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