Athletics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games:

Men's 400 metres Round One

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Host City: Helsinki, Finland
Location: Olympic Stadium
Date Started: July 24, 1952
Date Finished: July 24, 1952
Format: Top two in each heat advanced to the quarter-finals.

Gold: George Rhoden

Silver: Herb McKenley

Bronze: Ollie Matson

Round One Heat One

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Karl-Friedrich Haas	20	Germany	GER	47.5	47.58	QU
2	Les Lewis	27	Great Britain	GBR	47.8	47.95	QU
3	Edwin Carr, Jr.	23	Australia	AUS	48.0	48.23
4	Zoltán Adamik	23	Hungary	HUN	48.5	48.70
5	Evelio Planas	22	Cuba	CUB	49.4	49.44
6	Abdul Rehman	23	Pakistan	PAK	51.2	51.47

Round One Heat Two

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Ardalion Ignatyev	21	Soviet Union	URS	48.1	48.22	QU
2	Rolf Back	24	Finland	FIN	48.5	48.58	QU
3	Rupert Blöch	23	Austria	AUT	49.6	49.82
4	Gérard Rasquin	24	Luxembourg	LUX	50.0	50.12
5	John Anderton	22	South Africa	RSA	50.3	50.35
6	Pongamat Amatayakul	18	Thailand	THA	52.9	53.23

Round One Heat Three

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Arthur Wint	32	Jamaica	JAM	47.3	47.42	QU
2	Jack Carroll	21	Canada	CAN	48.0	48.05	QU
3	Egon Solymossy	30	Hungary	HUN	49.2	49.32
4	Josef Steger	27	Switzerland	SUI	49.2	49.35
5	Jaakko Suikkari	26	Finland	FIN	50.9	50.92
6	Aurang Zeb	29	Pakistan	PAK	51.0	51.25

Round One Heat Four

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt	23	Sweden	SWE	48.4	48.57	QU
2	Terry Higgins	24	Great Britain	GBR	48.7	48.77	QU
3	Junkichi Matoba	21	Japan	JPN	49.4	49.57
4	Vasilios Sillis	23	Greece	GRE	49.7	49.79
5	Doğan Acarbay	25	Turkey	TUR	50.7	50.83
6	Ivan Jacob	24	India	IND	51.3	51.48

Round One Heat Five

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Herb McKenley	30	Jamaica	JAM	48.0	48.09	QU
2	Louis van Biljon	24	South Africa	RSA	48.1	48.31	QU
3	Roger Moens	22	Belgium	BEL	48.6	48.71
4	Ferenc Bánhalmi	29	Hungary	HUN	49.4	49.55
5	Arie Gill-Glick	22	Israel	ISR	50.2	50.27
6	Ernst von Gunten	30	Switzerland	SUI	50.7	50.88
AC	Tage Ekfeldt	26	Sweden	SWE			DQ

Round One Heat Six

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Mal Whitfield	27	United States	USA	48.6	48.68	QU
2	Guillermo Gutiérrez	25	Venezuela	VEN	48.7	48.82	QU
3	Gianni Rocca	23	Italy	ITA	49.2	49.51
4	Gösta Brännström	25	Sweden	SWE	50.1	50.32
5	Javier Souza	22	Mexico	MEX	50.3	50.47
6	Emin Doybak		Turkey	TUR	51.1	51.34
7	Fernando Casimiro	21	Portugal	POR	52.2	52.33

Round One Heat Seven

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Jacques Degats	22	France	FRA	48.5	48.60	QU
2	Morris Curotta	23	Australia	AUS	48.7	48.87	QU
3	Vincenzo Lombardo	20	Italy	ITA	49.3	49.53
4	Rudolf Haidegger	29	Austria	AUT	49.9	50.01
5	Albert Lowagie	22	Belgium	BEL	50.1	50.26

Round One Heat Eight

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Hans Geister	23	Germany	GER	47.9	47.99	QU
2	Yves Camus	22	France	FRA	48.0	48.06	QU
3	Milan Filo	23	Czechoslovakia	TCH	48.7	48.91
4	Guðmundur Lárusson	26	Iceland	ISL	49.7	49.81
5	Sompop Svadanandana	19	Thailand	THA	53.6	53.68
6	Jeremias Stokes	19	Guatemala	GUA	53.6	53.81

Round One Heat Nine

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Gene Cole	23	United States	USA	48.3	48.44	QU
2	Alan Dick	22	Great Britain	GBR	48.7	48.84	QU
3	Edmunds Pīlāgs	25	Soviet Union	URS	49.2	49.29
4	Angel García	32	Cuba	CUB	49.2	49.34
5	Antoine Uyterhoeven	22	Belgium	BEL	50.0	50.21
6	Jean Hamilius	25	Luxembourg	LUX	50.3	50.75

Round One Heat Ten

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	George Rhoden	25	Jamaica	JAM	48.1	48.28	QU
2	Gerard Mach	25	Poland	POL	48.5	48.64	QU
3	Paul Dolan	25	Ireland	IRL	48.5	48.81
4	Jean-Pierre Goudeau	19	France	FRA	48.8	48.94
5	Doug Clement	18	Canada	CAN	50.0	50.19

Round One Heat Eleven

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	James Lavery	23	Canada	CAN	48.4	48.47	QU
2	Yury Lituyev	27	Soviet Union	URS	48.8	49.01	QU
3	Francisco Rivera	24	Puerto Rico	PUR	49.3	49.48
4	Antonio Siddi	29	Italy	ITA	50.9	51.03

Round One Heat Twelve

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Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Ollie Matson	22	United States	USA	48.1	48.17	QU
2	Hans Ernst Schneider	25	Switzerland	SUI	48.7	48.86	QU
3	Argemiro Roque	28	Brazil	BRA	48.9	49.05
4	Schalk Booysen	24	South Africa	RSA	49.0	49.17
5	Jiří David	29	Czechoslovakia	TCH	49.1	49.23
6	Fred Hammer	22	Luxembourg	LUX	49.6	49.90
7	Ossi Mildh	22	Finland	FIN	50.2	50.36

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