Melbourne 1956 - Athletics - Men: 400m

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Date: 28 November 1956 / 29 November 1956
Heats
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Charles Jenkins USA 46.7
2 Karl-Friedrich Haas GER 46.8
3 Voitto Hellsten FIN 47.0
3 Ardalion Ignatyev URS 47.0
5 Louis Jones USA 48.1
6 Malcolm Spence RSA 48.3
Semi-finals
7 Kevan Gosper AUS 46.2
8 John Salisbury GBR 47.3
9 Malcolm Spence JAM 47.4
10 Melville Spence JAM 47.5
11 Ivan Rodriguez PUR 47.7
11 Peter Higgins GBR 47.7
Quarter-finals
13 Graham Gipson AUS 47.4
14 Pierre Haarhoff FRA 47.6
15 George Kerr JAM 47.7
15 Terry Tobacco CAN 47.7
17 Michael Wheeler GBR 47.9
18 Jurgen Kuhl GER 48.0
19 James Lea USA 48.1
20 Jean-Paul Martin du Gard FRA 48.2
21 Jacques Degats FRA 48.7
22 Kibet Boit KEN 49.1
23 Murray Cockburn CAN 49.5
24 Abdullah Khan PAK
Heats
25 Konstantin Grachev URS 49.4
25 Bartonjo Rotich KEN 48.8
25 Hailou Abebe ETH 49.0
25 Laird Sloan CAN 50.0
25 Milkha Singh IND 48.9
25 Kamau George Wanyoke KEN 50.6
25 Gerard Rasquin LUX 50.6
25 John Goodman AUS 48.5
33 Beyene Legesse ETH 50.7
33 Jaime Aparicio COL 49.0
33 Abdul Karim Amu NGR 49.4
33 Somsakdi Tongaram THA 53.4
33 Abdul Rahim bin Ahmad MAS 50.8
33 Ayanev Bayene ETH 51.3
39 Pablo Somblingo PHI 49.4
39 George Johnson LBR 54.8
41 Kenneth Perera MAS
Disqualified
Kanji Akagi JPN