Men 400m Athletics XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - -- November - Gold Medal: Charles Jenkins, United States
Finaltime
1. Charles JenkinsUSAUSA46.7s
2. Karl-Friedrich HaasGERGER46.8s
3. Voitto HellstenFINFIN47.0s
3. Ardalion IgnatyevURSURS47.0s
5. Louis JonesUSAUSA48.1s
6. Malcolm SpenceZAFZAF48.3s

world Men 400m History

Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground. Capp.: 120,000.
-- competitors from -- nations.
RounddateHAthl.
Semifinals 212
Round 2 424
Round 1 842
Semifinals
Heat 1time
1. A. IgnatievURSURS46.8s
2. M.C. SpenceZAFZAF47.2s
3. L.W. JonesUSAUSA47.3s
4. Melville SpenceJAMJAM47.5s
5. F.P. HigginsGBRGBR47.7s
6. I. RodriguezPURPUR47.7s
Heat 2time
1. C.I. JenkinsUSAUSA46.1s
2. V.V. HellstenFINFIN46.1s
3. K. HaasGERGER46.2s
4. R.K. GosperAUSAUS46.2s
5. J.E. SalisburyGBRGBR47.3s
6. Malcolm SpenceJAMJAM47.4s
Round 2
Heat 1time
1. L.W. JonesUSAUSA47.4s
1. J.E. SalisburyGBRGBR47.4s
3. I. RodriguezPURPUR47.5s
4. C.T. TobaccoCANCAN47.7s
5. J. KuhlGERGER48.0s
-. A. KhanPAKPAKDNS
Heat 2time
1. A. IgnatievURSURS46.8s
2. Malcolm SpenceJAMJAM47.4s
3. F.P. HigginsGBRGBR47.4s
4. G.C. GipsonAUSAUS47.4s
5. J. DegatsFRAFRA48.7s
6. M. CockburnCAnCAn49.5s
Heat 3time
1. V.V. HellstenFINFIN46.8s
2. M.C. SpenceZAFZAF47.1s
3. Melville SpenceJAMJAM47.3s
4. P. HaarhoffFRAFRA47.6s
5. J.G. LeeUSAUSA48.1s
6. B. KibetKENKEN49.1s
Heat 4time
1. R.K. GosperAUSAUS46.7s
2. K. HaasGERGER47.3s
3. C.I. JenkinsUSAUSA47.5s
4. G.E. KerrJAMJAM47.7s
5. M.K.V. WheelerGBRGBR47.9s
6. J.-P. Martin du GardFRAFRA48.2s
Round 1
Heat 1time
1. L.W. JonesUSAUSA48.1s
2. M. CockburnCAnCAn49.0s
3. A. KhanPAKPAK49.0s
4. K. GratchevURSURS49.4s
5. Legesse BayeneETHETH50.7s
-. K. AkagiJPNJPNDQ
Heat 2time
1. C.T. TobaccoCANCAN47.9s
2. J. DegatsFRAFRA48.3s
3. J.G. LeeUSAUSA48.3s
4. Bartonjo RotichKENKEN48.8s
5. J. AparicioCOLCOL49.0s
6. P. SomblingoPHIPHI49.4s
-. K. PereraMALMAL
Heat 3time
1. M.C. SpenceZAFZAF47.7s
2. J. KuhlGERGER48.7s
3. C.I. JenkinsUSAUSA48.7s
4. Hailou AbbebeEthEth49.0s
5. A.-K.O. AmuNGRNGR49.4s
Heat 4time
1. V.V. HellstenFINFIN48.4s
2. M.K.V. WheelerGBRGBR49.3s
3. B. KibetKENKEN49.3s
4. I.de L. SloanCANCAN50.0s
5. S. TongaramTHATHA53.4s
Heat 5time
1. K. HaasGERGER47.2s
2. G.C. GipsonAUSAUS47.7s
3. J.E. SalisburyGBRGBR47.7s
4. Milkha SinghINDIND48.9s
Heat 6time
1. A. IgnatievURSURS48.6s
2. G.E. KerrJAMJAM49.7s
3. P. HaarhoffFRAFRA49.8s
4. K.G. WanyokeKENKEN50.6s
Heat 7time
1. R.K. GosperAUSAUS48.0s
2. Malcolm SpenceJAMJAM48.2s
3. I. RodriguezPURPUR48.8s
4. G. RasquinLUXLUX50.6s
5. A. Rahim Bin AhmadMALMAL50.8s
6. G. JohnsonLBRLBR54.8s
Heat 8time
1. F.P. HigginsGBRGBR47.9s
2. Melville SpenceJAMJAM47.9s
3. J.-P. Martin du GardFRAFRA49.8s
4. J.W. GoodmanAUSAUS48.5s
5. Bayene AyanewETHETH51.3s
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