Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Men's 400 metres hurdles
at the Games of the X Olympiad
VenueLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
DatesJuly 31 (heats and semifinals)
August 1 (final)
Medalists
 
 
 
Athletics at the
1932 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 hurdles hurdling event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place on July 31 and August 1 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Results

Heats

Four heats were held; the fastest three runners advanced to the semifinals round.

Heat one

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Morgan Taylor United States 55.8
2 Sten Pettersson Sweden56.1
3 Khristos Mantikas Greece 56.4
4 Seiken Cho Japan 56.5
5 Alfonso González Mexico 56.7

Heat Two

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Bob Tisdall Ireland 54.8
2 Fritz Nottbrock Germany55.0
3 Glenn Hardin United States 55.0
4 Sylvio Padilha Brazil 55.1
- Tom Coulter Canada DQ

Heat Three

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Joe Healey United States 54.2
2 André Adelheim France54.3
3 Kell Areskoug Sweden 54.6
4 Evangelos Moiropoulos Greece 55.2

Heat Four

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Luigi Facelli Italy 55.0
2 Lord Burghley Great Britain55.1
3George Golding Australia 55.2
4 Carlos dos Reis Filho Brazil 55.8

Semifinals

Two heats were held; the fastest three runners advanced to the final round.

Heat One

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Glenn Hardin United States 52.8 OR
2 Morgan Taylor United States52.9
3 Lord Burghley Great Britain 53.0
4 George Golding Australia 53.1
5 Sten Pettersson Sweden 53.5
6 Fritz Nottbrock Germany 53.7

Heat Two

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Bob Tisdall Ireland 52.8 =OR
2 Kell Areskoug Sweden 53.2
3 Luigi Facelli Italy 53.2
4 Joe Healey United States 53.2
5 André Adelheim France 53.8
6 Khristos Mantikas Greece

Final

Tisdall's time was rejected as a world record as he knocked over the last hurdle, as per the rules of the time; Hardin was therefore credited as world record holder, equalling his own time of 52.0.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Bob Tisdall Ireland 51.67
2nd, silver medalist(s) Glenn Hardin United States 51.85 =WR
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Morgan Taylor United States 51.96
4 Lord Burghley Great Britain 52.01
5 Luigi Facelli Italy 53.0
6 Kell Areskoug Sweden 54.6

Key: WR = world record; OR = Olympic record; =OR = tied Olympic record; DQ = disqualified

References

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