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400 metres Hurdles, Men

Date	3 – 6 August 1992
Status	Olympic
Location	Estadio Olímpico de Montjuïc, Barcelona
Participants	47 from 35 countries

The favorite in 1992 was Zambia’s Samuel Matete who had won the 1991 World Championships. But a hamstring problem hurt him in the semi-finals and he did not qualify for the final. In the final, Kevin Young (USA) pulled into the lead at the fourth hurdle and continued pushing the pace. Young’s PR going into Barcelona was 47.72 but he had designs on breaking the 47-second barrier and put signs up in his room at the Olympic Village reading “46.89” – the time he was aiming for. Maintaining a 13-stride pattern around the final turn, Young kept putting on the pressure and crossed the line in 46.78, a stunning world record. Behind him Jamaica’s Winthrop Graham won silver, and Britain’s Kriss Akabusi won bronze, as they had at the 1991 World Championships.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	R1	SF	Final
1	1785	Kevin Young	USA	48.76 (1 h1)	47.63 (2 h2)	46.78 (1)	Gold	WR
2	1046	Winthrop Graham	JAM	48.51 (1 h7)	47.62 (1 h2)	47.66 (2)	Silver
3	684	Kriss Akabusi	GBR	48.98 (1 h6)	48.01 (1 h1)	47.82 (3)	Bronze
4	626	Stéphane Diagana	FRA	48.41 (2 h3)	48.28 (2 h1)	48.13 (4)
5	1577	Niklas Wallenlind	SWE	48.71 (2 h7)	48.35 (3 h1)	48.63 (5)
6	573	Oleg Tverdokhleb	EUN	48.68 (3 h3)	49.11 (3 h2)	48.63 (6)
7	619	Stéphane Caristan	FRA	49.16 (2 h1)	49.50 (4 h2)	48.86 (7)
8	1746	David Patrick	USA	49.56 (2 h5)	48.47 (4 h1)	49.26 (8)
5 h1 r2/3	1740	McClinton Neal	USA	49.13 (1 h4)	48.71 (5 h1)	–
5 h2 r2/3	1119	Barnabas Kinyor	KEN	48.90 (3 h7)	49.52 (5 h2)	–
6 h1 r2/3	1116	Erick Keter	KEN	48.28 (1 h3)	49.01 (6 h1)	–
6 h2 r2/3	1573	Sven Nylander	SWE	49.49 (1 h5)	49.64 (6 h2)	–
7 h1 r2/3	821	Carsten Köhrbrück	GER	49.37 (2 h4)	49.41 (7 h1)	–
8 h1 r2/3	151	Eronildes Araújo	BRA	49.10 (2 h6)	49.66 (8 h1)	–
AC h2 r2/3	1815	Samuel Matete	ZAM	49.89 (1 h2)	– (DQ h2)	–
2 h2 r1/3	811	Olaf Hense	GER	49.97 (2 h2)	– (DNS h2)	–
3 h1 r1/3	1145	Gideon Yego	KEN	49.23 (3 h1)	–	–
3 h2 r1/3	1425	Domingo Cordero	PUR	50.19 (3 h2)	–	–
3 h4 r1/3	1495	Amadou Dia Bâ	SEN	49.47 (3 h4)	–	–
3 h5 r1/3	1600	Jozef Kucej	TCH	50.28 (3 h5)	–	–
3 h6 r1/3	1015	Fabrizio Mori	ITA	49.16 (3 h6)	–	–
4 h1 r1/3	879	Athanasios Kalogiannis	GRE	49.52 (4 h1)	–	–
4 h2 r1/3	1105	Kazuhiko Yamazaki	JPN	50.30 (4 h2)	–	–
4 h3 r1/3	224	Mark Jackson	CAN	49.18 (4 h3)	–	–
4 h4 r1/3	1482	Dries Vorster	RSA	49.75 (4 h4)	–	–
4 h5 r1/3	1194	Hubert Rakotombélontsoa	MAD	51.54 (4 h5)	–	–
4 h6 r1/3	49	Simon Hollingsworth	AUS	49.74 (4 h6)	–	–
4 h7 r1/3	1091	Yoshihiko Saito	JPN	49.01 (4 h7)	–	–
5 h1 r1/3	971	Aleksey Bazarov	ISR	50.33 (5 h1)	–	–
5 h2 r1/3	576	Vadim Zadoinov	EUN	51.21 (5 h2)	–	–
5 h3 r1/3	1415	Pedro Rodrigues	POR	49.46 (5 h3)	–	–
5 h5 r1/3	1611	Paea Kokohu	TGA	56.99 (5 h5)	–	–
5 h6 r1/3	1384	Paweł Woźniak	POL	50.30 (5 h6)	–	–
5 h7 r1/3	183	Asen Markov	BUL	50.21 (5 h7)	–	–
6 h1 r1/3	198	Jacques-Henri Brunet	CAF	52.59 (6 h1)	–	–
6 h2 r1/3	1358	Baobo Neuendorf	PNG	53.30 (6 h2)	–	–
6 h3 r1/3	1344	Ghulam Abbas	PAK	50.57 (6 h3)	–	–
6 h6 r1/3	1619	Charnon Keanchan	THA	50.60 (6 h6)	–	–
6 h7 r1/3	1507	Giovanny Fanny	SEY	52.63 (6 h7)	–	–
7 h1 r1/3	1656	Abdullah Sabt Ghulam	UAE	56.20 (7 h1)	–	–
7 h2 r1/3	895	Amadou Sy Savané	GUI	54.26 (7 h2)	–	–
7 h3 r1/3	580	Autiko Daunakamakama	FIJ	53.90 (7 h3)	–	–
7 h6 r1/3	898	Richard Bentley	GUM	57.04 (7 h6)	–	–
7 h7 r1/3	327	Alex Foster	CRC	52.93 (7 h7)	–	–
AC h4 r1/3	137	Pedro Chiamulera	BRA	– (DNF h4)	–	–
AC h5 r1/3	755	Max Robertson	GBR	– (DNF h5)	–	–
AC h5 r1/3	1066	Mark Thompson	JAM	– (DQ h5)	–	–
DNS	1650	Fadhel Khayati	TUN	– (DNS h4)	–	–
DNS	1586	Zaid Abou Hamed	SYR	– (DNS h4)	–	–

Round One (3 August 1992 — 12:15)

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

Heat One

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Kevin Young	USA	48.76	Q
2	6	Stéphane Caristan	FRA	49.16	Q
3	3	Gideon Yego	KEN	49.23
4	5	Athanasios Kalogiannis	GRE	49.52
5	2	Aleksey Bazarov	ISR	50.33
6	7	Jacques-Henri Brunet	CAF	52.59
7	8	Abdullah Sabt Ghulam	UAE	56.20

Heat Two

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Samuel Matete	ZAM	49.89	Q	1
2	7	Olaf Hense	GER	49.97	Q
3	2	Domingo Cordero	PUR	50.19
4	4	Kazuhiko Yamazaki	JPN	50.30
5	8	Vadim Zadoinov	EUN	51.21		2
6	3	Baobo Neuendorf	PNG	53.30
7	5	Amadou Sy Savané	GUI	54.26

Heat Three

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	8	Erick Keter	KEN	48.28	Q
2	4	Stéphane Diagana	FRA	48.41	Q
3	3	Oleg Tverdokhleb	EUN	48.68	q
4	7	Mark Jackson	CAN	49.18
5	5	Pedro Rodrigues	POR	49.46
6	6	Ghulam Abbas	PAK	50.57
7	2	Autiko Daunakamakama	FIJ	53.90

Heat Four

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	7	McClinton Neal	USA	49.13	Q	3
2	4	Carsten Köhrbrück	GER	49.37	Q
3	6	Amadou Dia Bâ	SEN	49.47		4
4	3	Dries Vorster	RSA	49.75
DNF	8	Pedro Chiamulera	BRA	–
DNS	2	Fadhel Khayati	TUN	–
DNS	5	Zaid Abou Hamed	SYR	–

Heat Five

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Sven Nylander	SWE	49.49	Q
2	6	David Patrick	USA	49.56	Q
3	5	Jozef Kucej	TCH	50.28
4	8	Hubert Rakotombélontsoa	MAD	51.54
5	7	Paea Kokohu	TGA	56.99
DNF	3	Max Robertson	GBR	–
DQ	2	Mark Thompson	JAM	–

Heat Six

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Kriss Akabusi	GBR	48.98	Q
2	8	Eronildes Araújo	BRA	49.10	Q
3	2	Fabrizio Mori	ITA	49.16
4	7	Simon Hollingsworth	AUS	49.74
5	5	Paweł Woźniak	POL	50.30
6	3	Charnon Keanchan	THA	50.60
7	6	Richard Bentley	GUM	57.04

Heat Seven

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Winthrop Graham	JAM	48.51	Q
2	3	Niklas Wallenlind	SWE	48.71	Q
3	7	Barnabas Kinyor	KEN	48.90	q
4	2	Yoshihiko Saito	JPN	49.01
5	8	Asen Markov	BUL	50.21
6	5	Giovanny Fanny	SEY	52.63
7	4	Alex Foster	CRC	52.93

Semi-Finals (5 August 1992 — 19:15)

Top four in each heat to the final.

Heat One

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Kriss Akabusi	GBR	48.01	Q
2	5	Stéphane Diagana	FRA	48.28	Q
3	3	Niklas Wallenlind	SWE	48.35	Q
4	1	David Patrick	USA	48.47	Q
5	8	McClinton Neal	USA	48.71
6	6	Erick Keter	KEN	49.01
7	2	Carsten Köhrbrück	GER	49.41
8	7	Eronildes Araújo	BRA	49.66

Heat Two

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Winthrop Graham	JAM	47.62	Q
2	5	Kevin Young	USA	47.63	Q
3	4	Oleg Tverdokhleb	EUN	49.11	Q
4	7	Stéphane Caristan	FRA	49.50	Q
5	6	Barnabas Kinyor	KEN	49.52
6	2	Sven Nylander	SWE	49.64
DQ	1	Samuel Matete	ZAM	–
DNS	8	Olaf Hense	GER	–

Final (6 August 1992 — 19:00)

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Kevin Young	USA	46.78	WR
2	3	Winthrop Graham	JAM	47.66
3	5	Kriss Akabusi	GBR	47.82
4	6	Stéphane Diagana	FRA	48.13
5	8	Niklas Wallenlind	SWE	48.63
6	2	Oleg Tverdokhleb	EUN	48.63
7	1	Stéphane Caristan	FRA	48.86
8	7	David Patrick	USA	49.26