Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres

Men's 400 metres
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad

Venue

Dates

3-6 September

Competitors

59 from 44 nations

Medalists

	Otis Davis	United States
	Carl Kaufmann	Germany
	Malcolm Spence	South Africa

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Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Men's 400 metres event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The competition was held on September 3, 1960 and to on September 6, 1960. 59 competitors from 44 nations entered, but participated 54 competitors from 41 nations.

1 Results
- 1.1 First round
- 1.2 Second round
  - 1.2.1 Second round, heat 1
  - 1.2.2 Second round, heat 2

Results

First round

The top three runners in each of the 9 heats advanced.

First round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Manfred Kinder	Germany	46.7 seconds
2	Edgar Davis	South Africa	47.2 seconds
3	Malcolm Yardley	Great Britain	47.3 seconds
4	Josef Trousil	Czechoslovakia	47.4 seconds
5	John Asare-Antwi	Ghana	47.7 seconds
6	Kimitada Hayase	Japan	49.1 seconds
7	Habib Sayed	Afghanistan	53.8 seconds

First round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Alf Pettersson	Sweden	48.3 seconds
2	Robbie Brightwell	Great Britain	48.4 seconds
3	Konstantin Grachev	Soviet Union	49.3 seconds
4	Felix Heuertz	Luxembourg	50.2 seconds
-	George Kerr	British West Indies	DNS
-	N. Romero	Venezuela	DNS

First round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Carl Kaufmann	Germany	47.3 seconds
2	Barry Robinson	New Zealand	47.6 seconds
3	Lodewijk De Clerck	Belgium	47.9 seconds
4	Anubes Ferraz Da Silva	Brazil	48.0 seconds
5	Csaba Csutorás	Hungary	48.2 seconds
6	Hugh Bullard	Bahamas	51.1 seconds

First round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Malcolm Spence	South Africa	46.7 seconds
2	Kevan Gosper	Australia	47.1 seconds
3	Terry Tobacco	Canada	47.4 seconds
4	Gadi Ado	Uganda	49.0 seconds
5	Marcel Lambrechts	Belgium	49.5 seconds
6	Jorge Teran	Mexico	49.6 seconds
7	Brahim Karabi	Tunisia	52.0 seconds

First round, heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	German Guenard	Puerto Rico	47.3 seconds
2	Jerzy Kowalski	Poland	48.3 seconds
3	Giuseppe Bommarito	Italy	48.6 seconds
4	Li Po-Ting	Republic of China	49.5 seconds
5	Clayton Glasgow	British Guiana	50.7 seconds
6	George Johnson	Liberia	51.4 seconds

First round, heat 6

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Jack Yerman	United States	47.2 seconds
2	Milkha Singh	India	47.6 seconds
3	Stanisław Swatowski	Poland	48.1 seconds
4	Manikavasagam Jegathesan	Malaya	48.4 seconds
5	Iván Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	49.6 seconds
6	Claro Pellosis	Philippines	51.4 seconds

First round, heat 7

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Malcolm Spence	British West Indies	47.6 seconds
2	Earl Young	United States	47.6 seconds
3	Bartonjo Rotich	Kenya	47.7 seconds
4	Zdenĕk Váňa	Czechoslovakia	48.3 seconds
5	Vasilios Sillis	Greece	48.4 seconds
6	Manum Bumroongpruck	Thailand	49.6 seconds

First round, heat 8

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Abdul Karim Amu	Nigeria	46.8 seconds
2	Gordon Day	South Africa	47.1 seconds
3	Hans-Joachim Reske	Germany	47.2 seconds
4	Voitto Hellstén	Finland	48.4 seconds
5	Jassim Karim Kuraishi	Iraq	49.2 seconds
6	Fahir Özgüden	Turkey	50.7 seconds

First round, heat 9

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Otis Davis	United States	46.8 seconds
2	Jim Wedderburn	British West Indies	47.4 seconds
3	John Wrighton	Great Britain	47.4 seconds
4	René Weber	Switzerland	47.6 seconds
5	Moussa Said	Ethiopia	48.2 seconds
6	Amos Grodzinowsky	Israel	48.9 seconds

Second round

The top three in each of the 4 heats advanced.

Second round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Carl Kaufmann	Germany	46.5 seconds
2	Milkha Singh	India	46.5 seconds
3	Malcolm Spence	British West Indies	46.9 seconds
4	Terry Tobacco	Canada	47.5 seconds
5	Edgar Davis	South Africa	48.0 seconds
6	Malcolm Yardley	Great Britain	48.8 seconds
-	Alf Pettersson	Sweden	DNS

Second round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Jack Yerman	United States	46.4 seconds
2	Kevan Gosper	Australia	46.5 seconds
3	Manfred Kinder	Germany	46.7 seconds
4	Jim Wedderburn	British West Indies	47.0 seconds
5	German Guenard	Puerto Rico	47.2 seconds
6	John Wrighton	Great Britain	48.4 seconds

400 metres at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics

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