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 [edit]

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

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

Place	Name	Nationality	Time
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

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