Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	18 August
Competitors	52 from 25 nations
Winning time	3:45.66
Medalists
Velimir Stjepanović    Serbia   Andrea D'Arrigo    Italy   Jay Lelliott    Great Britain

The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 August. ^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	3:40.07	Rome	28 July 2009
European record
Championship record	Yury Prilukov	Russia	3:45.10	Eindhoven	18 March 2008

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:30. ^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Stephen Milne	Great Britain	3:48.62	Q
2	6	6	Andrea D'Arrigo	Italy	3:48.77	Q
3	6	5	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:48.79	Q
4	6	1	Clemens Rapp	Germany	3:49.03	Q
5	6	3	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	3:49.10	Q
6	5	5	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	3:49.49	Q
7	6	2	Jay Lelliott	Great Britain	3:49.82	Q
8	5	1	Gergő Kis	Hungary	3:50.35	Q
9	5	4	Paul Biedermann	Germany	3:50.42
10	4	5	Anders Lie	Denmark	3:50.62
11	5	2	Yannick Agnel	France	3:50.81
12	5	0	Matias Koski	Finland	3:50.84
13	6	8	Florian Vogel	Germany	3:50.92
14	5	3	Ferry Weertmann	Netherlands	3:51.05
15	6	9	David Brandl	Austria	3:51.09
16	6	7	Filip Zaborowski	Poland	3:51.40
17	5	8	Mads Glæsner	Denmark	3:51.42
18	6	0	Miguel Durán	Spain	3:51.57
19	3	4	Alexander Krasnykh	Russia	3:51.62
20	4	1	Joris Bouchaut	France	3:52.22
21	4	7	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	3:52.66
22	5	6	Samuel Pizzetti	Italy	3:52.83
23	4	3	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	3:52.89
24	2	5	Martin Bau	Slovenia	3:52.96
25	4	0	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	3:53.39
26	3	2	Maarten Brzoskowski	Netherlands	3:53.44
27	4	6	Anthony Pannier	France	3:53.45
28	1	4	Jean-Baptiste Febo	Switzerland	3:53.54
29	4	4	Marc Sánchez	Spain	3:53.71
30	5	9	Dmitry Ermakov	Russia	3:54.15
31	5	7	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	3:54.18
32	4	9	Lander Hendrickx	Belgium	3:54.67
33	3	3	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:54.94
34	3	5	Nezir Karap	Turkey	3:55.00
35	3	7	Stefan Šorak	Serbia	3:55.15
36	4	2	Damien Joly	France	3:55.48
37	4	8	Pawel Furtek	Poland	3:55.65
38	3	0	Anton Goncharov	Ukraine	3:56.18
39	3	8	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	3:56.22
40	2	3	David Kunčar	Czech Republic	3:56.51
41	1	3	Ensar Hajder	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3:57.60
42	3	9	Eetu Piiroinen	Finland	3:58.07
43	2	6	Alexander Kudashev	Russia	3:58.20
44	2	7	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	3:58.45
45	3	6	Ediz Yıldırımer	Turkey	3:59.02
46	2	8	Maksym Shemberev	Ukraine	3:59.44
47	2	4	Jan Kutník	Czech Republic	4:00.37
48	2	0	Pit Brandenburger	Luxembourg	4:00.99
49	2	2	Tomás Novovesky	Czech Republic	4:01.33
50	3	1	Uladzimir Zhyharau	Belarus	4:02.14
51	2	1	David Karasek	Switzerland	4:03.20
52	1	5	Davit Sikharulidze	Georgia	4:10.76

Final

The final was held at 18:07. ^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	3:45.66	NR
	5	Andrea D'Arrigo	Italy	3:46.91
	1	Jay Lelliott	Great Britain	3:47.50
4	3	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:48.10
5	6	Clemens Rapp	Germany	3:48.44
6	4	Stephen Milne	Great Britain	3:48.55
7	2	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	3:48.57
8	8	Gergő Kis	Hungary	3:53.14

References

1. Start list
2. Heats Results
3. Final Results