Men 400m Hurdles Athletics XXII Olympic Games Moskva, Soviet Union 1980 - Saturday, 26th July - Gold Medal: Volker Beck, East Germany
FinaltimeL
1. Volker BeckGDR East Germany48.70s8
2. Vasili ArkhipenkoURS Soviet Union48.86s2
3. Gary OakesGBR Great Britain49.11s1
4. Nikolai VasilievURS Soviet Union49.34s4
5. Rok KopitarYUG Yugoslavia49.67s5
6. Horia TobocROU Romania49.84s7
7. Franz MeierSUI Switzerland50.00s6
8. Yanko BratanovBUL Bulgaria56.35s5
Competitors: 22; Countries: 19
RoundHAthlDate
Semi-Finals21625.07
Heats32324.07

Semi-Finals - Friday 25.07

Semi 1time
1. Volker BeckGDR East Germany50.36s
2. Rok KopitarYUG Yugoslavia50.55s
3. Horia TobocROU Romania50.58s
4. Harry SchultingNED Netherlands50.61s
5. Aleksandr KharlovURS Soviet Union50.64s
6. Jozsef SzalaiHUN Hungary51.06s
7. Antonio Dias FerreiraBRA Brazil52.31s
-. Christer GullstrandSWE SwedenDNS
Semi 2time
1. Vasili ArkhipenkoURS Soviet Union49.80s
2. Nikolai VasilievURS Soviet Union49.87s
3. Gary OakesGBR Great Britain50.07s
4. Franz MeierSUI Switzerland50.12s
5. Yanko BratanovBUL Bulgaria50.17s
6. Ryszard SzparakPOL Poland50.41s
7. John Aki-BuaUGA Uganda51.10s
8. Juan LloverasESP Spain51.86s
Edwin Moses (nine) and Harald Schmid (six) had the top 15 marks of the year, but were not in Moscow because of the US-led boycott. This event was seriously devalued without the best men in the event, as was shown by no-one breaking 50 seconds in the heats, and only Arkhipenko (49.80) and Vasilyev (49.87) ducking below that mark in the semi-finals. Oakes blasted out from the gun in the final and led by a metre from Beck at halfway, with Arkhipenko third. The Soviet athlete worked hard around the final curve and caught the Briton at the eighth hurdle, with Beck appearing to be holding back. The East German kicked hard after the ninth hurdle, going past the tiring Oakes, and catching Arkhipenko at the final barrier. Beck was too strong for the Ukrainian over the last 40m and won by a long metre. Oakes was a further 2m back, well clear of Vasilyev, and won a medal which was wholly unex- pected for the British.

Heats - Thursday 24.07

Heat 1time
1. Nikolai VasilievURS Soviet Union50.09s
2. Antonio Dias FerreiraBRA Brazil50.14s
3. Volker BeckGDR East Germany50.35s
4. Ryszard SzparakPOL Poland50.45s
5. John Aki-BuaUGA Uganda50.87s
6. Horia TobocROU Romania50.89s
7. Davison LisheboZAM Zambia51.73s
Heat 2time
1. Vasili ArkhipenkoURS Soviet Union50.22s
2. Franz MeierSUI Switzerland50.32s
3. Rok KopitarYUG Yugoslavia50.34s
4. Juan LloverasESP Spain50.48s
5. Yanko BratanovBUL Bulgaria50.56s
6. Christer GullstrandSWE Sweden50.95s
7. Amer MaaraouiSYR Syria53.26s
8. Abdultif HashemKUW Kuwait53.31s
Heat 3time
1. Harry SchultingNED Netherlands50.01s
2. Jozsef SzalaiHUN Hungary50.23s
3. Gary OakesGBR Great Britain50.39s
4. Aleksandr KharlovURS Soviet Union50.79s
5. Jose CasabonaESP Spain51.26s
-. Wilfred KarengBOT BotswanaDNF
-. Leonel TellerNCA NicaraguaDNF
-. Ali Hassan KadhumIRA IraqDNS
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Moscow 1980 index
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Athletics Moscow 1980
Men 100mWomen 100m
Men 200mWomen 200m
Men 400mWomen 400m
Men 800mWomen 800m
Men 1500mWomen 1500m
Men 5000m
Men 10000m
Men Marathon
Men 110m HurdlesWomen 100m Hurdles
Men 400m Hurdles
Men 3000m Steeplechase
Men 4x100m RelayWomen 4x100m Relay
Men 4x400m RelayWomen 4x400m Relay
Men High JumpWomen High Jump
Men Pole Vault
Men Long JumpWomen Long Jump
Men Triple Jump
Men Shot PutWomen Shot Put
Men Discus ThrowWomen Discus Throw
Men Hammer Throw
Men Javelin ThrowWomen Javelin Throw
Men 20km Walk
Men 50km Walk
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Men DecathlonWomen Pentathlon
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