Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
Introduction The '''men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay''' event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 23 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition. Date  Event  Name  Nationality  Time  Record 23 September  Final Chris Jacobs (49.63)Troy Dalbey (49.75)Tom Jager (49.34)Matt Biondi (47.81)   3:16.53
Results ===Heats===Rule: The eight fastest teams advance to the final (Q). Rank  Heat  Nation  Swimmers  Time  Notes 1  3   Brent Lang (50.18)Doug Gjertsen (49.64)Shaun Jordan (50.19)Troy Dalbey (49.51) 3:19.52  Q 2  3   Raimundas Mažuolis (50.90)Oleksiy Boryslavskiy (49.95)Nikolay Yevseyev (49.21)Volodymyr Tkachenko (49.83) 3:19.89  Q 3  3   Dirk Richter (50.30)Thomas Flemming (50.01)Lars Hinneburg (50.11)Steffen Zesner (50.05) 3:20.47  Q 4  3   Stéphan Caron (50.68)Christophe Kalfayan (50.54)Laurent Neuville (50.45)Bruno Gutzeit (50.10) 3:21.77  Q 5  1   Tommy Werner (50.92)Rikard Milton (51.38)Joakim Holmquist (50.48)Göran Titus (50.31) 3:23.09  Q 6  2   Björn Zikarsky (51.09)Peter Sitt (51.02)Thomas Fahrner (51.09)Torsten Wiegel (49.99) 3:23.19  Q 7   2   Fabrizio Rampazzo (51.83)Giorgio Lamberti (49.93)Andrea Ceccarini (51.25)Roberto Gleria (50.34) 3:23.35  Q 8  2   Andy Jameson (51.40)Mark Foster (50.81)Mike Fibbens (50.68)Roland Lee (50.82) 3:23.71  Q 9  1   Mark Andrews (51.66)Stephen Vandermeulen (50.90)Vlastimil Černý (51.14)Sandy Goss (50.15) 3:23.85   10  1   Franz Mortensen (51.21)Vagn Høgholm (50.97)Benny Nielsen (51.73)Peter Rohde (51.24) 3:25.15   11  1   Frank Drost (51.52)Patrick Dybiona (50.86)Hans Kroes (51.57)Ronald Dekker (51.31) 3:25.26   12  2   Emanuel Nascimento (52.13)Cristiano Michelena (52.13)Jorge Fernandes (52.05)Júlio López (51.86) 3:28.17   13  2   Rodrigo González (51.48)Ignacio Escamilla (53.48)Jorge Alarcón (52.51)Urbano Zea (52.25) 3:29.72   14  1   Mabílio Albuquerque (53.06)Henrique Villaret (52.87)Vasco Sousa (53.73)Sérgio Esteves (53.65) 3:33.31   15  3   Ang Peng Siong (52.28)David Lim Fong Jock (53.01)Oon Jin Gee (52.77)Desmond Koh (56.48) 3:34.54   16  2   Michael Wright (53.74)Li Khai Kam (52.79)Arthur Li Kai Yien (53.48)Tsang Yi Ming (54.77) 3:34.78   17  2   Kwon Sang-won (54.18)Yang Wook (54.17)Song Kwang-sun (54.25)Kwon Soon-kun (55.45) 3:38.05   18  1   Hans Foerster (54.23)Kraig Singleton (56.51)Kristan Singleton (57.78)William Cleveland (54.71) 3:43.23   19  3   Ahmad Faraj (58.29)Mohamed Abdullah (1:00.80)Bassam Al-Ansari (1:00.92)Mohamed Bin Abid (58.91) 3:58.92     2   Shen JianqiangLi TaoXie JunFeng Qiangbiao      3   Mohamed El-AzoulAmin AmerMohamed HassanMoustafa Amer      3   Stefan OpatrilMarkus OpatrilAlexander PlachetaAlexander Pilhatsch   ===Final=== Rank  Lane  Nation  Swimmers  Time  Notes   4   Chris Jacobs (49.63)Troy Dalbey (49.75)Tom Jager (49.34)Matt Biondi (47.81) 3:16.53      5   Gennadiy Prigoda (50.24)Iurie Başcatov (49.30)Nikolay Yevseyev (49.27)Volodymyr Tkachenko (49.52) 3:18.33  '''EU'''   3   Dirk Richter (50.25)Thomas Flemming (49.70)Lars Hinneburg (50.35)Steffen Zesner (49.52) 3:19.82   4  6   Stéphan Caron (49.97)Christophe Kalfayan (50.09)Laurent Neuville (50.04)Bruno Gutzeit (49.92) 3:20.02  '''NR''' 5  2   Per Johansson (50.58)Tommy Werner (50.00)Joakim Holmquist (50.47)Göran Titus (50.02) 3:21.07  '''NR''' 6  7   Michael Gross (50.66)Thomas Fahrner (50.00)Björn Zikarsky (50.40)Peter Sitt (50.59) 3:21.65   7  8   Mike Fibbens (51.36)Mark Foster (50.20)Roland Lee (50.33)Andy Jameson (49.82) 3:21.71  '''NR''' 8  1   Roberto Gleria (50.51)Giorgio Lamberti (50.31)Fabrizio Rampazzo (51.19)Andrea Ceccarini (50.92) 3:22.93
References
External links *  Official Report*  USA Swimming