1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	August 3, 1936 (preliminary) August 4, 1936 (semi-finals / finals)
Winning time	52.4 s
Medalist Glenn Hardin ( USA ) John Loaring ( CAN ) Miguel White ( PHI )
← 1932 1948 →

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 3rd and 4th, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 32 athletes took part.

The American Glenn Hardin was Olympic champion ahead of the Canadian John Loaring . Bronze was won by Miguel White from the Philippines.

Existing records

• World record : 50.6 s - Glenn Hardin ( USA ), Stockholm , July 26, 1934
• Olympic record : 52.0 s - Glenn Hardin ( USA ), Los Angeles final , August 1, 1932

Conducting the competition

The runners started six heats on August 3rd. The two best athletes in each case qualified for the semi-finals on August 4th, from which the first three athletes reached the final on the same day.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

August 3, 1936, 3 p.m.

Weather conditions: overcast, 19 to 20 ° C, wind speed at 2.7 m / s. On the back straight a diagonal headwind, on the home straight a diagonal tailwind.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	József Kovács	Hungary	53.7 s
2	Juul Bosmans	Belgium	53.8 s
3	Prudent Joye	France	54.1 s
4th	Tokyo Fukuda	Japan	56.8 s

Forward 2

Luigi Facelli (ITA), the oldest participant in the field at 38, failed in the preliminary run.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Fritz Nottbrock	German Empire	54.7 s
2	Dale Schofield	United States	54.8 s
3	Luigi Facelli	Italy	55.1 s
4th	James Worrall	Canada	55.5 s
5	Louis Gailliard	France	56.4 s
6th	Avgust Banščak	Yugoslavia	1: 01.5 min

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Miguel White	Philippines	53.4 s
2	John Loaring	Canada	54.3 s
3	Alf Watson	Australia	54.5 s
4th	Masao Ichihara	Japan	54.7 s
5	Ioannis Skiadas	Greece	55.3 s
6th	Emilio Mori	Italy	55.6 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Joseph Patterson	United States	54.4 s
2	Juan Lavenás	Argentina	54.5 s
3	Hans Scheele	German Empire	54.6 s
4th	Umberto Ridi	Italy	55.5 s
5	Teodoro Malasig	Philippines	56.1 s

Forward 5

The Swede Kell Areskoug failed in the advance.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Christos mantikas	Greece	53.8 s
2	Sylvio Padilha	Brazil	54.2 s
3	Vane Ivanović	Yugoslavia	54.7 s
4th	Frank Rushton	South African Union	55.2 s
5	Kell Areskoug	Sweden	55.7 s
6th	Walter Fritsch	Chile	58.3 s

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Glenn Hardin	United States	53.9 s
2	Wilhelm Jakob Kürten	German Empire	54.6 s
3	Ernst Leitner	Austria	54.9 s
4th	Ernst Berndt	Czechoslovakia	57.6 s
5	John Sheffield	Great Britain	58.1 s

Semifinals

August 4, 1936, 3 p.m.

Weather conditions: overcast, 19.6 ° C, wind speed of 3.7 m / s. Headwind on the back straight.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Glenn Hardin	United States	53.2 s
2	Miguel White	Philippines	53.4 s
3	Christos mantikas	Greece	53.5 s
4th	Dale Schofield	United States	53.5 s
5	Juan Lavenás	Argentina	54.5 s
6th	Wilhelm Jakob Kürten	German Empire	54.5 s

Run 2

John Loaring (CAN) won the silver medal

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Joseph Patterson	United States	52.8 s
2	John Loaring	Canada	53.1 s
3	Sylvio Padilha	Brazil	53.3 s
4th	Juul Bosmans	Belgium	53.4 s
5	József Kovács	Hungary	54.0 s
6th	Fritz Nottbrock	German Empire	54.8 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Glenn Hardin	United States	52.4 s
2	John Loaring	Canada	52.7 s
3	Miguel White	Philippines	52.8 s
4th	Joseph Patterson	United States	53.0 s
5	Sylvio Padilha	Brazil	54.0 s
6th	Christos mantikas	Greece	54.2 s

August 4, 1936, 5:30 p.m.

Weather conditions: overcast, approx. 19 ° C, wind speed of 3.7 m / s, head wind on the back straight

The American Glenn Hardin crowned his career in this race. At the Olympic Games in 1932 , he had won silver and the still existing Olympic record of 52.0. s set up. At that time the rule still applied that records were only recognized if no hurdle had been broken. In 1934 Hardin had the world record in Stockholm with 50.6. s brought into his possession. And now he won the gold medal in Berlin . However, it was tighter than expected. Canadian John Loaring was only three tenths of a second behind him, and Miguel White of the Philippines was just four tenths of a second. For both of them there was silver and bronze. Fourth was just behind the American Joseph Patterson.

Glenn Hardin won the sixth gold medal for the USA in the eighth Olympic final.

Miguel White won the first Philippine medal in the 400 meter hurdles .

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 283f

Web links

• SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed September 20, 2017
• Official report pp. 654–656, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 20, 2017
• Berlin 1936 - Olympics - Olympia - Athletics - Track and Field - Footage 3 , range 8:37 min - 9:25 min, published on October 7, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on September 20, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 554 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 656, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ Official report ( Memento of the original dated January 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 605, engl. (PDF)