1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	18 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	July 31, 1932 (preliminary / semi-finals) August 1, 1932 (final)
Medalist Bob Tisdall ( IRL )   Glenn Hardin ( USA )   Morgan Taylor ( USA )

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on July 31 and August 1, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 18 athletes took part. For the first time at the Olympic Games, starting pistols , electronic timekeeping and target photos were used, but electronic timekeeping was only used unofficially.

Olympic champion was the Irishman Bob Tisdall ahead of the Americans Glenn Hardin and Morgan Taylor .

Existing records

• World record : 52.0 s - Morgan Taylor ( USA ), Philadelphia , July 4, 1928
• Olympic record : 53.4s - Morgan Taylor ( USA ), first semi-final in Amsterdam , July 29, 1928 / David Burghley ( Great Britain ), final in Amsterdam , July 30, 1928

Conducting the competition

On July 31, the runners competed in four heats. The three fastest athletes each qualified for the semi-finals on the same day. The three best runners from the preliminary rounds made it to the final, which was held on August 1st.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The run times given are the hand-stopped results from the official report. The final times were stopped electronically.

Prelims

Date: July 31, 1932

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Morgan Taylor	United States	55.8 s
2	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	56.1 s
3	Christos mantikas	Greece	56.4 s
4th	Seiken Cho	Japan	56.5 s
5	Alfonso González	Mexico	56.7 s

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Bob Tisdall	Irish Free State	54.8 s
2	Fritz Nottbrock	German Empire	55.0 s
3	Glenn Hardin	United States	55.0 s
4th	Sylvio Padilha	Brazil	55.1 s
DSQ	Thomas Coulter	Canada

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Joe Healey	United States	54.2 s
2	André Adelheim	France	54.3 s
3	Kell Areskoug	Sweden	54.6 s
4th	Vangelis Moiropoulos	Greece	55.2 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Luigi Facelli	Italy	55.0 s
2	David Burghley	Great Britain	55.1 s
3	George Golding	Australia	55.2 s
4th	Carlos dos Reis Filho	Brazil	55.8 s

Semifinals

Date: July 31, 1932

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Glenn Hardin	United States	52.8 s	OR
2	Morgan Taylor	United States	52.9 s
3	David Burghley	Great Britain	53.0 s
4th	George Golding	Australia	53.1 s
5	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	53.5 s
6th	Fritz Nottbrock	German Empire	53.7 s

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Bob Tisdall	Irish Free State	52.8 s	ORe
2	Kell Areskoug	Sweden	53.2 s
3	Luigi Facelli	Italy	53.2 s
4th	Joe Healey	United States	53.2 s
5	André Adelheim	France	53.8 s
6th	Christos mantikas	Greece	k. A.

Olympic Champion Bob Tisdall (IRL)

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Bob Tisdall	Irish Free State	51.7 s	electronic: 51.67 s
2	Glenn Hardin	United States	51.9 s	WR / electronic: 51.85 s
3	Morgan Taylor	United States	52.0 s	electronic: 51.96 s
4th	David Burghley	Great Britain	52.2 s	electronic: 52.01 s
5	Luigi Facelli	Italy	53.0 s
6th	Kell Areskoug	Sweden	54.6 s

Date: August 1, 1932

On this route there was a newcomer as an Olympic champion. Robert Tisdall had written to the President of the Irish Athletics Federation in April of the Olympic year to apply for participation in the Olympics, although he had never run in this discipline. For the fulfillment of his wish he was made the condition to become Irish champion and to achieve the time of 55.0 s. Irish champion was Tisdall with 56.2 s and reached the qualification edition in another race with 54.2 s.
In the final, the Irishman was ahead at high speed from the start. When he broke the last hurdle, Glenn Hardin came up dangerous again, but could no longer prevent Tisdall's Olympic victory. Morgan F. Taylor, 1924 Olympic Champion , won the bronze medal and Lord Burghley, 1928 Olympic Champion , finished fourth.
Since Tisdall had broken a hurdle, his time was not recognized as a world record according to the rules of the time . Curiously, the world record holder was silver medalist Glenn Hardin.

Tisdall was the first Irish Olympic champion and medalist in the 400 meter hurdles .
Of the 21 medals that have been awarded in the previous seven Olympic decisions in this discipline, US runners have won 15.
In this final, four Olympic champions were represented in this discipline

• two former: Morgan F. Taylor ( 1924 ) and David Burghley ( 1928 )
• the current one: Robert Tisdall
• a future: Glenn Hardin, who was supposed to win in 1936 .

Picture gallery

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  Morgan Taylor (USA), winner of 1924, won bronze

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  1928 Olympic Champion David Burghley (GBR) finished fourth.

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  Luigi Facelli (ITA) reached fifth place.

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  The Swede Kell Areskoug finished sixth in this final.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 234-236

Web links

• SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed September 17, 2017
• Official report pp. 436-438, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 17, 2017
• 1932, Bob Tisdall & Pat O'Callaghan, Los Angeles Olympic Games , published May 29, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 17, 2017

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 236
2. ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 234–236