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

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]

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	29 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	47 from 32 nations
Winning time	3:45.00 WR
Medalists
Yevgeny Sadovyi  Unified Team Kieren Perkins  Australia Anders Holmertz  Sweden

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
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
	5	Yevgeny Sadovyi	Unified Team	3:45.00	WR
	4	Kieren Perkins	Australia	3:45.16	OC
	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.

External links

• Official Report