Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Medalists
   East Germany
   Australia
   Poland
Swimming events at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

The men's 400 freestyle at the 1988 Summer Olympics, was contested on September 23, 1988, with both preliminaries and finals on the same day.

Records

The existing World and Olympic records at the time of the event were:

World record  Artur Wojdat (POL) 3:47.38 Orlando, FL, USA 25 March 1988
Olympic record  Thomas Fahrner (FRG) 3:50.91 Los Angeles, CA, USA 1984

Finals

A Final

Place Name Nationality Time Notes
Uwe Daßler  East Germany 3:46.95 WR
Duncan Armstrong  Australia 3:47.15 OC
Artur Wojdat  Poland 3:47.34
4th Matt Cetlinski  United States 3:48.09
5th Mariusz Podkościelny  Poland 3:48.59
6th Stefan Pfeiffer  West Germany 3:49.96
7th Kevin Boyd  Great Britain 3:50.16
8th Anders Holmertz  Sweden 3:51.04

B final

Place Name Nationality Time Notes
9th Jörg Hoffmann  East Germany 3:52.13
10th Walter Kalaus  Hungary 3:53.24
11th Turlough O'Hare  Canada 3:54.33
12th Carlos Scanavino  Uruguay 3:54.36
13th Ian Brown  Australia 3:54.63
14th Dan Jorgensen  United States 3:55.34
15th Salvador Vassallo  Puerto Rico 3:55.39
16th Zoltán Szilágyi  Hungary 3:56.00

Preliminary heats

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Mariusz Podkościelny  Poland 3:49.51 q-A
OR
2 Stefan Pfeiffer  West Germany 3:49.52 q-A
3 Artur Wojdat  Poland 3:49.68 q-A
4 Uwe Daßler  East Germany 3:49.90 q-A
5 Kevin Boyd  Great Britain 3:50.01 q-A
6 Anders Holmertz  Sweden 3:50.06 q-A
7 Duncan Armstrong  Australia 3:50.64 q-A
8 Matt Cetlinski  United States 3:50.82 q-A
9 Ian Brown  Australia 3:51.09 q-B
10 Rainer Henkel  West Germany 3:51.50 q-B
Scratched finals
11 Dan Jorgensen  United States 3:52.64 q-B
12 Giorgio Lamberti  Italy 3:53.29 q-B
Scratched finals
13 Walter Kalaus  Hungary 3:53.44 q-B
14 Jörg Hoffmann  East Germany 3:53.78 q-B
15 Carlos Scanavino  Uruguay 3:54.86 q-B
16 Salvador Vassallo  Puerto Rico 3:55.30 q-B
17 Turlough O'Hare  Canada 3:55.35
18 Zoltán Szilágyi  Hungary 3:56.29
19 Roberto Gleria  Italy 3:56.33
20 Darjan Petrič  Yugoslavia 3:56.94
21 Henrik Jangvall  Sweden 3:57.41
22 Daniel Serra  Spain 3:57.46
23 Cristiano Michelena  Brazil 3:57.79
24 Tony Day  Great Britain 3:57.91
25 Alberto Bottini  Switzerland 3:57.92
26 Gary Vandermeulen  Canada 3:57.99
27 Alexander Bazanov  Soviet Union 3:58.74
28 Igor Majcen  Yugoslavia 3:58.90
29 Jean-Marie Arnould  Belgium 3:59.91
30 Franck Iacono  France 4:00.04
31 Claus Christensen  Denmark 4:00.46
32 Yoshiyuki Mizumoto  Japan 4:02.02
33 David Castro  Brazil 4:02.48
34 Ignacio Escamilia  Mexico 4:03.16
35 Carlos Romo  Mexico 4:04.02
36 Jeffrey Ong  Malaysia 4:04.57
37 Ragnar Guðmundsson  Iceland 4:05.12
38 Shigeo Ogata  Japan 4:05.68
39 Wook Yang  South Korea 4:05.81
40 Ming-Hsun Wu  Chinese Taipei 4:06.66
41 Jonathan Sakovich  Guam 4:06.89
42 Soon-Kun Kwon  South Korea 4:08.02
43 Richard Sam Bera  Indonesia 4:08.70
44 Desmond Koh  Singapore 4:15.54
45 Arthur Li  Hong Kong 4:18.50
46 Julian Bolling  Sri Lanka 4:18.88
47 Bassam Alansari  United Arab Emirates 4:39.36
48 Émile Lahoud  Lebanon 4:47.09
49 Mohammed Binabid  United Arab Emirates 4:47.28

References

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