1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	55 athletes from 36 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 29, 1996 (preliminary round) July 31, 1996 (semi-finals) August 1, 1996 (final)
Medalist Derrick Adkins ( USA )   Samuel Matete ( ZAM )   Calvin Davis ( USA )

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 29 and 31 and on August 1, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 55 athletes took part.

The American Derrick Adkins became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Zambian Samuel Matete and Calvin Davis from the USA.

The Swiss Marcel Schelbert was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1992	Kevin Young ( USA )	46.78 s	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Derrick Adkins ( USA )	47.98 s	Gothenburg 1995
European Champion 1994	Oleh Tverdochleb ( Ukraine )	48.06 s	Helsinki 1994
Pan American champion 1995	Eronilde de Araújo ( Brazil )	49.29 s	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995	José Pérez ( Cuba )	49.2 s	Guatemala City 1995
South American Champion 1995	Eronilde de Araújo ( Brazil )	48.63 s	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Mubarak Sultan Al-Nubi ( Qatar )	50.17 s	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Ibou Faye ( Senegal )	49.60 s	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania Champion 1994	Nick Bolton ( New Zealand )	53.01 s	Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record	46.78 s	Kevin Young ( USA )	Barcelona , Spain	August 6, 1992
Olympic record			Final of Barcelona , Spain

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

Preliminary round

July 29, 1996, from 11:45

The athletes competed in a total of seven heats. For the semifinals, only the first two athletes qualified for each run. In addition, the two 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 (s)	annotation
1	Ibou Faye	Senegal	48.84
2	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	48.90
3	Kazuhiko Yamazaki	Japan	49.07
4th	Dinsdale Morgan	Jamaica	49.16
5	Kehinde Aladefa	Nigeria	49.60
6th	Peter Crampton	Great Britain	49.78
7th	Gilbert Hashan	Mauritius	49.94
8th	Salvador Vila	Spain	50.55

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	48.52
2	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	48.92
3	Carlos Silva	Portugal	49.09
4th	Mubarak Sultan Al-Nubi	Qatar	49.27
5	Miro Kocuvan	Slovenia	49.66
6th	Jean-Paul Bruwier	Belgium	49.69
7th	Barnabas Kinyor	Kenya	49.82
8th	Mugur Mateescu	Romania	49.97

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Samuel Matete	Zambia	48.21
2	Rohan Robinson	Australia	48.89
3	Erick Keter	Kenya	49.03
4th	Vadim Zadoinow	Moldova	49.73
5	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	49.94
6th	Hamadou M'baye	Senegal	50.30
7th	Llewellyn Herbert	South Africa	51.13

Forward 4

The Pole Paweł Januszewski - here in a photo from 2012 - was eliminated as third in his heat

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Bryan Bronson	United States	49.06
2	Dusán Kovács	Hungary	49.23
3	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	49.63
4th	Hideaki Kawamura	Japan	49.88
5	Julius Masvanise	Zimbabwe	50.16
6th	Jozef Kucej	Slovakia	50.31
7th	Amadou Sy Savané	Guinea	50.90
8th	Simon Hollingsworth	Australia	52.16

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Jonathan Ridgeon	Great Britain	49.21
2	Marc Dollendorf	Belgium	49.49
3	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	49.94
4th	Egīls Tēbelis	Latvia	50.73
5	Domingo Cordero	Puerto Rico	51.20
6th	Marcel Schelbert	Switzerland	51.20
7th	Curt Young	Panama	55.20
DNF	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Calvin Davis	United States	48.94
2	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.54
3	Ashraf Saber	Italy	49.71
4th	Gideon Biwott	Kenya	49.74
5	Tom McGuirk	Ireland	50.76
6th	Cléverson da Silva	Brazil	51.23
7th	Oscar Pitillas	Spain	51.35
8th	Lancelot Gittens	Guyana	54.79

Forward 7

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Derrick Adkins	United States	48.46
2	Everson Teixeira	Brazil	48.52
3	Ken Harnden	Zimbabwe	48.54
4th	Neil Gardner	Jamaica	48.59
5	Shunji Karube	Japan	48.96
6th	Gary Jennings	Great Britain	50.41
7th	Íñigo Monreal	Spain	52.23
8th	Ivan Wakit	Papua New Guinea	53.42

Semifinals

July 31, 1996, from 7:15 p.m.

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Derrick Adkins	United States	47.76
2	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.21
3	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	48.43
4th	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	48.45
5	Dusán Kovács	Hungary	48.57
6th	Ken Harnden	Zimbabwe	48.61
7th	Jonathan Ridgeon	Great Britain	49.43
8th	Bryan Bronson	United States	50.32

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Calvin Davis	United States	47.91
2	Everson Teixeira	Brazil	48.28
3	Samuel Matete	Zambia	48.28
4th	Rohan Robinson	Australia	48.28
5	Neil Gardner	Jamaica	48.30
6th	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	48.52
7th	Ibou Faye	Senegal	48.84
8th	Marc Dollendorf	Belgium	48.91

final

The American Olympic champion Derrick Adkins

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Derrick Adkins	United States	47.54
2	Samuel Matete	Zambia	47.78
3	Calvin Davis	United States	47.96
4th	Sven Nylander	Sweden	47.98
5	Rohan Robinson	Australia	48.30
6th	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	48.41
7th	Everson Teixeira	Brazil	48.57
8th	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	48.78

August 1, 1996

Two Americans and two Brazilians qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Australia, Italy, Zambia and Sweden.

The favorite was Sambier Samuel Matete, last year runner-up behind the American Derrick Adkins. In the Olympic year, Matete had run the best times before the Atlanta Games and in four out of five duels he had finished ahead of Adkins. Contenders for the places behind these two clear favorites were the Russian World Cup fourth Ruslan Maschtschenko and the Swedish Vice European Champion Sven Nylander, who came fifth in the 1995 World Cup . Mashchenko was already eliminated in the run-up.

Adkins led the field on the seventh hurdle. At the start of the home stretch, the American was further ahead, but his lead was narrow. His compatriot Calvin Davis followed, followed by the Swede Sven Nylander and the Brazilian Eronilde de Araújo. Little changed over the next fifty meters, but then Derrick Adkins, with the best stamina, clearly set himself apart from his opponents and became Olympic champion. De Araújo meanwhile ran out of strength and fell back to last place. From behind, Matete fought his way forward again and with the last steps even caught Davis, who was slacking off. As in the World Championships in 1993 and 1995 , Samuel Matete won the silver medal. Calvin Davis finished third in front of Sven Nylander - the two separated two hundredths of a second - and the Australian Rohan Robinson. The Italian Fabrizio Mori took sixth place in front of Éverson Teixeira from Brazil.

In the 21st Olympic final, Derrick Adkins ran the 400 meter hurdles for the 16th US victory .

Samuel Matete won the first Olympic medal in athletics for Zambia.

Web links

• SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed March 1, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 84, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 1, 2018

Video

• Men's 400m Hurdles Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , posted June 21, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 1, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 675 , accessed on March 1, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 84, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 1, 2018