Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	22 May
Competitors	40 from 23 nations
Winning time	4:13.15
Medalists
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The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps	United States	4:03.84	Beijing	10 August 2008
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	4:06.16	Beijing	10 August 2008
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	4:09.59	Eindhoven	24 March 2008

The heats were held at 09:29.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:14.49	Q
2	5	5	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:15.06	Q
3	4	2	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	4:15.79	Q
4	4	4	Federico Turrini	Italy	4:17.13	Q
5	5	1	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:17.20	Q
6	4	3	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	4:17.76	Q
7	5	6	Benjámin Grátz	Hungary	4:18.49
8	5	2	Alexander Osipenko	Russia	4:18.88	Q
9	4	8	Semen Makovich	Russia	4:19.39	Q
10	4	1	Alexis Santos	Portugal	4:19.82
11	4	7	Kevin Wedel	Germany	4:19.83
12	4	0	Pavel Janeček	Czech Republic	4:20.52
13	5	7	Marc Sanchez Torrens	Spain	4:20.87
14	5	3	Luca Marin	Italy	4:20.99
15	5	8	Etay Gurevich	Israel	4:21.08
16	3	2	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	4:21.54
17	5	0	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	4:21.82
18	3	9	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	4:21.87
19	3	6	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	4:23.01
20	4	6	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	4:23.33
21	4	5	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	4:23.37
22	3	5	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	4:23.68
23	2	5	Patrick Stäber	Austria	4:23.94
24	3	1	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	4:24.61
25	1	3	Andrey Zhilkin	Russia	4:25.41
26	4	9	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	4:25.68
27	2	6	Ganesh Pedurand	France	4:25.78
28	3	0	Sebastian Steffan	Austria	4:26.28
29	3	7	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	4:27.08
30	2	3	Tomas Veloso	Portugal	4:27.25
31	3	3	Nicolas D'Oriano	France	4:27.54
31	3	8	Kristian Kron	Sweden	4:28.02
32	2	4	Osvald Nitski	Estonia	4:28.58
33	2	2	Nikola Dimitrov	Bulgaria	4:29.05
34	2	7	Pavol Jelenák	Slovakia	4:29.17
35	2	9	Illya Teslenko	Ukraine	4:29.76
36	2	8	Tim Slanschek	Switzerland	4:31.89
37	2	1	Luca Pfyffer	Switzerland	4:33.07
38	1	5	Silver Hein	Estonia	4:33.31
39	2	0	Alvi Hjelm	Faroe Islands	4:42.81
	3	4	Jakub Maly	Austria	DSQ
	1	4	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	DNS
	5	9	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	DNS

The final was held at 16:40.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:13.15
	3	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	4:14.16
	6	Federico Turrini	Italy	4:14.74
4	7	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	4:14.94
5	5	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:15.10
6	1	Aleksandr Osipenko	Russia	4:18.07
7	2	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:18.94
8	8	Semen Makovich	Russia	4:19.31