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

These are the official results of the Men's 400 metres event at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.[1]

Men's 400 metres
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
DatesAugust 2 (heats, quarter-finals)
August 3 (semi-finals, final)
Competitors50 from 20 nations
Winning time47.8
Medalists
Ray Barbuti  United States
James Ball  Canada
Joachim Büchner  Germany
Athletics at the
1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmen
400 mmen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4×100 m relaymenwomen
4×400 m relaymen
Road events
Marathonmen
Field events
Long jumpmen
Triple jumpmen
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Shot putmen
Discus throwmenwomen
Javelin throwmen
Hammer throwmen
Combined events
Decathlonmen

Results

Round One

The top two finshers in each of the 15 heats advanced to Round Two.

Heat One

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Hermon Phillips  United States 49.4 s
2 Georges Dupont  France
3 Zygmunt Weiss  Poland 50.8 s
4 Rinus van den Berge  Netherlands
5 Víctor Villaseñor  Mexico

Heat Two

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Emil Snider  United States 50.4 s
2 François Prinsen  Belgium

Heat Three

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Phil Edwards  Canada 49.8 s
2 Georges Krotoff  France 50.5 s
3 Jaroslav Vykoupil  Czechoslovakia
4 Stefan Kostrzewski  Poland 52.2 s

Heat Four

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 John Rinkel  Great Britain 50.2 s
2 Johann Bartl  Czechoslovakia
3 Émile Langenraedt  Belgium
4 Feliks Żuber  Poland 52.6 s

Heat Five

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Jochen Büchner  Germany 50.2 s
2 Andries Hoogerwerf  Netherlands

Heat Six

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Ray Barbuti  United States 49.8 s
2 Sean Lavan  Ireland
3 Louis Lundgren  Denmark
4 Jenő Szalay  Hungary
5 Rudolfo Hannig  Chile

Heat Seven

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Harry Storz  Germany 50.6 s
2 Harry Broos  Netherlands
3 Joaquín Miquel  Spain

Heat Eight

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Jimmy Ball  Canada 55.8 s
2 Roger Leigh-Wood  Great Britain

Heat Nine

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Jesús Moraila  Mexico 1 m (60 s)
2 James Hall  India

Heat Ten

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 László Barsi  Hungary 55.6 s
2 José Lucílo Iturbe  Mexico

Heat Eleven

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Joe Tierney  United States 49.8 s
2 Alex Wilson  Canada 49.9 s
3 Klemens Biniakowski  Poland 50.8 s

Heat Twelve

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 René Féger  France 51.4 s
2 Billy Green  Great Britain
3 José Vicente Salinas  Chile

Heat Thirteen

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Hermann Geißler  Austria 50.2 s
2 Adje Paulen  Netherlands
3 László Magdics  Hungary
4 Vasilios Stavrinos  Greece
5 Fritz Eyschen  Luxembourg

Heat Fourteen

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Otto Neumann  Germany 50.6 s
2 Fred Macbeth  Canada
3 Charles Stuart  Australia
4 Mór Gerő  Hungary

Heat Fifteen

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Reinhold Schmidt  Germany 50.0 s
2 Joseph Jackson  France 50.6 s
3 John Hanlon  Great Britain
4 Alfonso García  Mexico

Round Two

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

Heat One

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Hermon Phillips  United States 49.6 s
2 Georges Krotoff  France
3 Billy Green  Great Britain
4 Reinhold Schmidt  Germany
5 James Hall  India

Heat Two

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Ray Barbuti  United States 48.8 s
2 Alex Wilson  Canada
3 Otto Neumann  Germany
4 Georges Dupont  France
5 Jesús Moraila  Mexico

Heat Three

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Jimmy Ball  Canada 49.2 s
2 René Féger  France
3 Euil Snider  United States
4 Andries Hoogerwerf  Netherlands
5 Hermann Geißler  Austria

Heat Four

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Harry Storz  Germany 49.4 s
2 John Rinkel  Great Britain
3 Joseph Jackson  France
4 François Prinsen  Belgium
5 José Lucílo Iturbe  Mexico

Heat Five

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Phil Edwards  Canada 49.2 s
2 Harry Broos  Netherlands
3 Johann Bartl  Czechoslovakia
4 Joe Tierney  United States
5 Sean Lavan  Ireland

Heat Six

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Joachim Büchner  Germany 48.6 s
2 László Barsi  Hungary
3 Roger Leigh-Wood  Great Britain
4 Adje Paulen  Netherlands
5 Fred Macbeth  Canada

Semi-Final

The first three finishers in each of the two heats advanced to the Final Round.

Heat One

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Jimmy Ball  Canada 48.6 s
2 Ray Barbuti  United States 48.8 s
3 Harry Werner Storz  Germany 49.0 s
4 László Barsi  Hungary 49.2 s
5 Harry Broos  Netherlands 49.9 s
6 Georges Krotoff  France

Heat Two

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Joachim Büchner  Germany 48.6 s
2 Hermon Phillips  United States 49.1 s
3 John Rinkel  Great Britain 49.1 s
4 Alex Wilson  Canada 49.2 s
5 René Féger  France 49.6 s
6 Phil Edwards  Canada 50.2 s

Final
RankAthleteNationTime
Ray Barbuti United States47.8
Jimmy Ball Canada48.0
Joachim Buchner Germany48.2
4John Rinkel Great Britain48.4
5Harry Werner Storz Germany48.8
6Hermon Phillips United States49.0

References
  1. "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Men's 400 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
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