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

Men's 400 metres hurdles at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	July 31 (heats and semifinals) August 1 (final)
Medalists
Bob Tisdall Ireland   Glenn Hardin United States   Morgan Taylor United States

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 hurdles hurdling event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place on July 31 and August 1 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Results

Heats

Four heats were held; the fastest three runners advanced to the semifinals round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Morgan Taylor	United States	55.8
2	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	56.1
3	Khristos Mantikas	Greece	56.4
4	Seiken Cho	Japan	56.5
5	Alfonso González	Mexico	56.7

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bob Tisdall	Ireland	54.8
2	Fritz Nottbrock	Germany	55.0
3	Glenn Hardin	United States	55.0
4	Sylvio Padilha	Brazil	55.1
-	Tom Coulter	Canada		DQ

Heat Three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joe Healey	United States	54.2
2	André Adelheim	France	54.3
3	Kell Areskoug	Sweden	54.6
4	Evangelos Moiropoulos	Greece	55.2

Heat Four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Luigi Facelli	Italy	55.0
2	Lord Burghley	Great Britain	55.1
3	George Golding	Australia	55.2
4	Carlos dos Reis Filho	Brazil	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	United States	52.8	OR
2	Morgan Taylor	United States	52.9
3	Lord Burghley	Great Britain	53.0
4	George Golding	Australia	53.1
5	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	53.5
6	Fritz Nottbrock	Germany	53.7

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bob Tisdall	Ireland	52.8	=OR
2	Kell Areskoug	Sweden	53.2
3	Luigi Facelli	Italy	53.2
4	Joe Healey	United States	53.2
5	André Adelheim	France	53.8
6	Khristos Mantikas	Greece

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, equalling his own time of 52.0.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bob Tisdall	Ireland	51.67
	Glenn Hardin	United States	51.85	=WR
	Morgan Taylor	United States	51.96
4	Lord Burghley	Great Britain	52.01
5	Luigi Facelli	Italy	53.0
6	Kell Areskoug	Sweden	54.6

Key: WR = world record; OR = Olympic record; =OR = tied Olympic record; DQ = disqualified

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Men's 400 metre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; Retrieved 07-16-2010