Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
VenueNambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location Gwangju, South Korea
Dates21 July (heats and final)
Competitors47 from 42 nations
Winning time3:42.44
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
  2017
2022  

The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 21 July 2019. [1] [2] The three-time defending champion was Sun Yang, and he successfully defended his title for a record-breaking 4th consecutive victory in the world championships in this event. [3] He became the third man to win an event 4 times at the world championships after Grant Hackett in the 1500 meter freestyle and Ryan Lochte in the 200 meter individual medley. [4]

Contents

Records

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

World record Flag of Germany.svg  Paul Biedermann  (GER)3:40.07 Rome, Italy 26 July 2009
Competition recordFlag of Germany.svg  Paul Biedermann  (GER)3:40.07 Rome, Italy 26 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:16. [5]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
154 Sun Yang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:44.10Q
255 Danas Rapšys Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 3:44.31Q
353 Jack McLoughlin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3:44.79Q
444 Gabriele Detti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:45.49Q
545 Mack Horton Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3:45.51Q
643 Zane Grothe Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:45.83Q
752 Marco De Tullio Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:45.99Q
841 Ji Xinjie Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:46.34Q
956 Aleksandr Krasnykh Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 3:46.65
1057 Henrik Christiansen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 3:46.99
1146 Martin Malyutin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 3:47.43
1248 Anton Ipsen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 3:48.50
1347 Felix Auböck Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 3:48.78
1458 Wojciech Wojdak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:48.81
1549 Luiz Altamir Melo Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 3:48.87
1636 Dimitrios Negris Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 3:50.81
1751 Daniel Jervis Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:50.90
1835 Zac Reid Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 3:51.25
1937 Kregor Zirk Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 3:51.30 NR
2059 Antonio Djakovic Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 3:51.51
2124 Khader Baqlah Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan 3:51.59 NR
2250 Lee Ho-joon Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 3:51.89
2340 Marwan El-Kamash Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 3:52.51
2434 Welson Sim Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 3:52.85
2542 Grant Shoults Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:52.96
2638 Richard Nagy Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 3:53.38
2726 Erge Can Gezmiş Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 3:54.01
2832 Denis Loktev Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 3:54.53
2927 Igor Mogne Flag of Mozambique.svg  Mozambique 3:54.90
3025 Cheuk Ming Ho Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 3:55.05
3133 Marcelo Acosta Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 3:55.06
3221 Christian Bayo Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 3:55.33
3331 Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 3:55.59
3439 Glen Lim Jun Wei Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 3:55.60
3522 Wesley Roberts Flag of the Cook Islands.svg  Cook Islands 3:58.12
3628 Alex Sobers Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados 3:58.97
3720 Kushagra Rawat Flag of India.svg  India 3:59.39
3830 Aflah Prawira Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia 3:59.98
3923 James Freeman Flag of Botswana.svg  Botswana 4:00.48
4015 Daniel Jacobs Flag of Aruba.svg  Aruba 4:00.69
4129 Irakli Revishvili Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 4:00.88
4213 Christian Mayer Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 4:05.33
4316 Adib Khalil Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon 4:06.70
4417 Franci Aleksi Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 4:07.39
4512 Filip Derkoski Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia 4:07.99
4611 Mawupemon Otogbe Flag of Togo (3-2).svg  Togo 4:25.30
14 Omar Abbas Flag of Syria (2025-).svg  Syria DSQ

Final

The final was held at 20:02. [6]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Sun Yang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:42.44
Silver medal icon.svg2 Mack Horton Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3:43.17
Bronze medal icon.svg6 Gabriele Detti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:43.23 NR
45 Danas Rapšys Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 3:43.50
51 Marco De Tullio Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:44.86
63 Jack McLoughlin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3:45.19
78 Ji Xinjie Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:45.64
87 Zane Grothe Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:45.78

References

  1. "Schedule" (PDF). Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  2. "Start list" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  3. "Sun Yang scrapes into 800m freestyle final at Gwangju worlds - Xinhua | English.news.cn". Archived from the original on 23 July 2019.
  4. World Championships Olympic Channel [ dead link ]
  5. "Heats results" (PDF). Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  6. "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2019.