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

The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	27 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	33 from 25 nations
Winning time	4:14.23 OR
Medalists
Tamás Darnyi  Hungary Eric Namesnik  United States Luca Sacchi  Italy
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Records

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

World record	Tamás Darnyi (HUN)	4:12.36	Perth, Australia	8 January 1991
Olympic record	Tamás Darnyi (HUN)	4:14.75	Seoul, South Korea	21 September 1988

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
27 July	Final A	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	4:14.23	OR

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	4	4	Eric Namesnik	United States	4:17.75	Q
2	5	4	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	4:18.34	Q
3	4	5	Patrick Kühl	Germany	4:18.68	Q
4	4	2	Serghei Mariniuc	Unified Team	4:19.05	Q
5	3	4	Luca Sacchi	Italy	4:19.42	Q
6	3	5	Christian Geßner	Germany	4:19.92	Q
7	4	3	Takahiro Fujimoto	Japan	4:20.07	Q, NR
8	5	5	David Wharton	United States	4:20.73	Q
9	5	2	Jorge Pérez	Spain	4:21.33	q
10	3	6	Philip Bryant	Australia	4:21.45	q
11	5	8	Petteri Lehtinen	Finland	4:22.10	q, NR
12	5	3	Curtis Myden	Canada	4:22.41	q
13	5	7	Jan Bidrman	Sweden	4:22.96	q
14	3	7	Robert Baird	Canada	4:24.31	q
15	4	7	Marcin Maliński	Poland	4:24.72	q
16	3	3	Attila Czene	Hungary	4:26.31	q
17	4	1	Marian Satnoianu	Romania	4:26.33
18	4	6	Matthew Dunn	Australia	4:27.65
19	5	6	Marcel Wouda	Netherlands	4:28.51
20	2	3	Igor Łuczak	Poland	4:28.60
21	1	4	Desmond Koh	Singapore	4:28.95	NR
22	2	5	Renato Ramalho	Brazil	4:29.28
23	4	8	Denislav Kalchev	Bulgaria	4:31.49
24	2	6	Clifford Lyne	South Africa	4:32.64
25	5	1	Andy Rolley	Great Britain	4:32.82
26	3	8	Andrés Minelli	Argentina	4:33.41
27	2	4	Alejandro Bermúdez	Colombia	4:33.87
28	3	1	David Monasterio	Puerto Rico	4:36.39
29	2	2	Ratapong Sirisanont	Thailand	4:37.95
30	1	6	Duncan Todd	Hong Kong	4:41.84
31	1	5	Roberto Bonilla	Guatemala	4:43.54
	3	2	Toshiaki Kurasawa	Japan	DSQ
	1	3	Arthur Li Kai Yien	Hong Kong	DNS

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	8	Attila Czene	Hungary	4:21.28
10	6	Curtis Myden	Canada	4:21.91
11	4	Jorge Perez	Spain	4:22.06
12	3	Petteri Lehtinen	Finland	4:22.10	=NR
13	5	Philip Bryant	Australia	4:22.36
14	1	Marcin Maliński	Poland	4:22.59
15	2	Jan Bidrman	Sweden	4:23.52
16	7	Robert Baird	Canada	4:25.06

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	4:14.23	OR
	4	Eric Namesnik	United States	4:15.57
	2	Luca Sacchi	Italy	4:16.34	NR
4	8	David Wharton	United States	4:17.26
5	7	Christian Geßner	Germany	4:17.88
6	3	Patrick Kühl	Germany	4:19.66
7	6	Serghei Mariniuc	Unified Team	4:22.93
8	1	Takahiro Fujimoto	Japan	4:23.80