Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Men's 400 metres hurdles; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	23 September 1988 (heats); 24 September 1988 (semi-finals); 25 September 1988 (final)
Competitors	38 from 28 nations
Winning time	47.19 OR
Medalists
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The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 38 competitors, with five qualifying heats (38 runners) and two semifinals (16) before the final (8) took place on Sunday September 25, 1988.^[1]

MedalistsEdit

Gold	Andre Phillips United States
Silver	Amadou Dia Ba Senegal
Bronze	Edwin Moses United States

RecordsEdit

These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.

World Record	47.02	Edwin Moses	Koblenz (FRG)	August 31, 1983
Olympic Record	47.64	Edwin Moses	Montreal (CAN)	July 25, 1976

The following Olympic record was set during this competition.

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
September 25, 1988	Final	Andre Phillips	United States	47.19s	OR

FinalEdit

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Andre Phillips	United States	47.19 (OR)	6
	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	47.23 (NR)	5
	Edwin Moses	United States	47.56	3
4	Kevin Young	United States	47.94	2
5	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	48.04	4
6	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	48.69	7
7	Harald Schmid	West Germany	48.76	1
8	Edgar Itt	West Germany	48.78	8

Semi finalsEdit

Held on Saturday September 24, 1988

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Edwin Moses	United States	47.89	3
2	Kevin Young	United States	48.56	5
3	Harald Schmid	West Germany	48.93	1
4	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	49.22	6
5	Joseph Maritim	Kenya	49.50	4
6	José Alonso	Spain	49.57	8
7	Klaus Ehrle	Austria	51.04	2
8	John Graham	Canada	51.33	7

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Andre Phillips	United States	48.19	5
2	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	48.37	6
3	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	48.48	4
4	Edgar Itt	West Germany	48.86	2
5	Toma Tomov	Bulgaria	48.90	3
6	Simon Kitur	Kenya	49.74	1
7	Alain Cuypers	Belgium	49.75	7
–	Gideon Yego	Kenya	DSQ	8

Qualifying heatsEdit

Held on Friday September 23, 1988

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	49.41
2	Klaus Ehrle	Austria	50.10
3	John Graham	Canada	50.30
4	Hwang Hong-Chul	South Korea	50.52
5	Philip Harries	Great Britain	50.81
6	Jasem Aldowaila	Kuwait	51.87
7	Dambar Kunwar	Nepal	56.80
—	Sven Nylander	Sweden	DNS

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harald Schmid	West Germany	49.77
2	Simon Kitur	Kenya	49.88
3	Alain Cuypers	Belgium	50.42
4	Ahmed Ghanem	Egypt	50.44
5	Ryoichi Yoshida	Japan	50.49
6	Samuel Matete	Zambia	51.06
7	Domingo Cordero	Puerto Rico	51.26
8	Jorge Fidel Ponce	Honduras	55.38

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Edwin Moses	United States	49.38
2	Edgar Itt	West Germany	50.10
3	José Alonso	Spain	50.12
4	Leigh Miller	Australia	50.53
5	Branislav Karaulić	Yugoslavia	51.32
6	Allan Ince	Barbados	52.76
7	Oral Selkridge	Antigua and Barbuda	53.44

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Kevin Young	United States	49.35
2	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	49.62
3	Gideon Yego	Kenya	49.80
4	Jozef Kucej	Czechoslovakia	49.89
5	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia	50.54
6	Hamidou M'Baye	Senegal	50.58
7	Benjamin Grant	Sierra Leone	51.73
8	Joseph Rodan	Fiji	53.66

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Andre Phillips	United States	49.34
2	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	49.40
3	Joseph Maritim	Kenya	49.64
4	Toma Tomov	Bulgaria	49.66
5	Max Robertson	Great Britain	50.67
6	Ahmed Hamada Jassim	Bahrain	51.34
7	Yousif Al-Dossary	Saudi Arabia	53.51

ReferencesEdit

^ "Athletics at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Hurdles". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2017.

External linksEdit

(in English) Official Report

[SR-1] "Athletics at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Hurdles". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2017.

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