Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres
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The men's 400 metres was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The competition was held on 28 & 29 of November.[1] Times are listed as both hand timing and automatic timing. Hand timing was the official time used in the 1956 Olympics. Forty-two athletes from 23 nations competed.[2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
Men's 400 metres at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Dates | 28 November 1956 29 November 1956 | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 42 from 23 nations | ||||||||||||||||
Winning time | 46.7 | ||||||||||||||||
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The event was won by 0.26 seconds by Charles Jenkins Sr. of the United States, the nation's 8th title in the event and breaking a two-Games string of victories by Jamaican runners. Karl-Friedrich Haas's silver was the first medal in the event by the "United Team" of Germany, though Germany had medaled in 1912 and 1928. Finland and the Soviet Union each claimed their first men's 400 metres medals as well with a tie for bronze between Voitto Hellstén and Ardalion Ignatyev.