Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	21 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	27 from 23 nations
Winning time	4:14.90
Medalists
Tom Dolan   United States Eric Namesnik   United States Curtis Myden   Canada
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The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 21 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States. ^[1]

Records

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

World record	Tom Dolan  (USA)	4:12.30	Rome, Italy	6 September 1994
Olympic record	Tamás Darnyi  (HUN)	4:14.23	Barcelona, Spain	27 July 1992

Results

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Eric Namesnik	United States	4:16.21	Q
2	4	6	Marcel Wouda	Netherlands	4:17.30	Q, NR
3	4	4	Tom Dolan	United States	4:17.66	Q
4	4	3	Marcin Maliński	Poland	4:18.34	Q, NR
5	4	5	Curtis Myden	Canada	4:18.43	Q
6	3	5	Matthew Dunn	Australia	4:19.51	Q
7	2	5	Luca Sacchi	Italy	4:19.63	Q
8	2	6	Serghei Mariniuc	Moldova	4:20.24	Q
9	3	4	Jani Sievinen	Finland	4:23.13	q, WD
10	2	2	Frederik Hviid	Spain	4:23.67	q
11	3	3	Trent Steed	Australia	4:24.39	q
12	2	3	Toshiaki Kurasawa	Japan	4:24.83	q
13	4	7	Josef Horký	Czech Republic	4:26.58	q, NR
14	3	2	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	4:26.73	q
15	4	1	Ratapong Sirisanont	Thailand	4:26.99	q, NR
16	3	6	István Batházi	Hungary	4:27.37	q
17	2	1	Alejandro Bermúdez	Colombia	4:27.97	q, NR
18	3	7	Valērijs Kalmikovs	Latvia	4:28.04
19	4	2	Gergő Kiss	Hungary	4:28.05
20	2	8	Mark Kwok Kin Ming	Hong Kong	4:31.13
21	4	8	Kim Bang-hyun	South Korea	4:31.16
22	1	5	Walter Soza	Nicaragua	4:32.11	NR
23	2	7	Krešimir Čač	Croatia	4:34.02
24	3	1	Aleksandar Malenko	Macedonia	4:34.06
25	1	3	Arsenio López	Puerto Rico	4:34.81
26	3	8	Desmond Koh	Singapore	4:36.87
27	1	4	Wan Azlan Abdullah	Malaysia	4:38.95

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Frederik Hviid	Spain	4:22.47
10	3	Toshiaki Kurasawa	Japan	4:23.36
11	2	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	4:24.25
12	7	Ratapong Sirisanont	Thailand	4:26.35	NR
13	8	Alejandro Bermúdez	Colombia	4:26.64	NR
14	6	Josef Horký	Czech Republic	4:28.39
15	5	Trent Steed	Australia	4:29.35
	1	István Batházi	Hungary	DSQ

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Tom Dolan	United States	4:14.90
	4	Eric Namesnik	United States	4:15.25
	2	Curtis Myden	Canada	4:16.28	NR
4	7	Matthew Dunn	Australia	4:16.66	OC
5	5	Marcel Wouda	Netherlands	4:17.71
6	1	Luca Sacchi	Italy	4:18.31
7	6	Marcin Maliński	Poland	4:20.50
8	8	Serghei Mariniuc	Moldova	4:21.15

References

1. "Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
2. "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 400m Individual Medley Heats" (PDF). Atlanta 1996 . LA84 Foundation. p. 50. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
3. "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 400m Individual Medley Finals" (PDF). Atlanta 1996 . LA84 Foundation. p. 50. Retrieved 11 September 2017.

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming