Men 400m Hurdles Athletics XVIII Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 1964 - Friday, 16th October - Gold Medal: Warren Jay Cawley, United States
Final 16:00timeL
1. Warren Jay CawleyUSA United States49.6s6
2. John CooperGBR Great Britain50.1s4
3. Salvatore MoraleITA Italy50.1s8
4. Gary KnokeAUS Australia50.4s2
5. Jamaes Edmond LuckUSA United States50.5s3
6. Roberto FrinolliITA Italy50.7s7
7. Vasiliy AnisimovURS Soviet Union51.1s1
8. Wilfried GeeromsBEL Belgium51.4s5

world Men 400m Hurdles History

Venue: Olympic Stadium, Tokyo. Capp.: 57,363 (48,000 seats).
39 competitors from 26 nations.
RoundHathldate
Semi-Finals21615.10
Heats54014.10

Semi-Finals - Thursday 15.10 14:15

Semi 1time
1. Warren Jay CawleyUSA United States49.8s
2. Roberto FrinolliITA Italy50.2s
3. Gary James KnokeAUS Australia50.6s
4. Wilfried GeeromsBEL Belgium51.0s
5. Peter WardenGBR Great Britain51.2s
6. Ferdinand HaasGER Germany51.6s
7. Edvin ZagerisURS Soviet Union52.2s
8. Jaakko A. U. TuominenFIN Finland54.0s
Semi 2time
1. John Hugh CooperGBR Great Britain50.4s
2. James Edmund LuckUSA United States50.4s
3. Salvatore MoraleITA Italy50.4s
4. Vasily AnisimovURS Soviet Union50.7s
5. Kenneth James RocheAUS Australia50.8s
6. William Foster HardinUSA United States50.9s
7. Victor MaldonadoVEN Venezuela51.1s
8. Juan Carlos Pablo DyrzkaARG Argentina53.1s
As an 18 year-old schoolboy Cawley became the only man ever to be a finalist in all three hurdle events (110m/200m/400m) at the US Championships. His talent over 400m hurdles came to the fore five years later, as he broke the world record in the US Trials with 49.1 a month before Tokyo. Only Cawley - 50.8 (50.88) - and John Cooper - 50.5 (50.58) broke 51 seconds in the heats. These two were the semi- final winners, Cooper in 50.40 just ahead of Luck 50.4 (50.43) and Morale 50.4 (50.48), and Cawley in 49.8 (49.89) in front of Frinolli - 50.2 (50.28). The surprise of the semis was the elimination of Billy Hardin, the US Champion and son of Glenn, who hit the 10th hurdle when in fourth place, and slipped back to sixth. Frinolli led the field for the first half of the final, as he had done in his semi, with Morale in second place. Cawley pushed hard from the seventh hurdle, caught Frinolli at the ninth, and went away to a com- fortable win. Behind him, Luck caught Frinolli at the 10th hurdle, but hit it, and Morale, Cooper and Knoke went by, with Cooper’s strength telling at the finish. Three of the 1960-64 medallists died prematurely, Cushman in Vietnam in 1966, Howard from a drugs overdose in 1967, and Cooper in the 1974 Paris air crash which killed 346.

Heats - Wednesday 14.10 14:00

Heat 1time
1. John Hugh CooperGBR Great Britain50.5s
2. Gary James KnokeAUS Australia50.9s
3. Roberto FrinolliITA Italy51.2s
4. Edvin ZagerisURS Soviet Union51.5s
5. William D. GairdnerCAN Canada53.8s
6. Helmut HaidAUT Austria54.6s
7. Horst GieselerGER Germany
-. Nicola DagorovBUL BulgariaDNS
Heat 2time
1. Warren Jay CawleyUSA United States50.8s
2. Juan Carlos Pablo DyrzkaARG Argentina51.1s
3. Peter WardenGBR Great Britain51.6s
4. Joachim SingerGER Germany52.1s
5. Boguslaw GierajewskiPOL Poland52.8s
6. Samir Ambrose VincentIRA Iraq54.0s
7. Kiyoo YuiJPN Japan54.7s
8. Michael A. B. RyanAUS Australia58.0s
Heat 3time
1. Wilfried GeeromsBEL Belgium51.2s
2. Kenneth James RocheAUS Australia51.5s
3. James Edmund LuckUSA United States51.7s
4. Jerom OchanaUGA Uganda52.4s
5. Robert PoirierFRA France52.6s
6. Valeriu JurcaROU Romania52.7s
7. Kimaru SongokKEN Kenya54.5s
8. Manzoor-Ul-Haq AwanPAK Pakistan55.3s
Heat 4time
1. Salvatore MoraleITA Italy51.1s
2. Vasily AnisimovUSA United States51.7s
3. Ferdinand HaasGER Germany52.2s
4. John M. W. HoganGBR Great Britain52.5s
5. Keiji OgushiJPN Japan53.6s
6. Jose CaveroPER Peru53.7s
7. K. SelvaratnamMAL Malaya53.8s
-. Djani KovacYUG YugoslaviaDQ
Heat 5time
1. William Foster HardinUSA United States51.3s
2. Victor MaldonadoVEN Venezuela51.6s
3. Jaakko A. U. TuominenFIN Finland51.8s
4. Jean-Jacques BehmFRA France52.2s
5. Keiki IijimaJPN Japan52.8s
6. Mamadou SarrSEN Senegal53.2s
7. Amrit PalIND India53.3s
8. Imant KuklichURS Soviet Union53.3s
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