The men's 400 metre freestyle event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on Thursday, 22 July.
Heats Heat 1
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Pierre Andraca 4:00.34 2 Brett Naylor 4:00.38 3 Rainer Strohbach 4:02.24 4 Stefan Wenz 4:06.25 5 Kevin Williamson 4:09.60 6 Sigurður Ólafsson 4:18.11
Heat 2
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Djan Madruga 3:59.62 Q, OR 2 Frank Pfütze 4:04.66 3 Tom Alexander 4:05.63 4 Bengt Jönsson 4:07.28 5 Borut Petrič 4:07.54 6 Lutz Löscher 4:12.88 7 Kris Sumono 4:17.48
Heat 3
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Volodymyr Raskatov 3:57.56 Q, OR 2 Bill Sawchuk 4:02.18 3 István Koczka 4:03.75 4 Peter Pettersson 4:04.15 5 Graham Windeatt 4:04.31 6 Frank Richardson 4:40.76
Heat 4
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Steve Holland 3:58.39 Q 2 Steve Badger 4:00.14 Q 3 Henk Elzerman 4:02.16 4 Vladimir Salnikov 4:02.79 5 Georgios Karpouzis 4:12.41 6 Andreas Schmidt 4:14.36 7 Rui Abreu 4:28.43
Heat 5
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Vladimir Mikheyev 4:00.20 Q 2 Casey Converse 4:00.65 3 Alan McClatchey 4:02.09 4 Werner Lampe 4:03.04 5 Arne Borgstrøm 4:03.49 6 Gerhard Waldmann 4:09.54 7 Edwin Borja 4:18.97
Heat 6
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Tim Shaw 3:56.40 Q, OR 2 Zoltán Wladár 4:00.55 3 Gordon Downie 4:01.00 4 Bengt Gingsjö 4:04.68 5 Johan Van Steenberghe 4:08.28 6 Francisco Cañales 4:15.78
Heat 7
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Brian Goodell 3:55.24 Q, OR 2 Sándor Nagy 4:00.02 Q 3 Max Metzker 4:00.82 4 René van der Kuil 4:03.14 5 David López-Zubero 4:03.73 6 Andy Knowles 4:10.78 7 Tomas Becerra 4:14.73 8 Patrick Novaretti 4:20.62
Final Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Brian Goodell 3:51.93 WR Tim Shaw 3:52.54 Volodymyr Raskatov 3:55.76 4 Djan Madruga 3:57.18 5 Steve Holland 3:57.59 6 Sándor Nagy 3:57.81 7 Vladimir Mikheyev 4:00.79 8 Steve Badger 4:20.83
References
External links Official Olympic Report