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

Men's 400 metres at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 4 (heats and quarterfinals) August 5 (semifinals and final)
Medalists
Bill Carr United States   Ben Eastman United States   Alex Wilson Canada

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 400 metres sprint event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place on August 4 and August 5 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Results

Heats

Six heats were held; the fastest three runners advanced to the Quarterfinal Round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Adolf Metzner	Germany	50.4
2	Seikan Oki	Japan	50.5
3	Alex Wilson	Canada	50.5
4	Kell Areskoug	Sweden	50.7

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ben Eastman	United States	49.0
2	Joachim Büchner	Germany	49.3
3	Hjalle Johannesen	Norway	49.5
4	Carlos de Anda	Mexico	49.8

Heat Three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Börje Strandvall	Finland	49.8
2	Jimmy Ball	Canada	50.0
3	Iwao Masuda	Japan	50.1
4	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	50.2

Heat Four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bill Carr	United States	48.8
2	George Golding	Australia	49.0
3	Crew Stoneley	Great Britain	49.1
4	Walter Nehb	Germany	49.4
5	Khristos Mantikas	Greece	49.6
6	Manuel Álvarez	Mexico	49.9

Heat Five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Felix Rinner	Austria	49.2
2	Godfrey Rampling	Great Britain	49.5
3	Willie Walters	South Africa	49.8
4	Stuart Black	New Zealand	49.9
5	Seiken Cho	Japan	50.0

Heat Six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	James Gordon	United States	50.6
2	Ray Lewis	Canada	50.7
3	Domingos Puglisi	Brazil	50.8
4	Richard Arguello	Mexico	50.9

Quarterfinals

Three heats were held; the four fastest runners in each heat advanced to the Semifinal Round.

Heat One

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bill Carr	United States	48.4
2	Willie Walters	South Africa	48.5
3	George Golding	Australia	48.6
4	Alex Wilson	Canada	49.6
5	Domingos Puglisi	Brazil	50.1
6	Iwao Masuda	Japan

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	James Gordon	United States	48.6
2	Godfrey Rampling	Great Britain	48.8
3	Joachim Büchner	Germany	48.9
4	Jimmy Ball	Canada	49.3
5	Hjalle Johannesen	Norway	49.4
6	Seikan Oki	Japan

Heat Three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ben Eastman	United States	48.8
2	Felix Rinner	Austria	48.9
3	Börje Strandvall	Finland	49.0
4	Crew Stoneley	Great Britain	49.1
5	Ray Lewis	Canada	49.1
6	Adolf Metzner	Germany	49.2

Semifinals

Two heats were held; the fastest three runners advanced to the Final Round.

Heat One

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bill Carr	United States	47.2	OR
2	Alex Wilson	Canada	47.8
3	George Golding	Australia	48.0
4	Godfrey Rampling	Great Britain	48.0
5	Felix Rinner	Austria	48.8
6	Joachim Büchner	Germany	49.2

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ben Eastman	United States	47.6
2	Willie Walters	South Africa	48.2
3	James Gordon	United States	48.2
4	Börje Strandvall	Finland	48.4
5	Crew Stoneley	Great Britain	48.6
6	Jimmy Ball	Canada	49.0

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bill Carr	United States	46.28	WR
	Ben Eastman	United States	46.50
	Alex Wilson	Canada	47.4
4	Willie Walters	South Africa	48.2
5	James Gordon	United States	48.2
6	George Golding	Australia	48.8

Key: OR = Olympic record; WR = world record

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Men's 400 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; Retrieved 2010-07-15