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

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Men's 400 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	23 September 1988 (heats & finals)
Competitors	49 from 33 nations
Winning time	3:46.95 WR
Medalists
	← 1984 1992 →

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 23 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	Artur Wojdat (POL)	3:47.38	Orlando, United States	25 March 1988
Olympic record	Thomas Fahrner (FRG)	3:50.91	Los Angeles, United States	2 August 1984

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
23 September	Heat 5	Mariusz Podkościelny	Poland	3:49.51	OR
23 September	Final A	Uwe Daßler	East Germany	3:46.95	WR

Results

Heats

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

Note: All eight swimmers who qualified for the Olympic final swam faster than the Olympic record time.

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

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	6	Jörg Hoffmann	East Germany	3:52.13
10	3	Valter Kalaus	Hungary	3:53.24
11	1	Turlough O'Hare	Canada	3:54.33
12	2	Carlos Scanavino	Uruguay	3:54.36
13	4	Ian Brown	Australia	3:54.63
14	5	Dan Jorgensen	United States	3:55.34
15	7	Salvador Vassallo	Puerto Rico	3:55.39
16	8	Zoltán Szilágyi	Hungary	3:56.00

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Uwe Daßler	East Germany	3:46.95	WR
	1	Duncan Armstrong	Australia	3:47.15	OC
	3	Artur Wojdat	Poland	3:47.34	NR
4	8	Matt Cetlinski	United States	3:48.09
5	4	Mariusz Podkościelny	Poland	3:48.59
6	5	Stefan Pfeiffer	West Germany	3:49.96
7	2	Kevin Boyd	Great Britain	3:50.16
8	7	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	3:51.04

References

^ "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
^ "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. pp. 403–404. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
^ "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 404. Retrieved 26 March 2017.

External links

[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2017.

[2] "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. pp. 403–404. Retrieved 26 March 2017.

[3] "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 404. Retrieved 26 March 2017.

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