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Athletics at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games:

Men's 400 metres Round One

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: Berlin, Germany
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Imperial Sports Field, Berlin
Date Started: August 6, 1936
Date Finished: August 6, 1936
Format: Top three in each heat advanced to the quarter-finals.

Gold: USA Archie Williams
Silver: GBR Godfrey Brown
Bronze: USA Jimmy LuValle

Round One Heat One

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 Bill Roberts 24 Great Britain GBR 48.1 QU
2 Olle Danielsson 24 Sweden SWE 48.6 QU
3 Johnny Loaring 20 Canada CAN 49.1 QU
4 Albert Jud 24 Switzerland SUI 49.4
5 Tibor Ribényi 22 Hungary HUN 50.1

Round One Heat Two

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 Georges Henry 28 France FRA 49.2 QU
2 Karel Kněnický 28 Czechoslovakia TCH 49.6 QU
3 Dennis Shore 21 South Africa RSA 49.9 QU
4 Sven Strömberg 25 Sweden SWE 50.0
5 Johann Baptist Gudenus 28 Austria AUT 52.9

Round One Heat Three

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 Godfrey Brown 21 Great Britain GBR 48.8 QU
2 Mario Lanzi 21 Italy ITA 49.3 QU
3 Adolf Metzner 26 Germany GER 50.2 QU
4 Mohamed Ebeid 25 Egypt EGY 50.5
5 Jean Verhaert 28 Belgium BEL 50.7
6 Leonard Tay 23 China CHN 52.4

Round One Heat Four

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 Harold Smallwood 21 United States USA 49.0 QU
2 Marshall Limon 20 Canada CAN 49.2 QU
3 József Vadas 24 Hungary HUN 49.2 QU
4 Rolf Schønheyder 23 Norway NOR 49.4
5 Antônio de Carvalho 22 Brazil BRA 50.4
6 Hiroyoshi Kubota 23 Japan JPN 50.8

Round One Heat Five

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 Jimmy LuValle 23 United States USA 49.1 QU
2 Juan Carlos Anderson 23 Argentina ARG 49.4 QU
3 Zoltán Zsitva 30 Hungary HUN 49.8 QU
4 Francisc Nemeş 29 Romania ROU 50.9
5 Keiji Imai 18 Japan JPN 51.0

Round One Heat Six

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 Hermann Blazejezak 24 Germany GER 47.9 QU
2 Godfrey Rampling 27 Great Britain GBR 48.6 QU
3 Börje Strandvall 27 Finland FIN 49.3 QU
4 Raymond Boisset 24 France FRA 49.5
5 Jean Krombach 26 Luxembourg LUX 50.4

Round One Heat Seven

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 Archie Williams 21 United States USA 47.8 QU
2 Bill Fritz 21 Canada CAN 49.0 QU
3 Gunnar Christensen 23 Denmark DEN 49.3 QU
4 Toyoyi Aihara 22 Japan JPN 50.2
5 Raúl Muñoz 20 Chile CHI 50.5

Round One Heat Eight

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 Pierre Skawinski 23 France FRA 48.9 QU
2 Bertil von Wachenfeldt 27 Sweden SWE 49.0 QU
3 Rudolf Klupsch 31 Germany GER 49.1 QU
4 Alfred König 22 Austria AUT 49.4
5 Gyan Bhalla 26 India IND 52.4