1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	45 athletes from 30 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 3, 1984 (preliminary) August 4, 1984 (semi-finals) August 5, 1984 (final)
Medalist Edwin Moses ( USA )   Danny Harris ( USA )   Harald Schmid ( FRG )

The men's 400 meter hurdles at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 3rd, 4th and 5th, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 45 athletes took part.

The American Edwin Moses became Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Danny Harris and Harald Schmid from the Federal Republic of Germany.

Another runner from Germany was Uwe Schmitt, who was eliminated in the semifinals. Franz Meier
started for Switzerland , who was also eliminated in the semi-finals. The Austrian Thomas Futterknecht failed in the preliminary round. Runners from Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1980	Volker Beck ( GDR )	48.70 s	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Edwin Moses ( USA )	47.50 s	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982	Harald Schmid ( Federal Republic of Germany )	47.48 s	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Frank Montiéh ( Cuba )	50.02 s	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	David Charlton ( Bahamas )	50.07 s	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Pedro Chiamulera ( Brazil )	52.2 s	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Ahmed Hamada Jassim ( Bahrain )	49.43 s	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Amadou Dia Ba ( Senegal )	49.55 s	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	47.02 s	Edwin Moses ( USA )	Koblenz , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	August 31, 1983
Olympic record	47.63 s		Final of Montreal , Canada	July 25, 1976

Preliminary round

Date: August 3, 1984

In the preliminary round, the 45 participants were drawn in six runs. The first two athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. Furthermore, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , advanced. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Ahmed Hamada Jassim in run 4 was the first athlete to compete for the Kingdom of Bahrain in the Olympic Games.

Edwin Moses from the USA ran the fastest lead time in run 1 with 49.33 s . The slowest time an athlete could get to the semifinals was 50.46 s, which Gregory Rolle achieved in Run 6. The fastest athlete who could not qualify was the Japanese Shigenori Omori, who retired in run 2 with 50.14 s.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Edwin Moses	United States	49.33 s
2	Antônio Dias Ferreira	Brazil	49.85 s
3	Michel Zimmermann	Belgium	49.90 s
4th	Thomas Futterknecht	Austria	50.25 s
5	Thomas Nyberg	Sweden	50.47 s
6th	Gérard Brunel	France	50.99 s
7th	Ahmed Ghanem	Egypt	51.08 s
8th	Phil Beattie	Great Britain	51.27 s

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Harald Schmid	BR Germany	49.34 s
2	Karl Smith	Jamaica	49.66 s
3	Franz Meier	Switzerland	49.81 s
4th	Rik Tommelein	Belgium	50.05 s
5	Shigenori Omori	Japan	50.14 s
6th	Georgios Vamvakis	Greece	50.39 s
7th	Oswaldo Zea	Venezuela	51.44 s

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.88 s
2	Ryoichi Yoshida	Japan	50.24 s
3	René Djédjémél Mélédjé	Ivory Coast	50.27 s
4th	Peter Rwamuhanda	Uganda	50.55 s
5	Franck Jonot	France	51.39 s
6th	Martin Gillingham	Great Britain	52.15 s
7th	Vincent Confait	Seychelles	53.62 s
8th	Nicolás Chaparro	Paraguay	56.98 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tranel Hawkins	United States	49.51 s
2	Simon Kitur	Kenya	49.70 s
3	Uwe Schmitt	BR Germany	49.77 s
4th	Ahmed Hamada Jassim	Bahrain	50.62 s
5	Ian Newhouse	Canada	51.14 s
6th	Christer Gullstrand	Sweden	51.27 s
7th	Jean-Pierre Abossolo-Ze	Cameroon	52.85 s
8th	Domingos Mendes	Mozambique	54.52 s

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	49.94 s
2	Henry Amike	Nigeria	50.11 s
3	Ken Gray	Jamaica	50.46 s
4th	Martin Briggs	Great Britain	50.62 s
5	Pierre Leveille	Canada	51.47 s
6th	Meshak Munyoro	Kenya	51.99 s
7th	Faustin Butéra	Rwanda	54.36 s
8th	Ibrahim Khamis	United Arab Emirates	55.50 s

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Danny Harris	United States	49.81 s
2	Gregory role	Bahamas	50.41 s
3	Lloyd Guss	Canada	51.02 s
4th	Athanasios Kalogiannis	Greece	50.62 s
5	Jasem Al-Dowaila	Kuwait	51.45 s
DNF	José Alonso	Spain
DNF	Alphonse Mandonda	People's Republic of the Congo

Semifinals

Date: August 4, 1984

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

The fastest semifinal time was Edwin Moses with 48.51 s in run 1.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Edwin Moses	United States	48.51 s
2	Tranel Hawkins	United States	48.94 s
3	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	49.44 s
4th	Michel Zimmermann	Belgium	49.79 s
5	Simon Kitur	Kenya	49.80 s
6th	Uwe Schmitt	BR Germany	50.08 s
7th	Gregory role	Bahamas	50.16 s
8th	Antônio Dias Ferreira	Brazil	50.70 s

Run 2

The German European Champion Harald Schmid won the bronze medal

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Danny Harris	United States	48.92 s
2	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.03 s
3	Harald Schmid	BR Germany	49.04 s
4th	Henry Amike	Nigeria	49.36 s
5	Karl Smith	Jamaica	49.58 s
6th	Franz Meier	Switzerland	49.89 s
7th	Ryoichi Yoshida	Japan	49.92 s
8th	Rik Tommelein	Belgium	50.06 s

final

Olympic champion Edwin Moses, USA, here at the 1987 World Championships

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Edwin Moses	United States	47.75 s
2	Danny Harris	United States	48.13 s
3	Harald Schmid	BR Germany	48.19 s
4th	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.97 s
5	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	49.28 s
6th	Tranel Hawkins	United States	49.42 s
7th	Michel Zimmermann	Belgium	50.69 s
8th	Henry Amike	Nigeria	53.78 s

Date: August 5, 1984

Three US-Americans and one athlete each from Nigeria, the Federal Republic of Germany, Senegal, Sweden and Belgium qualified for the final.

The top favorite was Edwin Moses , Olympic champion in 1976 and world champion in 1983 . His compatriot Danny Harris and the German athlete Harald Schmid , European champion from 1978 and 1982 and vice world champion from 1983, were considered challengers .

In the final, Moses caused a false start. On the second attempt, Moses was the fastest out of the blocks and had a lead of half a second over Schmid at the fifth hurdle. While Moses ran unhindered to the Olympic victory, Harris was able to catch his West German competitor at the ninth hurdle. In the final sprint, Harris pushed past Schmid into second place. Schmid won the bronze medal.

In the 18th Olympic final Edwin Moses ran for the 13th US victory. At the same time, it was the seventh double victory for the USA in this discipline.

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 22f

Web links

• SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed January 7, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 281, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018

Video

• Olympics - 1984 Los Angeles - Track - Mens 400m Hurdles Finals - USA Edwin Moses imasportsphile , published on March 28, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on January 7, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675 , accessed on January 7, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 281, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018
3. ↑ SportsReference 400 m hurdles , accessed January 7, 2018