Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates27 April 2016 (heats & final)
Competitors50 from 39 nations
Winning time3:41.55
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Mack Horton Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Silver medal icon.svg Sun Yang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Bronze medal icon.svg Gabriele Detti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
  2012
2020  

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 6 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. [1] The winning margin was 0.13 seconds.

Summary

China's Sun Yang fell short of his attempt to a back-to-back gold in one of the program's long-distance freestyle races due to an upset performance from Australia's Mack Horton. Heading into the final lap with a narrow 0.14-second lead, Horton managed to hold off the fast-charging Sun towards the finish for his first individual gold medal in 3:41.55. [2] Unable to catch his Aussie rival near the wall by 13-hundredths of a second, Sun settled for the silver in 3:41.68. Meanwhile, Gabriele Detti picked up the bronze with a time of 3:43.49 to become Italy's first male Olympic medalist in swimming since 2000. [3]

Conor Dwyer (3:44.01), the fastest swimmer headed into the final, and fellow American Connor Jaeger (3:44.16) finished off the podium in fourth and fifth respectively, separated by a 0.15-second margin. [4] Great Britain's James Guy led the pack towards the halfway mark under a world record pace, but faded to sixth in 3:44.68. Horton's teammate David McKeon (3:45.28) and France's Jordan Pothain (3:49.07) rounded out the field. [3]

South Korean swimmer and Beijing 2008 champion Park Tae-hwan, as well as Canada's long distance ace Ryan Cochrane, did not advance to the final, finishing tenth and eleventh in the prelims. [5]

Records

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

World recordFlag of Germany.svg  Paul Biedermann  (GER)3:40.07 Rome, Italy 26 July 2009 [6]
Olympic recordFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Sun Yang  (CHN)3:40.14 London, Great Britain 28 July 2012 [7]

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advanced to the final. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round. [1]

Results

Heats

The heats began at 1:48 pm. [8]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
172 Conor Dwyer Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:43.42Q
274 Mack Horton Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:43.84Q
373 Gabriele Detti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:43.95Q
464 Sun Yang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:44.23Q
576 David McKeon Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:44.68Q
675 James Guy Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:45.31Q
765 Connor Jaeger Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:45.37Q
857 Jordan Pothain Flag of France.svg  France 3:45.43Q
962 Florian Vogel Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:45.49
1063 Park Tae-hwan Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 3:45.63
1166 Ryan Cochrane Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3:45.83
1251 Myles Brown Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 3:45.92
1371 Stephen Milne Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:46.00
1478 Velimir Stjepanović Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 3:46.78
1554 Aleksandr Krasnykh Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 3:47.39
1645 Marwan El-Kamash Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 3:47.43
1767 Henrik Christiansen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 3:47.90
1855 Maarten Brzoskowski Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 3:48.00
1942 Matthew Hutchins Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 3:48.25
2043 Anton Ipsen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 3:48.31
2177 Péter Bernek Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 3:48.58
2238 Marcelo Acosta Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 3:48.82
2361 Wojciech Wojdak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:48.87
2453 Clemens Rapp Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:49.10
2568 Felix Auböck Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 3:49.35
2658 Qiu Ziao Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:49.45
2744 Ahmed Akram Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 3:49.46
2852 Filip Zaborowski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:49.84
2941 Jan Micka Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 3:49.97
3048 Vyacheslav Andrusenko Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 3:50.23
3156 Naito Ehara Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 3:50.61
3232 Luiz Altamir Melo Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 3:50.82
3323 Cristian Quintero Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 3:50.84
3437 Welson Sim Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 3:51.57
3524 Ahmed Mathlouthi Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 3:52.00
3646 Mads Glæsner Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 3:52.59
3747 Miguel Durán Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 3:53.40ƒ
3835 Gergő Kis Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 3:54.15
3925 Martín Naidich Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 3:54.58
4036 David Brandl Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 3:54.59
4131 Dimitrios Dimitriou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 3:54.98
4234 Matias Koski Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 3:55.57
4333 Nezir Karap Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 3:58.37
4427 Alex Sobers Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados 3:59.97
4522 Irakli Revishvili Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 4:00.56
4626 Jessie Lacuna Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines 4:01.70
4721 Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 4:03.53
4814 Geoffrey Butler Flag of the Cayman Islands (pre-1999).svg  Cayman Islands 4:07.87
4915 Pol Arias Flag of Andorra.svg  Andorra 4:21.16
5013 Haris Bandey Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 4:33.13

ƒ False start, but allowed to continue at referee's discretion. [9]

Final

The final began at 10:30 pm. [10]

Medal ceremony for the 400 m freestyle. Rio 2016 Olympics - Swimming 6 August evening session (29097140341).jpg
Medal ceremony for the 400 m freestyle.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg5 Mack Horton Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:41.55
Silver medal icon.svg6 Sun Yang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:41.68
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Gabriele Detti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:43.49
44 Conor Dwyer Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:44.01
51 Connor Jaeger Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:44.16
67 James Guy Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:44.68
72 David McKeon Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:45.28
88 Jordan Pothain Flag of France.svg  France 3:49.07

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