These are the official results of 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...

event at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 37 events were contested in athletics. There were a total number of 1006 participating athletes from 80 countries.-Men's events:-Women's events:-Medal table:-References:**...

in Montreal

Montreal

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. The competition was held on July 23, 1976, and on July 25, 1976.

Edwin Moses

Edwin Moses

Edwin Corley Moses is an American track and field athlete who won gold medals in the 400 metre hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals and set the world record in his event four times...

 won the final in a world record and Olympic record time of 47.63 seconds. His time was initially noted as one hundredth slower, but this was rounded up after an analysis of the photo finish

Photo finish

A photo finish occurs in a sporting race, when two competitors cross the finishing line at near the same time. As the naked eye may not be able to discriminate between which of the competitors crossed the line first, a strip photo, a series of rapidly triggered photographs, or a video taken at the...

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Records

These are the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1976 Summer Olympics.

World Record	47.82	John Akii-Bua John Akii-Bua John Akii-Bua was a Ugandan hurdler and the first Olympic champion from his country.Akii-Bua started his athletic career as a hurdler on the short distance, but coached by British-born athletics coach Malcolm Arnold, he was introduced to the 400 m hurdles...	Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...  (FRG West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.... )	September 2, 1972
Olympic Record	47.82	John Akii-Bua John Akii-Bua John Akii-Bua was a Ugandan hurdler and the first Olympic champion from his country.Akii-Bua started his athletic career as a hurdler on the short distance, but coached by British-born athletics coach Malcolm Arnold, he was introduced to the 400 m hurdles...	Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...  (FRG West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.... )	September 2, 1972

Final

• Held on July 25, 1976

  RANK	FINAL	TIME
  		47.63 (WR)
  		48.69
  		49.45
  4.		49.86
  5.		49.94
  6.		50.03
  7.		50.19
  8.		51.29

Semifinals

• Held on July 24, 1976

  RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
  1.		49.90
  2.		49.97
  3.		50.11
  4.		50.22
  5.		50.47
  6.		50.82
  —		DNF
  —		DQ

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.		48.29
2.		49.73
3.		49.84
4.		49.95
5.		50.08
6.		50.30
7.		50.57
8.		51.04

Heats

• Held on July 23, 1972

  RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
  1.		50.42
  2.		50.76
  3.		50.77
  4.		50.99
  5.		51.90

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.		50.32
2.		50.57
3.		50.78
3.		50.78
5.		51.07

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.		50.91
2.		50.93
3.		51.39
4.		51.84
5.		53.06
6.		54.67

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.		49.95
2.		51.66
3.		51.91
4.		52.45
5.		55.00
—		DNF

See also

• 1972 Men's Olympic 400 metres hurdles (Munich)
• 1978 Men's European Championships 400 metres hurdles (Prague)
• 1980 Men's Olympic 400 metres hurdles (Moscow)