| Swimming events at the 1988 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 1988 Summer Olympics took place between September 20 & September 21. 34 swimmers swam in this event.
This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events.
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| Gold | Tamás Darnyi Hungary (HUN) |
Silver | David Wharton United States (USA) |
Bronze | Stefano Battistelli Italy (ITA) |
| Place | Swimmer | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 4:14.75 | WR | |
| David Wharton | United States | 4:17.36 | ||
| Stefano Battistelli | Italy | 4:18.01 | ||
| 4 | József Szabó | Hungary | 4:18.15 | |
| 5 | Patrick Kühl | East Germany | 4:18.44 | |
| 6 | Jens-Peter Berndt | West Germany | 4:21.71 | |
| 7 | Luca Sacchi | Italy | 4:23.23 | |
| 8 | Peter Bermel | West Germany | 4:24.02 |
| Place | Swimmer | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Jeff Kostoff | United States | 4:22.95 | |
| 10 | Christophe Bordeau | France | 4:23.39 | |
| 11 | Robert Bruce | Australia | 4:24.33 | |
| 12 | Jon Kelly | Canada | 4:25.02 | |
| 13 | Mikhail Zubkov | Soviet Union | 4:25.44 | |
| 14 | Rob Woodhouse | Australia | 4:26.14 | |
| 15 | Paul Brew | Great Britain | 4:26.77 | |
| 16 | Charalambos Papanikolaou | Greece | 4:27.95 |
| Rank | Swimmer | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 4:26.55 |
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