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

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
VenuePiscines Bernat Picornell
Date29 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors47 from 32 nations
Winning time3:45.00 WR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yevgeny Sadovyi  Unified Team
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kieren Perkins  Australia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Anders Holmertz  Sweden
Swimming at the
1992 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

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 record  Kieren Perkins (AUS) 3:46.47 Canberra, Australia 3 April 1992
Olympic record  Uwe Daßler (GDR) 3:46.95 Seoul, South Korea 23 September 1988

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record
29 July Final A Yevgeny Sadovyi  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]

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

Finals

[3]

Final B

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

Final A

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Yevgeny Sadovyi  Unified Team 3:45.00 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Kieren Perkins  Australia 3:45.16 OC
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Anders Holmertz  Sweden 3:46.77 NR
4 8 Artur Wojdat  Poland 3:48.10
5 7 Ian Brown  Australia 3:48.79
6 1 Sebastian Wiese  Germany 3:49.06
7 6 Stefan Pfeiffer  Germany 3:49.75
8 2 Danyon Loader  New Zealand 3:49.97 NR

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 360. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 360. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
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