The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 29 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

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 29 July Final A Yevgeny Sadovyi 3:45.00

Results

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

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 4 Kieren Perkins 3:49.24 Q 2 5 2 Yevgeny Sadovyi 3:49.37 Q, NR 3 5 4 Anders Holmertz 3:49.95 Q 4 5 3 Stefan Pfeiffer 3:49.99 Q 5 5 8 Danyon Loader 3:50.05 Q, NR 6 5 5 Ian Brown 3:50.12 Q 7 6 3 Sebastian Wiese 3:50.73 Q 8 4 4 Artur Wojdat 3:51.66 Q 9 4 3 Antti Kasvio 3:51.74 q 10 4 6 Paul Palmer 3:51.93 q 11 6 6 Mariusz Podkościelny 3:52.07 q 12 6 7 Pier Maria Siciliano 3:52.32 q 13 4 5 Sean Killion 3:52.42 q 14 6 5 Dan Jorgensen 3:53.20 q, 15 4 2 Christophe Marchand 3:54.59 q 16 4 7 Jure Bučar 3:55.28 q, NR 17 3 4 Yann de Fabrique 3:55.66 q 18 2 7 Marcel Wouda 3:55.70 19 6 2 Massimo Trevisan 3:56.35 20 5 6 Zoltán Szilágyi 3:56.68 21 5 1 Turlough O'Hare 3:56.70 22 2 4 Aleksey Kudryavtsev 3:57.07 23 6 8 Uğur Taner 3:57.64 24 3 2 Shigeo Ogata 3:57.91 25 3 1 Can Ergenekan 3:58.43 26 2 5 Artur Costa 3:58.80 27 3 5 Edward Parenti 3:58.96 28 6 1 Stephen Akers 3:58.99 29 5 7 Richard Tapper 3:59.71 30 4 1 Jorge Herrera 4:00.11 31 4 8 Nace Majcen 4:00.42 32 3 8 Bang Seung-hun 4:00.43 33 2 3 Masashi Kato 4:00.66 34 1 1 Hisham Al-Masri 4:00.69 35 3 7 Alejandro Bermúdez 4:01.66 36 3 3 Christer Wallin 4:02.14 37 3 6 Jeffrey Ong 4:02.28 38 2 6 Jarl Inge Melberg 4:03.49 39 2 1 Ratapong Sirisanont 4:07.95 40 1 5 Gustavo Bucaro 4:11.48 41 1 4 Luis Héctor Medina 4:11.77 NR 42 2 2 Benoît Fleurot 4:12.05 43 2 8 Kenneth Yeo 4:13.45 44 1 3 Helder Torres 4:20.38 45 1 6 Hussein Al-Sadiq 4:21.44 46 1 7 Jean-Paul Adam 4:40.93 1 2 Carl Probert

Finals

Final B Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 9 4 Antti Kasvio 3:50.06 NR 10 5 Paul Palmer 3:51.60 11 2 Sean Killion 3:52.76 12 6 Pier Maria Siciliano 3:53.05 13 7 Christophe Marchand 3:53.24 14 8 Yann de Fabrique 3:54.37 15 3 Mariusz Podkościelny 3:54.56 16 1 Jure Bučar 3:56.93

Final A Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Yevgeny Sadovyi 3:45.00 4 Kieren Perkins 3:45.16 OC 3 Anders Holmertz 3:46.77 NR 4 8 Artur Wojdat 3:48.10 5 7 Ian Brown 3:48.79 6 1 Sebastian Wiese 3:49.06 7 6 Stefan Pfeiffer 3:49.75 8 2 Danyon Loader 3:49.97 NR

References

External links Official Report