The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between 20–21 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 new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 21 September Final Troy Dalbey (1:49.37)Matt Cetlinski (1:48.44)Doug Gjertsen (1:48.26)Matt Biondi (1:46.44) 7:12.51

Results

Heats Rule: The eight fastest teams advance to the final (Q).

Rank Heat Nation Swimmers Time Notes 1 1 Uwe Daßler (1:49.47)Lars Hinneburg (1:49.64)Sven Lodziewski (1:48.87)Thomas Flemming (1:48.63) 7:16.61 Q 2 1 Craig Oppel (1:51.24)Dan Jorgensen (1:49.24)Matt Cetlinski (1:48.87)Doug Gjertsen (1:49.41) 7:18.76 Q 3 2 Peter Sitt (1:50.31)Rainer Henkel (1:49.63)Stefan Pfeiffer (1:50.06)Erik Hochstein (1:49.38) 7:19.38 Q 4 1 Jason Plummer (1:51.44)Ian Brown (1:48.89)Martin Roberts (1:51.31)Tom Stachewicz (1:49.82) 7:21.46 Q 5 1 Massimo Trevisan (1:50.95)Fabrizio Rampazzo (1:51.47)Valerio Giambalvo (1:50.97)Roberto Gleria (1:48.46) 7:21.85 Q 6 2 Stéphan Caron (1:49.41)Michel Pou (1:51.01)Olivier Fougeroud (1:51.62)Laurent Neuville (1:50.99) 7:23.03 Q 7 2 Tommy Werner (1:50.46)Christer Wallin (1:50.38)Henrik Jangvall (1:52.33)Michael Söderlund (1:50.65) 7:23.82 Q 8 2 Turlough O'Hare (1:51.59)Darren Ward (1:52.27)Donald Haddow (1:51.11)Gary Vandermeulen (1:51.31) 7:26.28 Q 9 1 Kevin Boyd (1:52.00)Paul Howe (1:51.58)Jonathan Broughton (1:52.81)Roland Lee (1:53.38) 7:29.77 10 2 Cristiano Michelena (1:51.38)Jorge Fernandes (1:53.34)Emanuel Nascimento (1:54.26)Júlio López (1:53.13) 7:32.11 11 1 Franz Mortensen (1:51.21)Claus Christensen (1:52.08)Jan Larsen (1:52.61)Peter Rohde (1:57.41) 7:33.31 12 1 Kwon Sang-won (1:57.08)Yang Wook (1:57.29)Song Kwang-sun (1:59.11)Kwon Soon-kun (1:59.45) 7:52.93 13 1 Hans Foerster (2:01.34)Kraig Singleton (2:05.63)Ronald Pickard (2:07.66)William Cleveland (2:00.88) 8:15.51 14 2 Ahmad Faraj (2:15.64)Mohamed Abdullah (2:17.64)Bassam Al-Ansari (2:15.41)Mohamed Bin Abid (2:12.34) 9:01.03 2 Ignacio EscamillaJorge AlarcónCarlos RomoRodrigo González 2 Sergey KudryayevAleksandr BazhanovNikolay YevseyevAleksey Kuznetsov

Final

Rank Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes 5 Troy Dalbey (1:49.37)Matt Cetlinski (1:48.44)Doug Gjertsen (1:48.26)Matt Biondi (1:46.44) 7:12.51 4 Uwe Daßler (1:48.26)Sven Lodziewski (1:48.92)Thomas Flemming (1:48.07)Steffen Zesner (1:48.43) 7:13.68 NR 3 Erik Hochstein (1:49.91)Thomas Fahrner (1:47.75)Rainer Henkel (1:49.42)Michael Gross (1:47.27) 7:14.35 4 6 Tom Stachewicz (1:48.99)Ian Brown (1:49.05)Jason Plummer (1:49.95)Duncan Armstrong (1:47.24) 7:15.23 OC 5 2 Roberto Gleria (1:49.23)Giorgio Lamberti (1:47.29)Massimo Trevisan (1:49.66)Valerio Giambalvo (1:49.82) 7:16.00 NR 6 1 Anders Holmertz (1:48.06)Tommy Werner (1:49.41)Michael Söderlund (1:50.57)Christer Wallin (1:51.06) 7:19.10 7 7 Michel Pou (1:52.05)Franck Iacono (1:50.04)Olivier Fougeroud (1:52.14)Ludovic Depickère (1:50.46) 7:24.69 8 8 Turlough O'Hare (1:51.45)Sandy Goss (1:51.01)Donald Haddow (1:51.46)Gary Vandermeulen (1:50.99) 7:24.91

References

External links Official Report USA Swimming