Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Piscines Bernat Picornell | ||||||||||||
Date | 27 July 1992 (heats & finals) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 33 from 25 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 4:14.23 OR | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 1992 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 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain. [1]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Tamás Darnyi (HUN) | 4:12.36 | Perth, Australia | 8 January 1991 |
Olympic record | Tamás Darnyi (HUN) | 4:14.75 | Seoul, South Korea | 21 September 1988 |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Round | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
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27 July | Final A | Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 4:14.23 | OR |
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 | 8 | Attila Czene | Hungary | 4:21.28 | |
10 | 6 | Curtis Myden | Canada | 4:21.91 | |
11 | 4 | Jorge Perez | Spain | 4:22.06 | |
12 | 3 | Petteri Lehtinen | Finland | 4:22.10 | =NR |
13 | 5 | Philip Bryant | Australia | 4:22.36 | |
14 | 1 | Marcin Maliński | Poland | 4:22.59 | |
15 | 2 | Jan Bidrman | Sweden | 4:23.52 | |
16 | 7 | Robert Baird | Canada | 4:25.06 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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5 | Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 4:14.23 | OR | |
4 | Eric Namesnik | United States | 4:15.57 | ||
2 | Luca Sacchi | Italy | 4:16.34 | NR | |
4 | 8 | David Wharton | United States | 4:17.26 | |
5 | 7 | Christian Geßner | Germany | 4:17.88 | |
6 | 3 | Patrick Kühl | Germany | 4:19.66 | |
7 | 6 | Serghei Mariniuc | Unified Team | 4:22.93 | |
8 | 1 | Takahiro Fujimoto | Japan | 4:23.80 |
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