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

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 women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between September 18 & September 19.

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.

Medalists

Gold	Janet Evans United States	Silver	Noemi Lung Romania	Bronze	Daniela Hunger East Germany

Results

Finals

A Final

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time
	Janet Evans	United States	4:37.76
	Noemi Lung	Romania	4:39.46
	Daniela Hunger	East Germany	4:39.76
4	Yelena Dendeberova	Soviet Union	4:40.44
5	Kathleen Nord	East Germany	4:41.64
6	Jodie Clatworthy	Australia	4:45.86
7	Lin Li	China	4:47.05
8	Donna Procter	Australia	4:47.51

B final

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time
9	Roberta Felotti	Italy	4:49.53
10	Birgit Schulz-Lohberg	West Germany	4:50.54
11	Erika Hansen	United States	4:51.93
12	Antoaneta Strumenlieva	Bulgaria	4:52.33
13	Anette Philipsson	Sweden	4:52.77
14	Christine Magnier	France	4:53.29
15	Annette Poulson	Denmark	4:54.40
16	Ming Yan	China	4:55.92

Preliminary heats

Rank	Swimmer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Noemi Lung	Romania	4:41.96	q-A
2	Kathleen Nord	East Germany	4:42.92	q-A
3	Janet Evans	United States	4:43.04	q-A
4	Jodie Clatworthy	Australia	4:44.26	q-A Commonwealth
5	Daniela Hunger	East Germany	4:44.85	q-A
6	Yelena Dendeberova	Soviet Union	4:46.63	q-A
7	Donna Procter	Australia	4:47.57	q-A
8	Lin Li	China	4:48.89	q-A

9	Yan Ming	China	4:49.04	q-B
10	Roberta Felotti	Italy	4:49.20	q-B
11	Erika Hansen	United States	4:50.03	q-B
12	Antoaneta Strumenlieva	Bulgaria	4:51.58	q-B
13	Christine Magnier	France	4:51.91	q-B
14	Birgit Schulz-Lohberg	West Germany	4:52.05	q-B
15	Anette Philipsson	Sweden	4:53.58	q-B
16	Annette Poulson	Denmark	4:54.01	q-B

17	Anamarija Petricevic	Yugoslavia	4:54.17
18	Susannah Brownsdon	Great Britain	4:54.66
19	Yoshie Nishioka	Japan	4:55.31
20	Marianne Muis	Netherlands	4:56.31
21	Mildred Muis	Netherlands	4:56.89
22	Irene Dalby	Norway	4:58.14
23	Hiroyo Harada	Japan	5:00.92
24	Tracey Atkin	Great Britain	5:01.34
25	Michelle Smith	Ireland	5:01.84
26	Marlene Bruten	Mexico	5:03.69
27	Hui-Chen Chang	Chinese Taipei	5:13.20
28	Valentina Aracil	Argentina	5:19.17
29	Annemarie Munk	23x15px Hong Kong	5:24.11
30	Kimberly Chen	Chinese Taipei	5:28.15