# Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 29 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Kieren Perkins (AUS) | 3:46.47 | Canberra, Australia | 3 April 1992 |
| Olympic record | Uwe Daßler (GDR) | 3:46.95 | Seoul, South Korea | 23 September 1988 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 29 July | Final A | Yevgeny Sadovyi | Unified Team | 3:45.00 | WR |

## Results
### Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Kieren Perkins | Australia | 3:49.24 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 2 | Yevgeny Sadovyi | Unified Team | 3:49.37 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Anders Holmertz | Sweden | 3:49.95 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | Stefan Pfeiffer | Germany | 3:49.99 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 8 | Danyon Loader | New Zealand | 3:50.05 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Ian Brown | Australia | 3:50.12 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 3 | Sebastian Wiese | Germany | 3:50.73 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | Artur Wojdat | Poland | 3:51.66 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Antti Kasvio | Finland | 3:51.74 | q |
| 10 | 4 | 6 | Paul Palmer | Great Britain | 3:51.93 | q |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | Mariusz Podkościelny | Poland | 3:52.07 | q |
| 12 | 6 | 7 | Pier Maria Siciliano | Italy | 3:52.32 | q |
| 13 | 4 | 5 | Sean Killion | United States | 3:52.42 | q |
| 14 | 6 | 5 | Dan Jorgensen | United States | 3:53.20 | q, WD |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Christophe Marchand | France | 3:54.59 | q |
| 16 | 4 | 7 | Jure Bučar | Slovenia | 3:55.28 | q, NR |
| 17 | 3 | 4 | Yann de Fabrique | France | 3:55.66 | q |
| 18 | 2 | 7 | Marcel Wouda | Netherlands | 3:55.70 | |
| 19 | 6 | 2 | Massimo Trevisan | Italy | 3:56.35 | |
| 20 | 5 | 6 | Zoltán Szilágyi | Hungary | 3:56.68 | |
| 21 | 5 | 1 | Turlough O'Hare | Canada | 3:56.70 | |
| 22 | 2 | 4 | Aleksey Kudryavtsev | Unified Team | 3:57.07 | |
| 23 | 6 | 8 | Uğur Taner | Turkey | 3:57.64 | |
| 24 | 3 | 2 | Shigeo Ogata | Japan | 3:57.91 | |
| 25 | 3 | 1 | Can Ergenekan | Turkey | 3:58.43 | |
| 26 | 2 | 5 | Artur Costa | Portugal | 3:58.80 | |
| 27 | 3 | 5 | Edward Parenti | Canada | 3:58.96 | |
| 28 | 6 | 1 | Stephen Akers | Great Britain | 3:58.99 | |
| 29 | 5 | 7 | Richard Tapper | New Zealand | 3:59.71 | |
| 30 | 4 | 1 | Jorge Herrera | Puerto Rico | 4:00.11 | |
| 31 | 4 | 8 | Nace Majcen | Slovenia | 4:00.42 | |
| 32 | 3 | 8 | Bang Seung-hun | South Korea | 4:00.43 | |
| 33 | 2 | 3 | Masashi Kato | Japan | 4:00.66 | |
| 34 | 1 | 1 | Hisham Al-Masri | Syria | 4:00.69 | |
| 35 | 3 | 7 | Alejandro Bermúdez | Colombia | 4:01.66 | |
| 36 | 3 | 3 | Christer Wallin | Sweden | 4:02.14 | |
| 37 | 3 | 6 | Jeffrey Ong | Malaysia | 4:02.28 | |
| 38 | 2 | 6 | Jarl Inge Melberg | Norway | 4:03.49 | |
| 39 | 2 | 1 | Ratapong Sirisanont | Thailand | 4:07.95 | |
| 40 | 1 | 5 | Gustavo Bucaro | Guatemala | 4:11.48 | |
| 41 | 1 | 4 | Luis Héctor Medina | Bolivia | 4:11.77 | NR |
| 42 | 2 | 2 | Benoît Fleurot | Mauritius | 4:12.05 | |
| 43 | 2 | 8 | Kenneth Yeo | Singapore | 4:13.45 | |
| 44 | 1 | 3 | Helder Torres | Guatemala | 4:20.38 | |
| 45 | 1 | 6 | Hussein Al-Sadiq | Saudi Arabia | 4:21.44 | |
| 46 | 1 | 7 | Jean-Paul Adam | Seychelles | 4:40.93 | |
| | 1 | 2 | Carl Probert | Fiji | DNS | |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 9 | 4 | Antti Kasvio | Finland | 3:50.06 | NR |
| 10 | 5 | Paul Palmer | Great Britain | 3:51.60 | |
| 11 | 2 | Sean Killion | United States | 3:52.76 | |
| 12 | 6 | Pier Maria Siciliano | Italy | 3:53.05 | |
| 13 | 7 | Christophe Marchand | France | 3:53.24 | |
| 14 | 8 | Yann de Fabrique | France | 3:54.37 | |
| 15 | 3 | Mariusz Podkościelny | Poland | 3:54.56 | |
| 16 | 1 | Jure Bučar | Slovenia | 3:56.93 | |

#### Final A

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Yevgeny Sadovyi | Unified Team | 3:45.00 | WR |
| | 4 | Kieren Perkins | Australia | 3:45.16 | OC |
| | 3 | Anders Holmertz | Sweden | 3:46.77 | NR |
| 4 | 8 | Artur Wojdat | Poland | 3:48.10 | |
| 5 | 7 | Ian Brown | Australia | 3:48.79 | |
| 6 | 1 | Sebastian Wiese | Germany | 3:49.06 | |
| 7 | 6 | Stefan Pfeiffer | Germany | 3:49.75 | |
| 8 | 2 | Danyon Loader | New Zealand | 3:49.97 | NR |