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

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 women's 400 freestyle at the 1988 Summer Olympics, was contested on September 22, 1998, with both preliminaries and finals on the same day.

Records

The existing World and Olympic records at the time of the event were:

World record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:05.45	Orlando, FL, USA	December 20, 1987
Olympic record	Tiffany Cohen (USA)	4:07.10	Los Angeles, USA	September 22, 1988

Finals

A Final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Janet Evans	United States	4:03.85	WR
	Heike Friedrich	East Germany	4:05.94	ER
	Anke Möhring	East Germany	4:06.62
4th	Tami Bruce	United States	4:08.16
5th	Janelle Elford	Australia	4:10.64
6th	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	4:11.73
7th	Stephanie Ortwig	West Germany	4:13.05
8th	Natalia Trefilova	Soviet Union	4:13.92

B final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9th	Sheridan Burge-Lopez	Australia	4:10.21
10th	Noemi Lung	Romania	4:11.88
11th	Stela Pura	Romania	4:12.14
12th	Antoaneta Strumenlieva	Bulgaria	4:13.43
13th	Patricia Noall	Canada	4:14.70
14th	Manuela Melchiorri	Italy	4:14.90
15th	Chikako Nakamori	Japan	4:15.59
16th	Cecile Prunier	France	4:21.03

Preliminary heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Janet Evans	United States	4:10.21	q-A
2	Anke Möhring	East Germany	4:10.64	q-A
3	Tami Bruce	United States	4:10.73	q-A
4	Janelle Elford	Australia	4:11.07	q-A
5	Heike Friedrich	East Germany	4:11.30	q-A
6	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	4:11.71	q-A
7	Stephanie Ortwig	West Germany	4:12.18	q-A
8	Natalia Trefilova	Soviet Union	4:12.20	q-A
9	Noemi Lung	Romania	4:12.42	q-B
10	Sheridan Burge-Lopez	Australia	4:12.77	q-B
11	Antoaneta Strumenlieva	Bulgaria	4:13.25	q-B
12	Manuela Melchiorri	Italy	4:15.40	q-B
13	Chikako Nakamori	Japan	4:15.51	q-B
14	Cecile Prunier	France	4:15.63	q-B
15	Stela Pura	Romania	4:15.78	q-B
16	Patricia Noall	Canada	4:15.90	q-B
17	Irene Dalby	Norway	4:16.22
18	Ruth Gilfillan	Great Britain	4:16.66
19	Tomomi Hosoda	Japan	4:17.30
20	Eva Mortensen	Denmark	4:18.06
21	Ming Yan	China	4:18.58
22	Alexandra Russ	West Germany	4:18.67
23	Huda Abdullah Nurul	Malaysia	4:19.33
24	Patrícia Amorim	Brazil	4:19.64
25	Christelle Janssens	Belgium	4:19.95
26	Pernille Jensen	Denmark	4:20.96
27	June Croft	Great Britain	4:21.98
28	Ritajean Garay	Puerto Rico	4:24.84
29	Judit Csabai	Hungary	4:25.52
30	Senda Gharbi	Tunisia	4:34.67

References

• Swimming World Magazine, November 1988.