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1988 Olympic Games Seoul - Men's 400 m hurdles

 

 

Host City: Seoul, South Korea Format: Top four in each heat advanced to the final.
Date Started: September 23, 1988 Format: Top three in each heat and next fastest advanced to the semi-finals.
Date Finished: September 25, 1988
(Competitors: 37; Countries: 28; Finalists: 8)
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Seoul Sports Complex, Seoul
Overview by IAAF  1988_olympic_stadium.jpg
Dave Patrick and Danny Harris ran 47.75 and 47.76 respectively at the US Trials but failed to make the US team. Only Schmid was thought capable of denting the USA’s hegemony, a view unaffected by the heats, where Phillips (49.34), Young (49.35) and Moses (49.38) were the three fastest. Bâ (49.41) and Schmid (49.77) were the other heat winners. Moses cranked things up in the semis, running 47.89 ahead of Young (48.50) and Schmid (48.93), while Phillips showed his strength in taking the other semi-final in 48.19, ahead of Graham (48.37) and Bâ (48.48). In the final, Phillips reacted far quicker than the others (0.15 versus 0.21 for Moses, 0.22 for Bâ) and by the third hurdle was 0.19 up on Moses and 0.20 ahead of Bâ. At the fourth hurdle there were four contenders, with Phillips just ahead of Moses 20.93 to 21.00, Bâ (21.01) and Young (21.09). Phillips was pressured by Moses until the eighth hurdle, but the reigning champion began to tire, and Phillips led off the last hurdle by more than 2m. Bâ was second, but closed with a ferocious finish to set an African record, becoming the number three performer of all-time. The American chopped more than three tenths off his best, while Bâ’s run was the only sub-48 mark of his career.
Summary by Sports-reference.com
Between 26 August 1977 and 4 June 1987, Edwin Moses won 107 consecutive finals in the 400 hurdles, and had won gold medals in both 1976 and 1984. He was finally beaten by Danny Harris, silver medalist in 1984. The best race of 1988 may have been the US Olympic Trials final in which the top five runners bettered 47.80, with Harris placing fifth in 47.76, as Moses won in 47.37, followed by André Phillips in 47.58. In Seoul, Phillips started fastest in the final, leading comfortably after the third hurdle. Moses kept the pressure on thru the eighth hurdle but could not maintain the pace and his legendary career would effectively end with a bronze medal. Phillips held on for the gold medal in a personal best 47.19, while Senegal's Amadou Dia Bâ closed rapidly, also finishing in a personal best 47.23, and nearly catching Phillips.
 

Records

These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.

World Record 47.02 United States Edwin Moses Koblenz (FRG) August 31, 1983
Olympic Record 47.64 United States Edwin Moses Montreal (CAN) July 25, 1976

The following Olympic record was set during this competition.

DateEventAthleteTimeORWR
September 25, 1988 Final  Andre Phillips (USA) 47.19s OR  
 
Results
400 m hurdles Men Final 25 September
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 47.19 André Phillips United States USA 5 Sep 59
2 47.23 Amadou Dia Bâ Senegal SEN 22 Sep 58 NR
3 47.56 Edwin Moses United States USA 31 Aug 55
4 47.94 Kevin Young United States USA 16 Sep 66
5 48.04 Winthrop Graham Jamaica JAM 17 Nov 65
6 48.69 Kriss Akabusi Great Britain GBR 28 Nov 58
7 48.76 Harald Schmid West Germany FRG 29 Sep 57
8 48.78 Edgar Itt West Germany FRG 8 Jun 67
400 m hurdles Men Semifinal 1 24 September
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 47.89 Edwin Moses United States USA 31 Aug 55
2 48.56 Kevin Young United States USA 16 Sep 66
3 48.93 Harald Schmid West Germany FRG 29 Sep 57
4 49.22 Kriss Akabusi Great Britain GBR 28 Nov 58
5 49.50 Joseph Maritim Kenya KEN 22 Oct 68
6 49.57 José Alonso Spain ESP 12 Feb 57
7 51.04 Klaus Ehrle Austria AUT 11 Mar 66
8 51.33 John Graham Canada CAN 20 Nov 65
400 m hurdles Men Semifinal 2 24 September
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 48.19 André Phillips United States USA 5 Sep 59
2 48.37 Winthrop Graham Jamaica JAM 17 Nov 65
3 48.48 Amadou Dia Bâ Senegal SEN 22 Sep 58
4 48.86 Edgar Itt West Germany FRG 8 Jun 67
5 48.90 Toma Tomov Bulgaria BUL 6 May 58
6 49.74 Simon Kitur Kenya KEN 12 Jun 59
7 49.75 Alain Cuypers Belgium BEL 29 Nov 67
DQ Gideon Yego Kenya KEN 6 May 60
400 m hurdles Men Heat 1 23 September
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 49.41 Amadou Dia Bâ Senegal SEN 22 Sep 58
2 50.10 Klaus Ehrle Austria AUT 11 Mar 66
3 50.30 John Graham Canada CAN 20 Nov 65
4 50.52 Hwang Hong-Chul South Korea KOR 27 Feb 66
5 50.81 Phil Harries Great Britain GBR 7 Apr 66
6 51.87 Jasem Al-Duaillah Kuwait KUW 9 Mar 63
7 56.80 Dambar Kunwar Nepal NEP 59
400 m hurdles Men Heat 2 23 September
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 49.77 Harald Schmid West Germany FRG 29 Sep 57
2 49.88 Simon Kitur Kenya KEN 12 Jun 59
3 50.42 Alain Cuypers Belgium BEL 29 Nov 67
4 50.44 Ahmed Abdelhalim Ghanem Egypt EGY 12 Jan 59
5 50.49 Ryoichi Yoshida Japan JPN 2 Mar 65
6 51.06 Samuel Matete Zambia ZAM 27 Jul 68
7 51.26 Domingo Cordero Puerto Rico PUR 17 Oct 65
8 55.38 Jorge Fidel Ponce Honduras HON 30 Nov 67
400 m hurdles Men Heat 3 23 September
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 49.38 Edwin Moses United States USA 31 Aug 55
2 50.10 Edgar Itt West Germany FRG 8 Jun 67
3 50.21 José Alonso Spain ESP 12 Feb 57
4 50.53 Leigh Miller Australia AUS 19 Aug 63
5 51.32 Branislav Karaulic Yugoslavia YUG 8 Apr 63
6 52.76 Allan Ince Barbados BAR 11 Nov 67
7 53.44 Oral Selkridge Antigua and Barbuda ANT 20 Aug 62
400 m hurdles Men Heat 4 23 September
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 49.35 Kevin Young United States USA 16 Sep 66
2 49.62 Kriss Akabusi Great Britain GBR 28 Nov 58
3 49.80 Gideon Yego Kenya KEN 6 May 60
4 49.89 Jozef Kucej Czechoslovakia TCH 23 Mar 65
5 50.54 Rok Kopitar Yugoslavia YUG 5 May 59
6 50.58 Hamidou M'Baye Senegal SEN 21 Apr 64
7 51.73 Benjamin Grant Sierra Leone SLE 15 Apr 70 NR
8 53.66 Joseph Rodan Fiji FIJ 15 Feb 51
400 m hurdles Men Heat 5 23 September
Rank Mark Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 49.34 André Phillips United States USA 5 Sep 59
2 49.40 Winthrop Graham Jamaica JAM 17 Nov 65
3 49.64 Joseph Maritim Kenya KEN 22 Oct 68
4 50.67 Toma Tomov Bulgaria BUL 6 May 58
5 50.67 Max Robertson Great Britain GBR 27 Dec 63
6 51.34 Ahmad Hamada Bahrain BRN 18 Sep 61
7 53.51 Yousif Al-Dosari Saudi Arabia KSA 12 Jan 62
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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