Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men'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 men's 400 meter individual medley event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between September 20 & September 21. 34 swimmers swam in this event.
The men's 400 meter swimming event used medley swimming. Since an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 meters 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 |  Tamás DarnyiHungary (HUN) |
Silver |  David WhartonUnited States (USA) |
Bronze |  Stefano BattistelliItaly (ITA) |
Results
Final
A Final
| Place | Swimmer | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 4:14.75 | WR |
 | David Wharton | United States | 4:17.36 | |
 | Stefano Battistelli | Italy | 4:18.01 | |
| 4 | József Szabó | Hungary | 4:18.15 | |
| 5 | Patrick Kühl |  East Germany | 4:18.44 | |
| 6 | Jens-Peter Berndt |  West Germany | 4:21.71 | |
| 7 | Luca Sacchi | Italy | 4:23.23 | |
| 8 | Peter Bermel | West Germany | 4:24.02 |
B Final
| Place | Swimmer | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Jeff Kostoff | United States | 4:22.95 | |
| 10 | Christophe Bordeau |  France | 4:23.39 | |
| 11 | Robert Bruce |  Australia | 4:24.33 | |
| 12 | Jon Kelly |  Canada | 4:25.02 | |
| 13 | Mikhail Zubkov |  Soviet Union | 4:25.44 | |
| 14 | Rob Woodhouse | Australia | 4:26.14 | |
| 15 | Paul Brew |  Great Britain | 4:26.77 | |
| 16 | Charalambos Papanikolaou |  Greece | 4:27.95 |
Preliminary heats
| Rank | Swimmer | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 4:26.55 |
References
- For the Record, Swimming World Magazine, November 1988, p. 84.
- 1988 Summer Olympics results: Men's 400m individual medley, from sports-reference.com; retrieved 2009-12-30.
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