400 metres Hurdles

The 400 metres hurdles at the Summer Olympics is the longest hurdling event held at the multi-sport event. The men's 400 m hurdles has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900, with a sole gap at the 1912 Summer Olympics. The women's event was added to the programme over eighty years later, at the 1984 Olympics. It is the most prestigious 400 m hurdles race at elite level.

The Olympic records for the event are 46.78 seconds for men, set by Kevin Young in 1992, and 52.64 seconds for women, set by Melaine Walker in 2008. Young's time remains the men's world record for the event. That record has been broken at the Olympics on seven occasions: 1908 (the first official IAAF record), 1920, 1932, 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1992. The women's world record has never been broken in Olympic competition.

Edwin Moses is the most successful athlete in the event, having won two gold and one bronze medal. Glenn Davis, Angelo Taylor and Felix Sanchez have also won two Olympic 400 m hurdles titles. Morgan Taylor is the only other athlete beside Moses that has won three medals in the event. Deon Hemmings is the most successful woman, with her 1996 gold and 2000 silver medals, and is the only female athlete to win multiple medals. It is relatively common for 400 m hurdles athletes to also be part of their nation's team for the 4×400 metres relay at the Olympics.

The United States is by far the most successful nation in the men's event with 18 gold medals and 40 medals overall – more than half the medals available. American men have swept the medals on five occasions.

The American women have the highest medal total, with seven, but an American woman has never won the event. Russia and Jamaica are the only nations to win multiple women's gold medals, with two each. Great Britain is the only nation to have won a gold medal in both the men's and women's event, having three champions in total.

History, Records and Statistics of Men's 400 metres Hurdles

History, Records and Statistics of Women's 400 metres Hurdles

Medal summary

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1900 Paris	Walter Tewksbury  United States	Henri Tauzin  France	George Orton  Canada
1904 St. Louis	Harry Hillman  United States	Frank Waller  United States	George Poage  United States
1908 London	Charles Bacon  United States	Harry Hillman  United States	Jimmy Tremeer  Great Britain
1912 Stockholm	not included in the Olympic program
1920 Antwerp	Frank Loomis  United States	John Norton  United States	August Desch  United States
1924 Paris	Morgan Taylor  United States	Erik Wilén  Finland	Ivan Riley  United States
1928 Amsterdam	David Burghley  Great Britain	Frank Cuhel  United States	Morgan Taylor  United States
1932 Los Angeles	Bob Tisdall  Ireland	Glenn Hardin  United States	Morgan Taylor  United States
1936 Berlin	Glenn Hardin  United States	John Loaring  Canada	Miguel White  Philippines
1948 London	Roy Cochran  United States	Duncan White  Ceylon	Rune Larsson  Sweden
1952 Helsinki	Charles Moore  United States	Yuriy Lituyev  Soviet Union	John Holland  New Zealand
1956 Melbourne	Glenn Davis  United States	Eddie Southern  United States	Josh Culbreath  United States
1960 Rome	Glenn Davis  United States	Clifton Cushman  United States	Dick Howard  United States
1964 Tokyo	Rex Cawley  United States	John Cooper  Great Britain	Salvatore Morale  Italy
1968 Mexico City	David Hemery  Great Britain	Gerhard Hennige  West Germany	John Sherwood  Great Britain
1972 Munich	John Akii-Bua  Uganda	Ralph Mann  United States	David Hemery  Great Britain
1976 Montreal	Edwin Moses  United States	Michael Shine  United States	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko  Soviet Union
1980 Moscow	Volker Beck  East Germany	Vasyl Arkhypenko  Soviet Union	Gary Oakes  Great Britain
1984 Los Angeles	Edwin Moses  United States	Danny Harris  United States	Harald Schmid  West Germany
1988 Seoul	André Phillips  United States	Amadou Dia Ba  Senegal	Edwin Moses  United States
1992 Barcelona	Kevin Young  United States	Winthrop Graham  Jamaica	Kriss Akabusi  Great Britain
1996 Atlanta	Derrick Adkins  United States	Samuel Matete  Zambia	Calvin Davis  United States
2000 Sydney	Angelo Taylor  United States	Hadi Al-Somaily  Saudi Arabia	Llewellyn Herbert  South Africa
2004 Athens	Félix Sánchez  Dominican Republic	Danny McFarlane  Jamaica	Naman Keïta  France
2008 Beijing	Angelo Taylor  United States	Kerron Clement  United States	Bershawn Jackson  United States
2012 London	Félix Sánchez  Dominican Republic	Michael Tinsley  United States	Javier Culson  Puerto Rico
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Kerron Clement  United States	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti  Kenya	Yasmani Copello  Turkey

Multiple medalists

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Edwin Moses	United States (USA)	1976–1988	2	0	1	3
2=	Glenn Davis	United States (USA)	1956–1960	2	0	0	2
2=	Angelo Taylor	United States (USA)	2000–2008	2	0	0	2
2=	Felix Sanchez	Dominican Republic (DOM)	2004–2012	2	0	0	2
5=	Harry Hillman	United States (USA)	1904–1908	1	1	0	2
5=	Glenn Hardin	United States (USA)	1932–1936	1	1	0	2
7	Morgan Taylor	United States (USA)	1924–1932	1	0	2	3
8	David Hemery	Great Britain (GBR)	1968–1972	1	0	1	2

Medals by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	18	12	10	40
2	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	5	8
3	Dominican Republic (DOM)	2	0	0	2
4=	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	0	1
4=	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
4=	Uganda (UGA)	1	0	0	1
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	1	3
8	Jamaica (JAM)	0	2	0	2
9=	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
9=	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
9=	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	1	2
12=	Ceylon (CEY)	0	1	0	1
12=	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
12=	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	1	0	1
12=	Senegal (SEN)	0	1	0	1
12=	Zambia (ZAM)	0	1	0	1
17=	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
17=	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
17=	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
17=	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
17=	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1
17=	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1984 Los Angeles	Nawal El Moutawakel  Morocco	Judi Brown  United States	Cristieana Cojocaru  Romania
1988 Seoul	Debbie Flintoff-King  Australia	Tatyana Ledovskaya  Soviet Union	Ellen Fiedler  East Germany
1992 Barcelona	Sally Gunnell  Great Britain	Sandra Farmer-Patrick  United States	Janeene Vickers  United States
1996 Atlanta	Deon Hemmings  Jamaica	Kim Batten  United States	Tonja Buford-Bailey  United States
2000 Sydney	Irina Privalova  Russia	Deon Hemmings  Jamaica	Nezha Bidouane  Morocco
2004 Athens	Fani Halkia  Greece	Ionela Târlea-Manolache  Romania	Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova  Ukraine
2008 Beijing	Melaine Walker  Jamaica	Sheena Tosta  United States	Tasha Danvers  Great Britain
2012 London	Natalya Antyukh  Russia	Lashinda Demus  United States	Zuzana Hejnová  Czech Republic
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Dalilah Muhammad  United States	Sara Petersen  Denmark	Ashley Spencer  United States

Multiple medalists

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica (JAM)	1996–2000	1	1	0	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Jamaica (JAM)	2	1	0	3
2	Russia (RUS)	2	0	0	2
3	United States (USA)	1	5	3	9
4=	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
4=	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	1	2
6=	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
6=	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
8	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
9=	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
9=	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	0	1
11=	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
11=	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
11=	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1