Athletics at the 1920 Antwerpen Summer Games:

Men's 400 metres Hurdles

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Host City: Antwerpen, Belgium
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Antwerpen
Date Started: August 15, 1920
Date Finished: August 16, 1920

Gold:	Frank Loomis
Silver:	John Norton
Bronze:	Gus Desch

Summary

The event was rarely contested in this era and was considered wide open. The Americans swept the event with the three medalists finishing in the same order in which they finished at the Olympic Trials earlier in the year. [Frank Loomis], who won the race, broke the world record of 54.2 that had been set by the silver medalist, [John Norton], at the Western Olympic Trials in Pasadena in June 1920.

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Final Standings

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	Medal
1	Frank Loomis	23	United States	USA	Gold	WR
2	John Norton	27	United States	USA	Silver
3	Gus Desch	21	United States	USA	Bronze
4	GÃ©o AndrÃ©	30	France	FRA
5	Carl-Axel Christiernsson	22	Sweden	SWE
6	Charles Daggs	19	United States	USA
4 h1 r2/3	GÃ¶sta Bladin	25	Sweden	SWE
4 h2 r2/3	Edward Wheller	23	Great Britain	GBR
5 h1 r2/3	Wilfred Kent-Hughes	24	Australia	AUS
5 h2 r2/3	Erkka WilÃ©n	21	Finland	FIN
3 h1 r1/3	George Gray		Great Britain	GBR
3 h2 r1/3	FrantiÅ¡ek Kiehlmann	18	Czechoslovakia	TCH
3 h3 r1/3	Georg LindstrÃ¶m	21	Sweden	SWE
3 h4 r1/3	Valdemar Wickholm	29	Finland	FIN
4 h1 r1/3	Harry Marek		Czechoslovakia	TCH
4 h3 r1/3	Albert Lucas	21	France	FRA
4 h4 r1/3	Omer Smet	29	Belgium	BEL
AC h2 r1/3	Antony Jarrety		France	FRA
AC h2 r1/3	Attie van Heerden	22	South Africa	RSA

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