1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	39 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 14, 1964 (preliminary) October 15, 1964 (semi-finals) October 16, 1964 (final)
Medalist Warren Cawley ( USA )   John Cooper ( GBR )   Salvatore Morale ( ITA )

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo took place from October 14 to 16, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 39 athletes took part.

The American Warren Cawley became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the British John Cooper and the Italian Salvatore Morale .

Three Germans and one Austrian started. Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part. The Austrian Helmut Haid and the German Joachim Singer were eliminated in the preliminary stages. Horst Gieseler could not finish his run after a fall. Ferdinand Haas reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there as sixth of his run.

Existing records

World record	49.1 s	Warren Cawley ( USA )	Los Angeles , USA	September 13, 1964
Olympic record	49.3 s	Glenn Davis ( USA )	Final of Rome , Italy	2nd September 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a total of five heats on October 14th. The three best starters as well as the following fastest qualified for the semifinals on October 15th. From this, the four best runners reached the final on October 16.

Time schedule

October 14, 2 p.m .: preliminary runs

October 15, 2:15 p.m .: semi-finals

October 16, 4 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

The athletes directly qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue, those who have qualified over time are highlighted in light green.

Prelims

Date: October 14, 1964, from 2 p.m.

Weather conditions: rainy, approx. 17 ° C, humidity approx. 90%

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	John Cooper	Great Britain	50.5 s	50.58 s
2	Gary Knoke	Australia	50.9 s	50.94 s
3	Roberto Frinolli	Italy	51.2 s	51.23 s
4th	Edvīns Zāģeris	Soviet Union	51.5 s	51.59 s
5	Bill Gairdner	Canada	53.8 s	k. A.
6th	Helmut Haid	Austria	54.6 s
DNF	Horst Gieseler	Germany

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Warren Cawley	United States	50.8 s	50.88 s
2	Juan Carlos Dyrzka	Argentina	51.1 s	51.17 s
3	Peter Warden	Great Britain	51.6 s	51.61 s
4th	Joachim Singer	Germany	52.1 s	k. A.
5	Bogusław Gierajewski	Poland	52.8 s
6th	Samir Vincent	Iraq	54.0 s
7th	Kiyoo Yui	Japan	54.7 s
8th	Michael Ryan	Australia	58.0 s

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Wilfried Geeroms	Belgium	51.2 s	51.24 s
2	Ken Roche	Australia	51.5 s	51.52 s
3	Jay Luck	United States	51.7 s	51.77 s
4th	Jorem Ochana	Uganda	52.4 s	k. A.
5	Robert Poirier	France	52.6 s
6th	Valeriu Jurcă	Romania	52.7 s
7th	Kimaru Songok	Kenya	54.5 s
8th	Mansour ul-Haq Awan	Pakistan	55.3 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Salvatore Morale	Italy	51.1 s	51.17 s
2	Wassyl Anissimow	Soviet Union	51.7 s	51.72 s
3	Ferdinand Haas	Germany	52.2 s	k. A.
4th	Mike Hogan	Great Britain	52.5 s	k. A.
5	Keiji Ōgushi	Japan	53.6 s
6th	José Cavero	Peru	53.7 s
7th	Karu Selvaratnam	Malaysia	53.8 s
DSQ	Ðani Kovač	Yugoslavia

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Billy Hardin	United States	51.3 s	51.37 s
2	Víctor Maldonado	Venezuela	51.6 s	51.64 s
3	Jaakko Tuominen	Finland	51.8 s	51.88 s
4th	Jean-Jacques Behm	France	52.2 s	52.20 s
5	Keiko Iijima	Japan	52.8 s	k. A.
6th	Mamadou Sarr	Senegal	53.2 s
7th	Amrit Pal	India	53.3 s
8th	Imants Kukličs	Soviet Union	53.3 s

Semifinals

Date: October 15, 1964, from 2.15 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 24 ° C, humidity approx. 42%

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Warren Cawley	United States	49.8 s	49.89 s
2	Roberto Frinolli	Italy	50.2 s	50.28 s
3	Gary Knoke	Australia	50.6 s	50.63 s
4th	Wilfried Geeroms	Belgium	51.0 s	51.00 s
5	Peter Warden	Great Britain	51.2 s	k. A.
6th	Friedrich Haas	Germany	51.6 s
7th	Edvīns Zāģeris	Soviet Union	51.2 s
8th	Jaakko Tuominen	Finland	54.0 s

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	John Cooper	Great Britain	50.4 s	50.40 s
2	Jay Luck	United States	50.4 s	50.43 s
3	Salvatore Morale	Italy	50.4 s	50.48 s
4th	Wassyl Anissimow	Soviet Union	50.7 s	50.72 s
5	Ken Roche	Australia	50.8 s	50.86 s
6th	Billy Hardin	United States	50.9 s	50.90 s
7th	Víctor Maldonado	Venezuela	51.1 s	51.19 s
8th	Juan Carlos Dyrzka	Argentina	53.1 s	k. A.

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Warren Cawley	United States	49.6 s
2	John Cooper	Great Britain	50.1 s
3	Salvatore Morale	Italy	50.1 s
4th	Gary Knoke	Australia	50.4 s
5	Jay Luck	United States	50.5 s
6th	Roberto Frinolli	Italy	50.7 s
7th	Wassyl Anissimow	Soviet Union	51.1 s
8th	Wilfried Geeroms	Belgium	51.4 s

Date: October 15, 1964, from 2.15 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 20 ° C, humidity approx. 44%

Warren Cawley, often referred to as "Rex" - "King" - was the world record holder and at the same time the clear favorite. However, he was struggling with a recurring injury from the previous year, tissue inflammation after a muscle tear. A second American - James Luck - also went into this final with a severe handicap: He was affected by a swelling of the lymph glands that significantly weakened his performance. In the interim, the third American, Billy Hardin, son of the 1936 Olympic champion Glenn Hardin , was eliminated.

Cawley started the final race in a very controlled manner. At the seventh hurdle he put the leading Italian Roberto Frinolli and took over the lead. With a lead of half a second, Cawley ran to the safe Olympic victory. There was an exciting duel for the silver medal between the Briton John Cooper and Frinolli's compatriot Salvatore Morale, which the Briton won when they were tied. The Olympic record of 1960 continued after these games.

Salvatore Morale won the first Italian medal in this discipline.

In the 13th Olympic final there was the eleventh US victory. It was the sixth victory in a row by a US runner.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 268 f.

Web links

• SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed October 27, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 36 f., Engl. (PDF), accessed on October 27, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 554 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 27 October 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 27, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. 36f (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 27, 2017 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. 37 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 27, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 27, 2017