1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 23, 1976 (preliminary round) July 24, 1976 (semi-finals) July 25, 1976 (final)
Medalist Edwin Moses ( USA )   Michael Shine ( USA )   Yevgeny Gavrilenko ( URS )

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held from July 23 to 25, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 22 athletes took part.

The American Edwin Moses became Olympic champion . He won in a new world record time ahead of his compatriot Michael Shine and Yevgeny Gavrilenko from the Soviet Union.

With Harald Schmid , an athlete from the Federal Republic of Germany took part. Schmid reached the semi-finals, but was disqualified in his run there.
Runners from the GDR, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	47.82 s	John Akii-Bua ( Uganda )	Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	2nd September 1972
Olympic record			Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in four heats on July 23. The four best runners reached the semi-finals on July 24th. From this, the four best runners also qualified for the final, which took place on July 25th.

Time schedule

July 23, 10 a.m .: Preliminaries
July 24, 3 p.m .: Semi-finals
July 25, 5.30 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Preliminary round

Date: July 23, 1976, from 10 a.m.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Stavros Tziortzis	Greece	50.42 s
2	Dámaso Alfonso	Cuba	50.76 s
3	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	50.77 s
4th	José Carvalho	Portugal	50.99 s
5	Don Hanly	Australia	51.90 s

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Quentin Wheeler	United States	50.32 s
2	Harald Schmid	BR Germany	50.57 s
3	Jean-Pierre Perrinelle	France	50.78 s
4th	Dmitri Stukalov	Soviet Union	50.78 s
5	Peter Grant	Australia	51.07 s

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Shine	United States	50.91 s
2	Yevgeny Gavrilenko	Soviet Union	50.93 s
3	Jerzy Hewelt	Poland	51.39 s
4th	Janko Bratanow	Bulgaria	51.84 s
5	Abdul Latif Abbas	Kuwait	53.06 s
6th	Conrad Mainwaring	Antigua and Barbuda	54.67 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Edwin Moses	United States	49.95 s
2	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	51.66 s
3	Georgios Parris	Greece	51.91 s
4th	Julio Ferrer	Puerto Rico	52.45 s
5	Kamil Al-Abbasi	Saudi Arabia	55.00 s
DNF	Jesús Villegas	Colombia

Semifinals

Date: July 24, 1976, from 3 p.m.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Shine	United States	49.90 s
2	José Carvalho	Portugal	49.97 s
3	Janko Bratanow	Bulgaria	50.11 s
4th	Quentin Wheeler	United States	50.22 s
5	Dmitri Stukalov	Soviet Union	50.47 s
6th	Jean-Pierre Perrinelle	France	50.82 s
DNF	Georgios Parris	Greece
DSQ	Harald Schmid	BR Germany

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Edwin Moses	United States	48.29 s
2	Yevgeny Gavrilenko	Soviet Union	49.73 s
3	Dámaso Alfonso	Cuba	49.84 s
4th	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	49.95 s
5	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	50.08 s
6th	Stavros Tziortzis	Greece	50.30 s
7th	Jerzy Hewelt	Poland	50.57 s
8th	Julio Ferrer	Puerto Rico	51.04 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Edwin Moses	United States	47.64 s	WR
2	Michael Shine	United States	48.69 s
3	Yevgeny Gavrilenko	Soviet Union	49.45 s
4th	Quentin Wheeler	United States	49.86 s
5	José Carvalho	Portugal	49.94 s
6th	Janko Bratanow	Bulgaria	50.03 s
7th	Dámaso Alfonso	Cuba	50.19 s
8th	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	51.29 s

Date: July 25, 1976, 5:30 p.m.

The favorite was originally the 1972 Ugandan Olympic champion , John Akii-Bua , who was unable to take part due to the boycott of the African states, which Uganda had also joined. So there was no clear gold candidate. The circle of medal contenders included the Americans Edwin Moses, Quentin Wheeler and Michael Shine as well as the medal winners of the 1974 European Championships , Alan Pascoe, Great Britain, who suffered from a leg injury, Jean-Claude Nallet, France, and Yevgeny Gavrilenko, USSR. Nallet was eliminated from the co-favorites in the semifinals. In contrast, Edwin Moses was particularly strong in his semi-finals.

Moses dominated the final race from the start. He set a sharp pace that none of his opponents could match in this form. Edwin Moses turned into the home straight with a clear lead, increased the gap even further and became Olympic champion with a lead of 1.05 seconds over Michael Shine. Yevgeny Gavrilenko won the bronze medal, 17 hundredths of a second behind, ahead of Quentin Wheeler and the Portuguese José Carvalho. These five runners undercut the 50-second mark. Seven finalists each remained under this brand in Mexico City and Munich . Edwin Moses set a new world record with 47.64 seconds and undercut John Akii-Bua's winning time in Munich by almost two tenths of a second.

Edwin Moses won the twelfth US gold medal in the 16th Olympic final over 400 meter hurdles . At the same time it was the sixth double success of the USA at the Olympic Games over this distance.

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 231

Video

• 1976 MONTREAL OLYMPIC GAMES - Hurdles Finals , published April 25, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed December 14, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed December 14, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 58f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 14, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 554 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 14 December 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 14, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 59, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 14, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 14, 2017