Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Women's 400 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	22 September 1988 (heats & finals)
Competitors	30 from 21 nations
Winning time	4:03.85 WR
Medalists

The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 22 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:05.45	Orlando, United States	20 December 1987
Olympic record	Tiffany Cohen (USA)	4:07.10	Los Angeles, United States	31 July 1984

The following records were established during the length of the competition;

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
22 September	Final A	Janet Evans	United States	4:03.85	WR

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Janet Evans	United States	4:10.21	Q
2	2	Anke Möhring	East Germany	4:10.64	Q
3	4	Tami Bruce	United States	4:10.73	Q
4	2	Janelle Elford	Australia	4:11.07	Q
5	3	Heike Friedrich	East Germany	4:11.30	Q
6	4	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	4:11.71	Q
7	4	Stephanie Ortwig	West Germany	4:12.18	Q
8	2	Natalia Trefilova	Soviet Union	4:12.20	Q
9	3	Noemi Lung	Romania	4:12.42	q
10	3	Sheridan Burge-Lopez	Australia	4:12.77	q
11	2	Antoaneta Strumenlieva	Bulgaria	4:13.25	q
12	3	Manuela Melchiorri	Italy	4:15.40	q
13	1	Chikako Nakamori	Japan	4:15.51	q
14	3	Cécile Prunier	France	4:15.63	q
15	4	Stela Pura	Romania	4:15.78	q
16	4	Patricia Noall	Canada	4:15.90	q
17	3	Irene Dalby	Norway	4:16.22
18	4	Ruth Gilfillan	Great Britain	4:16.66
19	2	Tomomi Hosoda	Japan	4:17.30
20	3	Eva Mortensen	Denmark	4:18.06
21	3	Yan Ming	China	4:18.58
22	4	Alexandra Russ	West Germany	4:18.67
23	1	Nurul Huda Abdullah	Malaysia	4:19.33
24	1	Patrícia Amorim	Brazil	4:19.64
25	2	Christelle Janssens	Belgium	4:19.95
26	1	Pernille Jensen	Denmark	4:20.96
27	2	June Croft	Great Britain	4:21.98
28	1	Rita Jean Garay	Puerto Rico	4:24.84
29	2	Judit Csabai	Hungary	4:25.52
30	1	Senda Gharbi	Tunisia	4:34.67

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	5	Sheridan Burge-Lopez	Australia	4:10.21
10	4	Noemi Lung	Romania	4:11.88
11	1	Stela Pura	Romania	4:12.14
12	3	Antoaneta Strumenlieva	Bulgaria	4:13.43
13	8	Patricia Noall	Canada	4:14.70
14	6	Manuela Melchiorri	Italy	4:14.90
15	2	Chikako Nakamori	Japan	4:15.59
16	7	Cécile Prunier	France	4:21.03

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Janet Evans	United States	4:03.85	WR
	2	Heike Friedrich	East Germany	4:05.94	EU
	5	Anke Möhring	East Germany	4:06.62
4	3	Tami Bruce	United States	4:08.16
5	6	Janelle Elford	Australia	4:10.64
6	7	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	4:11.73
7	1	Stephanie Ortwig	West Germany	4:13.05
8	8	Natalia Trefilova	Soviet Union	4:13.92

^ "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
^ "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 400m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. pp. 420–421. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
^ "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 400m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 421. Retrieved 31 March 2017.

Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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
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