Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres

Men's 400 metres

at the Games of the XI Olympiad

Venue

Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany

Dates

August 6 (heats and quarterfinals)
August 7 (semifinals and final)

Competitors

42 from 25 nations

Medalists

	Archie Williams United States
	Godfrey Brown Great Britain
	James LuValle United States

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 400 metres sprint event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place in early August. The final was won by American Archie Williams.

Results

Heats

The fastest three runners in each of the eight heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Bill Roberts	Great Britain	48.1
2	Olle Danielsson	Sweden	48.6
3	Johnny Loaring	Canada	49.1
4	Albert Jud	Switzerland	49.4
5	Tibor Ribényi	Hungary	50.1

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Georges Henry	France	49.2
2	Karel Kněnický	Czechoslovakia	49.6
3	Dennis Shore	South Africa	49.9
4	Sven Strömberg	Sweden	50.0
5	Johann Baptist Gudenus	Austria	52.9

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Godfrey Brown	Great Britain	48.8
2	Mario Lanzi	Italy	49.3
3	Adolf Metzner	Germany	50.2
4	Mohamed Ebeid	Egypt	50.5
5	Jean Verhaert	Belgium	50.7
6	Leonard Tay	Republic of China	52.4

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Harold Smallwood	United States	49.0
2	Marshall Limon	Canada	49.2
3	József Vadas	Hungary	49.2
4	Rolf Schønheyder	Norway	49.4
5	Antônio de Carvalho	Brazil	50.4
6	Hiroyoshi Kubota	Japan	50.8

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jimmy LuValle	United States	49.1
2	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina	49.4
3	Zoltán Zsitva	Hungary	49.8
4	Francisc Nemeş	Romania	50.9
5	Keiji Imai	Japan	51.0

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Hermann Blazejezak	Germany	47.9
2	Godfrey Rampling	Great Britain	48.6
3	Börje Strandvall	Finland	49.3
4	Raymond Boisset	France	49.5
5	Jean Krombach	Luxembourg	50.4

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Archie Williams	United States	47.8
2	William Fritz	Canada	49.0
3	Gunnar Christensen	Denmark	49.3
4	Toyoyi Aihara	Japan	50.2
5	Raúl Muñoz	Chile	50.5

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Pierre Skawinski	France	48.9
2	Bertil von Wachenfeldt	Sweden	49.0
3	Rudolf Klupsch	Germany	49.1
4	Alfred König	Austria	49.4
5	Gyan Bhalla	India	52.4

Quarterfinals

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Bill Roberts	Great Britain	47.7
2	Harold Smallwood	United States	48.6
3	Mario Lanzi	Italy	48.8
4	Zoltán Zsitva	Hungary	49.4
5	Dennis Shore	South Africa	49.6
6	Gunnar Christensen	Denmark	51.0

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Hermann Blazejezak	Germany	48.2
2	Godfrey Brown	Great Britain	48.3
3	William Fritz	Canada	48.4
4	Bertil von Wachenfeldt	Sweden	48.5
5	Georges Henry	France	49.4
6	Börje Strandvall	Finland	49.9

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Archie Williams	United States	48.0
2	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina	48.7
3	Johnny Loaring	Canada	49.3
4	Olle Danielsson	Sweden	49.6

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jimmy LuValle	United States	47.6
2	Pierre Skawinski	France	48.0
3	Godfrey Rampling	Great Britain	48.0
4	Rudolf Klupsch	Germany	48.8
5	Marshall Limon	Canada	48.9
6	Karel Kněnický	Czechoslovakia	49.6

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Archie Williams	United States	47.2
2	Bill Roberts	Great Britain	48.0
3	Johnny Loaring	Canada	48.1
4	Mario Lanzi	Italy	48.2
5	Pierre Skawinski	France	52.0

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jimmy LuValle	United States	47.1
2	Godfrey Brown	Great Britain	47.3
3	William Fritz	Canada	47.4
4	Godfrey Rampling	Great Britain	47.5
5	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina	48.5
5	Hermann Blazejezak	Germany	49.2

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
01 !	Archie Williams	United States	46.5
02 !	Godfrey Brown	Great Britain	46.7
03 !	James LuValle	United States	46.8
4	Bill Roberts	Great Britain	46.8
5	William Fritz	Canada	47.8
6	Johnny Loaring	Canada	48.2

References

1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 400 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-03.

400 metres at the Olympic Games

Summary

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Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

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