1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	68 athletes from 52 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 1, 1992 (preliminary round) August 2, 1992 (quarter-finals) August 3, 1992 (semi-finals) August 5, 1992 (final)
Medalist Quincy Watts ( USA )   Steve Lewis ( USA )   Samson Kitur ( KEN )

The men's 400-meter race at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held in four rounds on August 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th, 1992 in the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona . 68 athletes took part.

The American Quincy Watts became Olympic champion . He won in front of his compatriot Steve Lewis and the Kenyan Samson Kitur .

Rico Lieder and Thomas Schönlebe started for Germany . Both were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	Steve Lewis ( USA )	43.87 s	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Antonio Pettigrew ( USA )	44.57 s	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	Roger Black ( Great Britain )	45.08 s	Split 1990
Pan American champion 1991	Roberto Hernández ( Cuba )	44.52 s	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	Seymour Fagan ( Jamaica )	46.11 s	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Carlos Morales ( Chile )	46.55 s	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Ibrahim Ismail ( Qatar )	45.66 s	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African Champion 1992	Bobang Phiri ( South Africa )	45.42 s	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Alex Soqosoqo ( Fiji )	48.31 s	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	43.29 s	Harry Reynolds ( USA )	Zurich , Switzerland	17th August 1988
Olympic record	43.86 s	Lee Evans ( USA )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	October 18, 1968

Preliminary round

Date: August 1, 1992

The athletes competed in a total of nine heats. The first three athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the five fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Derek Redmond	Great Britain	45.03 s
2	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	45.07 s
3	Solomon Amegatcher	Ghana	45.42 s
4th	Dennis Blake	Jamaica	45.92 s
5	Aktawat Sakoolchan	Thailand	46.78 s
6th	Ali Faudet	Chad	47.10 s
7th	Jaime Rodrigues	Mozambique	48.89 s

Forward 2

The world champion from 1987 Thomas Schönlebe, then East Germany, here in Barcelona for Germany at the start, retired from his fifth quarter-final run

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	46.02 s
2	Alvin Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	46.09 s
3	Thomas Schönlebe	Germany	46.26 s
4th	Seibert Straughn	Barbados	46.54 s
5	Delon Felix	Grenada	47.39 s
6th	Mohamed Amer Al-Malky	Oman	48.00 s
7th	Randolph Foster	Costa Rica	48.80 s
8th	Vanxay Sinebandith	Laos	51.71 s

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Quincy Watts	United States	45.38 s
2	Bobang Phiri	South Africa South Africa	45.47 s
3	Rico songs	Germany	45.86 s
4th	Francis Ogola	Uganda	45.87 s
5	Ediélson Tenório	Brazil	46.31 s
6th	Kossi Akoto	Togo	46.97 s
7th	Martial biquet	Central African Republic	47.82 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Simon Kemboi	Kenya	45.84 s
2	Slobodan Branković	IOP	46.34 s
3	Devon Morris	Jamaica	46.45 s
4th	Patrick Delice	Trinidad and Tobago	46.58 s
5	Subul Babo	Papua New Guinea	47.17 s
6th	Médard Makanga	Republic of the Congo	48.17 s
7th	Kenmore Hughes	Antigua and Barbuda	48.56 s
8th	Mohamed Amir	Maldives	50.35 s

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Danny Everett	United States	45.68 s
2	David Grindley	Great Britain	45.79 s
3	Andrea Nuti	Italy	46.12 s
4th	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria	46.51 s
5	Dmitri Kosov	EUN	47.28 s
6th	Joseph Adam	Seychelles	47.68 s
7th	Baptiste Firiam	Vanuatu	48.98 s
8th	Eulogio Ngache	Equatorial Guinea	50.83 s

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Samson Kitur	Kenya	45.41 s
2	Susumu Takano	Japan	45.96 s
3	Tamás Molnár	Hungary	46.21 s
4th	Anthony Wallace	Jamaica	46.88 s
5	Camera Ntereke	Botswana	47.32 s
6th	Michael Joseph	Belize	50.90 s
DNF	Lamin Marikong	Gambia
DSQ	Desai Wynter	American Virgin Islands

Forward 7

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ian Morris	Trinidad and Tobago	45.65 s
2	Lahlou Ben Younès	Morocco	45.73 s
3	David Kitur	Kenya	46.22 s
4th	Mark Garner	Australia	46.26 s
5	Apisai Driu Baibai	Fiji	47.81 s
6th	Henry Mohoanyane	Lesotho	48.39 s
7th	Mohamed Mehdi Hasan	Bangladesh	48.62 s
DNS	Michael Williams	St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Forward 8

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Steve Lewis	United States	45.14 s
2	Sunday Bada	Nigeria	45.38 s
3	Sidney de Souza	Brazil	45.92 s
4th	Cayetano Cornet	Spain	46.13 s
5	Timothy Hesse	Ghana	46.67 s
6th	Michael McLean	Canada	47.75 s
7th	Samba case	Mauritania	50.91 s

Forward 9

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah	Qatar	45.21 s
2	Roger Black	Great Britain	45.94 s
3	Cephas Lemba	Zambia	45.94 s
4th	Marco Vaccari	Italy	46.37 s
5	Takahiro Watanabe	Japan	46.45 s
6th	Foday Sillah	Sierra Leone	47.00 s
7th	João Francisco Capindica	Angola	47.44 s
8th	Stephen Lugor	Sudan	48.94 s

Quarter finals

Date: August 2, 1992

From the quarter-finals, the first four athletes (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the semi-finals.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Samson Kitur	Kenya	44.66 s
2	Quincy Watts	United States	45.06 s
3	Bobang Phiri	South Africa South Africa	45.27 s
4th	Lahlou Ben Younès	Morocco	45.38 s
5	Sidney de Souza	Brazil	45.55 s
6th	Rico songs	Germany	45.86 s
7th	Francis Ogola	Uganda	46.21 s
8th	Dennis Blake	Jamaica	46.49 s

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Derek Redmond	Great Britain	45.02 s
2	Susumu Takano	Japan	45.27 s
3	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	45.67 s
4th	Danny Everett	United States	45.76 s
5	David Kitur	Kenya	46.25 s
6th	Ediélson Tenório	Brazil	46.34 s
7th	Alvin Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	46.44 s
8th	Tamás Molnár	Hungary	46.80 s

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ian Morris	Trinidad and Tobago	44.78 s
2	David Grindley	Great Britain	44.91 s
3	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah	Qatar	45.18 s
4th	Sunday Bada	Nigeria	45.34 s
5	Devon Morris	Jamaica	45.67 s
6th	Cayetano Cornet	Spain	46.27 s
DNF	Solomon Amegatcher	Ghana
	Cephas Lemba	Zambia

Run 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Steve Lewis	United States	44.54 s
2	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	44.84 s
3	Roger Black	Great Britain	45.28 s
4th	Simon Kemboi	Kenya	45.40 s
5	Thomas Schönlebe	Germany	45.46 s
6th	Slobodan Branković	IOP	45.90 s
7th	Andrea Nuti	Italy	45.96 s
8th	Mark Garner	Australia	46.85 s

The Briton Derek Redmond - here in 2007 - retired due to injury in his semi-final run

Semifinals

Date: August 3, 1992

From the semifinals, the first four runners in each of the two races qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Steve Lewis	United States	44.50 s
2	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	44.72 s
3	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah	Qatar	45.01 s
4th	Susumu Takano	Japan	45.09 s
5	Sunday Bada	Nigeria	45.36 s
6th	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	45.59 s
7th	Simon Kemboi	Kenya	45.93 s
DNF	Derek Redmond	Great Britain

Derek Redmond suffered a hamstring injury about halfway through the race on lane five. Despite the pain, he hobbled on. His father came to his aid from the stands by pushing past the marshals. With the support of his father, Redmond achieved the goal, which was honored with a standing ovation by the audience. In the official ranking, Redmond was identified as “ DNF ” without being given a time , but this does not detract from the event. The incident is considered to be one of the most impressive moments in Olympic history. The IOC included scenes from the incident in its video Celebrate Humanity . The financial services company Visa showed the images in its advertising campaigns to illustrate the Olympic spirit. The incident was also duly addressed in the advertising film Courage by the sporting goods supplier Nike .

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Quincy Watts	United States	43.71 s	OR
2	Samson Kitur	Kenya	44.18 s
3	Ian Morris	Trinidad and Tobago	44.21 s
4th	David Grindley	Great Britain	44.47 s
5	Roger Black	Great Britain	44.72 s
6th	Lahlou Ben Younès	Morocco	45.49 s
7th	Bobang Phiri	South Africa South Africa	45.59 s
8th	Danny Everett	United States	56.61 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Quincy Watts	United States	43.50 s	OR
2	Steve Lewis	United States	44.21 s
3	Samson Kitur	Kenya	44.24 s
4th	Ian Morris	Trinidad and Tobago	44.25 s
5	Roberto Hernández	Cuba	44.52 s
6th	David Grindley	Great Britain	44.75 s
7th	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah	Qatar	45.10 s
8th	Susumu Takano	Japan	45.18 s

Date: August 5, 1992

Two Americans qualified for the final. There was also one runner each from Japan, Qatar, Kenya, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago and Great Britain.

The American athletes who competed without world record holder Harry Reynolds and without world champion Antonio Pettigrew were considered favorites . Steve Lewis was the 1988 Olympic champion , Quincy Watts had set a new Olympic record in his semifinals . Danny Everett, bronze medalist in 1988 and third in the 1991 World Cup , was eliminated in the semi-finals due to injury. Vice world champion and European champion Roger Black from Great Britain did not get beyond the semi-finals. Other medal contenders were Cuban World Cup fourth Roberto Hernández and World Cup sixth Ian Morris from Trinidad and Tobago.

In the final, Watts and Lewis dominated from the start. Lewis was ahead for the first hundred yards. But his lead melted in the target curve and Watts took the lead with powerful strides. Watt's distance from his pursuers grew larger and larger. When it hit the home straight, Lewis and Hernández were almost tied in second position. Only a few meters back, the Kenyan Samson Kitur and the Briton David Grindley followed at the same height. Quincy Watts won in the end with a lead of almost seven meters and improved his own Olympic record again. Behind him, Steve Lewis had the greater stamina against his opponents and secured the silver medal. In the battle for bronze, Ian Morris came up again strongly, but had to let Samson Kitur go first with a hundredth of a second. Roberto Hernández and David Grindley, who lost their strength in the last hundred meters, finished fifth and sixth in that order.

In the 22nd Olympic final, Quincy Watts won the 15th gold medal for the USA. It was the third consecutive US win since 1984 .

Web links

• SportsReference 400m , accessed February 5, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 40f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 5, 2018

Video

• Men's 400m Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 8, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 5, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 669 , accessed on February 5, 2018
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 40f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 5, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 41, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 5, 2018
4. ↑ Derek Redmond's Emotional Olympic Story, Injury Mid-Race. Barcelona 1992 Olympics , published October 31, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed February 5, 2018