Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres

Men's 400 metres at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 6 (heats and quarterfinals) August 7 (semifinals and final)
Competitors	42 from 25 nations
Medalists
Archie Williams United States   Godfrey Brown Great Britain   James LuValle United States

Athletics at the 1936 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 1936 Olympic Games took place in early August. The final was won by American Archie Williams.

Results

Heats

The fastest three runners in each of the eight heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bill Roberts	Great Britain	48.1
2	Olle Danielsson	Sweden	48.6
3	Johnny Loaring	Canada	49.1
4	Albert Jud	Switzerland	49.4
5	Tibor Ribényi	Hungary	50.1

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Georges Henry	France	49.2
2	Karel Kněnický	Czechoslovakia	49.6
3	Dennis Shore	South Africa	49.9
4	Sven Strömberg	Sweden	50.0
5	Johann Baptist Gudenus	Austria	52.9

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Godfrey Brown	Great Britain	48.8
2	Mario Lanzi	Italy	49.3
3	Adolf Metzner	Germany	50.2
4	Mohamed Ebeid	Egypt	50.5
5	Jean Verhaert	Belgium	50.7
6	Leonard Tay	China	52.4

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harold Smallwood	United States	49.0
2	Marshall Limon	Canada	49.2
3	József Vadas	Hungary	49.2
4	Rolf Schønheyder	Norway	49.4
5	Antônio de Carvalho	Brazil	50.4
6	Hiroyoshi Kubota	Japan	50.8

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jimmy LuValle	United States	49.1
2	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina	49.4
3	Zoltán Zsitva	Hungary	49.8
4	Francisc Nemeş	Romania	50.9
5	Keiji Imai	Japan	51.0

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hermann Blazejezak	Germany	47.9
2	Godfrey Rampling	Great Britain	48.6
3	Börje Strandvall	Finland	49.3
4	Raymond Boisset	France	49.5
5	Jean Krombach	Luxembourg	50.4

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Archie Williams	United States	47.8
2	William Fritz	Canada	49.0
3	Gunnar Christensen	Denmark	49.3
4	Toyoyi Aihara	Japan	50.2
5	Raúl Muñoz	Chile	50.5

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pierre Skawinski	France	48.9
2	Bertil von Wachenfeldt	Sweden	49.0
3	Rudolf Klupsch	Germany	49.1
4	Alfred König	Austria	49.4
5	Gyan Bhalla	India	52.4

Quarterfinals

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bill Roberts	Great Britain	47.7
2	Harold Smallwood	United States	48.6
3	Mario Lanzi	Italy	48.8
4	Zoltán Zsitva	Hungary	49.4
5	Dennis Shore	South Africa	49.6
6	Gunnar Christensen	Denmark	51.0

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hermann Blazejezak	Germany	48.2
2	Godfrey Brown	Great Britain	48.3
3	William Fritz	Canada	48.4
4	Bertil von Wachenfeldt	Sweden	48.5
5	Georges Henry	France	49.4
6	Börje Strandvall	Finland	49.9

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Archie Williams	United States	48.0
2	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina	48.7
3	Johnny Loaring	Canada	49.3
4	Olle Danielsson	Sweden	49.6

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jimmy LuValle	United States	47.6
2	Pierre Skawinski	France	48.0
3	Godfrey Rampling	Great Britain	48.0
4	Rudolf Klupsch	Germany	48.8
5	Marshall Limon	Canada	48.9
6	Karel Kněnický	Czechoslovakia	49.6

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Archie Williams	United States	47.2
2	Bill Roberts	Great Britain	48.0
3	Johnny Loaring	Canada	48.1
4	Mario Lanzi	Italy	48.2
5	Pierre Skawinski	France	52.0

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jimmy LuValle	United States	47.1
2	Godfrey Brown	Great Britain	47.3
3	William Fritz	Canada	47.4
4	Godfrey Rampling	Great Britain	47.5
5	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina	48.5
5	Hermann Blazejezak	Germany	49.2

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Archie Williams	United States	46.5
	Godfrey Brown	Great Britain	46.7
	James LuValle	United States	46.8
4	Bill Roberts	Great Britain	46.8
5	William Fritz	Canada	47.8
6	Johnny Loaring	Canada	48.2

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 400 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-03.