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

The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 21 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.^[1]

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	21 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	27 from 23 nations
Winning time	4:14.90
Medalists
Tom Dolan  United States Eric Namesnik  United States Curtis Myden  Canada
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Records

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

World record	Tom Dolan (USA)	4:12.30	Rome, Italy	6 September 1994
Olympic record	Tamás Darnyi (HUN)	4:14.23	Barcelona, Spain	27 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	2	4	Eric Namesnik	United States	4:16.21	Q
2	4	6	Marcel Wouda	Netherlands	4:17.30	Q, NR
3	4	4	Tom Dolan	United States	4:17.66	Q
4	4	3	Marcin Maliński	Poland	4:18.34	Q, NR
5	4	5	Curtis Myden	Canada	4:18.43	Q
6	3	5	Matthew Dunn	Australia	4:19.51	Q
7	2	5	Luca Sacchi	Italy	4:19.63	Q
8	2	6	Serghei Mariniuc	Moldova	4:20.24	Q
9	3	4	Jani Sievinen	Finland	4:23.13	q, WD
10	2	2	Frederik Hviid	Spain	4:23.67	q
11	3	3	Trent Steed	Australia	4:24.39	q
12	2	3	Toshiaki Kurasawa	Japan	4:24.83	q
13	4	7	Josef Horký	Czech Republic	4:26.58	q, NR
14	3	2	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	4:26.73	q
15	4	1	Ratapong Sirisanont	Thailand	4:26.99	q, NR
16	3	6	István Batházi	Hungary	4:27.37	q
17	2	1	Alejandro Bermúdez	Colombia	4:27.97	q, NR
18	3	7	Valērijs Kalmikovs	Latvia	4:28.04
19	4	2	Gergő Kiss	Hungary	4:28.05
20	2	8	Mark Kwok Kin Ming	Hong Kong	4:31.13
21	4	8	Kim Bang-hyun	South Korea	4:31.16
22	1	5	Walter Soza	Nicaragua	4:32.11	NR
23	2	7	Krešimir Čač	Croatia	4:34.02
24	3	1	Aleksandar Malenko	Macedonia	4:34.06
25	1	3	Arsenio López	Puerto Rico	4:34.81
26	3	8	Desmond Koh	Singapore	4:36.87
27	1	4	Wan Azlan Abdullah	Malaysia	4:38.95

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Frederik Hviid	Spain	4:22.47
10	3	Toshiaki Kurasawa	Japan	4:23.36
11	2	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	4:24.25
12	7	Ratapong Sirisanont	Thailand	4:26.35	NR
13	8	Alejandro Bermúdez	Colombia	4:26.64	NR
14	6	Josef Horký	Czech Republic	4:28.39
15	5	Trent Steed	Australia	4:29.35
	1	István Batházi	Hungary	DSQ

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Tom Dolan	United States	4:14.90
	4	Eric Namesnik	United States	4:15.25
	2	Curtis Myden	Canada	4:16.28	NR
4	7	Matthew Dunn	Australia	4:16.66	OC
5	5	Marcel Wouda	Netherlands	4:17.71
6	1	Luca Sacchi	Italy	4:18.31
7	6	Marcin Maliński	Poland	4:20.50
8	8	Serghei Mariniuc	Moldova	4:21.15