John Akii-Bua/Catalogs

Olympic Games 1972, 400m Hurdles Final.

Place	Athlete	Nationality	Time (s)
1.	John Akii-Bua	UGA	47.82 WR
2.	Ralph Mann	USA	48.51
3.	David Hemery	GBR	48.52
4.	James Seymour	USA	48.64
5.	Rainer Schubert	GER	49.65
6.	Yevgeny Gavrilenko	SOV	49.66
7.	Stavros Tziortzis	GRE	49.66
8.	Yuri Zorin	SOV	50.25

Source: Sporting Heroes

Commonwealth Games 1970, 400m Hurdles Final.

Place	Athlete	Nationality	Time (s)
1.	John Sherwood	ENG	50.0 (50.03)
2.	William Koskei	KEN	50.1 (50.15)
3.	Charles Yego	KEN	50.1 (50.19)
4.	John Akii-Bua	UGA	51.1 (51.14)
5.	Dave Scharer	ENG	51.1 (51.17)
6.	Bill Gairdner	CAN	51.6 (51.60)
7.	Kingsley Agbabokha	NGR	(51.67)
8.	Gary Knoke	AUS	(52.13)

Source: Sporting Heroes Note: In brackets are fully automatic times. The Omega photo finish camera had the timer delay factor of 0.05sec, the times above are adjusted to reflect that standard error. Data from Bob Sparks, National Union of Track Statisticians (NUTS).

All-Africa Games 1973, 400m Hurdles Final.

Place	Athlete	Nationality	Time (s)
1.	John Akii-Bua	UGA	48.54
2.	William Koskei	KEN	50.22
3.	Silver Ayo	UGA	50.25

Source: GBR Athletics

All-Africa Games 1978, 400m Hurdles Final.

Place	Athlete	Nationality	Time (s)
1.	Daniel Kimaiyo	KEN	49.48
2.	John Akii-Bua	UGA	49.55
3.	Peter Rwamuhanda	UGA	50.18

Source: GBR Athletics