Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 23 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.^[1]

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	23 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	35 from 31 nations
Winning time	3:47.97 NR
Medalists
Danyon Loader  New Zealand Paul Palmer  Great Britain Daniel Kowalski  Australia
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Records

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

World record	Kieren Perkins (AUS)	3:43.80	Rome, Italy	11 September 1994
Olympic record	Yevgeny Sadovyi (EUN)	3:45.00	Barcelona, Spain	29 July 1992

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	6	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	3:49.35	Q
2	4	5	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	3:51.05	Q
3	4	3	Jörg Hoffmann	Germany	3:51.26	Q
4	5	5	Danyon Loader	New Zealand	3:51.54	Q
5	3	4	Daniel Kowalski	Australia	3:51.67	Q
6	5	3	Paul Palmer	Great Britain	3:51.98	Q
7	3	5	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	3:52.27	Q
8	5	2	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	3:52.62	Q
9	3	3	Sebastian Wiese	Germany	3:53.55	q
10	4	4	John Piersma	United States	3:53.58	q
11	5	4	Tom Dolan	United States	3:53.91	q, WD
12	5	6	Malcolm Allen	Australia	3:54.34	q
13	3	2	Dimitrios Manganas	Greece	3:54.85	q, NR
14	4	7	Yann de Fabrique	France	3:55.42	q
15	5	8	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	3:55.67	q, NR
16	5	7	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	3:56.19	q
17	3	6	Aleksey Akatyev	Russia	3:56.40	q
18	3	7	Luiz Lima	Brazil	3:56.43
19	4	1	Torlarp Sethsothorn	Thailand	3:57.08	NR
20	3	1	Jure Bučar	Slovenia	3:57.36
21	2	1	Alejandro Bermúdez	Colombia	3:57.45	NR
22	2	4	Miroslav Vučetić	Croatia	3:59.20
23	4	2	Béla Szabados	Hungary	3:59.36
24	5	1	Hisato Yasui	Japan	4:00.19
25	2	7	Ricardo Monasterio	Venezuela	4:00.44
26	1	4	Andrey Kvassov	Kyrgyzstan	4:00.69	NR
27	2	5	Can Ergenekan	Turkey	4:02.39
28	1	5	Agustín Fiorilli	Argentina	4:02.53
29	2	6	Mark Kwok Kin Ming	Hong Kong	4:02.68
30	3	8	Woo Chul	South Korea	4:03.11
31	2	2	Andrei Zaharov	Moldova	4:09.30
32	4	8	Hisham Al-Masri	Syria	4:10.23
33	2	8	Sng Ju Wei	Singapore	4:12.24
34	1	3	Omar Dallal	Jordan	4:41.12
	2	3	Antti Kasvio	Finland	DNS

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	John Piersma	United States	3:50.69
10	4	Sebastian Wiese	Germany	3:52.37
11	1	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	3:54.34
12	7	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	3:54.63	NR
13	3	Malcolm Allen	Australia	3:55.48
14	8	Aleksey Akatyev	Russia	3:55.72
15	2	Yann de Fabrique	France	3:56.46
16	6	Dimitrios Manganas	Greece	3:57.39

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Danyon Loader	New Zealand	3:47.97	NR
	7	Paul Palmer	Great Britain	3:49.00
	2	Daniel Kowalski	Australia	3:49.39
4	4	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	3:49.87
5	1	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	3:50.66
6	5	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	3:51.04
7	3	Jörg Hoffmann	Germany	3:52.15
8	8	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	3:54.45