The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 23 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record 23 September Heat 5 Mariusz Podkościelny 3:49.51 23 September Final A Uwe Daßler 3:46.95

Results

Heats Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).

Note: All eight swimmers who qualified for the Olympic final swam faster than the Olympic record time.

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Mariusz Podkościelny 3:49.51 Q, 2 5 Stefan Pfeiffer 3:49.52 Q 3 7 Artur Wojdat 3:49.68 Q 4 7 Uwe Daßler 3:49.90 Q 5 6 Kevin Boyd 3:50.01 Q 6 6 Anders Holmertz 3:50.06 Q 7 7 Duncan Armstrong 3:50.64 Q 8 6 Matt Cetlinski 3:50.82 Q 9 6 Ian Brown 3:51.09 q 10 5 Rainer Henkel 3:51.50 q, 11 7 Dan Jorgensen 3:52.64 q 12 6 Giorgio Lamberti 3:53.29 q, 13 5 Valter Kalaus 3:53.44 q 14 5 Jörg Hoffmann 3:53.78 q 15 6 Carlos Scanavino 3:54.86 q 16 4 Salvador Vassallo 3:55.30 q 17 7 Turlough O'Hare 3:55.35 q 18 6 Zoltán Szilágyi 3:56.29 q 19 7 Roberto Gleria 3:56.33 20 5 Darjan Petrič 3:56.94 21 4 Henrik Jangvall 3:57.41 22 4 Daniel Serra 3:57.46 23 5 Cristiano Michelena 3:57.79 24 4 Tony Day 3:57.91 25 4 Alberto Bottini 3:57.92 26 5 Gary Vandermeulen 3:57.99 27 7 Aleksandr Bazhanov 3:58.74 28 3 Igor Majcen 3:58.90 29 7 Jean-Marie Arnould 3:59.91 30 6 Franck Iacono 4:00.04 31 4 Claus Christensen 4:00.46 32 4 Yoshiyuki Mizumoto 4:02.02 33 3 David Castro 4:02.48 34 3 Ignacio Escamilla 4:03.16 35 3 Carlos Romo 4:04.02 36 3 Jeffrey Ong 4:04.57 37 3 Ragnar Guðmundsson 4:05.12 38 4 Shigeo Ogata 4:05.68 39 3 Yang Wook 4:05.81 40 2 Wu Ming-hsun 4:06.66 41 2 Jonathan Sakovich 4:06.89 42 3 Kwon Soon-kun 4:08.02 43 2 Richard Sam Bera 4:08.70 44 2 Desmond Koh 4:15.54 45 2 Arthur Li Kai Yien 4:18.50 46 2 Julian Bolling 4:18.88 47 1 Bassam Al-Ansari 4:39.36 48 1 Émile Lahoud 4:47.09 49 1 Mohamed Bin Abid 4:47.28

Finals

Final B Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 9 6 Jörg Hoffmann 3:52.13 10 3 Valter Kalaus 3:53.24 11 1 Turlough O'Hare 3:54.33 12 2 Carlos Scanavino 3:54.36 13 4 Ian Brown 3:54.63 14 5 Dan Jorgensen 3:55.34 15 7 Salvador Vassallo 3:55.39 16 8 Zoltán Szilágyi 3:56.00

Final A Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Uwe Daßler 3:46.95 1 Duncan Armstrong 3:47.15 OC 3 Artur Wojdat 3:47.34 NR 4 8 Matt Cetlinski 3:48.09 5 4 Mariusz Podkościelny 3:48.59 6 5 Stefan Pfeiffer 3:49.96 7 2 Kevin Boyd 3:50.16 8 7 Anders Holmertz 3:51.04

References

External links Official Report USA Swimming