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Men's 400 metres hurdles
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad

Medalists

	Edwin Moses	United States
	Michael Shine	United States
	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko	Soviet Union

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Athletics at the 1976 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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Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
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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 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The competition was held on July 23, 1976, and on July 25, 1976.

Edwin Moses won the final in a world record and Olympic record time of 47.63 seconds. His time was initially noted as one hundredth slower, but this was rounded up after an analysis of the photo finish.^[1]

1 Records
2 Final
3 Semifinals
4 Heats
5 See also
6 References

Records[edit]

These are the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1976 Summer Olympics.

World Record	47.82	John Akii-Bua	Munich (FRG)	September 2, 1972
Olympic Record	47.82	John Akii-Bua	Munich (FRG)	September 2, 1972

Final[edit]

Held on July 25, 1976

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Edwin Moses (USA)	47.63 (WR)
	Michael Shine (USA)	48.69
	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko (URS)	49.45
4.	Quentin Wheeler (USA)	49.86
5.	José Carvalho (POR)	49.94
6.	Yanko Bratanov (BUL)	50.03
7.	Dámaso Alfonso (CUB)	50.19
8.	Alan Pascoe (GBR)	51.29

Semifinals[edit]

Held on July 24, 1976

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Michael Shine (USA)	49.90
2.	José Carvalho (POR)	49.97
3.	Yanko Bratanov (BUL)	50.11
4.	Quentin Wheeler (USA)	50.22
5.	Dmitry Stukalov (URS)	50.47
6.	Jean-Pierre Perrinelle (FRA)	50.82
—	Georgios Parris (GRE)	DNF
—	Harald Schmid (FRG)	DQ

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Edwin Moses (USA)	48.29
2.	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko (URS)	49.73
3.	Dámaso Alfonso (CUB)	49.84
4.	Alan Pascoe (GBR)	49.95
5.	Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA)	50.08
6.	Stavros Tziortzis (GRE)	50.30
7.	Jerzy Hewelt (POL)	50.57
8.	Julio Ferrer (PUR)	51.04

Heats[edit]

Held on July 23, 1972

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Stavros Tziortzis (GRE)	50.42
2.	Dámaso Alfonso (CUB)	50.76
3.	Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA)	50.77
4.	José Carvalho (POR)	50.99
5.	Don Hanly (AUS)	51.90

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Quentin Wheeler (USA)	50.32
2.	Harald Schmid (FRG)	50.57
3.	Jean-Pierre Perrinelle (FRA)	50.78
3.	Dmitry Stukalov (URS)	50.78
5.	Peter Grant (AUS)	51.07

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Michael Shine (USA)	50.91
2.	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko (URS)	50.93
3.	Jerzy Hewelt (POL)	51.39
4.	Yanko Bratanov (BUL)	51.84
5.	Abdul Latif Youssef Hashem (KUW)	53.06
6.	Conrad Mainwaring (ANT)	54.67

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Edwin Moses (USA)	49.95
2.	Alan Pascoe (GBR)	51.66
3.	Georgios Parris (GRE)	51.91
4.	Julio Ferrer (PUR)	52.45
5.	Kamil Al-Abbasi (KSA)	55.00
—	Jesús Villegas (COL)	DNF

References[edit]

Results

^ Olympic Games Medallists (Athletics - Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-07-04.

v t e 400 metres hurdles at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics

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