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

Men's 400 metres hurdles at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 31 (heats) September 1 (semifinals) September 2 (final)
Medalists
Glenn Davis  United States Cliff Cushman  United States Dick Howard  United States

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

The men's 400 metres hurdling event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 2.

Results

Heats

The fastest two hurdlers in each of the six heats (blue) and the next two fastest (pink) advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	51.20
2	Dick Howard	United States	51.32
3	Anubes da Silva	Brazil	52.25
4	Max Boyes	Great Britain	52.32
5	Wiesław Król	Poland	52.52
6	Mohamed Zouaki	Morocco	55.65

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jan Gulbrandsen	Norway	52.39
2	Glenn Davis	United States	52.41
3	Arnold Matsulevich	Soviet Union	53.00
4	George Shepherd	23x15px Canada	53.05
5	Marcel Lambrechts	Belgium	53.67

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Cliff Cushman	United States	51.98
2	Willi Matthias	United Team of Germany	52.23
3	Keiji Ogushi	Japan	52.58
4	Chris Goudge	Great Britain	52.75
5	Muhammad Yaqub	Pakistan	52.91
6	Mongi Soussi Zarrouki	23x15px Tunisia	54.34

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Georgy Chevychalov	Soviet Union	51.97
2	Salvatore Morale	Italy	52.13
3	Per-Owe Trollsås	Sweden	52.49
4	Wolfgang Fischer	United Team of Germany	53.35
5	Dimitrios Skourtis	Greece	53.85

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Helmut Janz	United Team of Germany	51.30
2	Bartonjo Rotich	Kenya	51.39
3	Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	51.70
4	Elio Catola	Italy	51.94
5	Fahir Özgüden	Turkey	55.43
6	Nazzar Al-Jamali	Iraq	58.0

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Metcalf	Great Britain	52.24
2	Moreno Martini	Italy	52.26
3	Boris Kriunov	Soviet Union	52.66
4	Víctor Maldonado	23x15px Venezuela	52.79
5	Zdzisław Kumiszcze	Poland	53.47
6	Li Po-Ting	Republic of China	54.23

Semifinals

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Glenn Davis	United States	51.20
2	Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	51.20
3	Helmut Janz	United Team of Germany	51.55
4	Georgy Chevychalov	Soviet Union	52.14
5	Elio Catola	Italy	52.44
6	Jan Gulbrandsen	Norway	52.56
7	Moreno Martini	Italy	52.57

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Cliff Cushman	United States	50.89
2	Dick Howard	United States	50.91
3	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	51.47
4	Salvatore Morale	Italy	51.48
5	Bartonjo Rotich	Kenya	51.95
6	Willi Matthias	United Team of Germany	51.97
7	John Metcalf	Great Britain	52.72

Final

wind = 0.1 m/s.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Glenn Davis	United States	49.51	OR
	Cliff Cushman	United States	49.77
	Dick Howard	United States	49.90
4	Helmut Janz	United Team of Germany	50.05
5	Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	50.98
6	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	51.11

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's 400 metre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-09.