The men's 400 metres hurdles

400 metres hurdles

The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

hurdling event at the 1932 Olympic Games

1932 Summer Olympics

The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, was a major world wide multi-athletic event which was celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression, many nations...

took place on July 31 and August 1 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a large outdoor sports stadium in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, at Exposition Park, that is home to the Pacific-12 Conference's University of Southern California Trojans football team...

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Heats

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Morgan Taylor Morgan Taylor Frederick Morgan Taylor was an American hurdler, winner of three Olympic medals. Morgan Taylor, from Sioux City, Iowa, competed in both track and field and football at Grinnell College...		55.8
2	Sten Pettersson Sten Pettersson Sten C. L. Pettersson was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 110 metre hurdles....		56.1
3	Khristos Mantikas		56.4
4	Seiken Cho		56.5
5	Alfonso González		56.7

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	align=left| ob Tisdall]		54.8
2	Fritz Nottbrock		55.0
3	Glenn Hardin Glenn Hardin Glenn Foster "Slats" Hardin was an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics....		55.0
4	Sylvio Padilha		55.1
-	Tom Coulter			DQ

Heat Three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joe Healey		54.2
2	André Adelheim		54.3
3	Kell Areskoug		54.6
4	Evangelos Moiropoulos		55.2

Heat Four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Luigi Facelli		55.0
2	Lord Burghley David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter KCMG , styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official and Conservative Party politician...		55.1
3	George Golding George Golding George Augustus Golding was an Australian athlete who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.He was born in Forbes, New South Wales. He was the husband of Clare Dennis.In 1932 he finished sixth the 400 metres event...		55.2
4	Carlos dos Reis Filho		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 Glenn Hardin Glenn Foster "Slats" Hardin was an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics....		52.8	OR
2	Morgan Taylor Morgan Taylor Frederick Morgan Taylor was an American hurdler, winner of three Olympic medals. Morgan Taylor, from Sioux City, Iowa, competed in both track and field and football at Grinnell College...		52.9
3	Lord Burghley David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter KCMG , styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official and Conservative Party politician...		53.0
4	George Golding George Golding George Augustus Golding was an Australian athlete who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.He was born in Forbes, New South Wales. He was the husband of Clare Dennis.In 1932 he finished sixth the 400 metres event...		53.1
5	Sten Pettersson Sten Pettersson Sten C. L. Pettersson was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 110 metre hurdles....		53.5
6	Fritz Nottbrock		53.7

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bob Tisdall Bob Tisdall Robert Morton Newburgh Tisdall was an Irish athlete of English origin who won a gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.Tisdall was raised in Nenagh, County Tipperary...		52.8	=OR
2	Kell Areskoung		53.2
3	Luigi Facelli		53.2
4	Joe Healey		53.2
5	André Adelheim		53.8
6	Khristos Mantikas

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.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bob Tisdall Bob Tisdall Robert Morton Newburgh Tisdall was an Irish athlete of English origin who won a gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.Tisdall was raised in Nenagh, County Tipperary...		51.67
	Glenn Hardin Glenn Hardin Glenn Foster "Slats" Hardin was an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics....		51.85	WR
	Morgan Taylor Morgan Taylor Frederick Morgan Taylor was an American hurdler, winner of three Olympic medals. Morgan Taylor, from Sioux City, Iowa, competed in both track and field and football at Grinnell College...		51.96
4	Lord Burghley David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter KCMG , styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official and Conservative Party politician...		52.01
5	Luigi Facelli		53.0
6	Kell Areskoug		54.6

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