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

Men's 400 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Medalists
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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 freestyle at the 1988 Summer Olympics, was contested on September 23, 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	Artur Wojdat (POL)	3:47.38	Orlando, FL, USA	25 March 1988
Olympic record	Thomas Fahrner (FRG)	3:50.91	Los Angeles, CA, USA	1984

Finals

A Final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Uwe Daßler	East Germany	3:46.95	WR
	Duncan Armstrong	Australia	3:47.15	OC
	Artur Wojdat	Poland	3:47.34
4th	Matt Cetlinski	United States	3:48.09
5th	Mariusz Podkościelny	Poland	3:48.59
6th	Stefan Pfeiffer	West Germany	3:49.96
7th	Kevin Boyd	Great Britain	3:50.16
8th	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	3:51.04

B final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time
9th	Jörg Hoffmann	East Germany	3:52.13
10th	Walter Kalaus	Hungary	3:53.24
11th	Turlough O'Hare	Canada	3:54.33
12th	Carlos Scanavino	Uruguay	3:54.36
13th	Ian Brown	Australia	3:54.63
14th	Dan Jorgensen	United States	3:55.34
15th	Salvador Vassallo	Puerto Rico	3:55.39
16th	Zoltán Szilágyi	Hungary	3:56.00

Preliminary heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mariusz Podkościelny	Poland	3:49.51	q-A OR
2	Stefan Pfeiffer	West Germany	3:49.52	q-A
3	Artur Wojdat	Poland	3:49.68	q-A
4	Uwe Daßler	East Germany	3:49.90	q-A
5	Kevin Boyd	Great Britain	3:50.01	q-A
6	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	3:50.06	q-A
7	Duncan Armstrong	Australia	3:50.64	q-A
8	Matt Cetlinski	United States	3:50.82	q-A
9	Ian Brown	Australia	3:51.09	q-B
10	Rainer Henkel	West Germany	3:51.50	q-B Scratched finals
11	Dan Jorgensen	United States	3:52.64	q-B
12	Giorgio Lamberti	Italy	3:53.29	q-B Scratched finals
13	Walter Kalaus	Hungary	3:53.44	q-B
14	Jörg Hoffmann	East Germany	3:53.78	q-B
15	Carlos Scanavino	Uruguay	3:54.86	q-B
16	Salvador Vassallo	Puerto Rico	3:55.30	q-B
17	Turlough O'Hare	Canada	3:55.35
18	Zoltán Szilágyi	Hungary	3:56.29
19	Roberto Gleria	Italy	3:56.33
20	Darjan Petrič	Yugoslavia	3:56.94
21	Henrik Jangvall	Sweden	3:57.41
22	Daniel Serra	Spain	3:57.46
23	Cristiano Michelena	Brazil	3:57.79
24	Tony Day	Great Britain	3:57.91
25	Alberto Bottini	Switzerland	3:57.92
26	Gary Vandermeulen	Canada	3:57.99
27	Alexander Bazanov	Soviet Union	3:58.74
28	Igor Majcen	Yugoslavia	3:58.90
29	Jean-Marie Arnould	Belgium	3:59.91
30	Franck Iacono	France	4:00.04
31	Claus Christensen	Denmark	4:00.46
32	Yoshiyuki Mizumoto	Japan	4:02.02
33	David Castro	Brazil	4:02.48
34	Ignacio Escamilia	Mexico	4:03.16
35	Carlos Romo	Mexico	4:04.02
36	Jeffrey Ong	Malaysia	4:04.57
37	Ragnar Guðmundsson	Iceland	4:05.12
38	Shigeo Ogata	Japan	4:05.68
39	Wook Yang	South Korea	4:05.81
40	Ming-Hsun Wu	Chinese Taipei	4:06.66
41	Jonathan Sakovich	Guam	4:06.89
42	Soon-Kun Kwon	South Korea	4:08.02
43	Richard Sam Bera	Indonesia	4:08.70
44	Desmond Koh	Singapore	4:15.54
45	Arthur Li	23x15px Hong Kong	4:18.50
46	Julian Bolling	Sri Lanka	4:18.88
47	Bassam Alansari	United Arab Emirates	4:39.36
48	Émile Lahoud	Lebanon	4:47.09
49	Mohammed Binabid	United Arab Emirates	4:47.28