Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 400 metres

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The men's 400 metres was the third-shortest of the men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 17 October, 18 October, and 19 October 1964. 55 athletes from 36 nations entered, with 5 not starting in the first round. The first two rounds were held on 17 October, with the semifinals on 18 October and the final on 19 October.

[edit] Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Michael Larrabee United States	Wendell Mottley Trinidad and Tobago	Andrzej Badeński Poland

[edit] Results

[edit] First round

The top four runners in each of the 7 heats advanced.

[edit] First round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Wendell Mottley	Trinidad and Tobago	45.9 seconds
2	Robbie Ian Brightwell	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	46.1 seconds
3	Jean Pierre Boccardo	France	46.6 seconds
4	Gary John Eddy	Australia	46.9 seconds
5	Stanislaw Swatowski	Poland	47.6 seconds
6	Istvan Gyulai	Hungary	48.0 seconds
7	Didier Mejia	Mexico	48.1 seconds
—	Chang Jong Kil	Korea	Did not start

[edit] First round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Kent Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	46.8 seconds
2	Sergio Bello	Italy	47.5 seconds
3	Vadim Arkhipchuk	Soviet Union	47.7 seconds
4	Timothy Graham	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	48.4 seconds
5	Arsenio Jazmin	Philippines	49.9 seconds
—	Amarsanaa Dulam	Mongolia	Did not start
	Wesley Johnson	Liberia	Did not start
	Samuel Owusa-Mensah	Ghana	Did not start

[edit] First round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Andrzej Badeński	Poland	46.4 seconds
2	Adrian Peter Metcalfe	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	46.7 seconds
3	Jorg Juttner	Unified Team of Germany	47.0 seconds
4	Rupert Hoilette	Jamaica	47.5 seconds
5	Amos Omolo	Uganda	47.6 seconds
6	Juan Carlos Pablo Dyrzka	Argentina	48.3 seconds
7	Amadou Gakou	Senegal	50.1 seconds
8	Daniel Thomas	Tanganyika	50.4 seconds

[edit] First round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Ulis Williams	United States	46.2 seconds
2	Edwin Skinner	Trinidad and Tobago	46.5 seconds
3	Tegegn Bezabih	Ethiopia	46.7 seconds
4	Peter Francis Vassella	Australia	46.7 seconds
5	Johannes Schmitt	Unified Team of Germany	46.9 seconds
6	Muhammad Sadiq	Pakistan	47.3 seconds
7	Victor Maldonado	Venezuela	47.7 seconds
8	Jacques Pennewaert	Belgium	47.7 seconds

[edit] First round, heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Ollan Cassell	United States	46.8 seconds
2	William Crothers	Canada	46.8 seconds
3	James Aryee Addy	Ghana	47.2 seconds
4	P. A. Grajales Escobar	Colombia	47.2 seconds
5	Victor Bychkov	Soviet Union	47.3 seconds
6	Jurgen Kalfelder	Unified Team of Germany	47.7 seconds
7	Yoyaga Coulibaly	Côte d'Ivoire	48.8 seconds
8	George E. Kerr	Jamaica	Did not start

[edit] First round, heat 6

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Michael Larrabee	United States	46.8 seconds
2	Ebenezer Quaye Quartey	Ghana	47.1 seconds
3	Peter Laeng	Switzerland	47.1 seconds
4	Grigory Sverbetov	Soviet Union	47.3 seconds
5	Kenneth James Roche	Australia	47.4 seconds
6	Somsakdi Tongsuke	Thailand	48.9 seconds
7	Jasim Karim Kuraishi	Iraq	49.5 seconds

[edit] First round, heat 7

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Josef Trousil	Czechoslovakia	47.0 seconds
2	Wilson Kiprugut	Kenya	47.1 seconds
3	Lawrence Kahn	Jamaica	47.2 seconds
4	Ireneusz Kluczek	Poland	47.3 seconds
5	Hortensio Herrera Fucil	Venezuela	47.9 seconds
6	Hayase Hirotada	Japan	48.5 seconds
7	William Hill	Hong Kong	48.7 seconds
8	Hossein Ghafourizadeh	Iran	50.8 seconds

[edit] Second round

The four fastest runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinals.

[edit] Second round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Wendell Mottley	Trinidad and Tobago	45.8 seconds
2	Ollan Cassell	United States	46.2 seconds
3	Jean Pierre Boccardo	France	46.3 seconds
4	Peter Francis Vassella	Australia	46.5 seconds
5	Peter Laeng	Switzerland	46.7 seconds
6	Sergio Bello	Italy	46.9 seconds
7	Ebenezer Quaye Quartey	Ghana	47.0 seconds
8	Muhammad Sadiq	Pakistan	48.0 seconds

[edit] Second round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Andrzej Badeński	Poland	46.5 seconds
2	William Crothers	Canada	46.7 seconds
3	Timothy Graham	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	46.8 seconds
4	Lawrence Kahn	Jamaica	47.0 seconds
5	Josef Trousil	Czechoslovakia	47.2 seconds
6	Johannes Schmitt	Unified Team of Germany	47.2 seconds
7	Kenneth James Roche	Australia	48.0 seconds
8	Grigory Sverbetov	Soviet Union	48.0 seconds

[edit] Second round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Michael Larrabee	United States	46.5 seconds
2	Kent Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	46.7 seconds
3	Robbie Ian Brightwell	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	47.1 seconds
4	Jorg Juttner	Unified Team of Germany	47.2 seconds
5	Rupert Hoilette	Jamaica	47.6 seconds
6	Gary John Eddy	Australia	47.6 seconds
7	Wilson Kiprugut	Kenya	47.7 seconds
8	Vadim Arkhipchuk	Soviet Union	47.9 seconds

[edit] Second round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Edwin Skinner	Trinidad and Tobago	46.9 seconds
2	Ulis Williams	United States	46.9 seconds
3	Tegegn Bezabih	Ethiopia	47.2 seconds
4	James Aryee Addy	Ghana	47.3 seconds
5	Adrian Peter Metcalfe	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	47.8 seconds
6	P. A. Grajales Escobar	Colombia	47.8 seconds
7	Victor Bychkov	Soviet Union	47.9 seconds
—	Ireneusz Kluczek	Poland	Did not start

[edit] Semifinals

The top four runners in each of the two semifinals advanced to the final.

[edit] Semifinal 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Robbie Ian Brightwell	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	45.7 seconds
2	Wendell Mottley	Trinidad and Tobago	45.9 seconds
3	Ulis Williams	United States	46.2 seconds
4	Peter Francis Vassella	Australia	46.5 seconds
5	Jorg Juttner	Unified Team of Germany	46.7 seconds
6	Lawrence Kahn	Jamaica	47.0 seconds
7	Tegegn Bezabih	Ethiopia	47.1 seconds
8	Jean Pierre Boccardo	France	47.1 seconds

[edit] Semifinal 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Michael Larrabee	United States	46.0 seconds
2	Andrzej Badeński	Poland	46.2 seconds
3	Edwin Skinner	Trinidad and Tobago	46.5 seconds
4	Timothy Graham	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	46.5 seconds
5	Ollan Cassell	United States	46.6 seconds
6	William Crothers	Canada	46.9 seconds
7	Kent Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	47.1 seconds
8	James Aryee Addy	Ghana	47.6 seconds

[edit] Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Michael Larrabee	United States	45.1 seconds
2	Wendell Mottley	Trinidad and Tobago	45.2 seconds
3	Andrzej Badeński	Poland	45.6 seconds
4	Robbie Ian Brightwell	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	45.7 seconds
5	Ulis Williams	United States	46.0 seconds
6	Timothy Graham	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	46.0 seconds
7	Peter Francis Vassella	Australia	46.3 seconds
8	Edwin Skinner	Trinidad and Tobago	46.8 seconds

[edit] References

Official Report

The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Men's	100 m \| 200 m \| 400 m \| 800 m \| 1500 m \| 5000 m \| 10000 m \| 110 m hurdles \| 400 m hurdles \| 3000 m steeplechase \| 4x100 m \| 4x400 m \| marathon \| 20 km walk \| 50 km walk \| decathlon \| long jump \| triple jump \| high jump \| pole vault \| shot put \| discus \| javelin \| hammer
Women's	100 m \| 200 m \| 400 m \| 800 m \| 80 m hurdles \| 4x100 m \| pentathlon \| long jump \| high jump \| shot put \| discus \| javelin

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