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Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres
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The men's 400 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, was held at the Olympic Stadium on 4–6 August.[1] Forty-nine athletes from 38 nations competed.[2] The event was won by 0.52 seconds by Kirani James of Grenada, earning the country its first Olympic medal. Luguelín Santos's silver was the Dominican Republic's first medal in the men's 400 metres. Lalonde Gordon's bronze was Trinidad and Tobago's first medal in the event since 1964.
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Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
Date | 4–6 August | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 49 from 38 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 43.94 | ||||||||||||
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It was only the fourth time that no American was on the podium—following 1908 (where a rules dispute led to disqualification of one of the Americans in the final and the refusal of the other two Americans to run in protest), 1920 (where the top American came in fourth with the same time as the silver and bronze medalists) and 1980 (when the United States boycotted the Games entirely).
It was the first time in any Olympic event that three different Caribbean nations shared the podium.[2]