	50.99
7.	Ahmed Ghanem (EGY)	51.08
8.	Phil Beattie (GBR)	51.27

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Harald Schmid (FRG)	49.34
2.	Karl Smith (JAM)	49.66
3.	Franz Meier (SUI)	49.81
4.	Rik Tommelein (BEL)	50.05
5.	Shigenori Omori (JPN)	50.14
6.	Georgios Vamvakas (GRE)	50.39
7.	Oswaldo Zea (VEN)	51.44

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Sven Nylander (SWE)	49.88
2.	Ryoichi Yoshida (JPN)	50.24
3.	René Djédjémél (CIV)	50.27
4.	Peter Rwamuhanda (UGA)	50.55
5.	Franck Jonot (FRA)	51.39
6.	Martin Gillingham (GBR)	52.15
7.	Vincent Confait (SEY)	53.62
7.	Nicolás Chaparro (PAR)	56.98

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Tranel Hawkins (USA)	49.51
2.	Simon Kitur (KEN)	49.70
3.	Uwe Schmitt (FRG)	49.77
4.	Ahmed Hamada (BRN)	50.62
5.	Ian Newhouse (CAN)	51.14
6.	Christer Gullstrand (SWE)	51.27
7.	Jean-Pierre Abossolo-Ze (CMR)	52.85
7.	Domingos Mendes (MOZ)	54.52

RANK	HEAT 5	TIME
1.	Amadou Dia Bâ (SEN)	49.94
2.	Henry Amike (NGR)	50.11
3.	Ken Gray (JAM)	50.46
4.	Martin Briggs (GBR)	50.62
5.	Pierre Leveille (CAN)	51.47
6.	Meshak Munyoro (KEN)	51.99
7.	Faustin Butéra (CMR)	54.36
7.	Ibrahim Khamis (UAE)	55.50

RANK	HEAT 6	TIME
1.	Danny Harris (USA)	49.81
2.	Greg Rolle (BAH)	50.41
3.	Lloyd Guss (CAN)	51.02
4.	Athanasios Kalogiannis (GRE)	50.62
5.	Jasem Al-Dowaila (KUW)	51.45
—	José Alonso (ESP)	DNF

References

• (English) Final
• (English) Semi finals
• (English) Round One