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Date: 20 September 1988 / 21 September 1988
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Tamas Darnyi | HUN | 4:14.75 |
| 2 | David Wharton | USA | 4:17.36 |
| 3 | Stefano Battistelli | ITA | 4:18.01 |
| 4 | Jozsef Szabo | HUN | 4:18.15 |
| 5 | Patrick Kuehl | GDR | 4:18.44 |
| 6 | Jens-Peter Berndt | FRG | 4:21.71 |
| 7 | Luca Sacchi | ITA | 4:23.23 |
| 8 | Peter Bermel | FRG | 4:24.02 |
| 9 | Jeff Kostoff | USA | 4:22.95 |
| 10 | Christophe Bordeau | FRA | 4:23.39 |
| 11 | Robert Bruce | AUS | 4:24.33 |
| 12 | Jon Kelly | CAN | 4:25.02 |
| 13 | Mikhail Zoubkov | URS | 4:25.44 |
| 14 | Robert Woodhouse | AUS | 4:26.14 |
| 15 | Paul Brew | GBR | 4:26.77 |
| 16 | Charalambos Papanikolaou | GRE | 4:27.95 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Yoshiyuki Mizumoto | JPN | 4:28.11 |
| 18 | Laurent Journet | FRA | 4:29.03 |
| 19 | Ondrej Bures | TCH | 4:29.62 |
| 20 | Salvador Vassallo | PUR | 4:30.37 |
| 21 | Javier Careaga Tequena | MEX | 4:30.71 |
| 22 | Rui Borges | POR | 4:30.79 |
| 23 | Michael Meldrum | CAN | 4:31.74 |
| 24 | Renato Ramalho | BRA | 4:31.95 |
| 25 | Takahiro Fujimoto | JPN | 4:33.03 |
| 26 | Diogo Madeira | POR | 4:35.00 |
| 27 | Martin Lopez-Zubero | ESP | 4:35.68 |
| 28 | Lee Jae-Soo | KOR | 4:40.46 |
| 29 | Jonathan Sakovich | GUM | 4:44.78 |
| 30 | Rene Concepcion | PHI | 4:48.00 |
| 31 | Sultan Al-Otaibi | KUW | 4:50.16 |
| 32 | Julian Bolling | SRI | 4:53.61 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Desmond Koh | SIN | ||
| John Davey | GBR | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Jan Bidrman | SWE | ||