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400 metres Hurdles, Men

Date	3 – 5 August 1984
Status	Olympic
Location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California
Participants	45 from 30 countries

By the time of the 1984 Olympics, Edwin Moses had won 89 consecutive finals in the 400 hurdles and was an overwhelming favorite. He had won the 1976 Olympics, had been unable to compete in 1980 because of the American boycott, but did win the inaugural World Championships in 1983. Going into Los Angeles, Moses had recorded 27 of the 32 times under 48 seconds. The next best hurdlers in the event were considered to be Harald Schmid (FRG), 1978 and 1982 European Champion, and the young American Danny Harris, who had only started running the event a few months prior to the US Olympic Trials. In the final, Moses actually false started, but on the fair start he was not seriously challenged, winning by three metres over Harris, and regaining his gold medal.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	R1	SF	Final
1	924	Edwin Moses	USA	49.33 (1 h1)	48.51 (1 h1)	47.75 (1)	Gold
2	905	Danny Harris	USA	49.81 (1 h6)	48.92 (1 h2)	48.13 (2)	Silver
3	334	Harald Schmid	FRG	49.34 (1 h2)	49.04 (3 h2)	48.19 (3)	Bronze
4	810	Sven Nylander	SWE	49.88 (1 h3)	49.03 (2 h2)	48.97 (4)
5	748	Amadou Dia Bâ	SEN	49.94 (1 h5)	49.44 (3 h1)	49.28 (5)
6	906	Tranel Hawkins	USA	49.51 (1 h4)	48.94 (2 h1)	49.42 (6)
7	75	Michel Zimmermann	BEL	49.90 (3 h1)	49.79 (4 h1)	50.69 (7)
8	662	Henry Amike	NGR	50.11 (2 h5)	49.36 (4 h2)	53.78 (8)
5 h1 r2/3	582	Simon Kitur	KEN	49.70 (2 h4)	49.80 (5 h1)	–
5 h2 r2/3	549	Karl Smith	JAM	49.66 (2 h2)	49.58 (5 h2)	–
6 h1 r2/3	335	Uwe Schmitt	FRG	49.77 (3 h4)	50.08 (6 h1)	–
6 h2 r2/3	791	Franz Meier	SUI	49.81 (3 h2)	49.89 (6 h2)	–
7 h1 r2/3	53	Greg Rolle	BAH	50.41 (2 h6)	50.16 (7 h1)	–
7 h2 r2/3	572	Ryoichi Yoshida	JPN	50.24 (2 h3)	49.92 (7 h2)	–
8 h1 r2/3	98	Antônio Ferreira	BRA	49.85 (2 h1)	50.70 (8 h1)	–
8 h2 r2/3	72	Rik Tommelein	BEL	50.05 (4 h2)	50.06 (8 h2)	–
3 h3 r1/3	179	René Djédjémel	CIV	50.27 (3 h3)	–	–
3 h5 r1/3	538	Ken Gray	JAM	50.46 (3 h5)	–	–
3 h6 r1/3	121	Lloyd Guss	CAN	51.02 (3 h6)	–	–
4 h1 r1/3	42	Thomas Futterknecht	AUT	50.25 (4 h1)	–	–
4 h3 r1/3	879	Peter Rwamuhanda	UGA	50.55 (4 h3)	–	–
4 h4 r1/3	108	Ahmed Hamada	BRN	50.62 (4 h4)	–	–
4 h5 r1/3	357	Martin Briggs	GBR	50.80 (4 h5)	–	–
4 h6 r1/3	425	Athanasios Kalogiannis	GRE	51.27 (4 h6)	–	–
5 h1 r1/3	809	Thomas Nyberg	SWE	50.47 (5 h1)	–	–
5 h2 r1/3	561	Shigenori Omori	JPN	50.14 (5 h2)	–	–
5 h3 r1/3	289	Franck Jonot	FRA	51.39 (5 h3)	–	–
5 h4 r1/3	135	Ian Newhouse	CAN	51.14 (5 h4)	–	–
5 h5 r1/3	129	Pierre Leveille	CAN	51.47 (5 h5)	–	–
5 h6 r1/3	609	Jasem Al-Dowaila	KUW	51.45 (5 h6)	–	–
6 h1 r1/3	275	Gérard Brunel	FRA	50.99 (6 h1)	–	–
6 h2 r1/3	432	Georgios Vamvakas	GRE	50.39 (6 h2)	–	–
6 h3 r1/3	366	Martin Gillingham	GBR	52.15 (6 h3)	–	–
6 h4 r1/3	804	Christer Gullstrand	SWE	51.27 (6 h4)	–	–
6 h5 r1/3	588	Meshak Munyoro	KEN	51.99 (6 h5)	–	–
7 h1 r1/3	211	Ahmed Abdelhalim	EGY	51.08 (7 h1)	–	–
7 h2 r1/3	951	Oswaldo Zea	VEN	51.44 (7 h2)	–	–
7 h3 r1/3	758	Vincent Confait	SEY	53.62 (7 h3)	–	–
7 h4 r1/3	182	Jean-Pierre Abossolo-Ze	CMR	52.85 (7 h4)	–	–
7 h5 r1/3	971	Faustin Butéra	RWA	54.36 (7 h5)	–	–
8 h1 r1/3	353	Phil Beattie	GBR	51.27 (8 h1)	–	–
8 h3 r1/3	709	Nicolás Chaparro	PAR	56.98 (8 h3)	–	–
8 h4 r1/3	647	Domingos Mendes	MOZ	54.52 (8 h4)	–	–
8 h5 r1/3	867	Ibrahim Khamis	UAE	55.50 (8 h5)	–	–
AC h6 r1/3	221	José Alonso	ESP	– (DNF h6)	–	–
DNS	148	Alphonse Mandonda	CGO	– (DNS h6)	–	–

Round One (3 August 1984 — 11:20)

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

Heat One

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Edwin Moses	USA	49.33	Q
2	4	Antônio Ferreira	BRA	49.85	Q
3	3	Michel Zimmermann	BEL	49.90	q
4	6	Thomas Futterknecht	AUT	50.25
5	2	Thomas Nyberg	SWE	50.47
6	7	Gérard Brunel	FRA	50.99
7	1	Ahmed Abdelhalim	EGY	51.08
8	8	Phil Beattie	GBR	51.27

Heat Two

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Harald Schmid	FRG	49.34	Q
2	2	Karl Smith	JAM	49.66	Q
3	4	Franz Meier	SUI	49.81	q
4	3	Rik Tommelein	BEL	50.05	q
5	6	Shigenori Omori	JPN	50.14
6	7	Georgios Vamvakas	GRE	50.39
7	8	Oswaldo Zea	VEN	51.44

Heat Three

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Sven Nylander	SWE	49.88	Q
2	6	Ryoichi Yoshida	JPN	50.24	Q
3	5	René Djédjémel	CIV	50.27
4	8	Peter Rwamuhanda	UGA	50.55
5	2	Franck Jonot	FRA	51.39
6	1	Martin Gillingham	GBR	52.15
7	7	Vincent Confait	SEY	53.62
8	4	Nicolás Chaparro	PAR	56.98

Heat Four

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Tranel Hawkins	USA	49.51	Q
2	5	Simon Kitur	KEN	49.70	Q
3	4	Uwe Schmitt	FRG	49.77	q
4	2	Ahmed Hamada	BRN	50.62
5	1	Ian Newhouse	CAN	51.14
6	8	Christer Gullstrand	SWE	51.27
7	6	Jean-Pierre Abossolo-Ze	CMR	52.85
8	7	Domingos Mendes	MOZ	54.52

Heat Five

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Amadou Dia Bâ	SEN	49.94	Q
2	1	Henry Amike	NGR	50.11	Q
3	5	Ken Gray	JAM	50.46
4	6	Martin Briggs	GBR	50.80
5	7	Pierre Leveille	CAN	51.47
6	2	Meshak Munyoro	KEN	51.99
7	3	Faustin Butéra	RWA	54.36
8	8	Ibrahim Khamis	UAE	55.50

Heat Six

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Danny Harris	USA	49.81	Q
2	4	Greg Rolle	BAH	50.41	Q
3	8	Lloyd Guss	CAN	51.02
4	6	Athanasios Kalogiannis	GRE	51.27
5	7	Jasem Al-Dowaila	KUW	51.45
DNF	3	José Alonso	ESP	–
DNS	2	Alphonse Mandonda	CGO	–

Semi-Finals (4 August 1984 — 18:25)

Top four in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat One

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Edwin Moses	USA	48.51	Q
2	7	Tranel Hawkins	USA	48.94	Q
3	8	Amadou Dia Bâ	SEN	49.44	Q
4	5	Michel Zimmermann	BEL	49.79	Q
5	1	Simon Kitur	KEN	49.80
6	6	Uwe Schmitt	FRG	50.08
7	4	Greg Rolle	BAH	50.16
8	2	Antônio Ferreira	BRA	50.70

Heat Two

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	1	Danny Harris	USA	48.92	Q
2	6	Sven Nylander	SWE	49.03	Q
3	3	Harald Schmid	FRG	49.04	Q
4	2	Henry Amike	NGR	49.36	Q
5	4	Karl Smith	JAM	49.58
6	5	Franz Meier	SUI	49.89
7	8	Ryoichi Yoshida	JPN	49.92
8	7	Rik Tommelein	BEL	50.06

Final (5 August 1984 — 18:55)

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	6	Edwin Moses	USA	47.75	0.193
2	4	Danny Harris	USA	48.13	0.210
3	5	Harald Schmid	FRG	48.19	0.180
4	3	Sven Nylander	SWE	48.97	0.192
5	7	Amadou Dia Bâ	SEN	49.28	0.221
6	1	Tranel Hawkins	USA	49.42	0.188
7	8	Michel Zimmermann	BEL	50.69	0.320
8	2	Henry Amike	NGR	53.78	0.178