Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Men's 400 metres hurdles
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Dates July 29 (heats & semifinals)
July 30 (final)
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) David Burghley  Great Britain
2nd, silver medalist(s) Frank Cuhel  United States
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Morgan Taylor  United States

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place between July 29 & July 30.[1]

Results

Heats

The first two finishers in each of the six heats advanced to the Semifinal Round.

Heat One

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Lord Burghley Great Britain 57.0
2 Robert Maxwell United States 57.2
3 Evangelos Moiropoulos Greece 58.4
4 André Adelheim France 59.2
5 Herman Larsen Denmark 1:00.0

Heat Two

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Johnny Gibson United States 57.0
2 Frederick Chauncy Great Britain
3 Émile Swinnen Belgium
AC Pierre Arnaudin France DNF

Heat Three

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Roger Viel France 56.2
2 Thomas Livingston-Learmonth Great Britain 56.4
3 Jukka Matilainen Finland 56.7
4 Alf Watson Australia 57.8

Heat Four

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Morgan Taylor United States 55.2
2 Erkka Wilén Finland 56.5
3 Erik Kjellström Sweden 56.6

Heat Five

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Sten Pettersson Sweden 55.8
2 Stefan Kostrzewski Poland 56.0
3 Lance Percival Great Britain

Heat Six

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Frank Cuhel United States 54.6
2 Luigi Facelli Italy 55.1
3 Louis Lundgren Denmark 55.9
4 Warren Montabone Canada 56.5
5 Édouard Max-Robert France
6 Abdul Hamid India

Semifinals

Heat 1

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Morgan Taylor United States53.4OR, Q
2Frank Cuhel United States53.6 Q
3David Burghley Great Britain53.9 Q
4Roger Viel France57.6
5Stefan Kostrzewski Poland58.0
6Frederick Chauncy Great Britain

Key: OR = Olympic record, Q = Qualified

Heat 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Thomas Livingston-Learmonth Great Britain54.0Q
2Luigi Facelli Italy54.2 Q
3Sten Pettersson Sweden54.3Q
4Johnny Gibson United States54.4
5Erkka Wilén Finland54.5
6Robert Maxwell United States

Key: Q = Qualified

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
David Burghley Great Britain53.4=OR
Frank Cuhel United States53.6
Morgan Taylor United States53.6
4Sten Pettersson Sweden53.8
5Thomas Livingston-Learmonth Great Britain54.2
6Luigi Facelli Italy55.8

Key: =OR = Equalled Olympic record

References

  1. "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Hurdles". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
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