400 m M - Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne

Men's 400 m - Athletics
Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics


Facts Results History


Men's 400 m 1956



Final

	Charles Jenkins	USA	46,7


	Karl-Friedrich Haas	GER	46,8


	Voitto Hellsten	FIN	47,0


	Ardalion Ignatyev	URS	47,0


5.	Lou Jones	USA	48,1


6.	Malcolm Spence	RSA	48,3




Semifinal

1.	Ardalion Ignatyev	URS	46,8	Q


2.	Malcolm Spence	RSA	47,2	Q


3.	Lou Jones	USA	47,3	Q


4.	Melville Spence	JAM	47,5


5.	Francis Higgins	GBR	47,7


6.	Ivan Rodriguez	PUR	47,7



Semifinal

1.	Charles Jenkins	USA	46,1	Q


2.	Voitto Hellsten	FIN	46,1	Q


3.	Karl-Friedrich Haas	GER	46,2	Q


4.	Kevan Gosper	AUS	46,2


5.	John Salisbury	GBR	47,3


6.	Malcolm Spence	JAM	47,4




Quarterfinal

1.	Lou Jones	USA	47,4	Q


2.	John Salisbury	GBR	47,4	Q


3.	Ivan Rodriguez	PUR	47,5	Q


4.	Lodewijk Declerck	BEL	47,7


5.	Jürgen Kühl	GER	48,0



Quarterfinal

1.	Ardalion Ignatyev	URS	46,8	Q


2.	Malcolm Spence	JAM	47,4	Q


3.	Francis Higgins	GBR	47,4	Q


4.	Graham Gipson	AUS	47,4


5.	Jacques Degats	FRA	48,7


6.	Murray Cockburn	CAN	49,5



Quarterfinal

1.	Voitto Hellsten	FIN	46,8	Q


2.	Malcolm Spence	RSA	47,4	Q


3.	Melville Spence	JAM	47,3	Q


4.	Pierre Haarhoff	FRA	47,6


5.	James Lea	USA	48,1


6.	Boit Kibet	KEN	49,1



Quarterfinal

1.	Kevan Gosper	AUS	46,7	Q


2.	Karl-Friedrich Haas	GER	47,3	Q


3.	Charles Jenkins	USA	47,5	Q


4.	George Kerr	JAM	47,7


5.	Michael Wheeler	GBR	47,9


6.	Jean-Paul Martin du Gard	FRA	48,2




Round 1

1.	Lou Jones	USA	48,1	Q


2.	Murray Cockburn	CAN	49,0	Q


3.	Abdulla Khan	PAK	49,0	Q


4.	Konstantin Grachov	URS	49,4


5.	Beyene Legesse	ETH	50,7


	Kanji Akagi	JPN	dq



Round 1

1.	Lodewijk Declerck	BEL	47,9	Q


2.	Jacques Degats	FRA	48,3	Q


3.	James Lea	USA	48,3	Q


4.	Bartonjo Rotich	KEN	48,8


5.	Jaime Aparicio Rodewaldt	COL	49,0


6.	Pablo Somblingo	PHI	49,4


7.	Kenneth Perera	MAS	--



Round 1

1.	Malcolm Spence	RSA	47,7	Q


2.	Jürgen Kühl	GER	48,7	Q


3.	Charles Jenkins	USA	48,7	Q


4.	Abebe Hailou	ETH	49,0


5.	Abdul Karim Amu	NGR	49,4



Round 1

1.	Voitto Hellsten	FIN	48,4	Q


2.	Michael Wheeler	GBR	49,3	Q


3.	Boit Kibet	KEN	49,3	Q


4.	Laird Sloan	CAN	50,0


5.	Somsakdi Tongaram	THA	53,4



Round 1

1.	Karl-Friedrich Haas	GER	47,2	Q


2.	Graham Gipson	AUS	47,7	Q


3.	John Salisbury	GBR	47,7	Q


4.	Milkha Singh	IND	48,9



Round 1

1.	Ardalion Ignatyev	URS	48,6	Q


2.	George Kerr	JAM	49,7	Q


3.	Pierre Haarhoff	FRA	49,8	Q


4.	Kamau Wanyoke	KEN	50,6



Round 1

1.	Kevan Gosper	AUS	48,0	Q


2.	Malcolm Spence	JAM	48,2	Q


3.	Ivan Rodriguez	PUR	48,8	Q


4.	Gerard Rasquin	LUX	50,6


5.	Rahim Bin Ahmed	MAS	50,8


6.	George Johnson	LBR	54,8



Round 1

1.	Francis Higgins	GBR	47,9	Q


2.	Melville Spence	JAM	47,9	Q


3.	Jean-Paul Martin du Gard	FRA	48,3	Q


4.	John Goodman	AUS	48,5


5.	Ayanew Bayene	ETH	51,3


	Horst Mann	GER	dnf