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400 metres Individual Medley, Men

Date	21 July 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants	27 from 23 countries

Even if the Olympics had not been in his home country Tom Dolan would have been a strong favourite. The swimmer had not lost a race since 1993 and was the reigning World Championship and Pan-Pacific gold medalist in addition to holding the world record in the event. However Dolan was not at his best in Atlanta and the final developed into a much closer race than predicted. Curtis Myden of Canada led Dolan and fellow American Eric Namesnik after the butterfly leg with the two US swimmers then gaining on the Canadian over the next 100 metres.

At half way Dolan and Nemesnik were absolutely level and the lead swapped back and forth for the next three lengths of the pool. Over the last 50 metres the two men battled furiously and Dolan just had enough left for victory, as Myden held on for third place. Both Dolan, Nemesnik and fifth place finisher Marcel Wouda were alumni of the University of Michigan.

Pos	Swimmer	NOC	R1	B Final	Final
1	Tom Dolan	USA	4:17.66 (2 h4)	–	4:14.90 (1)	Gold
2	Eric Namesnik	USA	4:16.21 (1 h2)	–	4:15.25 (2)	Silver
3	Curtis Myden	CAN	4:18.43 (4 h4)	–	4:16.28 (3)	Bronze
4	Matt Dunn	AUS	4:19.51 (1 h3)	–	4:16.66 (4)
5	Marcel Wouda	NED	4:17.30 (1 h4)	–	4:17.71 (5)
6	Luca Sacchi	ITA	4:19.63 (2 h2)	–	4:18.31 (6)
7	Marcin Maliński	POL	4:18.34 (3 h4)	–	4:20.50 (7)
8	Serghei Mariniuc	MDA	4:20.24 (3 h2)	–	4:21.15 (8)
9	Frederik Hviid	ESP	4:23.67 (4 h2)	4:22.47 (1)	–
10	Toshiaki Kurasawa	JPN	4:24.83 (5 h2)	4:23.36 (2)	–
11	Tatsuya Kinugasa	JPN	4:26.73 (4 h3)	4:24.25 (3)	–
12	Ratapong Sirisanont	THA	4:26.99 (6 h4)	4:26.35 (4)	–
13	Alejandro Bermúdez	COL	4:27.97 (6 h2)	4:26.64 (5)	–
14	Josef Horký	CZE	4:26.58 (5 h4)	4:28.39 (6)	–
15	Trent Steed	AUS	4:24.39 (3 h3)	4:29.35 (7)	–
16	István Batházi	HUN	4:27.37 (5 h3)	– (DQ)	–
17	Jani Sievinen	FIN	4:23.13 (2 h3)	–	–		1
18	Valērijs Kalmikovs	LAT	4:28.04 (6 h3)	–	–
19	Gergő Kiss	HUN	4:28.05 (7 h4)	–	–
20	Mark Kwok	HKG	4:31.13 (7 h2)	–	–
21	Kim Bang-Hyeon	KOR	4:31.16 (8 h4)	–	–
22	Walter Soza	NCA	4:32.11 (1 h1)	–	–
23	Krešimir Čač	CRO	4:34.02 (8 h2)	–	–
24	Aleksandar Malenko	MKD	4:34.06 (7 h3)	–	–
25	Arsenio López	PUR	4:34.81 (2 h1)	–	–
26	Desmond Koh	SGP	4:36.87 (8 h3)	–	–
27	Wan Azlan Abdullah	MAS	4:38.95 (3 h1)	–	–

Round One (21 July 1996)

Fastest eight advanced to the final. Places 9-16 advanced to the B Final.

Heat One (10:43)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	200 m	250 m	300 m	350 m	Time	Reaction
1	5	Walter Soza	NCA	27.87 (1) 31.90 (1)	59.77 (1) 34.73 (1)	1:34.50 (1) 33.94 (2)	2:08.44 (1) 40.00 (2)	2:48.44 (1) 41.14 (3)	3:29.58 (1) 31.16 (1)	4:00.74 (1) 31.37 (1)	4:32.11	0.75
2	3	Arsenio López	PUR	28.79 (2) 32.28 (2)	1:01.07 (2) 35.62 (2)	1:36.69 (2) 33.88 (1)	2:10.57 (2) 40.17 (3)	2:50.74 (2) 39.75 (1)	3:30.49 (2) 32.50 (3)	4:02.99 (2) 31.82 (3)	4:34.81	0.78
3	4	Wan Azlan Abdullah	MAS	29.14 (3) 33.35 (3)	1:02.49 (3) 36.53 (3)	1:39.02 (3) 36.37 (3)	2:15.39 (3) 39.53 (1)	2:54.92 (3) 40.35 (2)	3:35.27 (3) 32.04 (2)	4:07.31 (3) 31.64 (2)	4:38.95	0.79

Heat Two (10:51)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	200 m	250 m	300 m	350 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Eric Namesnik	USA	27.80 (3) 30.73 (1)	58.53 (1) 32.99 (1)	1:31.52 (1) 31.54 (1)	2:03.06 (1) 36.17 (3)	2:39.23 (1) 36.26 (1)	3:15.49 (1) 31.00 (3)	3:46.49 (1) 29.72 (3)	4:16.21	0.82	Q
2	5	Luca Sacchi	ITA	28.20 (6) 31.12 (3)	59.32 (4) 33.87 (6)	1:33.19 (5) 33.30 (5)	2:06.49 (5) 35.58 (1)	2:42.07 (3) 36.36 (2)	3:18.43 (2) 30.58 (1)	3:49.01 (2) 30.62 (5)	4:19.63	0.81	Q
3	6	Serghei Mariniuc	MDA	27.75 (2) 31.76 (6)	59.51 (5) 33.60 (4)	1:33.11 (4) 32.77 (4)	2:05.88 (4) 35.96 (2)	2:41.84 (2) 37.27 (3)	3:19.11 (3) 31.72 (5)	3:50.83 (3) 29.41 (1)	4:20.24	0.81	Q
4	2	Frederik Hviid	ESP	28.32 (7) 31.55 (5)	59.87 (6) 33.49 (3)	1:33.36 (6) 33.32 (6)	2:06.68 (6) 37.43 (4)	2:44.11 (5) 38.94 (5)	3:23.05 (5) 30.93 (2)	3:53.98 (4) 29.69 (2)	4:23.67	0.83	q
5	3	Toshiaki Kurasawa	JPN	27.85 (4) 30.77 (2)	58.62 (2) 33.65 (5)	1:32.27 (3) 31.88 (2)	2:04.15 (2) 38.25 (6)	2:42.40 (4) 39.28 (6)	3:21.68 (4) 32.51 (7)	3:54.19 (5) 30.64 (6)	4:24.83	0.77	q
6	1	Alejandro Bermúdez	COL	27.59 (1) 31.31 (4)	58.90 (3) 33.30 (2)	1:32.20 (2) 32.46 (3)	2:04.66 (3) 40.37 (8)	2:45.03 (6) 41.24 (8)	3:26.27 (6) 31.39 (4)	3:57.66 (6) 30.31 (4)	4:27.97	0.83
7	8	Mark Kwok	HKG	28.51 (8) 32.23 (7)	1:00.74 (8) 34.97 (7)	1:35.71 (7) 33.85 (7)	2:09.56 (7) 39.29 (7)	2:48.85 (8) 39.67 (7)	3:28.52 (8) 31.75 (6)	4:00.27 (7) 30.86 (7)	4:31.13	0.67
8	7	Krešimir Čač	CRO	28.09 (5) 32.46 (8)	1:00.55 (7) 35.64 (8)	1:36.19 (8) 35.16 (8)	2:11.35 (8) 37.46 (5)	2:48.81 (7) 38.87 (4)	3:27.68 (7) 32.75 (8)	4:00.43 (8) 33.59 (8)	4:34.02	0.93

Heat Three (10:59)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	200 m	250 m	300 m	350 m	Time	Reaction
1	5	Matt Dunn	AUS	27.48 (2) 31.06 (2)	58.54 (1) 34.13 (3)	1:32.67 (2) 32.78 (1)	2:05.45 (1) 36.87 (3)	2:42.32 (1) 37.06 (1)	3:19.38 (1) 30.30 (1)	3:49.68 (1) 29.83 (2)	4:19.51	0.81	Q
2	4	Jani Sievinen	FIN	27.28 (1) 31.51 (4)	58.79 (2) 33.53 (1)	1:32.32 (1) 33.71 (2)	2:06.03 (2) 37.39 (5)	2:43.42 (2) 37.85 (3)	3:21.27 (2) 30.95 (2)	3:52.22 (2) 30.91 (5)	4:23.13	0.80	q
3	3	Trent Steed	AUS	27.98 (6) 30.94 (1)	58.92 (4) 33.91 (2)	1:32.83 (3) 33.94 (4)	2:06.77 (3) 36.74 (2)	2:43.51 (3) 38.05 (5)	3:21.56 (3) 32.21 (5)	3:53.77 (3) 30.62 (3)	4:24.39	0.80	q
4	2	Tatsuya Kinugasa	JPN	27.70 (5) 31.17 (3)	58.87 (3) 34.61 (5)	1:33.48 (4) 34.60 (6)	2:08.08 (4) 37.60 (6)	2:45.68 (5) 37.79 (2)	3:23.47 (5) 32.31 (6)	3:55.78 (5) 30.95 (6)	4:26.73	0.81	q
5	6	István Batházi	HUN	29.40 (8) 32.88 (8)	1:02.28 (8) 34.59 (4)	1:36.87 (8) 33.79 (3)	2:10.66 (7) 37.28 (4)	2:47.94 (6) 38.24 (6)	3:26.18 (6) 31.45 (3)	3:57.63 (6) 29.74 (1)	4:27.37	0.94	q
6	7	Valērijs Kalmikovs	LAT	27.54 (4) 32.01 (5)	59.55 (5) 34.65 (6)	1:34.20 (5) 34.53 (5)	2:08.73 (5) 36.31 (1)	2:45.04 (4) 37.98 (4)	3:23.02 (4) 32.54 (7)	3:55.56 (4) 32.48 (7)	4:28.04	0.85
7	1	Aleksandar Malenko	MKD	27.49 (3) 32.07 (6)	59.56 (6) 35.47 (7)	1:35.03 (6) 35.31 (8)	2:10.34 (6) 40.60 (8)	2:50.94 (8) 40.50 (8)	3:31.44 (8) 31.75 (4)	4:03.19 (7) 30.87 (4)	4:34.06	0.86
8	8	Desmond Koh	SGP	28.29 (7) 32.27 (7)	1:00.56 (7) 35.70 (8)	1:36.26 (7) 35.03 (7)	2:11.29 (8) 38.44 (7)	2:49.73 (7) 39.59 (7)	3:29.32 (7) 34.62 (8)	4:03.94 (8) 32.93 (8)	4:36.87	0.76

Heat Four (11:07)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	200 m	250 m	300 m	350 m	Time	Reaction
1	6	Marcel Wouda	NED	27.38 (3) 31.77 (4)	59.15 (3) 32.83 (1)	1:31.98 (2) 32.29 (2)	2:04.27 (3) 36.17 (3)	2:40.44 (2) 37.04 (2)	3:17.48 (1) 30.83 (1)	3:48.31 (1) 28.99 (2)	4:17.30	0.92	Q
2	4	Tom Dolan	USA	27.08 (2) 31.40 (2)	58.48 (2) 34.42 (5)	1:32.90 (3) 31.14 (1)	2:04.04 (2) 36.77 (5)	2:40.81 (3) 37.20 (3)	3:18.01 (3) 31.13 (4)	3:49.14 (3) 28.52 (1)	4:17.66	0.79	Q
3	3	Marcin Maliński	POL	28.28 (5) 31.76 (3)	1:00.04 (4) 33.99 (3)	1:34.03 (4) 33.00 (4)	2:07.03 (4) 35.48 (1)	2:42.51 (4) 35.77 (1)	3:18.28 (4) 30.88 (2)	3:49.16 (4) 29.18 (3)	4:18.34	0.88	Q
4	5	Curtis Myden	CAN	26.69 (1) 31.02 (1)	57.71 (1) 33.27 (2)	1:30.98 (1) 32.40 (3)	2:03.38 (1) 36.72 (4)	2:40.10 (1) 37.54 (5)	3:17.64 (2) 30.93 (3)	3:48.57 (2) 29.86 (4)	4:18.43	0.78	Q
5	7	Josef Horký	CZE	28.14 (4) 32.54 (7)	1:00.68 (6) 34.06 (4)	1:34.74 (5) 33.91 (=7)	2:08.65 (5) 37.96 (6)	2:46.61 (6) 38.66 (6)	3:25.27 (6) 31.27 (5)	3:56.54 (6) 30.04 (5)	4:26.58	0.86	q
6	1	Ratapong Sirisanont	THA	28.43 (7) 31.89 (5)	1:00.32 (5) 35.26 (8)	1:35.58 (7) 33.69 (6)	2:09.27 (7) 35.90 (2)	2:45.17 (5) 37.36 (4)	3:22.53 (5) 32.63 (8)	3:55.16 (5) 31.83 (8)	4:26.99	0.87	q
7	2	Gergő Kiss	HUN	28.47 (8) 32.65 (8)	1:01.12 (8) 34.61 (6)	1:35.73 (8) 33.35 (5)	2:09.08 (6) 38.18 (7)	2:47.26 (7) 38.76 (7)	3:26.02 (7) 31.98 (7)	3:58.00 (7) 30.05 (6)	4:28.05	0.83
8	8	Kim Bang-Hyeon	KOR	28.30 (6) 32.44 (6)	1:00.74 (7) 34.63 (7)	1:35.37 (6) 33.91 (=7)	2:09.28 (8) 38.78 (8)	2:48.06 (8) 39.91 (8)	3:27.97 (8) 31.92 (6)	3:59.89 (8) 31.27 (7)	4:31.16	0.90

B Final (21 July 1996 — 19:57)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	200 m	250 m	300 m	350 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Frederik Hviid	ESP	28.29 (4) 32.15 (4)	1:00.44 (4) 33.25 (2)	1:33.69 (2) 33.21 (3)	2:06.90 (2) 36.88 (2)	2:43.78 (2) 38.81 (3)	3:22.59 (2) 30.57 (2)	3:53.16 (1) 29.31 (2)	4:22.47	0.82
2	3	Toshiaki Kurasawa	JPN	27.70 (1) 30.97 (1)	58.67 (1) 33.14 (1)	1:31.81 (1) 32.87 (2)	2:04.68 (1) 37.71 (5)	2:42.39 (1) 38.91 (5)	3:21.30 (1) 31.95 (6)	3:53.25 (2) 30.11 (5)	4:23.36	0.71
3	2	Tatsuya Kinugasa	JPN	28.23 (3) 32.04 (3)	1:00.27 (3) 35.09 (6)	1:35.36 (5) 34.55 (7)	2:09.91 (5) 37.06 (3)	2:46.97 (5) 37.31 (2)	3:24.28 (3) 30.77 (3)	3:55.05 (3) 29.20 (1)	4:24.25	0.82
4	7	Ratapong Sirisanont	THA	28.88 (7) 32.19 (5)	1:01.07 (6) 35.39 (7)	1:36.46 (7) 34.18 (5)	2:10.64 (7) 36.45 (1)	2:47.09 (6) 37.25 (1)	3:24.34 (4) 31.64 (5)	3:55.98 (4) 30.37 (6)	4:26.35	0.81
5	8	Alejandro Bermúdez	COL	28.71 (5) 32.28 (6)	1:00.99 (5) 33.81 (3)	1:34.80 (4) 32.49 (1)	2:07.29 (3) 39.39 (7)	2:46.68 (4) 40.05 (7)	3:26.73 (6) 30.51 (1)	3:57.24 (5) 29.40 (3)	4:26.64	0.86
6	6	Josef Horký	CZE	28.81 (6) 32.61 (7)	1:01.42 (7) 34.74 (5)	1:36.16 (6) 34.12 (4)	2:10.28 (6) 37.87 (6)	2:48.15 (7) 38.84 (4)	3:26.99 (7) 31.61 (4)	3:58.60 (7) 29.79 (4)	4:28.39	0.82
7	5	Trent Steed	AUS	27.94 (2) 31.63 (2)	59.57 (2) 34.52 (4)	1:34.09 (3) 34.46 (6)	2:08.55 (4) 37.49 (4)	2:46.04 (3) 39.30 (6)	3:25.34 (5) 32.69 (7)	3:58.03 (6) 31.32 (7)	4:29.35	0.80
DQ	1	István Batházi	HUN	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–	–

Final (21 July 1996 — 19:50)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	200 m	250 m	300 m	350 m	Time	Reaction
1	3	Tom Dolan	USA	27.10 (2) 31.26 (=2)	58.36 (2) 33.30 (2)	1:31.66 (3) 31.21 (1)	2:02.87 (=1) 35.99 (4)	2:38.86 (1) 36.87 (6)	3:15.73 (2) 30.57 (5)	3:46.30 (2) 28.60 (3)	4:14.90	0.74
2	4	Eric Namesnik	USA	27.62 (3) 30.95 (1)	58.57 (3) 32.69 (1)	1:31.26 (1) 31.61 (2)	2:02.87 (=1) 36.20 (6)	2:39.07 (2) 36.22 (2)	3:15.29 (1) 30.98 (7)	3:46.27 (1) 28.98 (4)	4:15.25	0.82
3	2	Curtis Myden	CAN	26.70 (1) 31.34 (4)	58.04 (1) 33.39 (=4)	1:31.43 (2) 32.61 (3)	2:04.04 (3) 35.98 (3)	2:40.02 (3) 36.43 (4)	3:16.45 (3) 30.37 (4)	3:46.82 (3) 29.46 (6)	4:16.28	0.77
4	7	Matt Dunn	AUS	27.80 (5) 31.26 (=2)	59.06 (4) 33.42 (6)	1:32.48 (4) 32.94 (4)	2:05.42 (4) 36.32 (8)	2:41.74 (4) 36.98 (7)	3:18.72 (4) 30.02 (3)	3:48.74 (=4) 27.92 (1)	4:16.66	0.85
5	5	Marcel Wouda	NED	27.85 (6) 32.57 (8)	1:00.42 (=7) 34.01 (7)	1:34.43 (7) 33.11 (5)	2:07.54 (7) 35.97 (2)	2:43.51 (7) 36.19 (1)	3:19.70 (6) 29.99 (2)	3:49.69 (6) 28.02 (2)	4:17.71	0.86
6	1	Luca Sacchi	ITA	28.24 (7) 31.37 (5)	59.61 (5) 33.39 (=4)	1:33.00 (5) 33.18 (7)	2:06.18 (5) 36.05 (5)	2:42.23 (5) 36.71 (5)	3:18.94 (5) 29.80 (1)	3:48.74 (=4) 29.57 (7)	4:18.31	0.81
7	6	Marcin Maliński	POL	28.48 (8) 31.94 (6)	1:00.42 (=7) 34.25 (8)	1:34.67 (8) 33.40 (8)	2:08.07 (8) 35.60 (1)	2:43.67 (8) 36.31 (3)	3:19.98 (7) 30.87 (6)	3:50.85 (7) 29.65 (8)	4:20.50	0.86
8	8	Serghei Mariniuc	MDA	27.71 (4) 32.37 (7)	1:00.08 (6) 33.32 (3)	1:33.40 (6) 33.14 (6)	2:06.54 (6) 36.23 (7)	2:42.77 (6) 37.43 (8)	3:20.20 (8) 31.56 (8)	3:51.76 (8) 29.39 (5)	4:21.15	0.83