2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Duna Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	12 December (heats and final)
Competitors	52
Winning time	3:35.89
Medalists
Elijah Winnington    Australia   Carson Foster    United States   Kieran Smith    United States
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The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 12 December 2024. ^[1]

Records

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

World record	Yannick Agnel  (FRA)	3:32.25	Angers, France	15 November 2012
Competition record	Danas Rapšys  (LTU)	3:34.01	Hangzhou, China	11 December 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 10:29. ^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	8	Elijah Winnington	Australia	3:37.22	Q
2	4	8	Carson Foster	United States	3:37.86	Q
3	5	4	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	3:37.87	Q
4	6	2	Zalan Sarkany	Hungary	3:38.43	Q
5	5	6	Roman Fuchs	France	3:38.51	Q
6	6	3	Ahmed Jaouadi	Tunisia	3:38.57	Q
7	5	1	Petar Petrov Mitsin	Bulgaria	3:38.94	Q
8	6	4	Kieran Smith	United States	3:39.14	Q
9	6	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	3:39.60	R
10	6	6	Victor Johansson	Sweden	3:39.85	R
11	4	6	Kamil Sieradzki	Poland	3:40.29
12	6	7	Savelii Luzin	Neutral Athletes B	3:40.33
13	6	0	Luca de Tullio	Italy	3:41.50
14	6	8	Kaito Tabuchi	Japan	3:41.58
15	5	7	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	3:41.95
16	4	4	Carlos Garach	Spain	3:42.18
17	3	4	Saso Boskan	Slovenia	3:42.93
=18	3	3	Alexander Axon	Canada	3:43.64
=18	5	5	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:43.64
20	4	2	Juan Morales	Colombia	3:44.03
21	4	5	Nathan Wiffen	Ireland	3:44.05
22	5	9	Roman Akimov	Neutral Athletes B	3:44.25
23	6	9	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	3:44.69
24	5	3	Xu Yizhou	China	3:44.90
25	4	3	Arno Kruger	South Africa	3:45.28
26	3	0	Joaquín Vargas	Peru	3:46.16
27	3	2	Ben Jago Littlejohn	New Zealand	3:47.53
28	2	2	Niko Janković	Croatia	3:47.77
29	5	0	Kim Jun-woo	South Korea	3:48.09
30	4	1	Galymzhan Balabek	Kazakhstan	3:48.31
31	3	6	Andrei-Theodor Proca	Romania	3:48.87
32	4	0	José Paulo Lopes	Portugal	3:49.11
33	3	8	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	3:50.21
34	4	7	Muhammed Yusuf Özden	Turkey	3:50.35
35	6	1	Lee Ho-joon	South Korea	3:50.75
36	2	4	Kenan Dracic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3:50.77
37	3	5	Caleb Romero	Puerto Rico	3:51.15
38	2	1	Adrian Eichler	Philippines	3:51.62
39	3	7	Wang Yi Shun	Hong Kong	3:52.96
40	2	6	Nikola Gjuretanovski	North Macedonia	3:53.05
41	4	9	Liggjas Joensen	Faroe Islands	3:53.46
42	2	3	Kevin Teixeira	Andorra	3:53.69
43	2	5	Omar Abbass	Syria	3:53.79
44	3	9	Chirill Chirsanov	Moldova	3:55.33
45	2	7	Alberto Vega	Costa Rica	3:55.71
46	2	0	Timothy Tek-Sing Leberl	Mauritius	4:02.51
47	1	4	Vladimir Hernández Mojarrieta	Cuba	4:07.02
48	2	9	Andile Bekker	Botswana	4:09.55
49	2	8	Arion Budima	Kosovo	4:10.76
	1	3	Atharva Singh	Nepal	Did not start
	1	5	A.M.A.J. Jaafar	Iraq
	3	1	Max Litchfield	United Kingdom

Final

The final was held at 19:13. ^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Elijah Winnington	Australia	3:35.89
=	5	Carson Foster	United States	3:36.31
=	8	Kieran Smith	United States	3:36.31
4	3	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	3:36.71
5	2	Roman Fuchs	France	3:38.31
6	6	Zalan Sarkany	Hungary	3:38.59
7	7	Ahmed Jaouadi	Tunisia	3:39.32
8	1	Petar Petrov Mitsin	Bulgaria	3:41.46

References

1. "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Omega Timing. 8 December 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
2. "Men's 400m Freestyle – Heats – Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. 10 December 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
3. "Men's 400m Freestyle – Final – Results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 10 December 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.