Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

Swimming events 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

The men's 400 Medley Relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held on 25 September 1988, with both preliminaries and finals on the same day.

Records

The existing World and Olympic records at the time of the competition were:

World record	United States (USA)	3:38.28	Tokyo, Japan	18 August 1985
Olympic record	United States (USA)	3:39.30	Los Angeles, CA, USA	4 August 1984

Finals

A Final

Place	Nationality	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	United States	D.Berkoff, R.Schroeder, M.Biondi, C.Jacobs	3:36.93	WR[1]
	Canada	M.Tewksbury, V.Davis, T.Ponting, S.Goss	3:39.28
	Soviet Union	I.Polyansky, D.Volkov, V.Yaroshchuk, G.Prigoda	3:39.96
4	West Germany	F.Hoffmeister, A.Mayer, M.Gross, B.Zikarsky	3:42.98
5	Japan	D.Suzuki, Nagahata, H.Miura, S.Ogata	3:44.36
6	Australia	C.Wilson, I.McAdam, J.Sieben, A.Baildon	3:45.85
7	Netherlands	H.Kroes, R.Dekker, F.Drost, P.Dybiona	3:46.85
DQ	Great Britain	N.Harper, A.Moorhouse, A.Jameson, M.Foster	-

Preliminary heats

Rank	Nationality	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	United States	D.Berkoff, R.Schroeder, J.Mortenson, T.Jager	3:43.00	q-A
2	Great Britain		3:44.44	q-A
3	Canada	M.Tewksbury, V.Davis, T.Ponting, S.Goss	3:44.56	q-A
4	West Germany	F.Hoffmeister, M.Warnecke, M.Gross, B.Zikarsky	3:44.72	q-A
5	Soviet Union	S.Zabolotnov, V.Lozik, K.Petrov, N.Evseev	3:45.29	q-A
6	Netherlands	H.Kroes, R.Dekker, F.Drost, P.Dybiona	3:45.65	q-A
7	Japan	D.Suzuki, H.Nagahata, H.Miura, S.Ogata	3:46.88	q-A
8	Australia	C.Wilson, I.McAdam, J.Sieben, A.Baildon	3:47.40	q-A
9	Switzerland	P.Ferland, É.Dagon, D.Halsall, S.Voléry	3:48.09
10	France	F.Schott, D.Leblanc, L.Depickère, B.Gutzeit	3:48.64
11	New Zealand	P.Kingsman, A.Beks, A.Mosse, R.Anderson	3:48.93
12	Spain	M.Zubero, R.Camallonga, J.Ballester, J.Hernando	3:49.47
13	Czechoslovakia	P.Vokoun, R.Beinhauer, R.Wolf, P.Kladiva	3:49.90
14	Denmark	L.Sørensen, C.Toft, B.Nielsen, F.Mortensen	3:51.97
15	Italy	V.Giambalvo, G.Minervini, L.Michelotti, R.Gleria	3:52.06
16	Hungary	T.Deutsch, K.Güttler, V.Kalaus, M.R.Bodór	3:52.24
17	Singapore	D.Lim, N.Y.Meng, Ang P.S., O.J.Gee	3:52.86
18	Brazil	R.Romero, C.Tortelli, E.Poli, E.Nascimento	3:53.21
19	China	L.Lin, J.Chen, J.Zheng, J.Shen	3:54.18
20	Mexico	E.Vela, J.Careaga, U.Zea, R.González	3:54.21
21	South Korea	Park DP, Yoon JI, Park YC, Kwon SW	3:56.94
22	Hong Kong	H.M.Yip, K.S. Watt, Y.M. Tsang, M.Wright	4:05.28
23	Greece	H.Malamas, N.Fokianos, T.Griniazakis, C.Papanikolaou	4:07.71
24	Israel		4:15.03
25	United Arab Emirates	M.Abdulla, O.Alrumaithi, M.Binabid, A.Faraj	4:28.55

References

• Swimming World Magazine, November 1988.