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 metre individual medley event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between September 20 & September 21. 34 swimmers swam in this event.

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 [edit]

Gold	Tamás Darnyi Hungary (HUN)	Silver	David Wharton United States (USA)	Bronze	Stefano Battistelli Italy (ITA)

Results [edit]

Final [edit]

A Final [edit]

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 [edit]

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time
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