Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	23 July (heats and final)
Competitors	52 from 47 nations
Winning time	3:41.38
Medalists
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The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 23 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009
Competition record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:43.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	7	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:44.19	Q, NR
2	5	4	Sun Yang	China	3:44.55	Q
3	6	6	David McKeon	Australia	3:45.56	Q
4	6	3	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	3:45.57	Q
5	6	4	Mack Horton	Australia	3:45.60	Q
6	5	5	James Guy	Great Britain	3:45.64	Q
7	6	5	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:45.72	Q
8	5	3	Zane Grothe	United States	3:46.14	Q
9	5	8	Marwan El-Kamash	Egypt	3:46.36	NR
10	5	1	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	3:46.73
11	6	7	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	3:46.96
12	5	6	Clark Smith	United States	3:47.12
13	6	2	Alexander Krasnykh	Russia	3:47.35
14	6	8	Filip Zaborowski	Poland	3:47.47
15	5	2	Stephen Milne	Great Britain	3:48.64
16	4	7	Jeremy Bagshaw	Canada	3:48.82
17	4	6	Victor Johansson	Sweden	3:48.96
18	4	3	Brandonn Almeida	Brazil	3:49.61
19	4	1	Martin Bau	Slovenia	3:50.75
20	6	0	Poul Zellmann	Germany	3:50.88
21	4	4	Miguel Durán	Spain	3:51.28
22	4	2	Ákos Kalmár	Hungary	3:51.35
23	5	0	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	3:51.52
24	5	9	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	3:51.76
25	6	9	Qiu Ziao	China	3:51.94
26	3	4	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	3:52.10
27	4	0	Cristian Quintero	Venezuela	3:53.04
28	4	5	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	3:53.06
29	6	1	Maarten Brzoskowski	Netherlands	3:53.17
30	3	2	Alin Artimon	Romania	3:53.45
31	3	3	Ricardo Vargas	Mexico	3:53.63
32	2	6	Khader Baqlah	Jordan	3:54.13	NR
33	4	9	Brent Szurdoki	South Africa	3:54.34
34	2	4	Christian Bayo	Puerto Rico	3:55.15
35	3	7	Martín Naidich	Argentina	3:55.42
36	3	6	Mohamed Lagili	Tunisia	3:55.47
37	2	5	Igor Mogne	Mozambique	3:55.97	NR
38	4	8	Dimitrios Dimitriou	Greece	3:56.58
39	3	5	Marc Hinawi	Israel	3:57.43
40	3	0	Aflah Fadlan	Indonesia	3:58.40
41	2	2	Constantinos Hadjittooulis	Cyprus	3:58.58
42	3	8	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	3:59.29
43	3	1	An Ting-yao	Chinese Taipei	3:59.57
44	2	3	Alex Sobers	Barbados	4:00.50
45	1	3	Klavio Meça	Albania	4:04.03	NR
46	3	9	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	4:04.64
47	2	7	Jessie Lacuna	Philippines	4:05.39
48	1	4	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	4:07.28	NR
49	2	8	Lin Sizhuang	Macau	4:08.73	NR
50	2	1	Felipe Tapia	Chile	4:10.39
51	1	5	Abdalla Aboughazala	Qatar	4:20.64
52	2	0	Mubal Ibrahim	Maldives	4:51.57	NR

Final

The final was held at 17:32.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Sun Yang	China	3:41.38
	2	Mack Horton	Australia	3:43.85
	1	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:43.93
4	6	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	3:44.38
5	4	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:45.21
6	7	James Guy	Great Britain	3:45.58
7	8	Zane Grothe	United States	3:45.86
8	3	David McKeon	Australia	3:46.27