400 metres hurdles at the Olympics

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400 metres hurdles at the Olympics - Wikipedia

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400 metres hurdles at the Olympic Games
The 2012 Olympic men's 400 m hurdles semi-final
Overview
Sport	Athletics
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1900 – 1908, 1920 – 2024 Women: 1984 – 2024
Olympic record
Men	45.94 Karsten Warholm (2021)
Women	50.37 Sydney McLaughlin (2024)
Reigning champion
Men	Rai Benjamin (USA)
Women	Sydney McLaughlin (USA)

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 45.94 seconds for men, set by Karsten Warholm in 2021, and 50.37 seconds for women, set by Sydney McLaughlin in 2024. The men's world record has been broken at the Olympics on eight occasions: 1908 (the first official IAAF record), 1920, 1932, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1992, and 2021. The women's world record had never been broken in Olympic competition prior to 2021.^[1]

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 was the most successful woman, with her 1996 gold and 2000 silver medals, and was the first female athlete to win multiple medals, until Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won gold in 2021 in Tokyo and 2024 in Paris. 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 the most successful nation in the men's event. American men have swept the medals on five occasions. The American women have the highest medal total, with nine, but the nation managed to achieve its first victory only in 2016, when Dalilah Muhammad won the event. Russia and Jamaica are the only nations to win multiple women's gold medals, with two each. Great Britain is the first nation to have won a gold medal in both the men's and women's event, having three champions in total. In 2016, the United States became the second.

Medal summary

Men

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Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1900 Paris details	Walter Tewksbury United States	Henri Tauzin France	George Orton Canada
1904 St. Louis details	Harry Hillman United States	Frank Waller United States	George Poage United States
1908 London details	Charles Bacon United States	Harry Hillman United States	Jimmy Tremeer Great Britain
1912 Stockholm	not included in the Olympic program
1920 Antwerp details	Frank Loomis United States	John Norton United States	August Desch United States
1924 Paris details	Morgan Taylor United States	Erik Wilén Finland	Ivan Riley United States
1928 Amsterdam details	David Burghley Great Britain	Frank Cuhel United States	Morgan Taylor United States
1932 Los Angeles details	Bob Tisdall Ireland	Glenn Hardin United States	Morgan Taylor United States
1936 Berlin details	Glenn Hardin United States	John Loaring Canada	Miguel White Philippines
1948 London details	Roy Cochran United States	Duncan White Ceylon	Rune Larsson Sweden
1952 Helsinki details	Charles Moore United States	Yuriy Lituyev Soviet Union	John Holland New Zealand
1956 Melbourne details	Glenn Davis United States	Eddie Southern United States	Josh Culbreath United States
1960 Rome details	Glenn Davis United States	Clifton Cushman United States	Dick Howard United States
1964 Tokyo details	Rex Cawley United States	John Cooper Great Britain	Salvatore Morale Italy
1968 Mexico City details	David Hemery Great Britain	Gerhard Hennige West Germany	John Sherwood Great Britain
1972 Munich details	John Akii-Bua Uganda	Ralph Mann United States	David Hemery Great Britain
1976 Montreal details	Edwin Moses United States	Michael Shine United States	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko Soviet Union
1980 Moscow details	Volker Beck East Germany	Vasyl Arkhypenko Soviet Union	Gary Oakes Great Britain
1984 Los Angeles details	Edwin Moses United States	Danny Harris United States	Harald Schmid West Germany
1988 Seoul details	André Phillips United States	Amadou Dia Ba Senegal	Edwin Moses United States
1992 Barcelona details	Kevin Young United States	Winthrop Graham Jamaica	Kriss Akabusi Great Britain
1996 Atlanta details	Derrick Adkins United States	Samuel Matete Zambia	Calvin Davis United States
2000 Sydney details	Angelo Taylor United States	Hadi Al-Somaily Saudi Arabia	Llewellyn Herbert South Africa
2004 Athens details	Félix Sánchez Dominican Republic	Danny McFarlane Jamaica	Naman Keïta France
2008 Beijing details	Angelo Taylor United States	Kerron Clement United States	Bershawn Jackson United States
2012 London details	Félix Sánchez Dominican Republic	Michael Tinsley United States	Javier Culson Puerto Rico
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Kerron Clement United States	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti Kenya	Yasmani Copello Turkey
2020 Tokyo details	Karsten Warholm Norway	Rai Benjamin United States	Alison dos Santos Brazil
2024 Paris details	Rai Benjamin United States	Karsten Warholm Norway	Alison dos Santos Brazil

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
	Angelo Taylor	United States (USA)	2000–2008	2	0	0	2
	Félix Sánchez	Dominican Republic (DOM)	2004–2012	2	0	0	2
5	Harry Hillman	United States (USA)	1904–1908	1	1	0	2
	Glenn Hardin	United States (USA)	1932–1936	1	1	0	2
	Kerron Clement	United States (USA)	2008, 2016	1	1	0	2
8	Morgan Taylor	United States (USA)	1924–1932	1	0	2	3
9	David Hemery	Great Britain (GBR)	1968–1972	1	0	1	2

Medals by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	19	13	10	42
2	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	5	8
3	Dominican Republic (DOM)	2	0	0	2
4	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Uganda (UGA)	1	0	0	1
8	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	1	3
9	Jamaica (JAM)	0	2	0	2
10	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	1	2
13	Ceylon (CEY)	0	1	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Kenya (KEN)	0	1	0	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	1	0	1
	Senegal (SEN)	0	1	0	1
	Zambia (ZAM)	0	1	0	1
19	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1

Women

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Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1984 Los Angeles details	Nawal El Moutawakel Morocco	Judi Brown United States	Cristieana Cojocaru Romania
1988 Seoul details	Debbie Flintoff-King Australia	Tatyana Ledovskaya Soviet Union	Ellen Fiedler East Germany
1992 Barcelona details	Sally Gunnell Great Britain	Sandra Farmer-Patrick United States	Janeene Vickers United States
1996 Atlanta details	Deon Hemmings Jamaica	Kim Batten United States	Tonja Buford-Bailey United States
2000 Sydney details	Irina Privalova Russia	Deon Hemmings Jamaica	Nezha Bidouane Morocco
2004 Athens details	Fani Halkia Greece	Ionela Târlea-Manolache Romania	Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova Ukraine
2008 Beijing details	Melaine Walker Jamaica	Sheena Tosta United States	Tasha Danvers Great Britain
2012 London details	Lashinda Demus United States	Zuzana Hejnová Czech Republic	Kaliese Spencer Jamaica
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Dalilah Muhammad United States	Sara Petersen Denmark	Ashley Spencer United States
2020 Tokyo details	Sydney McLaughlin United States	Dalilah Muhammad United States	Femke Bol Netherlands
2024 Paris details	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone United States	Anna Cockrell United States	Femke Bol Netherlands

Multiple medalists

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone	United States (USA)	2020–2024	2	0	0	2
2	Deon Hemmings	Jamaica (JAM)	1996–2000	1	1	0	2
3	Dalilah Muhammad	United States (USA)	2016–2020	1	1	0	2
4	Femke Bol	Netherlands (NED)	2020–2024	0	0	2	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	6	3	13
2	Jamaica (JAM)	2	1	1	4
3=	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
3=	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	1	2
5=	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
5=	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
5=	Russia (RUS)	1	0	0	1
8	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
9=	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
9=	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
9=	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	0	1
12=	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
12=	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
12=	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1

Finishing times

The 2024 women's final was the fastest women's 400-meter hurdles race in Olympic history collectively: five of the eight women ran under 52.7 seconds, with these times ranking among the top 11 in Olympic history.^[2]

Top ten fastest Olympic times

Fastest men's times at the Olympics^[3]
Rank	Time (sec)	Athlete	Nation	Games	Date
1	45.94 (WR)	Karsten Warholm	Norway	2020	2021-08-03
2	46.17	Rai Benjamin	United States	2020	2021-08-03
3	46.46	Rai Benjamin	United States	2024	2024-08-09
4	46.72	Alison dos Santos	Brazil	2020	2021-08-03
5	46.78	Kevin Young	United States	1992	1992-08-06
6	47.06	Karsten Warholm	Norway	2024	2024-08-09
7	47.08	Kyron McMaster	British Virgin Islands	2020	2021-08-03
8	47.12	Abderrahman Samba	Qatar	2020	2021-08-03
9	47.19	Andre Phillips	United States	1988	1988-09-25
10	47.20	Alison dos Santos	Brazil	2024	2024-08-09

Fastest women's times at the Olympics^[2]
Rank	Time (sec)	Athlete	Nation	Games	Date
1	50.37 (WR)	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone	United States	2024	2024-08-08
2	51.46	Sydney McLaughlin	United States	2020	2021-08-04
3	51.58	Dalilah Muhammad	United States	2020	2021-08-04
4	51.87	Anna Cockrell	United States	2024	2024-08-08
5	52.03	Femke Bol	Netherlands	2020	2021-08-04
6	52.13	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone	United States	2024^SF	2024-08-06
7	52.15	Femke Bol	Netherlands	2024	2024-08-08
8	52.29	Jasmine Jones	United States	2024	2024-08-08
9	52.57	Femke Bol	Netherlands	2024^SF	2024-08-06
10	52.64	Melaine Walker	Jamaica	2008	2008-08-20

SF - Semi-Finals

References

Participation and athlete data

Athletics Men's 400 metres Hurdles Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Athletics Women's 400 metres Hurdles Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.

Olympic record progressions

Mallon, Bill (2012). TRACK & FIELD ATHLETICS - OLYMPIC RECORD PROGRESSIONS. Track and Field News. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.

Specific

^ "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009" (PDF). Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. 2009. pp. Pages 546, 554, 664. Archived from the original (pdf) on June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Women's 400m Hurdles".
^ "Men's 400m Hurdles".

External links

IAAF 400 metres hurdles homepage
Official Olympics website
Olympic athletics records from Track & Field News

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