1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 37 athletes from 25 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Olympic Stadium Munich | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 31, 1972 (preliminary) September 1, 1972 (semi-finals) September 2, 1972 (final) |
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The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich took place on August 31, September 1 and September 2, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 37 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was John Akii-Bua from Uganda in a new world record time . He won ahead of the American Ralph Mann and the British defending champion David Hemery .
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Dieter Büttner , Rainer Schubert and Rolf Ziegler started . Ziegler was eliminated in the semifinals as fifth of his run. Büttner could not finish his semi-final run. Schubert qualified for the final and came in fifth there.
The GDR was represented by Christian Rudolph , who like Büttner could not finish his semi-final run.
The Swiss Hansjörg Wirz was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
| World record | 48.1 s |
David Hemery ( Great Britain )
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Mexico City , Mexico | 15th October 1968 |
| Olympic record | Mexico City Final , Mexico |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a total of five heats on August 31. The three best runners as well as the following fastest reached the semi-finals on September 1st. From this, the four best runners qualified for the final, which was held on September 2nd.
Time schedule
August 31, 10 a.m .: Prelim
September 1, 2:30 p.m .: semi-finals
September 2, 4.15 p.m .: Final
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
Preliminary round
Date: August 31, 1972, from 10 a.m.
Forward 1
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dieter Büttner |
 BR Germany
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49.78 s | |
| 2 | Viktor Savchenko |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
|
49.90 s | |
| 3 | Jean-Pierre Corval |
 France
|
50.15 s | |
| 4th | Tadeusz Kulczycki |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
|
50.19 s | |
| 5 | Manuel Soriano |
.svg){kind=small} Spain
|
50.88 s | |
| 6th | Fatwell Kimaiyo |
 Kenya
|
51.23 s | |
| 7th | Roberto Frinolli |
 Italy
|
51.69 s | |
| 8th | Jean-Aimé Randrianalijaona |
 Madagascar
|
52.75 s |
Forward 2
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Hemery |
Great Britain
|
49.72 s | |
| 2 | Gary Knoke |
 Australia
|
50.10 s | |
| 3 | Yuri Sorin |
Soviet Union
|
50.35 s | |
| 4th | William Koskei |
Kenya
|
50.58 s | |
| 5 | Giorgio Ballati |
Italy
|
50.90 s | |
| 6th | José Jacinto Hidalgo |
.svg){kind=small} Venezuela
|
54.00 s | |
| 7th | Norman Brinkworth |
 Pakistan
|
54.67 s |
Forward 3
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christian Rudolph |
 GDR
|
50.00 s | |
| 2 | Ralph Mann |
 United States
|
50.18 s | |
| 3 | Rainer Schubert |
BR Germany
|
50.23 s | |
| 4th | Ari Salin |
 Finland
|
50.54 s | |
| 5 | Jean-Pierre Perrinelle |
France
|
51.81 s | |
| 6th | José Carvalho |
 Portugal
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52.64 s | |
| 7th | Hassan Bergaoui |
 Tunisia
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53.70 s |
Forward 4
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Akii-Bua |
 Uganda
|
50.35 s | |
| 2 | Stavros Tziortzis |
.svg){kind=small} Greece
|
50.54 s | |
| 3 | Ivan Daniš |
 Czechoslovakia
|
50.62 s | |
| 4th | Bruce Field |
Australia
|
51.46 s | |
| 5 | Hansjörg Wirz |
 Switzerland
|
52.34 s | |
| 6th | Dick Bruggeman |
United States
|
54.36 s | |
| 7th | Julio Ferrer |
 Puerto Rico
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54.83 s | |
| DNS | Francisco Rojas Soto |
.svg){kind=small} Paraguay
|
Forward 5
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yevgeny Gavrilenko |
Soviet Union
|
49.73 s | |
| 2 | Jim Seymour |
United States
|
49.81 s | |
| 3 | Rolf Ziegler |
BR Germany
|
50.17 s | |
| 4th | Roger Johnson |
 New Zealand
|
50.48 s | |
| 5 | Mike Murei |
Kenya
|
51.63 s | |
| 6th | Lee Chung-ping |
 Taiwan
|
52.61 s | |
| 7th | Gladstone Agbamu |
 Nigeria
|
53.68 s | |
| DNF | John Sherwood |
Great Britain
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Semifinals
Date: September 1, 1972, from 2.30 p.m.
Run 1
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Akii-Bua |
Uganda
|
49.25 s | |
| 2 | Ralph Mann |
United States
|
49.53 s | |
| 3 | David Hemery |
Great Britain
|
49.66 s | |
| 4th | Rainer Schubert |
BR Germany
|
49.80 s | |
| 5 | Rolf Ziegler |
BR Germany
|
49.88 s | |
| 6th | Ivan Daniš |
Czechoslovakia
|
50.01 s | |
| 7th | Viktor Savchenko |
Soviet Union
|
50.28 s | |
| 8th | Jean-Pierre Corval |
France
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50.75 s |
Run 2
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jim Seymour |
United States
|
49.33 s | |
| 2 | Yevgeny Gavrilenko |
Soviet Union
|
49.34 s | |
| 3 | Yuri Sorin |
Soviet Union
|
49.60 s | |
| 4th | Stavros Tziortzis |
Greece
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50.06 s | |
| 5 | Tadeusz Kulczycki |
Poland
|
50.80 s | |
| 6th | Gary Knoke |
Australia
|
52.79 s | |
| DNF | Dieter Büttner |
BR Germany
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| Christian Rudolph |
GDR
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Christian Rudolph tore his Achilles tendon after the last hurdle on lane 1 and fell. Dieter Büttner on lane 2 could not avoid the fallen, stumbled over him and also fell.
final
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Akii-Bua |
Uganda
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47.82 s | WR |
| 2 | Ralph Mann |
United States
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48.51 s | |
| 3 | David Hemery |
Great Britain
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48.52 s | |
| 4th | Jim Seymour |
United States
|
48.64 s | |
| 5 | Rainer Schubert |
BR Germany
|
49.65 s | |
| 6th | Yevgeny Gavrilenko |
Soviet Union
|
49.66 s | |
| Stavros Tziortzis |
Greece
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| 8th | Yuri Sorin |
Soviet Union
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50.25 s |
Date: September 2, 1972, 4:15 p.m.
The favorite was initially Ralph Mann from the United States, who traveled to Munich as the best of the year in the world . The British world record holder and Olympic gold medalist from 1968 , David Hemery, had a long break from competition and did not return to competitive sport until the beginning of the Olympic year. After initially weaker times, he had increased his level of performance considerably when he returned, so that he had to be counted at least among the wider circle of medal contenders.
Hemery started the final race at high speed, as he did with his Olympic gold medal in Mexico City, and led the field. At the start of the home stretch, outsider John Akii-Bua from Uganda caught up and passed the British man almost effortlessly. Akii-Bua continued to increase his lead over the entire field and was the first athlete to finish the distance in under 48 seconds. Silver went to Ralph Mann, who was able to beat David Hemery, who was declining in the end, with a hundredth of a second. The American Jim Seymour had also made up a lot of ground on Hemery, but could no longer achieve a medal place. With a clear gap to Seymour, the German Rainer Schubert finished fifth.
John Akii-Bua was the first Olympic champion from Uganda. He also performed a lap of honor for the first time .
literature
- Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , pp. 54f
Video
- Men's 400m hurdles - Munich 1972 - 50 fps , published August 20, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed November 23, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed November 23, 2017
- Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 54, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 23, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 554 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 23, 2017
- ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 23, 2017
- ↑ a b c Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 54, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 23, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 23, 2017
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