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

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 metre individual medley event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between September 18 & September 19.

This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events.

Medalists

Gold Janet Evans
United States (USA)
Silver Noemi Lung
Romania (ROU)
Bronze Daniela Hunger
East Germany (GDR)

Results

Finals

A Final

Place Swimmer Country Time Notes
Janet Evans United States 4:37.76
Noemi Lung Romania 4:39.46
Daniela Hunger East Germany 4:39.76
4 Yelena Dendeberova Soviet Union 4:40.44
5 Kathleen Nord East Germany 4:41.64
6 Jodie Clatworthy Australia 4:45.86
7 Lin Li China 4:47.05
8 Donna Procter Australia 4:47.51

B final

Place Swimmer Country Time Notes
9 Roberta Felotti Italy 4:49.53
10 Birgit Schulz-Lohberg West Germany 4:50.54
11 Erika Hansen United States 4:51.93
12 Antoaneta Strumenlieva Bulgaria 4:52.33
13 Anette Philipsson Sweden 4:52.77
14 Christine Magnier France 4:53.29
15 Annette Poulson Denmark 4:54.40
16 Ming Yan China 4:55.92

Preliminary heats

Rank Swimmer Country Time Notes
1 Noemi Lung Romania 4:41.96 q-A
2 Kathleen Nord East Germany 4:42.92 q-A
3 Janet Evans United States 4:43.04 q-A
4 Jodie Clatworthy Australia 4:44.26 q-A
Commonwealth
5 Daniela Hunger East Germany 4:44.85 q-A
6 Yelena Dendeberova Soviet Union 4:46.63 q-A
7 Donna Procter Australia 4:47.57 q-A
8 Lin Li China 4:48.89 q-A
9 Yan Ming China 4:49.04 q-B
10 Roberta Felotti Italy 4:49.20 q-B
11 Erika Hansen United States 4:50.03 q-B
12 Antoaneta Strumenlieva Bulgaria 4:51.58 q-B
13 Christine Magnier France 4:51.91 q-B
14 Birgit Schulz-Lohberg West Germany 4:52.05 q-B
15 Anette Philipsson Sweden 4:53.58 q-B
16 Annette Poulson Denmark 4:54.01 q-B
17 Anamarija Petricevic Yugoslavia 4:54.17
18 Susannah Brownsdon Great Britain 4:54.66
19 Yoshie Nishioka Japan 4:55.31
20 Marianne Muis Netherlands 4:56.31
21 Mildred Muis Netherlands 4:56.89
22 Irene Dalby Norway 4:58.14
23 Hiroyo Harada Japan 5:00.92
24 Tracey Atkin Great Britain 5:01.34
25 Michelle Smith Ireland 5:01.84
26 Marlene Bruten Mexico 5:03.69
27 Hui-Chen Chang Chinese Taipei 5:13.20
28 Valentina Aracil Argentina 5:19.17
29 Annemarie Munk Hong Kong 5:24.11
30 Kimberly Chen Chinese Taipei 5:28.15

References

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