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

Event:	Men's 400 metre individual medley
Games:	1992 Summer
Venue:	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date:	27 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors:	33
Nations:	25
Gold:	Tamás Darnyi
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Eric Namesnik
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Luca Sacchi
Bronzenoc:	ITA
Win Value:	4:14.23
Prev:	1988
Next:	1996

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]

Records

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

The following records were established during the competition:

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	4:17.75	Q
2	5	4	4:18.34	Q
3	4	5	4:18.68	Q
4	4	2	4:19.05	Q
5	3	4	4:19.42	Q
6	3	5	4:19.92	Q
7	4	3	4:20.07	Q, NR
8	5	5	4:20.73	Q
9	5	2	4:21.33	q
10	3	6	4:21.45	q
11	5	8	4:22.10	q, NR
12	5	3	4:22.41	q
13	5	7	4:22.96	q
14	3	7	4:24.31	q
15	4	7	4:24.72	q
16	3	3	4:26.31	q
17	4	1	4:26.33
18	4	6	4:27.65
19	5	6	4:28.51
20	2	3	4:28.60
21	1	4	4:28.95	NR
22	2	5	4:29.28
23	4	8	4:31.49
24	2	6	4:32.64
25	5	1	4:32.82
26	3	8	4:33.41
27	2	4	4:33.87
28	3	1	4:36.39
29	2	2	4:37.95
30	1	6	4:41.84
31	1	5	4:43.54
	3	2
	1	3

Web site: Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Individual Medley . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417163830/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/SWI/mens-400-metres-individual-medley.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 13 March 2020 . Sports Reference.
Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 400m Individual Medley Heats. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 368. 1 September 2017.
Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 400m Individual Medley Finals. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 368. 1 September 2017.