Template:Olympic medalists in men's 400 metres

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
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Thomas Burke
 United States
Herbert Jamison
 United States
Charles Gmelin
 Great Britain
1900 Paris
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Maxie Long
 United States
William Holland
 United States
Ernst Schultz
 Denmark
1904 St. Louis
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Harry Hillman
 United States
Frank Waller
 United States
Herman Groman
 United States
1908 London
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Wyndham Halswelle
 Great Britain
None awarded None awarded
1912 Stockholm
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Charles Reidpath
 United States
Hanns Braun
 Germany
Edward Lindberg
 United States
1920 Antwerp
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Bevil Rudd
 South Africa
Guy Butler
 Great Britain
Nils Engdahl
 Sweden
1924 Paris
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Eric Liddell
 Great Britain
Horatio Fitch
 United States
Guy Butler
 Great Britain
1928 Amsterdam
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Ray Barbuti
 United States
James Ball
 Canada
Joachim Büchner
 Germany
1932 Los Angeles
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Bill Carr
 United States
Ben Eastman
 United States
Alex Wilson
 Canada
1936 Berlin
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Archie Williams
 United States
Godfrey Brown
 Great Britain
James LuValle
 United States
1948 London
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Arthur Wint
 Jamaica
Herb McKenley
 Jamaica
Mal Whitfield
 United States
1952 Helsinki
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George Rhoden
 Jamaica
Herb McKenley
 Jamaica
Ollie Matson
 United States
1956 Melbourne
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Charles Jenkins
 United States
Karl-Friedrich Haas
 United Team of Germany
Voitto Hellsten
 Finland
Ardalion Ignatyev
 Soviet Union
1960 Rome
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Otis Davis
 United States
Carl Kaufmann
 United Team of Germany
Malcolm Spence
 South Africa
1964 Tokyo
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Mike Larrabee
 United States
Wendell Mottley
 Trinidad and Tobago
Andrzej Badeński
 Poland
1968 Mexico City
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Lee Evans
 United States
Larry James
 United States
Ron Freeman
 United States
1972 Munich
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Vincent Matthews
 United States
Wayne Collett
 United States
Julius Sang
 Kenya
1976 Montreal
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Alberto Juantorena
 Cuba
Fred Newhouse
 United States
Herman Frazier
 United States
1980 Moscow
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Viktor Markin
 Soviet Union
Rick Mitchell
 Australia
Frank Schaffer
 East Germany
1984 Los Angeles
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Alonzo Babers
 United States
Gabriel Tiacoh
 Ivory Coast
Antonio McKay
 United States
1988 Seoul
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Steve Lewis
 United States
Butch Reynolds
 United States
Danny Everett
 United States
1992 Barcelona
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Quincy Watts
 United States
Steve Lewis
 United States
Samson Kitur
 Kenya
1996 Atlanta
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Michael Johnson
 United States
Roger Black
 Great Britain
Davis Kamoga
 Uganda
2000 Sydney
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Michael Johnson
 United States
Alvin Harrison
 United States
Greg Haughton
 Jamaica
2004 Athens
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Jeremy Wariner
 United States
Otis Harris
 United States
Derrick Brew
 United States
2008 Beijing
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LaShawn Merritt
 United States
Jeremy Wariner
 United States
David Neville
 United States
2012 London
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Kirani James
 Grenada
Luguelín Santos
 Dominican Republic
Lalonde Gordon
 Trinidad and Tobago
2016 Rio de Janeiro
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Wayde van Niekerk
 South Africa
Kirani James
 Grenada
LaShawn Merritt
 United States
2020 Tokyo
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Steven Gardiner
 Bahamas
Anthony Zambrano
 Colombia
Kirani James
 Grenada
2024 Paris
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Quincy Hall
 United States
Matthew Hudson Smith
 Great Britain
Muzala Samukonga
 Zambia