Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Men's 440 yards

Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men	women
880 yd	men	women
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
440 yd hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 110 yd relay	men	women
4 × 440 yd relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 miles walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The men's 440 yards event at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 8 and 11 August at the Independence Park in Kingston, Jamaica.^[1] It was the last time that the imperial distance was contested at the Games later replaced by the 400 metres.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Wendell Mottley  Trinidad and Tobago	Kent Bernard  Trinidad and Tobago	Don Domansky  Canada

Results[]

Heats[]

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Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Ross McKenzie	Canada	47.9	Q
2	1		Uganda	48.1	Q
3	1	Mel Spence	Jamaica	48.3
4	1		Nigeria	48.4
5	1	Ewert Brown	Bermuda	48.7
6	1		Mauritius	51.8
1	2	Noel Clough	Australia	47.8	Q
2	2	Edwin Skinner	Trinidad and Tobago	48.2	Q
3	2	Rupert Hoilette	Jamaica	48.2
4	2	Tony Harper	Bermuda	48.8
5	2		Canada	48.9
6	2	Leslie Miller	Bahamas	51.2
7	2		Sierra Leone	52.6
1	3	Daniel Rudisha	Kenya	47.2	Q
2	3	Kent Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	47.4	Q
3	3		Jamaica	49.3
4	3		Barbados	50.3
5	3		Sierra Leone	51.5
	3	Ken Roche	Australia	DNS
	3	Ajmer Singh	India	DNS
1	4	Martin Winbolt-Lewis	England	47.6	Q
2	4	Amos Omolo	Uganda	48.3	Q
3	4	Howard Davies	Wales	49.0
4	4		Bermuda	49.3
	4	Gary Eddy	Australia	DNS
	4	James Addy	Ghana	DNS
1	5	Bill Crothers	Canada	47.2	Q
2	5	John Adey	England	47.4	Q
3	5	Ezra Burnham	Barbados	48.1	q
4	5		Uganda	48.4
5	5		Bahamas	50.2
6	5		Antigua and Barbuda	50.8
1	6	Wendell Mottley	Trinidad and Tobago	45.8	Q
2	6	Tim Graham	England	47.8	Q
3	6	Wilson Kiprugut	Kenya	47.8	q
4	6	Benedict Majekodunmi	Nigeria	48.3
5	6		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	48.9
6	6		British Honduras	53.5
	6		Sierra Leone	DQ
1	7	Don Domansky	Canada	47.0	Q
2	7		Guyana	47.8	Q
3	7	Malcolm Spence	Jamaica	48.7
4	7	Manikavasagam Jegathesan	Malaysia	48.9
5	7		Uganda	49.0
6	7		Bermuda	50.2
	7		Barbados	DNF

Semifinals[]

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Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) qualify directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Wendell Mottley	Trinidad and Tobago	46.3	Q
2	1	Bill Crothers	Canada	46.8	Q
3	1	Noel Clough	Australia	47.30	Q
4	1	Martin Winbolt-Lewis	England	47.6	Q
5	1	Tim Graham	England	47.6
6	1	Wilson Kiprugut	Kenya	47.9
7	1		Uganda	48.2
8	1	Ezra Burnham	Barbados	48.5
1	2	Don Domansky	Canada	46.8	Q
2	2	Kent Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	46.9	Q
3	2	John Adey	England	47.5	Q
4	2	Daniel Rudisha	Kenya	47.8	Q
5	2		Guyana	47.8
6	2	Amos Omolo	Uganda	47.9
7	2	Ross McKenzie	Canada	47.9
	2	Edwin Skinner	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS

Final[]

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wendell Mottley	Trinidad and Tobago	45.2	GR
	Kent Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	46.1
	Don Domansky	Canada	46.4
4	Daniel Rudisha	Kenya	46.5
5	Bill Crothers	Canada	46.8
6	Martin Winbolt-Lewis	England	47.1
7	John Adey	England	47.3
8	Noel Clough	Australia	47.53

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