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

Men's 400 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Men's 400 metre individual medley; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	20 September 1988 (heats); 21 September 1988 (finals)
Competitors	35 from 25 nations
Winning time	4:14.75 WR
Medalists
	← 1984 1992 →

The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between 20–21 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Tamás Darnyi (HUN)	4:15.42	Strasbourg, France	19 August 1987
Olympic record	Alex Baumann (CAN)	4:17.41	Los Angeles, United States	30 July 1984

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
20 September	Heat 5	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	4:16.55	OR
21 September	Final A	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	4:14.75	WR

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	4:16.55	Q, OR
2	3	Patrick Kühl	East Germany	4:18.60	Q
3	5	Stefano Battistelli	Italy	4:20.43	Q
4	4	David Wharton	United States	4:20.84	Q
5	4	József Szabó	Hungary	4:20.85	Q
6	4	Jens-Peter Berndt	West Germany	4:20.93	Q
7	5	Peter Bermel	West Germany	4:22.78	Q
8	5	Luca Sacchi	Italy	4:23.37	Q
9	3	Christophe Bordeau	France	4:23.46	q
10	3	Jeff Kostoff	United States	4:24.10	q
11	5	Jon Kelly	Canada	4:24.62	q
12	3	Robert Bruce	Australia	4:25.15	q
13	3	Mikhail Zubkov	Soviet Union	4:25.30	q
14	5	Rob Woodhouse	Australia	4:25.60	q
15	5	Charalambos Papanikolaou	Greece	4:26.72	q
16	4	Paul Brew	Great Britain	4:27.22	q
17	4	Yoshiyuki Mizumoto	Japan	4:28.11
18	3	Laurent Journet	France	4:29.03
19	2	Ondřej Bureš	Czechoslovakia	4:29.62
20	3	Salvador Vassallo	Puerto Rico	4:30.37
21	2	Javier Careaga	Mexico	4:30.71
22	2	Rui Borges	Portugal	4:30.79
23	5	Michael Meldrum	Canada	4:31.74
24	2	Renato Ramalho	Brazil	4:31.95
25	3	Takahiro Fujimoto	Japan	4:33.03
26	2	Diogo Madeira	Portugal	4:35.00
27	4	Martín López-Zubero	Spain	4:35.68
28	2	Lee Jae-soo	South Korea	4:40.46
29	1	Jonathan Sakovich	Guam	4:44.78
30	2	René Concepcion	Philippines	4:48.00
31	1	Sultan Al-Otaibi	Kuwait	4:50.16
32	1	Julian Bolling	Sri Lanka	4:53.61
	2	Desmond Koh	Singapore	DSQ
	4	John Davey	Great Britain	DSQ
	4	Jan Bidrman	Sweden	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	5	Jeff Kostoff	United States	4:22.95
10	4	Christophe Bordeau	France	4:23.39
11	6	Robert Bruce	Australia	4:24.33
12	3	Jon Kelly	Canada	4:25.02
13	2	Mikhail Zubkov	Soviet Union	4:25.44
14	7	Rob Woodhouse	Australia	4:26.14
15	8	Paul Brew	Great Britain	4:26.77
16	1	Charalambos Papanikolaou	Greece	4:27.95

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	4:14.75	WR
	6	David Wharton	United States	4:17.36
	3	Stefano Battistelli	Italy	4:18.01
4	2	József Szabó	Hungary	4:18.15
5	5	Patrick Kühl	East Germany	4:18.44
6	7	Jens-Peter Berndt	West Germany	4:21.71
7	8	Luca Sacchi	Italy	4:23.23
8	1	Peter Bermel	West Germany	4:24.02