Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Men's 400 metres hurdles at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Dates	July 29 (heats & semifinals) July 30 (final)
Medalists
David Burghley  Great Britain Frank Cuhel  United States Morgan Taylor  United States

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place between July 29 & July 30.

Results

Heats

The first two finishers in each of the six heats advanced to the Semifinal Round.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Lord Burghley	Great Britain	57.0
2	Robert Maxwell	United States	57.2
3	Evangelos Moiropoulos	Greece	58.4
4	André Adelheim	France	59.2
5	Herman Larsen	Denmark	1:00.0

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Johnny Gibson	United States	57.0
2	Frederick Chauncy	Great Britain
3	Émile Swinnen	Belgium
AC	Pierre Arnaudin	France	DNF

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Roger Viel	France	56.2
2	Thomas Livingston-Learmonth	Great Britain	56.4
3	Jukka Matilainen	Finland	56.7
4	Alf Watson	Australia	57.8

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Morgan Taylor	United States	55.2
2	Erkka Wilén	Finland	56.5
3	Erik Kjellström	Sweden	56.6

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	55.8
2	Stefan Kostrzewski	Poland	56.0
3	Lance Percival	Great Britain

Heat Six

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Frank Cuhel	United States	54.6
2	Luigi Facelli	Italy	55.1
3	Louis Lundgren	Denmark	55.9
4	Warren Montabone	Canada	56.5
5	Édouard Max-Robert	France
6	Abdul Hamid	India

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Morgan Taylor	United States	53.4	OR, Q
2	Frank Cuhel	United States	53.6	Q
3	David Burghley	Great Britain	53.9	Q
4	Roger Viel	France	57.6
5	Stefan Kostrzewski	Poland	58.0
6	Frederick Chauncy	Great Britain

Key: OR = Olympic record, Q = Qualified

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Thomas Livingston-Learmonth	Great Britain	54.0	Q
2	Luigi Facelli	Italy	54.2	Q
3	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	54.3	Q
4	Johnny Gibson	United States	54.4
5	Erkka Wilén	Finland	54.5
6	Robert Maxwell	United States

Key: Q = Qualified

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	David Burghley	Great Britain	53.4	=OR
	Frank Cuhel	United States	53.6
	Morgan Taylor	United States	53.6
4	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	53.8
5	Thomas Livingston-Learmonth	Great Britain	54.2
6	Luigi Facelli	Italy	55.8

Key: =OR = Equalled Olympic record