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


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.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord
23 SeptemberHeat 5Mariusz Podkościelny3:49.51
23 SeptemberFinal AUwe Daßler3:46.95

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A, while the next eight to final B.
Note: All eight swimmers who qualified for the Olympic final swam faster than the Olympic record time.
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
15Mariusz Podkościelny3:49.51Q,
25Stefan Pfeiffer3:49.52Q
37Artur Wojdat3:49.68Q
47Uwe Daßler3:49.90Q
56Kevin Boyd3:50.01Q
66Anders Holmertz3:50.06Q
77Duncan Armstrong3:50.64Q
86Matt Cetlinski3:50.82Q
96Ian Brown3:51.09q
105Rainer Henkel3:51.50q,
117Dan Jorgensen3:52.64q
126Giorgio Lamberti3:53.29q,
135Valter Kalaus3:53.44q
145Jörg Hoffmann3:53.78q
156Carlos Scanavino3:54.86q
164Salvador Vassallo3:55.30q
177Turlough O'Hare3:55.35q
186Zoltán Szilágyi3:56.29q
197Roberto Gleria3:56.33
205Darjan Petrič3:56.94
214Henrik Jangvall3:57.41
224Daniel Serra3:57.46
235Cristiano Michelena3:57.79
244Tony Day3:57.91
254Alberto Bottini3:57.92
265Gary Vandermeulen3:57.99
277Aleksandr Bazhanov3:58.74
283Igor Majcen3:58.90
297Jean-Marie Arnould3:59.91
306Franck Iacono4:00.04
314Claus Christensen4:00.46
324Yoshiyuki Mizumoto4:02.02
333David Castro4:02.48
343Ignacio Escamilla4:03.16
353Carlos Romo4:04.02
363Jeffrey Ong4:04.57
373Ragnar Guðmundsson4:05.12
384Shigeo Ogata4:05.68
393Yang Wook4:05.81
402Wu Ming-hsun4:06.66
412Jonathan Sakovich4:06.89
423Kwon Soon-kun4:08.02
432Richard Sam Bera4:08.70
442Desmond Koh4:15.54
452Arthur Li Kai Yien4:18.50
462Julian Bolling4:18.88
471Bassam Al-Ansari4:39.36
481Émile Lahoud4:47.09
491Mohamed Bin Abid4:47.28

Finals

Final B

Final A