Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres
Men's 400 metres at the Games of the XI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany | |||||||||
Dates | August 6 (heats and quarterfinals) August 7 (semifinals and final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 42 from 25 nations | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The men's 400 metres sprint event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place in early August. The final was won by American Archie Williams.[1]
Results
Heats
The fastest three runners in each of the eight heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.
Heat one
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Bill Roberts | Great Britain | 48.1 | |
2 | Olle Danielsson | Sweden | 48.6 | |
3 | Johnny Loaring | Canada | 49.1 | |
4 | Albert Jud | Switzerland | 49.4 | |
5 | Tibor Ribényi | Hungary | 50.1 |
Heat two
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Georges Henry | France | 49.2 | |
2 | Karel Kněnický | Czechoslovakia | 49.6 | |
3 | Dennis Shore | South Africa | 49.9 | |
4 | Sven Strömberg | Sweden | 50.0 | |
5 | Johann Baptist Gudenus | Austria | 52.9 |
Heat three
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Godfrey Brown | Great Britain | 48.8 | |
2 | Mario Lanzi | Italy | 49.3 | |
3 | Adolf Metzner | Germany | 50.2 | |
4 | Mohamed Ebeid | Egypt | 50.5 | |
5 | Jean Verhaert | Belgium | 50.7 | |
6 | Leonard Tay | Republic of China | 52.4 |
Heat four
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Harold Smallwood | United States | 49.0 | |
2 | Marshall Limon | Canada | 49.2 | |
3 | József Vadas | Hungary | 49.2 | |
4 | Rolf Schønheyder | Norway | 49.4 | |
5 | Antônio de Carvalho | Brazil | 50.4 | |
6 | Hiroyoshi Kubota | Japan | 50.8 |
Heat five
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Jimmy LuValle | United States | 49.1 | |
2 | Juan Carlos Anderson | Argentina | 49.4 | |
3 | Zoltán Zsitva | Hungary | 49.8 | |
4 | Francisc Nemeş | Romania | 50.9 | |
5 | Keiji Imai | Japan | 51.0 |
Heat six
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Hermann Blazejezak | Germany | 47.9 | |
2 | Godfrey Rampling | Great Britain | 48.6 | |
3 | Börje Strandvall | Finland | 49.3 | |
4 | Raymond Boisset | France | 49.5 | |
5 | Jean Krombach | Luxembourg | 50.4 |
Heat seven
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Archie Williams | United States | 47.8 | |
2 | William Fritz | Canada | 49.0 | |
3 | Gunnar Christensen | Denmark | 49.3 | |
4 | Toyoyi Aihara | Japan | 50.2 | |
5 | Raúl Muñoz | Chile | 50.5 |
Heat eight
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Pierre Skawinski | France | 48.9 | |
2 | Bertil von Wachenfeldt | Sweden | 49.0 | |
3 | Rudolf Klupsch | Germany | 49.1 | |
4 | Alfred König | Austria | 49.4 | |
5 | Gyan Bhalla | India | 52.4 |
Quarterfinals
The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bill Roberts | Great Britain | 47.7 | |
2 | Harold Smallwood | United States | 48.6 | |
3 | Mario Lanzi | Italy | 48.8 | |
4 | Zoltán Zsitva | Hungary | 49.4 | |
5 | Dennis Shore | South Africa | 49.6 | |
6 | Gunnar Christensen | Denmark | 51.0 |
Heat two
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Hermann Blazejezak | Germany | 48.2 | |
2 | Godfrey Brown | Great Britain | 48.3 | |
3 | William Fritz | Canada | 48.4 | |
4 | Bertil von Wachenfeldt | Sweden | 48.5 | |
5 | Georges Henry | France | 49.4 | |
6 | Börje Strandvall | Finland | 49.9 |
Heat three
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Archie Williams | United States | 48.0 | |
2 | Juan Carlos Anderson | Argentina | 48.7 | |
3 | Johnny Loaring | Canada | 49.3 | |
4 | Olle Danielsson | Sweden | 49.6 |
Heat four
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Jimmy LuValle | United States | 47.6 | |
2 | Pierre Skawinski | France | 48.0 | |
3 | Godfrey Rampling | Great Britain | 48.0 | |
4 | Rudolf Klupsch | Germany | 48.8 | |
5 | Marshall Limon | Canada | 48.9 | |
6 | Karel Kněnický | Czechoslovakia | 49.6 |
Semifinals
The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Archie Williams | United States | 47.2 | |
2 | Bill Roberts | Great Britain | 48.0 | |
3 | Johnny Loaring | Canada | 48.1 | |
4 | Mario Lanzi | Italy | 48.2 | |
5 | Pierre Skawinski | France | 52.0 |
Heat two
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Jimmy LuValle | United States | 47.1 | |
2 | Godfrey Brown | Great Britain | 47.3 | |
3 | William Fritz | Canada | 47.4 | |
4 | Godfrey Rampling | Great Britain | 47.5 | |
5 | Juan Carlos Anderson | Argentina | 48.5 | |
6 | Hermann Blazejezak | Germany | 49.2 |
Final
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Archie Williams | United States | 46.5 | ||
Godfrey Brown | Great Britain | 46.7 | ||
James LuValle | United States | 46.8 | ||
4 | Bill Roberts | Great Britain | 46.8 | |
5 | William Fritz | Canada | 47.8 | |
6 | Johnny Loaring | Canada | 48.2 |
References
- ^ "Athletics at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's 400 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2017.