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

Men's 400 metres hurdles at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 3 (heats) August 4 (semifinals, final)
Competitors	32 from 19 nations
Medalists
Glenn Hardin United States   John Loaring Canada   Miguel White Philippines

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 hurdles event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place on August 3 and August 4. The final was won by American Glenn Hardin.

Results

The fastest two runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	József Kovács	Hungary	53.7	Q
2	Juul Bosmans	Belgium	53.8	Q
3	Prudent Joye	France	54.1
4	Tokio Fukuda	Japan	56.8

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Fritz Nottbrock	Germany	54.7	Q
2	Dale Schofield	United States	54.8	Q
3	Luigi Facelli	Italy	55.1
4	Jim Worrall	Canada	55.5
5	Louis Gailliard	France	56.4
6	August Banščak	Yugoslavia	1:01.5

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Miguel White	Philippines	53.4	Q
2	Johnny Loaring	Canada	54.3	Q
3	Alf Watson	Australia	54.5
4	Masao Ichihara	Japan	54.7
5	Ioannis Skiadas	Greece	55.3
6	Emilio Mori	Italy	55.6

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joe Patterson	United States	54.4	Q
2	Juan Lavenás	Argentina	54.5	Q
3	Hans Scheele	Germany	54.6
4	Umberto Ridi	Italy	55.5
5	Teodoro Malasig	Philippines	56.1

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Khristos Mantikas	Greece	53.8	Q
2	Sylvio Padilha	Brazil	54.2	Q
3	Vane Ivanović	Yugoslavia	54.7
4	Frank Rushton	South Africa	55.2
5	Kell Areskoug	Sweden	55.7
6	Walter Fritsch	Chile	58.3

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Glenn Hardin	United States	53.9	Q
2	Willi Kürten	Germany	54.6	Q
3	Ernst Leitner	Austria	54.9
4	Ernst Berndt	Czechoslovakia	57.6
5	John Sheffield	Great Britain	58.1

Semifinals

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

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Glenn Hardin	United States	53.2	Q
2	Miguel White	Philippines	53.4	Q
3	Khristos Mantikas	Greece	53.5	Q
4	Dale Schofield	United States	53.5
5	Juan Lavenás	Argentina	54.5
6	Willi Kürten	Germany	54.5

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joe Patterson	United States	52.8	Q
2	Johnny Loaring	Canada	53.1	Q
3	Sylvio Padilha	Brazil	53.3	Q
4	Juul Bosmans	Belgium	53.4
5	József Kovács	Hungary	54.0
6	Fritz Nottbrock	Germany	54.8

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Glenn Hardin	United States	52.4
	John Loaring	Canada	52.7
	Miguel White	Philippines	52.8
4	Joe Patterson	United States	53.0
5	Sylvio Padilha	Brazil	54.0
6	Khristos Mantikas	Greece	54.2

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 400 metre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-30.