| Men's 400 metres hurdles at the Games of the XX Olympiad |
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany | |||||||||
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| Date | 31 August 1972 & 2 September 1972 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| «1968 | 1976» | |||||||||
| Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics |
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| Track events | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 800 m | men | women | ||
| 1500 m | men | women | ||
| 5000 m | men | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 100 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 | women | ||
| 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 | ||||
| Pentathlon | women | |||
| Decathlon | men | |||
These are the official results of the Men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 31 August - 2 September.
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The top three runners in each of the five heats (blue) and the next fastest (green), advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
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| 1 | Dieter Büttner | West Germany | 49.78 |
| 2 | Viktor Savchenko | Soviet Union | 49.90 |
| 3 | Jean-Pierre Corval | France | 50.15 |
| 4 | Tadeusz Kulczycki | Poland | 50.19 |
| 5 | Manuel Soriano | Spain | 50.88 |
| 6 | Fatwell Kimaiyo | Kenya | 51.23 |
| 7 | Roberto Frinolli | Italy | 51.69 |
| 8 | Jean-Aimé Randrianalijaona | Madagascar | 52.75 |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
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| 1 | Dave Hemery | Great Britain | 49.72 |
| 2 | Gary Knoke | Australia | 50.10 |
| 3 | Yury Zorin | Soviet Union | 50.35 |
| 4 | Bill Koskei | Kenya | 50.58 |
| 5 | Giorgio Ballati | Italy | 50.90 |
| 6 | José Jacinto Hidalgo | Venezuela | 54.00 |
| 7 | Norman Brinkworth | Pakistan | 54.67 |
Heat three
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
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| 1 | Christian Rudolph | East Germany | 50.00 |
| 2 | Ralph Mann | United States | 50.18 |
| 3 | Rainer Schubert | West Germany | 50.23 |
| 4 | Ari Salin | Finland | 50.45 |
| 5 | Jean-Pierre Perrinelle | France | 51.81 |
| 6 | José Carvalho | Portugal | 52.64 |
| 7 | Hassan Bergaoui | Tunisia | 53.70 |
Heat four
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
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| 1 | John Akii-Bua | Uganda | 50.35 |
| 2 | Stavros Tziortzis | Greece | 50.54 |
| 3 | Ivan Daniš | Czechoslovakia | 50.62 |
| 4 | Bruce Field | Australia | 51.46 |
| 5 | Hansjörg Wirz | Switzerland | 52.34 |
| 6 | Dick Bruggeman | United States | 54.36 |
| 7 | Julio Ferrer | Puerto Rico | 54.83 |
| - | Francisco Rojas Soto | Paraguay | DNS |
Heat five
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
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| 1 | Yevgeny Gavrilenko | Soviet Union | 49.73 |
| 2 | Jim Seymour | United States | 49.81 |
| 3 | Rolf Ziegler | West Germany | 50.17 |
| 4 | Roger Johnson | New Zealand | 50.48 |
| 5 | Mike Murei | Kenya | 51.63 |
| 6 | Lee Chung-Ping | Republic of China | 52.61 |
| 7 | Gladstone Agbamu | Nigeria | 53.68 |
| - | John Sherwood | Great Britain | DNF |
Top four in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
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| 1 | John Akii-Bua | Uganda | 49.25 |
| 2 | Ralph Mann | United States | 49.53 |
| 3 | Dave Hemery | Great Britain | 49.66 |
| 4 | Rainer Schubert | West Germany | 49.80 |
| 5 | Rolf Ziegler | West Germany | 49.88 |
| 6 | Ivan Daniš | Czechoslovakia | 50.01 |
| 7 | Viktor Savchenko | Soviet Union | 50.28 |
| 8 | Jean-Pierre Corval | France | 50.75 |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
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| 1 | Jim Seymour | United States | 49.33 |
| 2 | Yevgeny Gavrilenko | Soviet Union | 49.34 |
| 3 | Yury Zorin | Soviet Union | 49.60 |
| 4 | Stavros Tziortzis | Greece | 50.06 |
| 5 | Tadeusz Kulczycki | Poland | 50.80 |
| 6 | Gary Knoke | Australia | 52.79 |
| - | Christian Rudolph | East Germany | DNF |
| - | Dieter Büttner | West Germany | DNF |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| John Akii-Bua | Uganda | 47.82 | WR | |
| Ralph Mann | United States | 48.51 | ||
| Dave Hemery | Great Britain | 48.52 | ||
| 4 | Jim Seymour | United States | 48.64 | |
| 5 | Rainer Schubert | West Germany | 49.65 | |
| 6T | Yevgeny Gavrilenko | Soviet Union | 49.66 | |
| 6T | Stavros Tziortzis | Greece | 49.66 | |
| 8 | Yury Zorin | Soviet Union | 50.25 |
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