1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	54 athletes from 35 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 3, 1992 (preliminary round) August 5, 1992 (semi-finals) August 6, 1992 (final)
Medalist Kevin Young ( USA )   Winthrop Graham ( JAM )   Kriss Akabusi ( GBR )

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona took place in three rounds on August 3, 5 and 6, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 54 athletes took part.

The American Kevin Young was Olympic champion . He won in a new world record time ahead of the Jamaican Winthrop Graham and Kriss Akabusi from Great Britain.

Olaf Hense and Carsten Köhrbrück competed for Germany . Both qualified for the semifinals. Köhrbrück was eliminated there, Hense did not start his semi-final run.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	Andre Phillips ( USA )	47.19 s	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Samuel Matete ( Zambia )	47.64 s	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	Kriss Akabusi ( Great Britain )	47.92 s	Split 1990
Pan American champion 1991	Eronilde de Araújo ( Brazil )	49.96 s	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	Domingo Cordero ( Puerto Rico )	49.12 s	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Eronilde de Araújo ( Brazil )	49.65 s	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Yoshihiko Saito ( Japan )	50.46 s	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African Champion 1992	Andries Vorster ( South Africa )	49.66 s	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Johnathan Schmidt ( New Zealand )	52.83 s	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	47.02 s	Edwin Moses ( USA )	Koblenz , Germany	August 31, 1983
Olympic record	47.19 s	Andre Phillips ( USA )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 25, 1988

Preliminary round

Date: August 3, 1992

The participants competed in a total of seven preliminary runs. The first two athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kevin Young	United States	48.76 s
2	Stéphane Caristan	France	49.16 s
3	Gideon Yego	Kenya	49.23 s
4th	Athanasios Kalogiannis	Greece	49.52 s
5	Aleksey Bazarov	Israel	50.33 s
6th	Jacques Henri Brunet	Central African Republic	52.59 s
7th	Abdullah Sabt Ghulam	United Arab Emirates	56.20 s

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Samuel Matete	Zambia	49.89 s
2	Olaf Hense	Germany	49.97 s
3	Domingo Cordero	Puerto Rico	50.19 s
4th	Kazuhiko Yamazaki	Japan	50.30 s
5	Vadim Sadoinov	EUN	51.21 s
6th	Baobo Neuendorf	Papua New Guinea	53.30 s
7th	Amadou Sy Savané	Guinea	54.26 s

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Erick Keter	Kenya	48.28 s
2	Stéphane Diagana	France	48.41 s
3	Oleh Twerdochleb	EUN	48.68 s
4th	Mark Jackson	Canada	49.18 s
5	Pedro Afonso Rodrigues	Portugal	49.46 s
6th	Ghulam Abbas	Pakistan	50.57 s
7th	Autiko Daunakamakama	Fiji	53.90 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	McClinton Neal	United States	49.13 s
2	Carsten Koehrbrück	Germany	49.37 s
3	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	49.47 s
4th	Andries Vorster	South Africa South Africa	49.75 s
DNF	Pedro Chiamulera	Brazil
DNS	Zid Abu Hamed	Syria
	Fadhel Khayati	Tunisia

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.49 s
2	David Patrick	United States	49.56 s
3	Jozef Kucej	Czechoslovakia	50.28 s
4th	Hubert Rakotombelontsoa	Madagascar	51.54 s
5	Paeaki Kokohu	Tonga	56.99 s
DNF	Max Robertson	Great Britain
DSQ	Mark Thompson	Jamaica

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	48.98 s
2	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	49.10 s
3	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	49.16 s
4th	Simon Hollingsworth	Australia	49.74 s
5	Paweł Woźniak	Poland	50.30 s
6th	Chanond Kenchan	Thailand	50.60 s
7th	Richard Bentley	Guam	57.04 s

Forward 7

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	48.51 s
2	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	48.71 s
3	Barnabas Kinyor	Kenya	48.90 s
4th	Yoshihiko Saito	Japan	49.01 s
5	Assen Markov	Bulgaria	50.21 s
6th	Giovanny Fanny	Seychelles	52.63 s
7th	Alex Foster Hutchinson	Costa Rica	52.93 s

Semifinals

Date: August 5, 1992

The first four athletes (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the finals.

Run 1

The French Stéphane Diagana finished in the Olympics

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	48.01 s
2	Stéphane Diagana	France	48.28 s
3	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	48.35 s
4th	David Patrick	United States	48.47 s
5	McClinton Neal	United States	48.71 s
6th	Erick Keter	Kenya	49.01 s
7th	Carsten Koehrbrück	Germany	49.41 s
8th	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	49.66 s

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	47.62 s
2	Kevin Young	United States	47.63 s
3	Oleh Twerdochleb	EUN	49.11 s
4th	Stéphane Caristan	France	49.50 s
5	Barnabas Kinyor	Kenya	49.52 s
6th	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.64 s
DSQ	Samuel Matete	Zambia
DNS	Olaf Hense	Germany

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kevin Young	United States	46.78 s	WR
2	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	47.66 s
3	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	47.82 s
4th	Stéphane Diagana	France	48.13 s
5	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	48.63 s
6th	Oleh Twerdochleb	EUN	48.63 s
7th	Stéphane Caristan	France	48.86 s
8th	David Patrick	United States	49.26 s

Date: August 6, 1992

For the finals on August 6th, two Americans and two French had qualified. There was also one starter each from Jamaica, Sweden, Great Britain and the United Team.

The real favorite, the reigning world champion Samuel Matete from Zambia, was disqualified in the semifinals. The favorite was the US runner Kevin Young, who was fourth at the last World Championships. But he had improved a lot. His main competitors were Vice World Champion Winthrop Graham from Jamaica and the British World Cup third-placed Kriss Akabusi.

Young approached the final quickly. He took the lead and steadily increased his lead over second-placed Graham. By the time it hit the home stretch, Young was already well ahead. Graham was also well ahead of the rest of the field. First Akabusi and the French Stéphane Diagana, who was just behind him, fought for bronze. Kevin Young knocked over the last hurdle, but that didn't change the fact that he became Olympic champion at 46.78 seconds and was the first - and to date (February 2018) only - athlete to stay under 47 seconds. Winthrop Graham finished second, 88 hundredths of a second behind, and Kriss Akabusi clearly prevailed in the duel for the bronze medal. Behind Stéphane Diagana, Swede Niklas Wallenlind was fifth ahead of Oleh Twerdochleb, who started for the United Team.

In the twentieth Olympic 400 meter hurdles final , Kevin Young won the fifteenth gold medal for the USA, the third in a row.

Winthrop Graham won the first Jamaican medal in this discipline.

Web links

• SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed February 8, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 46f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 8, 2018

Video

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675 , accessed on February 8, 2018
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 46f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 8, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 47, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 8, 2018