Men's Olympic 400 Meters Through the Years

Updated August 28, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

400 meters

Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the men's 400 meter race from 1896 to the present.

Year   Time  
1896 Tom Burke, USA 54.2  
1900 Maxey Long, USA 49.4 OR
1904 Harry Hillman, USA 49.2 OR
1906 Paul Pilgrim, USA 53.2  
1908 Wyndham Halswelle, GBR 50.0  
1912 Charlie Reidpath, USA 48.2 OR
1920 Bevil Rudd, S. Afr. 49.6  
1924 Eric Liddell, GBR 47.6 OR
1928 Ray Barbuti, USA 47.8  
1932 Bill Carr, USA 46.2 WR
1936 Archie Williams, USA 46.5  
1948 Arthur Wint, JAM 46.2  
1952 George Rhoden, JAM 45.9 OR
1956 Charley Jenkins, USA 46.7  
1960 Otis Davis, USA 44.9 WR
1964 Mike Larrabee, USA 45.1  
1968 Lee Evans, USA 43.86 WR
1972 Vince Matthews, USA 44.66  
1976 Alberto Juantorena, CUB 44.26  
1980 Viktor Markin, USSR 44.60  
1984 Alonzo Babers, USA 44.27  
1988 Steve Lewis, USA 43.87  
1992 Quincy Watts, USA 43.50 OR
1996 Michael Johnson, USA 43.49 OR
2000 Michael Johnson, USA 43.84  
2004 Jeremy Wariner, USA 44.00  
2008 Lashawn Merritt, USA 43.75  
2012 James Kirani, GRN 43.94  

 

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