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1996 Olympic Games Atlanta - Men's 400 m hurdles

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Host City: Atlanta, United States

Format: Top four in each heat advanced to the final.

Date Started: July 29, 1996

Format: Top two in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the semi-finals.

Date Finished: August 1, 1996

(Competitors: 55; Countries: 35; Finalists: 8)

Venue(s): Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia

Overview by IAAF

Five of the seven heats were won with times quicker than 49 seconds, with Matete running the fastest ever preliminary in 48.21. The standard was very high, and continued in the semi-finals, with 14 of the 16 contestants running under 49 seconds. Heading the list was local man Adkins, who won the first semi-final with 47.76 from Swedish veteran Nylander, who set a national record of 48.21. Behind them US Trials winner Bryan Bronson ran out of gas in the last 100m and finished last in 50.32. Davis, a recently converted 400m man, won the other race in 47.91. Behind him Teixeira, Robinson (both 48.28), Neil Gardner (JAM, 48.30), Laurent Ottoz, son of 1968 110m hurdles medallist Eddy (48.52), Ibou Faye (SEN, 48.84) and Marc Dollendorf (BEL – 48.91) all ran lifetime bests. Only Matete, third in 48.28, missed his personal record. Nylander, in his last serious attempt at a championship, ran hard from the gun, leading to halfway in 22.9, with Adkins and Robinson right with him. Matete, in fifth at the fifth hurdle, and not enthralled with his lane 1 draw, moved up, and he and Adkins were level at hurdles 8-10, with Nylander 4m behind and a metre clear of Davis, de Araújo and Robinson. Adkins accelerated away from Matete on the run-in despite being half blinded from all the camera flashbulbs in the crowd, while Davis astonishingly gained 4m on Matete in the last 40m, leaving Nylander to settle for fourth despite setting his second national record within 22 hours.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

The last two World Championships had been won by Americans – 1995 by Derrick Adkins and 1993 by the 1992 Olympic champion, Kevin Young. Both years the runner-up had been Zambia’s Samuel Matete. Matete had been the 1991 World Champion and was favored at the 1992 Olympics, but a hamstring problem kept him from the final. He was favored in Atlanta, having run the best times earlier in the year, and having beaten Adkins in four of five races in 1996. Adkins and Matete moved into the lead in the final at the seventh hurdle, but Adkins took the lead going in to the straight and held on for the gold medal, Matete getting silver.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics.

World Record	46.78	Kevin Young	Barcelona (ESP)	August 6, 1992
Olympic Record	46.78	Kevin Young	Barcelona (ESP)	August 6, 1992

		Results

*400 m hurdles*	Men	Final	1 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	47.54	Derrick Adkins	United States	USA	2 Jul 70
2	47.78	Samuel Matete	Zambia	ZAM	27 Jul 68
3	47.96	Calvin Davis	United States	USA	2 Apr 72
4	47.98	Sven Nylander	Sweden	SWE	1 Jan 62	NR
5	48.30	Rohan Robinson	Australia	AUS	15 Nov 71
6	48.41	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	ITA	28 Jun 69
7	48.57	Everson Teixeira	Brazil	BRA	23 Nov 74
8	48.78	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	BRA	31 Dec 70
*400 m hurdles*	Men	Semifinal 1	31 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	47.76	Derrick Adkins	United States	USA	2 Jul 70
2	48.21	Sven Nylander	Sweden	SWE	1 Jan 62
3	48.43	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	ITA	28 Jun 69
4	48.45	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	BRA	31 Dec 70
5	48.57	Dusán Kovács	Hungary	HUN	31 Jul 71
6	48.61	Ken Harnden	Zimbabwe	ZIM	31 Mar 73
7	49.43	Jon Ridgeon	Great Britain	GBR	14 Feb 67
8	50.32	Bryan Bronson	United States	USA	9 Sep 72
*400 m hurdles*	Men	Semifinal 2	31 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	47.91	Calvin Davis	United States	USA	2 Apr 72
2	48.28	Everson Teixeira	Brazil	BRA	23 Nov 74
3	48.28	Samuel Matete	Zambia	ZAM	27 Jul 68
4	48.28	Rohan Robinson	Australia	AUS	15 Nov 71	AR
5	48.30	Neil Gardner	Jamaica	JAM	8 Dec 74
6	48.52	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	ITA	20 Apr 70
7	48.84	Ibou Faye	Senegal	SEN	13 Dec 69
8	48.91	Marc Dollendorf	Belgium	BEL	7 Feb 66	NR
*400 m hurdles*	Men	Heat 1	29 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	48.84	Ibou Faye	Senegal	SEN	13 Dec 69
2	48.90	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	ITA	28 Jun 69
3	49.07	Kazuhiko Yamazaki	Japan	JPN	10 May 71
4	49.16	Dinsdale Morgan	Jamaica	JAM	19 Nov 72
5	49.60	Kehinde Alad'efa	Nigeria	NGR	19 Dec 74
6	49.78	Peter Crampton	Great Britain	GBR	4 Jun 69
7	49.94	Gilbert Hashan	Mauritius	MRI	12 Jan 70	NR
8	50.55	Salvador Vila	Spain	ESP	20 Oct 69
*400 m hurdles*	Men	Heat 2	29 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	48.52	Eronilde de Araújo	Brazil	BRA	31 Dec 70
2	48.92	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	ITA	20 Apr 70
3	49.09	Carlos Silva	Portugal	POR	8 Jun 74	NUR
4	49.27	Mubarak Sultan Al-Nubi	Qatar	QAT	30 Dec 77
5	49.66	Miro Kocuvan	Slovenia	SLO	15 Jun 71
6	49.69	Jean-Paul Bruwier	Belgium	BEL	18 Feb 71
7	49.82	Barnabas Agui Kinyor	Kenya	KEN	3 Aug 61
8	49.97	Mugur Mateescu	Romania	ROU	13 Jun 70
*400 m hurdles*	Men	Heat 3	29 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	48.21	Samuel Matete	Zambia	ZAM	27 Jul 68
2	48.89	Rohan Robinson	Australia	AUS	15 Nov 71
3	49.03	Erick Keter	Kenya	KEN	22 Jul 66
4	49.73	Vadim Zadoinov	Moldova	MDA	24 May 69
5	49.94	Hadi Sou’an Al-Somaily	Saudi Arabia	KSA	30 Dec 76
6	50.30	Hamidou M'Baye	Senegal	SEN	21 Apr 64
7	51.13	Llewellyn Herbert	South Africa	RSA	21 Jul 77
*400 m hurdles*	Men	Heat 4	29 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	49.06	Bryan Bronson	United States	USA	9 Sep 72
2	49.23	Dusán Kovács	Hungary	HUN	31 Jul 71
3	49.63	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	POL	2 Jan 72
4	49.88	Hideaki Kawamura	Japan	JPN	15 Sep 74
5	50.16	Julius Masvanise	Zimbabwe	ZIM	7 Feb 66
6	50.31	Jozef Kucej	Slovakia	SVK	23 Mar 65
7	50.90	Amadou Sy Savane	Guinea	GUI	16 May 74
8	52.16	Simon Hollingsworth	Australia	AUS	9 May 72
*400 m hurdles*	Men	Heat 5	29 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	49.31	Jon Ridgeon	Great Britain	GBR	14 Feb 67
2	49.49	Marc Dollendorf	Belgium	BEL	7 Feb 66
3	49.94	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	RUS	11 Nov 71
4	50.73	Egīls Tēbelis	Latvia	LAT	12 Dec 72
5	51.20	Domingo Cordero	Puerto Rico	PUR	17 Oct 65
6	51.20	Marcel Schelbert	Switzerland	SUI	26 Feb 76
7	55.20	Curt Young	Panama	PAN	18 Jan 74
	DNF	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	JAM	17 Nov 65
*400 m hurdles*	Men	Heat 6	29 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	48.94	Calvin Davis	United States	USA	2 Apr 72
2	49.54	Sven Nylander	Sweden	SWE	1 Jan 62
3	49.71	Ashraf Saber	Italy	ITA	2 Apr 73
4	49.74	Gideon Biwott	Kenya	KEN	16 Jun 64
5	50.76	Tom McGuirk	Ireland	IRL	2 Mar 71
6	51.23	Cleverson Silva	Brazil	BRA	5 Sep 73
7	51.35	Oscar Pitillas	Spain	ESP	16 Oct 71
8	54.79	Lance Gittens	Guyana	GUY	28 Oct 74
*400 m hurdles*	Men	Heat 7	29 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	48.46	Derrick Adkins	United States	USA	2 Jul 70
2	48.52	Everson Teixeira	Brazil	BRA	23 Nov 74
3	48.54	Ken Harnden	Zimbabwe	ZIM	31 Mar 73
4	48.59	Neil Gardner	Jamaica	JAM	8 Dec 74
5	48.96	Shunji Karube	Japan	JPN	8 May 69
6	50.41	Gary Jennings	Great Britain	GBR	21 Feb 72
7	52.23	Íñigo Monreal	Spain	ESP	26 Sep 74
8	53.42	Ivan Wakit	Papua New Guinea	PNG	10 Apr 74