| Rnk | Perf | Mark | Wind | Name | Nat | Born | Pos | Meet | Venue | Date | Ht/Wt | Record | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 47.63 | Edwin Moses | USA | 31Aug1955 | 1 | OG | Montréal | 25Jul1976 | 188/77 | 400h | ||
| 2 | 48.29 | Edwin Moses | 1sf2 | OG | Montréal | 24Jul1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 3 | 48.30 | Edwin Moses | 1 | FOT | Eugene OR | 21Jun1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 2 | 4 | 48.55 | Quentin Wheeler | USA | 27Apr1955 | 1 | NCAA | Philadelphia PA | 5Jun1976 | 186/70 | 400h | ||
| 3 | 5 | 48.55 | Tom Andrews | USA | 15Jun1954 | 1 | AAU | Westwood CA | 12Jun1976 | 183/75 | PB | 400h | |
| 6 | 48.55 | Edwin Moses | 1 | vsURS | College Park MD | 7Aug1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 4 | 7 | 48.57 | Jim Bolding | USA | 24Mar1949 | 2 | AAU | Westwood CA | 12Jun1976 | 185/75 | 400h | ||
| 5 | 8 | 48.58 | John Akii-Bua | UGA | 3Dec1949 | 1 | Dortmund | 6Jun1976 | 188/77 | 400h | |||
| 9 | 48.65 | Quentin Wheeler | 2 | FOT | Eugene OR | 21Jun1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 6 | 10 | 48.69 | Michael Shine | USA | 19Sep1953 | 2 | OG | Montréal | 25Jul1976 | 183/77 | PB | 400h | |
| 7 | 11 | 48.77 | Ralph Mann | USA | 16Jun1949 | 3 | AAU | Westwood CA | 12Jun1976 | 193/84 | 400h | ||
| 12 | 48.86 | Edwin Moses | 1h2 | AAU | Westwood CA | 11Jun1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 13 | 48.86 | Jim Bolding | 1 | Zürich | 10Jul1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 8 | 14 | 48.93 | Alan Pascoe | GBR | 11Oct1947 | 1 | ASV | Köln | 1Sep1976 | 185/73 | 400h | ||
| 15 | 48.8m | Edwin Moses | 1 | King | Atlanta GA | 22May1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 16 | 48.97 | Michael Shine | 2 | NCAA | Philadelphia PA | 5Jun1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 17 | 48.99 | Edwin Moses | 4 | AAU | Westwood CA | 12Jun1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 9 | 18 | 49.00 | Wesley Williams | USA | 17Oct1948 | 5 | AAU | Westwood CA | 12Jun1976 | 190/75 | PB | 400h | |
| 10 | 19 | 49.02 | Yevgeniy Gavrilyenko | URS | 5Apr1951 | 1 | vsFRG | München | 30May1976 | 187/76 | PB | 400h | |
| 20 | 49.02 | Edwin Moses | 1sf2 | FOT | Eugene OR | 20Jun1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 21 | 48.9m | Edwin Moses | 1 | Knoxville TN | 8May1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 22 | 49.06 | Jim Bolding | 1 | DNG | Stockholm | 9Aug1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 23 | 49.07 | Alan Pascoe | 1 | WK | Zürich | 18Aug1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 24 | 49.10 | Jim Bolding | 2 | ASV | Köln | 1Sep1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 25 | 49.13 | John Akii-Bua | 1r1 | ASV | Köln | 21May1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 26 | 49.13 | Jim Bolding | 1 | ISTAF | West Berlin | 20Aug1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 27 | 49.21 | John Akii-Bua | 1 | Düsseldorf | 8Jun1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 28 | 49.22 | Jim Bolding | 1 | USTFF | Wichita KS | 29May1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 29 | 49.22 | Jim Bolding | 2 | WK | Zürich | 18Aug1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 30 | 49.29 | Quentin Wheeler | 2sf2 | FOT | Eugene OR | 20Jun1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 31 | 49.30 | Jim Bolding | 1 | Helsinki | 10Aug1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 11 | 32 | 49.33 | James King | USA | 9May1949 | 6 | AAU | Westwood CA | 12Jun1976 | 180/74 | 400h | ||
| 33 | 49.33 | Michael Shine | 3 | FOT | Eugene OR | 21Jun1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 34 | 49.2m | Ralph Mann | 1 | Westwood CA | 23May1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 35 | 49.2m | Michael Shine | 1 | Montréal | 14Jul1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 36 | 49.34 | Jim Bolding | 1 | Nikaia | Nice | 16Aug1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 37 | 49.5my | Edwin Moses | 1 | Tallahassee FL | 15May1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 38 | 49.38 | Jim Bolding | 1 | Viareggio | 14Aug1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 39 | 49.39 | Jim Bolding | 1 | Tsiklitiria | Athína | 1Jul1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 40 | 49.41 | Tom Andrews | 1 | Westwood CA | 1May1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 41 | 49.41 | Tom Andrews | 3 | NCAA | Philadelphia PA | 5Jun1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 42 | 49.41 | Jim Bolding | 1 | København | 13Aug1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 12 | 49.54 | Randolph Williams | USA | 14Oct1955 | 4 | NCAA | Philadelphia PA | 5Jun1976 | 190/82 | PB | 400h | ||
| 13 | 49.58 | Dmitriy Stukalov | URS | 2May1951 | 2 | vsFRG | München | 30May1976 | 186/76 | PB | 400h | ||
| 14 | 49.60 | Harold Schwab | USA | 27Jun1954 | 4sf2 | FOT | Eugene OR | 20Jun1976 | 183/74 | PB | 400h | ||
| 15 | 49.61 | Harald Schmid | FRG | 29Sep1957 | 1 | vsUSA-j | Lüdenscheid | 7Jul1976 | 187/82 | 400h | |||
| 16 | 49.61 | Rolf Ziegler | FRG | 17Jan1951 | 2 | Zürich | 10Jul1976 | 188/80 | 400h | ||||
| 17 | 49.63 | Georgios Parris | GRE | 27Dec1950 | 2 | Tsiklitiria | Athína | 1Jul1976 | 181/72 | PB | 400h | ||
| 18 | 49.5m | Dedy Cooper | USA | 22May1956 | 2 | Long Beach CA | 22May1976 | 191/77 | PB | 400h | |||
| 19 | 49.69 | Jerzy Hewelt | POL | 23Aug1948 | 1 | NC | Bydgoszcz | 26Jun1976 | 173/61 | 400h | |||
| 20 | 49.74 | Nolan Cromwell | USA | 30Jan1955 | 1 | TexasR | Austin TX | 2Apr1976 | 188/95 | PB | 400h | ||
| 21 | 49.74 | Volker Beck | GDR | 30Jun1956 | 1 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 29May1976 | 191/82 | 400h | ||||
| 22 | 49.77 | Robert Cassleman | USA | 18Jul1952 | 2 | Pre | Eugene OR | 5Jun1976 | 185/75 | 400h | |||
| 23 | 49.77 | Yanko Bratanov | BUL | 10Jun1952 | 2 | Fürth | 13Jun1976 | 182/70 | PB | 400h | |||
| 24 | 49.84 | Damaso Alfonso | CUB | 11Dec1951 | 3sf2 | OG | Montréal | 24Jul1976 | 181/76 | PB | 400h | ||
| 25 | 49.85 | Jean-Claude Nallet | FRA | 15Mar1947 | 2 | Düsseldorf | 8Jun1976 | 187/83 | 400h | ||||
| 26 | 49.91 | Rick Walker | USA | 22Feb1954 | 7 | AAU | Westwood CA | 12Jun1976 | 183/75 | 400h | |||
| 27 | 49.92A | Alan Smith | RSA | 27Apr1950 | 1 | Johannesburg | 26Mar1976 | 189/78 | PB | 400h | |||
| 28 | 49.8m | Donald Hanly | AUS | 5Apr1954 | 1 | NC | Melbourne | 21Mar1976 | 185/71 | PB | 400h | ||
| 29 | 49.8m | Peter Rwamuhanda | UGA | 11Dec1953 | 1 | EAC | Zanzibar | 29May1976 | 175/65 | 400h | |||
| 30 | 49.94 | José Carvalho Jesus | POR | 15Jun1953 | 5 | OG | Montréal | 25Jul1976 | 187/81 | PB | 400h | ||
| 31 | 49.95 | Gene Taylor | USA | 16Oct1954 | 8 | AAU | Westwood CA | 12Jun1976 | 178/70 | PB | 400h | ||
| 32 | 50.00 | Aleksandr Karasyov | URS | 14Dec1950 | 3 | vsFRG | München | 30May1976 | 175/64 | PB | 400h | ||
| 33 | 49.9m | Peter Grant | AUS | 5Jan1954 | 1h | NC | Melbourne | 19Mar1976 | 180/70 | 400h | |||
| 34 | 50.07 | James Walker | USA | 25Oct1957 | 1 | Tempe AZ | 8May1976 | 178/69 | 400h | ||||
| 35 | 50.07 | Jean-Pierre Pérrinelle | FRA | 6Jul1949 | 1 | NC | Villeneuve d'Ascq | 27Jun1976 | 183/72 | PB | 400h | ||
| 36 | 50.08 | François Aumas | SUI | 23Jan1950 | 3 | Düsseldorf | 8Jun1976 | 186/73 | 400h | ||||
| 37 | 50.14 | Philip Mills | NZL | 13Feb1955 | 2 | Westwood CA | 1May1976 | PB | 400h | ||||
| 38 | 50.1m | Stavros Tziortzis | GRE | 15Sep1948 | 2 | Athína | 15May1976 | 175/64 | 400h | ||||
| 39 | 50.26 | Jochen Mayer | GDR | 20Jul1953 | 2 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 29May1976 | 182/72 | 400h | ||||
| 40 | 50.56y | John Rudd | USA | 9Dec1952 | 1 | WCR | Fresno CA | 8May1976 | 186/66 | PB | 400h | ||
| 41 | 50.2m | Grant Niederhaus | USA | 29Dec1954 | 1 | Westwood CA | 21Mar1976 | 188/70 | PB | 400h | |||
| 42 | 50.2m | Craig Caudill | USA | 30Sep1953 | 1 | Gainesville FL | 27Mar1976 | 183/66 | 400h | ||||
| 43 | 50.36 | Klaus Schönberger | GDR | 18Dec1952 | 1 | Dresden | 9May1976 | 183/78 | 400h | ||||
| 44 | 50.38 | Valeriy Mashkovskiy | URS | 3Aug1951 | 1 | vsGDR,POL | Warszawa | 19Aug1976 | 182/76 | 400h | |||
| 45 | 50.39 | Lucien Baggio | FRA | 11Aug1949 | 3 | NC | Villeneuve d'Ascq | 27Jun1976 | 180/72 | PB | 400h | ||
| 46 | 50.45 | Charles Whigham | USA | 10May1956 | 1 | NAIA | Arkadelphia | 22May1976 | 170/68 | 400h | |||
| 47 | 50.4m | Dennis Otono | NGR | 16Apr1958 | 4 | King | Atlanta GA | 22May1976 | 175/60 | 400h | |||
| 48 | 50.57 | Melvin Powers | USA | 14Feb1954 | 2 | Tempe AZ | 8May1976 | 183/73 | PB | 400h | |||
| 49 | 50.60 | Bruce Collins | USA | 8Jan1951 | 3h3 | FOT | Eugene OR | 19Jun1976 | 183/64 | 400h | |||
| 50 | 50.62 | Lars Ingemann Nielsen | DEN | 26Jul1954 | 4 | ASV | Köln | 1Sep1976 | 186/73 | NR | 400h | ||
| 51 | 50.5m | Robert Rambo | USA | 29Feb1952 | 1 | Penn | Philadelphia PA | 23Apr1976 | 183/66 | 400h | |||
| 52 | 50.5m | Tim Klein | USA | 23May1956 | 2 | Kalamazoo MI | 29May1976 | 183/70 | PB | 400h | |||
| 53 | 50.64 | Shifton Baker | USA | 2Jun1955 | 3h4 | NCAA | Philadelphia PA | 3Jun1976 | 183/75 | PB | 400h | ||
| 54 | 50.5mA | Peter Kipchumba | KEN | 8May1950 | 1 | Kisumu | 6Jun1976 | 173/70 | 400h | ||||
| 55 | 50.5m | Slavcho Kostov [Dimitrov] | BUL | 1Apr1948 | 2 | Banská Býstrica | 25Jun1976 | 180/72 | 400h | ||||
| 56 | 50.64 | Raimo Alanen | FIN | 20Jul1952 | 1 | NC | Turku | 3Jul1976 | 187/77 | PB | 400h | ||
| 57 | 50.65 | Michael Murei | KEN | 15Mar1950 | 1 | Champaign IL | 15May1976 | 173/71 | 400h | ||||
| 58 | 50.93y | Rich Graybehl | USA | 19Jul1956 | 2 | Tempe AZ | 19Mar1976 | 175/70 | 400h | ||||
| 59 | 50.6m | Hermann Köhler | FRG | 11Jan1950 | 1 | Hannover | 10May1976 | 188/80 | 400h | ||||
| 60 | 50.6m | William Koskei | KEN | 28Dec1947 | 1 | NC | Mombasa | 22May1976 | 183/72 | 400h | |||
| 61 | 50.6m | Peter Haas | SUI | 8Jan1955 | 2 | Aarau | 2Jun1976 | 182/72 | 400h | ||||
| 62 | 50.6m | Hansjörg Haas | SUI | 3Apr1949 | 3 | Aarau | 2Jun1976 | 186/75 | PB | 400h | |||
| 63 | 50.6m | Giorgio Ballati | ITA | 2Apr1946 | 2 | Ita-Pol-Rom | Milano | 9Jun1976 | 179/64 | 400h | |||
| 64 | 50.6m | Ángel Horcajada | ESP | 1Mar1957 | 1 | Madrid | 29Jun1976 | 176/67 | PB | 400h | |||
| 65 | 50.6m | José Alonso Valero | ESP | 12Feb1957 | 2 | Madrid | 29Jun1976 | 183/75 | 400h | ||||
| 66 | 50.6m | Oleg Bulatkin | URS | 6Apr1952 | 2 | Yerevan | 28Aug1976 | 186/75 | 400h | ||||
| 67 | 50.76 | Hans-Ulrich Ludwig | GDR | 15Aug1953 | 3r1 | PTS | Bratislava | 3Jun1976 | 182/78 | 400h | |||
| 68 | 50.77 | Dave Gardner | USA | 9Nov1951 | 7sf1 | NCAA | Philadelphia PA | 4Jun1976 | 186/80 | 400h | |||
| 69 | 50.9my | Clive Barriffe | JAM | 1955 | 2 | Athens GA | 15May1976 | 400h | |||||
| 70 | 50.9my | David Nelson | USA | 11Jun1955 | 1 | Waco TX | 22May1976 | 173/66 | PB | 400h | |||
| 71 | 50.79 | Vladimir Pegov | URS | 23Apr1951 | sf | NC | Kyiv | 23Jun1976 | 186/75 | 400h | |||
| 72 | 50.81 | Ulrich Zunker | FRG | 24Sep1951 | 2 | NC | Frankfurt | 14Aug1976 | 187/76 | 400h | |||
| 73 | 50.83 | Andreas Münch | GDR | 19Jul1957 | 2 | NC | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 6Aug1976 | 173/70 | 400h | |||
| 74 | 50.7m | Stewart McCallum | GBR | 15Feb1950 | 3 | AusNC | Melbourne | 21Mar1976 | 189/87 | PB | 400h | ||
| 75 | 50.7m | Ken Elphick | AUS | 13Mar1952 | 4 | NC | Melbourne | 21Mar1976 | 190/80 | PB | 400h | ||
| 76 | 50.7m | Dieter Friedrich | FRG | 27Dec1947 | 1 | Gelsenkirchen | 2May1976 | 178/72 | 400h | ||||
| 77 | 50.7m | Dick Bruggeman | USA | 13Jun1947 | 3 | Knoxville TN | 8May1976 | 186/77 | 400h | ||||
| 78 | 50.7m | Yuriy Fyodorov | URS | 5Jun1952 | 1 | Kyiv | 30May1976 | 186/79 | 400h | ||||
| 79 | 51.0my | Mike Sheley | USA | 9Oct1953 | 2 | Tallahassee FL | 15May1976 | 190/80 | 400h | ||||
| 80 | 50.88 | Krzysztof Weglarski | POL | 15Jul1954 | 1 | Bydgoszcz | 22Aug1976 | 184/74 | 400h | ||||
| 81 | 50.89 | Chuck Roberts | USA | 19Aug1957 | 2 | vsFRG-j | Lüdenscheid | 7Jul1976 | 191/82 | 400h | |||
| 82 | 50.8m | Garry Brown | AUS | 27Oct1954 | 5 | NC | Melbourne | 21Mar1976 | 190/80 | 400h | |||
| 83 | 50.8m | George Haley | USA | 16Jul1954 | 1 | Canyon TX | 22May1976 | 172/68 | 400h | ||||
| 84 | 50.8m | Claude Anicet | FRA | 3Apr1951 | 2 | Pulversheim | 18Jul1976 | 184/66 | 400h | ||||
| 85 | 50.8m | Viktor Savchenko | URS | 3Sep1948 | 1976 | 176/76 | 400h | ||||||
| 86 | 50.8m | Pyotr Guzdz | URS | 9Oct1949 | 1976 | 181/73 | 400h | ||||||
| 87 | 50.8m | Pyotr Gudz | POL | 1949 | 1976 | 400h | |||||||
| 88 | 50.95 | Mike Lee | USA | 7May1952 | 5h1 | AAU | Westwood CA | 11Jun1976 | 180/66 | 400h | |||
| 89 | 51.1myA | Rick Steele | USA | 7Oct1954 | 1 | Salt Lake City | 10Apr1976 | 180/72 | 400h | ||||
| 90 | 50.99 | David Jarvis | CAN | 20Nov1951 | 2 | vsGBR,POL | London (CP) | 3Jul1976 | 400h | ||||
| 91 | 51.00 | Jan Struyk | NED | 23Jun1950 | 3r1 | Aarau | 25Jun1976 | 184/75 | 400h | ||||
| 92 | 51.02 | Gregg Byram | USA | 15Mar1957 | 2 | Lincoln NE | 15May1976 | 188/82 | 400h | ||||
| 93 | 51.02 | Vasiliy Arkhipyenko | URS | 28Jan1957 | 1 | Erfurt | 11Sep1976 | 178/65 | 400h | ||||
| 94 | 51.03 | Siegfried Schwatke | GDR | 29Aug1952 | 4 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 29May1976 | 186/74 | 400h | ||||
| 95 | 50.9m | Maxwell "Max" Binnington | AUS | 8Mar1949 | 2 | Melbourne | 4Feb1976 | 183/78 | 400h | ||||
| 96 | 51.04 | Bart Williams | USA | 20Sep1956 | 2 | Slippery Rock | 29May1976 | 178/70 | 400h | ||||
| 97 | 51.04 | Chris Cassleman | USA | 11Oct1954 | 5sf2 | NCAA | Philadelphia PA | 4Jun1976 | 186/72 | 400h | |||
| 98 | 51.04 | Peter Kelly | GBR | 2Aug1953 | 1 | London (CP) | 12Jun1976 | 179/76 | 400h | ||||
| 99 | 51.04 | Julio Ferrer | PUR | 22May1953 | 8sf2 | OG | Montréal | 24Jul1976 | 400h | ||||
| 100 | 51.05 | Chuck Malito | USA | 3 | Lincoln NE | 15May1976 | 400h | ||||||
| 101 | 51.13 | Ed Eberhart | USA | 1951 | 5 | TexasR | Austin TX | 2Apr1976 | 400h | ||||
| 102 | 51.0mA | Stephen Chepkwony | KEN | 15Nov1953 | 1 | Nakuru | 30Apr1976 | 175/63 | 400h | ||||
| 103 | 51.0m | Ivory Carson | USA | 15May1955 | 2 | IC4A | Philadelphia PA | 22May1976 | 400h | ||||
| 104 | 51.0m | Roberto Minetti | ITA | 27Jun1955 | 3 | Ita-Pol-Rom | Milano | 9Jun1976 | 190/77 | 400h | |||
| 105 | 51.0m | Jiri Rysavy | CZE | 30Apr1954 | 3 | Banská Býstrica | 25Jun1976 | 400h |