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Athletics at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games:
Men's 400 metres
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Host City: Montréal, Canada
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Montréal, Québec
Date Started: July 26, 1976
Date Finished: July 29, 1976
| Gold: |  Alberto Juantorena |
| Silver: |  Fred Newhouse |
| Bronze: | Herman Frazier |
Summary
Cuba's [Alberto Juantorena] was world-ranked #1 in 1974, was fourth in 1975, and had finished second at the 1975 Pan American Games to Ronnie Ray of the USA. Earlier in Montréal he had won the 800 metres and was trying to become the first since [Paul Pilgrim] in 1906 to win the 400/800 Olympic double. He was favored but the US contingent of [Fred Newhouse], [Herman Frazier], and [Maxie Parks] would be formidable as always. In the final, Newhouse went to the lead and was three metres ahead by the halfway mark. But Juantorena's long strides kept pulling him closer and he caught Newhouse with 20 metres left, pulling away to win by just over a metre.
Final Standings
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberto Juantorena | 25 | Cuba | CUB | Gold | |
| 2 | Fred Newhouse | 27 | United States | USA | Silver | |
| 3 | Herman Frazier | 21 | United States | USA | Bronze | |
| 4 | Fons Brijdenbach | 21 | Belgium | BEL | ||
| 5 | Maxie Parks | 25 | United States | USA | ||
| 6 | Rick Mitchell | 21 | Australia | AUS | ||
| 7 | David Jenkins | 24 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 8 | Jan Werner | 29 | Poland | POL | ||
| 5 h1 r3/4 | Bernd Herrmann | 24 | West Germany | FRG | ||
| 5 h2 r3/4 | Jerzy Pietrzyk | 21 | Poland | POL | ||
| 6 h1 r3/4 | Brian Saunders | 24 | Canada | CAN | ||
| 6 h2 r3/4 | Franz-Peter Hofmeister | 24 | West Germany | FRG | ||
| 7 h1 r3/4 | Alfonso Di Guida | 22 | Italy | ITA | ||
| 7 h2 r3/4 | Mike Solomon | 21 | Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | ||
| 8 h1 r3/4 | Delmo da Silva | 22 | Brazil | BRA | ||
| 8 h2 r3/4 | Karl Honz | 25 | West Germany | FRG | ||
| 5 h1 r2/4 | Ossi Karttunen | 28 | Finland | FIN | ||
| 5 h2 r2/4 | Leighton Priestley | 25 | Jamaica | JAM | ||
| 5 h3 r2/4 | Markku Kukkoaho | 29 | Finland | FIN | ||
| 5 h4 r2/4 | Jozo AlebiÄ | 29 | Yugoslavia | YUG | ||
| 6 h1 r2/4 | Peter Grant | 22 | Australia | AUS | ||
| 6 h2 r2/4 | Mike Sands | 23 | Bahamas | BAH | ||
| 6 h3 r2/4 | Eddy Gutiérrez | 24 | Cuba | CUB | ||
| 6 h4 r2/4 | Zbigniew Jaremski | 27 | Poland | POL | ||
| 7 h1 r2/4 | Alfred Daley | 26 | Jamaica | JAM | ||
| 7 h2 r2/4 | Iván Mangual | 24 | Puerto Rico | PUR | ||
| 7 h3 r2/4 | Glen Cohen | 22 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 7 h4 r2/4 | Fred Sowerby | 27 | Antigua and Barbuda | ANT | ||
| 8 h1 r2/4 | Glenn Bogue | 20 | Canada | CAN | ||
| 8 h2 r2/4 | Charles Joseph | 24 | Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | ||
| 8 h4 r2/4 | Raymond Heerenveen | 27 | Netherlands Antilles | AHO | ||
| 6 h1 r1/4 | Carlos Noroña | 19 | Cuba | CUB | ||
| 6 h2 r1/4 | Don Domansky | 29 | Canada | CAN | ||
| 6 h3 r1/4 | Renelda Swan | 18 | Bermuda | BER | ||
| 6 h5 r1/4 | Samba Dièye | 27 | Senegal | SEN | ||
| 6 h6 r1/4 | Avognan Nogboun | Cote d'Ivoire | CIV | |||
| 7 h1 r1/4 | Hamil Grimes | 19 | Barbados | BAR | ||
| 7 h2 r1/4 | Errol Thurton | Belize | BIZ | |||
| 7 h4 r1/4 | Wavala Kali | 22 | Papua New Guinea | PNG | ||
| 7 h5 r1/4 | Bjarni Stefánsson | 25 | Iceland | ISL | ||
| 7 h6 r1/4 | José Carvalho | 23 | Portugal | POR | ||
| 8 h1 r1/4 | Wilfrid Cyriaque | 25 | Haiti | HAI | ||
| 8 h2 r1/4 | Ahmed Al-Assiri | 24 | Saudi Arabia | KSA | ||
| 8 h4 r1/4 | Ricardo Larios | 23 | Nicaragua | NCA |
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