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 |
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(Competitors: 37; Countries: 28; Finalists: 8) |
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Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Seoul Sports Complex, Seoul
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Overview by IAAF |
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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. |
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Summary by Sports-reference.com |
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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.
The following Olympic record was set during this competition.
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Results |
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400 m hurdles |
Men |
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Final |
25 September |
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Rank |
Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
47.19 |
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André Phillips |
United States |
USA |
5 Sep 59 |
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2 |
47.23 |
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Amadou Dia Bâ |
Senegal |
SEN |
22 Sep 58 |
NR |
3 |
47.56 |
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Edwin Moses |
United States |
USA |
31 Aug 55 |
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4 |
47.94 |
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Kevin Young |
United States |
USA |
16 Sep 66 |
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5 |
48.04 |
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Winthrop Graham |
Jamaica |
JAM |
17 Nov 65 |
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6 |
48.69 |
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Kriss Akabusi |
Great Britain |
GBR |
28 Nov 58 |
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7 |
48.76 |
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Harald Schmid |
West Germany |
FRG |
29 Sep 57 |
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8 |
48.78 |
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Edgar Itt |
West Germany |
FRG |
8 Jun 67 |
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400 m hurdles |
Men |
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Semifinal 1 |
24 September |
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Rank |
Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
47.89 |
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Edwin Moses |
United States |
USA |
31 Aug 55 |
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2 |
48.56 |
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Kevin Young |
United States |
USA |
16 Sep 66 |
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3 |
48.93 |
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Harald Schmid |
West Germany |
FRG |
29 Sep 57 |
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4 |
49.22 |
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Kriss Akabusi |
Great Britain |
GBR |
28 Nov 58 |
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5 |
49.50 |
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Joseph Maritim |
Kenya |
KEN |
22 Oct 68 |
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6 |
49.57 |
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José Alonso |
Spain |
ESP |
12 Feb 57 |
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7 |
51.04 |
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Klaus Ehrle |
Austria |
AUT |
11 Mar 66 |
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8 |
51.33 |
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John Graham |
Canada |
CAN |
20 Nov 65 |
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400 m hurdles |
Men |
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Semifinal 2 |
24 September |
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Rank |
Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
48.19 |
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André Phillips |
United States |
USA |
5 Sep 59 |
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2 |
48.37 |
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Winthrop Graham |
Jamaica |
JAM |
17 Nov 65 |
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3 |
48.48 |
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Amadou Dia Bâ |
Senegal |
SEN |
22 Sep 58 |
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4 |
48.86 |
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Edgar Itt |
West Germany |
FRG |
8 Jun 67 |
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5 |
48.90 |
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Toma Tomov |
Bulgaria |
BUL |
6 May 58 |
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6 |
49.74 |
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Simon Kitur |
Kenya |
KEN |
12 Jun 59 |
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7 |
49.75 |
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Alain Cuypers |
Belgium |
BEL |
29 Nov 67 |
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DQ |
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Gideon Yego |
Kenya |
KEN |
6 May 60 |
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400 m hurdles |
Men |
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Heat 1 |
23 September |
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Rank |
Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
49.41 |
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Amadou Dia Bâ |
Senegal |
SEN |
22 Sep 58 |
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2 |
50.10 |
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Klaus Ehrle |
Austria |
AUT |
11 Mar 66 |
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3 |
50.30 |
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John Graham |
Canada |
CAN |
20 Nov 65 |
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4 |
50.52 |
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Hwang Hong-Chul |
South Korea |
KOR |
27 Feb 66 |
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5 |
50.81 |
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Phil Harries |
Great Britain |
GBR |
7 Apr 66 |
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6 |
51.87 |
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Jasem Al-Duaillah |
Kuwait |
KUW |
9 Mar 63 |
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7 |
56.80 |
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Dambar Kunwar |
Nepal |
NEP |
59 |
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400 m hurdles |
Men |
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Heat 2 |
23 September |
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Rank |
Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
49.77 |
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Harald Schmid |
West Germany |
FRG |
29 Sep 57 |
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2 |
49.88 |
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Simon Kitur |
Kenya |
KEN |
12 Jun 59 |
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3 |
50.42 |
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Alain Cuypers |
Belgium |
BEL |
29 Nov 67 |
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4 |
50.44 |
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Ahmed Abdelhalim Ghanem |
Egypt |
EGY |
12 Jan 59 |
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5 |
50.49 |
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Ryoichi Yoshida |
Japan |
JPN |
2 Mar 65 |
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6 |
51.06 |
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Samuel Matete |
Zambia |
ZAM |
27 Jul 68 |
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7 |
51.26 |
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Domingo Cordero |
Puerto Rico |
PUR |
17 Oct 65 |
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8 |
55.38 |
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Jorge Fidel Ponce |
Honduras |
HON |
30 Nov 67 |
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400 m hurdles |
Men |
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Heat 3 |
23 September |
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Rank |
Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
49.38 |
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Edwin Moses |
United States |
USA |
31 Aug 55 |
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2 |
50.10 |
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Edgar Itt |
West Germany |
FRG |
8 Jun 67 |
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3 |
50.21 |
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José Alonso |
Spain |
ESP |
12 Feb 57 |
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4 |
50.53 |
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Leigh Miller |
Australia |
AUS |
19 Aug 63 |
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5 |
51.32 |
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Branislav Karaulic |
Yugoslavia |
YUG |
8 Apr 63 |
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6 |
52.76 |
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Allan Ince |
Barbados |
BAR |
11 Nov 67 |
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7 |
53.44 |
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Oral Selkridge |
Antigua and Barbuda |
ANT |
20 Aug 62 |
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400 m hurdles |
Men |
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Heat 4 |
23 September |
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Rank |
Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
49.35 |
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Kevin Young |
United States |
USA |
16 Sep 66 |
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2 |
49.62 |
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Kriss Akabusi |
Great Britain |
GBR |
28 Nov 58 |
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3 |
49.80 |
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Gideon Yego |
Kenya |
KEN |
6 May 60 |
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4 |
49.89 |
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Jozef Kucej |
Czechoslovakia |
TCH |
23 Mar 65 |
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5 |
50.54 |
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Rok Kopitar |
Yugoslavia |
YUG |
5 May 59 |
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6 |
50.58 |
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Hamidou M'Baye |
Senegal |
SEN |
21 Apr 64 |
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7 |
51.73 |
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Benjamin Grant |
Sierra Leone |
SLE |
15 Apr 70 |
NR |
8 |
53.66 |
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Joseph Rodan |
Fiji |
FIJ |
15 Feb 51 |
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400 m hurdles |
Men |
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Heat 5 |
23 September |
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Rank |
Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
49.34 |
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André Phillips |
United States |
USA |
5 Sep 59 |
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2 |
49.40 |
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Winthrop Graham |
Jamaica |
JAM |
17 Nov 65 |
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3 |
49.64 |
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Joseph Maritim |
Kenya |
KEN |
22 Oct 68 |
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4 |
50.67 |
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Toma Tomov |
Bulgaria |
BUL |
6 May 58 |
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5 |
50.67 |
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Max Robertson |
Great Britain |
GBR |
27 Dec 63 |
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6 |
51.34 |
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Ahmad Hamada |
Bahrain |
BRN |
18 Sep 61 |
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7 |
53.51 |
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Yousif Al-Dosari |
Saudi Arabia |
KSA |
12 Jan 62 |
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