Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool | ||||||||||||
Date | 20 September 1988 (heats) 21 September 1988 (finals) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 35 from 25 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 4:14.75 WR | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics | ||
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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 20–21 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea. [1]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Tamás Darnyi (HUN) | 4:15.42 | Strasbourg, France | 19 August 1987 |
Olympic record | Alex Baumann (CAN) | 4:17.41 | Los Angeles, United States | 30 July 1984 |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Round | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
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20 September | Heat 5 | Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 4:16.55 | OR |
21 September | Final A | Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 4:14.75 | WR |
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q). [2]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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9 | 5 | Jeff Kostoff | United States | 4:22.95 | |
10 | 4 | Christophe Bordeau | France | 4:23.39 | |
11 | 6 | Robert Bruce | Australia | 4:24.33 | |
12 | 3 | Jon Kelly | Canada | 4:25.02 | |
13 | 2 | Mikhail Zubkov | Soviet Union | 4:25.44 | |
14 | 7 | Rob Woodhouse | Australia | 4:26.14 | |
15 | 8 | Paul Brew | Great Britain | 4:26.77 | |
16 | 1 | Charalambos Papanikolaou | Greece | 4:27.95 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 4:14.75 | WR | |
6 | David Wharton | United States | 4:17.36 | ||
3 | Stefano Battistelli | Italy | 4:18.01 | ||
4 | 2 | József Szabó | Hungary | 4:18.15 | |
5 | 5 | Patrick Kühl | East Germany | 4:18.44 | |
6 | 7 | Jens-Peter Berndt | West Germany | 4:21.71 | |
7 | 8 | Luca Sacchi | Italy | 4:23.23 | |
8 | 1 | Peter Bermel | West Germany | 4:24.02 |
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The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between 20–21 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.
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The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 22 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.
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The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 25 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.
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The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 24 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.
The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between 18–19 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.
The women's 4×100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 24 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.
Sultan Al-Otaibi is a Kuwaiti former swimmer, who specialized in individual medley, but also competed in backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. He represented Kuwait in all of the four editions of the Olympic Games since 1988, and also held numerous Kuwaiti records in the same disciplines, particularly in the 200 m individual medley.