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


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

Results

Heats

The fastest two hurdlers in each of the six heats and the next two fastest advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Bruno Galliker51.20
2Dick Howard51.32
3Anubes da Silva52.25
4Max Boyes52.32
5Wiesław Król52.52
6Mohamed Zouaki55.65

Heat two
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Jan Gulbrandsen52.39
2Glenn Davis52.41
3Arnold Matsulevich53.00
4George Shepherd53.05
5Marcel Lambrechts53.67

Heat three
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Cliff Cushman51.98
2Willi Matthias52.23
3Keiji Ogushi52.58
4Chris Goudge52.75
5Muhammad Yaqub52.91
6Mongi Soussi Zarrouki54.34

Heat four
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Georgy Chevychalov51.97
2Salvatore Morale52.13
3Per-Owe Trollsås52.49
4Wolfgang Fischer53.35
5Dimitrios Skourtis53.85

Heat five
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Helmut Janz51.30
2Bartonjo Rotich51.39
3Jussi Rintamäki51.70
4Elio Catola51.94
5Fahir Özgüden55.43
6Nazzar Al-Jamali58.0

Heat six
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1John Metcalf52.24
2Moreno Martini52.26
3Boris Kriunov52.66
4Víctor Maldonado52.79
5Zdzisław Kumiszcze53.47
6Li Po-Ting54.23

Semifinals

The fastest three hurdlers in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Glenn Davis51.20
2Jussi Rintamäki51.20
3Helmut Janz51.55
4Georgy Chevychalov52.14
5Elio Catola52.44
6Jan Gulbrandsen52.56
7Moreno Martini52.57

Heat two
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Cliff Cushman50.89
2Dick Howard50.91
3Bruno Galliker51.47
4Salvatore Morale51.48
5Bartonjo Rotich51.95
6Willi Matthias51.97
7John Metcalf52.72

Final

= 0.1 m/s.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Glenn Davis49.51OR
Cliff Cushman49.77
Dick Howard49.90
4Helmut Janz50.05
5Jussi Rintamäki50.98
6Bruno Galliker51.11

Key: OR = Olympic record