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

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 meter individual medley event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between September 20 & September 21. 34 swimmers swam in this event.

The men's 400 meter swimming event used medley swimming. Since an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 meters long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events.

Medalists

GoldTamás Darnyi
 Hungary
SilverDavid Wharton
 United States
BronzeStefano Battistelli
 Italy

Results

Final

A Final

Place Swimmer Country Time Notes
Tamás Darnyi  Hungary 4:14.75 WR
David Wharton  United States 4:17.36
Stefano Battistelli  Italy 4:18.01
4 József Szabó  Hungary 4:18.15
5 Patrick Kühl  East Germany 4:18.44
6 Jens-Peter Berndt  West Germany 4:21.71
7 Luca Sacchi  Italy 4:23.23
8 Peter Bermel  West Germany 4:24.02

B Final

Place Swimmer Country Time Notes
9 Jeff Kostoff  United States 4:22.95
10 Christophe Bordeau  France 4:23.39
11 Robert Bruce  Australia 4:24.33
12 Jon Kelly  Canada 4:25.02
13 Mikhail Zubkov  Soviet Union 4:25.44
14 Rob Woodhouse  Australia 4:26.14
15 Paul Brew  Great Britain 4:26.77
16 Charalambos Papanikolaou  Greece 4:27.95

Preliminary heats

Rank Swimmer Country Time Notes
1 Tamás Darnyi  Hungary 4:26.55

References

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