Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Men's 400 metres hurdles

at the Games of the XVII Olympiad

Venue

Dates

August 31 (heats)
September 1 (semifinals)
September 2 (final)

Medalists

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 400 metres hurdling event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 2.

Results

The fastest two hurdlers in each of the six heats (blue) and the next two fastest (pink) advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	51.20
2	Dick Howard	United States	51.32
3	Anubes da Silva	Brazil	52.25
4	Max Boyes	Great Britain	52.32
5	Wiesław Król	Poland	52.52
6	Mohamed Zouaki	Morocco	55.65

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jan Gulbrandsen	Norway	52.39
2	Glenn Davis	United States	52.41
3	Arnold Matsulevich	Soviet Union	53.00
4	George Shepherd	Canada	53.05
5	Marcel Lambrechts	Belgium	53.67

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Cliff Cushman	United States	51.98
2	Willi Matthias	United Team of Germany	52.23
3	Keiji Ogushi	Japan	52.58
4	Chris Goudge	Great Britain	52.75
5	Muhammad Yaqub	Pakistan	52.91
6	Mongi Soussi Zarrouki	Tunisia	54.34

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Georgy Chevychalov	Soviet Union	51.97
2	Salvatore Morale	Italy	52.13
3	Per-Owe Trollsås	Sweden	52.49
4	Wolfgang Fischer	United Team of Germany	53.35
5	Dimitrios Skourtis	Greece	53.85

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Helmut Janz	United Team of Germany	51.30
2	Bartonjo Rotich	Kenya	51.39
3	Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	51.70
4	Elio Catola	Italy	51.94
5	Fahir Özgüden	Turkey	55.43
6	Nazzar Al-Jamali	Iraq	58.0

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	John Metcalf	Great Britain	52.24
2	Moreno Martini	Italy	52.26
3	Boris Kriunov	Soviet Union	52.66
4	Víctor Maldonado	Venezuela	52.79
5	Zdzisław Kumiszcze	Poland	53.47
6	Li Po-Ting	Republic of China	54.23

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Glenn Davis	United States	51.20
2	Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	51.20
3	Helmut Janz	United Team of Germany	51.55
4	Georgy Chevychalov	Soviet Union	52.14
5	Elio Catola	Italy	52.44
6	Jan Gulbrandsen	Norway	52.56
7	Moreno Martini	Italy	52.57

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Cliff Cushman	United States	50.89
2	Dick Howard	United States	50.91
3	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	51.47
4	Salvatore Morale	Italy	51.48
5	Bartonjo Rotich	Kenya	51.95
6	Willi Matthias	United Team of Germany	51.97
7	John Metcalf	Great Britain	52.72

wind = 0.1 m/s.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Glenn Davis	United States	49.51	OR
02 !	Cliff Cushman	United States	49.77
03 !	Dick Howard	United States	49.90
4	Helmut Janz	United Team of Germany	50.05
5	Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	50.98
6	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	51.11

Key: OR = Olympic record

400 metres hurdles at the Olympic Games

Summary

Men	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

Women	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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