Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date29 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors47 from 32 nations
Winning time3:45.00 WR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Yevgeny Sadovyi Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team
Silver medal icon.svg Kieren Perkins Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg Anders Holmertz Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
  1988
1996  

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. [1]

Records

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

World recordFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Kieren Perkins  (AUS)3:46.47 Canberra, Australia 3 April 1992
Olympic recordFlag of East Germany.svg  Uwe Daßler  (GDR)3:46.95 Seoul, South Korea 23 September 1988

The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord
29 JulyFinal A Yevgeny Sadovyi Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 3:45.00 WR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q). [2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
164 Kieren Perkins Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:49.24Q
252 Yevgeny Sadovyi Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 3:49.37Q, NR
354 Anders Holmertz Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 3:49.95Q
453 Stefan Pfeiffer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:49.99Q
558 Danyon Loader Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 3:50.05Q, NR
655 Ian Brown Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:50.12Q
763 Sebastian Wiese Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:50.73Q
844 Artur Wojdat Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:51.66Q
943 Antti Kasvio Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 3:51.74q
1046 Paul Palmer Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:51.93q
1166 Mariusz Podkościelny Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:52.07q
1267 Pier Maria Siciliano Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:52.32q
1345 Sean Killion Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:52.42q
1465 Dan Jorgensen Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:53.20q, WD
1542 Christophe Marchand Flag of France.svg  France 3:54.59q
1647 Jure Bučar Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 3:55.28q, NR
1734 Yann de Fabrique Flag of France.svg  France 3:55.66q
1827 Marcel Wouda Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 3:55.70
1962 Massimo Trevisan Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:56.35
2056 Zoltán Szilágyi Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 3:56.68
2151 Turlough O'Hare Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3:56.70
2224 Aleksey Kudryavtsev Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 3:57.07
2368 Uğur Taner Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 3:57.64
2432 Shigeo Ogata Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 3:57.91
2531 Can Ergenekan Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 3:58.43
2625 Artur Costa Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 3:58.80
2735 Edward Parenti Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3:58.96
2861 Stephen Akers Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:58.99
2957 Richard Tapper Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 3:59.71
3041 Jorge Herrera Flag of Puerto Rico (1952-1995).svg  Puerto Rico 4:00.11
3148 Nace Majcen Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 4:00.42
3238 Bang Seung-hun Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg  South Korea 4:00.43
3323 Masashi Kato Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 4:00.66
3411 Hisham Al-Masri Flag of Syria.svg  Syria 4:00.69
3537 Alejandro Bermúdez Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 4:01.66
3633 Christer Wallin Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 4:02.14
3736 Jeffrey Ong Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 4:02.28
3826 Jarl Inge Melberg Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 4:03.49
3921 Ratapong Sirisanont Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 4:07.95
4015 Gustavo Bucaro Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala 4:11.48
4114 Luis Héctor Medina Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 4:11.77 NR
4222 Benoît Fleurot Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 4:12.05
4328 Kenneth Yeo Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 4:13.45
4413 Helder Torres Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala 4:20.38
4516 Hussein Al-Sadiq Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia 4:21.44
4617 Jean-Paul Adam Flag of the Seychelles (1977-1996).svg  Seychelles 4:40.93
12 Carl Probert Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji DNS

Finals

[3]

Final B

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
94 Antti Kasvio Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 3:50.06 NR
105 Paul Palmer Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:51.60
112 Sean Killion Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:52.76
126 Pier Maria Siciliano Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:53.05
137 Christophe Marchand Flag of France.svg  France 3:53.24
148 Yann de Fabrique Flag of France.svg  France 3:54.37
153 Mariusz Podkościelny Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:54.56
161 Jure Bučar Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 3:56.93

Final A

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg5 Yevgeny Sadovyi Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 3:45.00 WR
Silver medal icon.svg4 Kieren Perkins Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:45.16 OC
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Anders Holmertz Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 3:46.77 NR
48 Artur Wojdat Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:48.10
57 Ian Brown Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:48.79
61 Sebastian Wiese Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:49.06
76 Stefan Pfeiffer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:49.75
82 Danyon Loader Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 3:49.97 NR

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References

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  3. "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Barcelona 1992 . LA84 Foundation. p. 360. Retrieved 27 August 2017.