Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Athletics at the
1980 Summer Olympics
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
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Long jump men women
Triple jump men
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Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
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Combined events
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

The Men's 400 metres Hurdles at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union had an entrylist of 23 competitors, with three qualifying heats (23 runners), two semi-finals (16) before the final (8) took place on Saturday July 26, 1980.

Contents

Final

RANK FINAL TIME
 Volker Beck (GDR) 48.70
 Vasyl Arkhypenko (URS) 48.86
 Gary Oakes (GBR) 49.11
4.  Nikolay Vasilyev (URS) 49.34
5.  Rok Kopitar (YUG) 49.67
6.  Horia Toboc (ROU) 49.84
7.  Franz Meier (SUI) 50.00
8.  Yanko Bratanov (BUL) 56.35

Semi finals

RANK HEAT 1 TIME
1.  Volker Beck (GDR) 50.36
2.  Rok Kopitar (YUG) 50.55
3.  Horia Toboc (ROU) 50.58
4.  Harry Schulting (NED) 50.61
5.  Aleksandr Kharlov (URS) 50.64
6.  József Szalai (HUN) 51.06
7.  Antonio Dias Ferreira (BRA) 52.31
 Christer Gullstrand (SWE) DNS
RANK HEAT 2 TIME
1.  Vasyl Arkhypenko (URS) 49.80
2.  Nikolay Vasilyev (URS) 49.87
3.  Gary Oakes (GBR) 50.07
4.  Franz Meier (SUI) 50.12
5.  Yanko Bratanov (BUL) 50.17
6.  Ryszard Szparak (POL) 50.41
7.  John Akii-Bua (UGA) 51.10
8.  Juan Lloveras (ESP) 51.86

Heats

RANK HEAT 1 TIME
1.  Nikolay Vasilyev (URS) 50.09
2.  Antonio Dias Ferreira (BRA) 50.14
3.  Volker Beck (GDR) 50.35
4.  Ryszard Szparak (POL) 50.45
5.  John Akii-Bua (UGA) 50.87
6.  Horia Toboc (ROU) 50.89
7.  Davison Lishebo (ZAM) 51.73
RANK HEAT 2 TIME
1.  Vasyl Arkhypenko (URS) 50.22
2.  Franz Meier (SUI) 50.32
3.  Rok Kopitar (YUG) 50.34
4.  Juan Lloveras (ESP) 50.48
5.  Yanko Bratanov (BUL) 50.56
6.  Christer Gullstrand (SWE) 50.95
7.  Amer Maaraoui (SYR) 53.26
8.  Abdultif Hashem (KUW) 53.31
RANK HEAT 3 TIME
1.  Harry Schulting (NED) 50.01
2.  József Szalai (HUN) 50.23
3.  Gary Oakes (GBR) 50.39
4.  Aleksandr Kharlov (URS) 50.79
5.  José Casabona (ESP) 51.26
 Wilfred Kareng (BOT) DNF
 Leonel Teller (NCA) DNF
 Ali Hassan Kadhum (IRQ) DNS

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