Swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2023 Pan American Games
Venue	Aquatic Center
Date	October 21, 2023
Competitors	23 from 18 nations
Medalists
Guilherme Costa    Brazil   Alfonso Mestre    Venezuela   James Plage    United States
«2019 2027»

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2023 Pan American Games were held on October 21, 2023, at the Aquatic Center in Santiago, Chile. ^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record	Paul Biedermann  (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	July 26, 2009
Pan American Games record	Ryan Cochrane  (CAN)	3:48.29	Toronto, Canada	July 17, 2015

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Event	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Record
October 21	Final	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	3:46.79	GR

Results

KEY:

QA

Qualified for A final

QB

Qualified for B final

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

WD

Withdrew

Heats

The first round was held on October 21. ^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	3:52.23	QA
2	3	3	Jay Litherland	United States	3:55.00	QA
3	3	5	Alexander Steverink	Brazil	3:55.21	QA
4	2	4	Alfonso Mestre	Venezuela	3:55.67	QA
5	3	1	Dylan Porges	Mexico	3:55.84	QA
6	2	5	James Plage	United States	3:55.90	QA
7	3	7	Eduardo Cisternas	Chile	3:56.31	QA
8	2	3	Juan Morales	Colombia	3:56.34	QA
9	2	6	Santiago Corredor	Colombia	3:56.75	WD
10	3	6	Jeremy Bagshaw	Canada	3:57.43	WD
11	3	2	Joaquín Vargas	Peru	3:57.78	QB
12	2	7	Jose Cano	Mexico	3:58.60	QB
13	2	2	Yu Tong Wu	Canada	3:59.11	QB
14	3	8	Christian Bayo	Puerto Rico	4:02.32	QB
15	2	1	Diego Dulieu	Honduras	4:02.45	QB
16	1	5	Alberto Vega	Costa Rica	4:05.79	QB
17	1	4	Raekwon Noel	Guyana	4:07.38	QB
18	1	7	James Allison	Cayman Islands	4:07.94	QB
19	1	3	Gerald Hernandez	Nicaragua	4:10.36
20	2	8	Noah Mascoll-Gomes	Antigua and Barbuda	4:11.50
21	1	1	Luke-Kennedy Thompson	Bahamas	4:11.61
22	1	2	Christopher Gossman	Independent Athletes Team	4:13.21
23	1	6	Jose Campo	El Salvador	4:25.68

Final B

The B final was also held on October 21. ^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	3	Yu Tong Wu	Canada	3:57.85
10	4	Joaquín Vargas	Peru	3:58.06
11	5	Jose Cano	Mexico	4:00.33
12	6	Christian Bayo	Puerto Rico	4:02.26
13	2	Diego Dulieu	Honduras	4:02.86
14	7	Alberto Vega	Costa Rica	4:05.54
15	1	Raekwon Noel	Guyana	4:05.82
16	8	James Allison	Cayman Islands	4:11.92

Final A

The A final was also held on October 21. ^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	3.46.79	GR
	6	Alfonso Mestre	Venezuela	3:47.62
	7	James Plage	United States	3:50.74
4	5	Jay Litherland	United States	3:52.72
5	3	Alexander Steverink	Brazil	3:53.77
6	8	Juan Morales	Colombia	3:54.44
7	2	Eduardo Cisternas	Chile	3:54.70
8	1	Dylan Porges	Mexico	3:55.12

References

1. "Get to know the venues and clusters of the Santiago 2023 Pan American and Parapan American games. Where all the competitions will take plave in Santiago and regions". santiago2023.org. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
2. "Men's 400m freestyle - Heat Results" (PDF). October 21, 2023.
3. "Men's 400 metre freestyle - Final Results" (PDF). October 21, 2023.