Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
The men's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 25 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 new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 25 September | Final | David Berkoff Richard Schroeder Matt Biondi Chris Jacobs | 3:36.93 |
Results
Heats
Rule: The eight fastest teams advance to the final.| Rank | Heat | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | David Berkoff Richard Schroeder Jay Mortenson Tom Jager | 3:43.00 | Q | |
| 2 | 3 | Gary Binfield Adrian Moorhouse Andy Jameson Roland Lee | 3:44.44 | Q | |
| 3 | 2 | Mark Tewksbury Victor Davis Tom Ponting Sandy Goss | 3:44.56 | Q | |
| 4 | 4 | Frank Hoffmeister Mark Warnecke Michael Gross Björn Zikarsky | 3:44.72 | Q | |
| 5 | 3 | Sergei Zabolotnov Valeriy Lozik Konstantine Petrov Nikolay Yevseyev | 3:45.29 | Q | |
| 6 | 2 | Hans Kroes Ronald Dekker Frank Drost Patrick Dybiona | 3:45.65 | Q | |
| 7 | 4 | Daichi Suzuki Hironobu Nagahata Hiroshi Miura Shigeo Ogata | 3:46.88 | Q | |
| 8 | 2 | Carl Wilson Ian McAdam Jon Sieben Andrew Baildon | 3:47.40 | Q | |
| 9 | 3 | Patrick Ferland Étienne Dagon Dano Halsall Stéfan Voléry | 3:48.09 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Franck Schott David Leblanc Ludovic Depickère Bruno Gutzeit | 3:48.64 | ||
| 11 | 3 | Paul Kingsman Anthony Beks Anthony Mosse Ross Anderson | 3:48.93 | ||
| 12 | 4 | Martín López-Zubero Ramón Camallonga José Luis Ballester José Hernando | 3:49.47 | ||
| 13 | 2 | Pavel Vokoun Radek Beinhauer Robert Wolf Petr Kladiva | 3:49.90 | ||
| 14 | 4 | Lars Sørensen Christian Toft Benny Nielsen Franz Mortensen | 3:51.97 | ||
| 15 | 3 | Valerio Giambalvo Gianni Minervini Leonardo Michelotti Roberto Gleria | 3:52.06 | ||
| 16 | 2 | Tamás Deutsch Károly Güttler Valter Kalaus Mihály-Richard Bodór | 3:52.24 | ||
| 17 | 4 | David Lim Fong Jock Ng Yue Meng Ang Peng Siong Oon Jin Gee | 3:52.86 | ||
| 18 | 3 | Rogério Romero Cícero Tortelli Eduardo de Poli Emanuel Nascimento | 3:53.21 | ||
| 19 | 2 | Lin Laijiu Chen Jianhong Zheng Jian Shen Jianqiang | 3:54.18 | ||
| 20 | 3 | Ernesto Vela Javier Careaga Urbano Zea Rodrigo González | 3:54.21 | ||
| 21 | 1 | Park Dong-pil Yoon Joo-il Park Yeong-cheol Kwon Sang-won | 3:56.94 | ||
| 22 | 4 | Yip Hor Man Watt Kam Sing Tsang Yi Ming Michael Wright | 4:05.28 | ||
| 23 | 2 | Ilias Malamas Nikolaos Fokianos Theodoros Griniazakis Charalambos Papanikolaou | 4:07.71 | ||
| 24 | 1 | William Cleveland Kraig Singleton Kristan Singleton Hans Foerster | 4:15.03 | ||
| 25 | 1 | Mohamed Abdullah Obaid Al-Rumaithi Mohamed Bin Abid Ahmad Faraj | 4:28.55 |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 4 | David Berkoff Richard Schroeder Matt Biondi Chris Jacobs | 3:36.93 | |||
| 3 | Mark Tewksbury Victor Davis Tom Ponting Sandy Goss | 3:39.28 | NR | ||
| 2 | Igor Polyansky Dmitry Volkov Vadim Yaroshchuk Gennadiy Prigoda | 3:39.96 | |||
| 4 | 6 | Frank Hoffmeister Alexander Mayer Michael Gross Björn Zikarsky | 3:42.98 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Daichi Suzuki Hironobu Nagahata Hiroshi Miura Shigeo Ogata | 3:44.36 | ||
| 6 | 8 | Carl Wilson Ian McAdam Jon Sieben Andrew Baildon | 3:45.85 | ||
| 7 | 7 | Hans Kroes Ronald Dekker Frank Drost Patrick Dybiona | 3:46.85 | ||
| 5 | Neil Harper Adrian Moorhouse Andy Jameson Mark Foster |