Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Aquatics Centre,
Paris La Défense Arena
Dates27 July 2024
(Heats)
27 July 2024
(Final)
Competitors37 from 31 nations
Winning time3:41.78
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Lukas Märtens Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Silver medal icon.svg Elijah Winnington Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg Kim Woo-min Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
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The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena. [1]

Going into the event, Germany's Lukas Märtens was the favourite, while South Korean Kim Woo-min and Australians Elijah Winnington and Samuel Short were also among the top contenders. In the final, Märtens led from beginning to end to take gold with a time of 3:41.78, while Winnington took silver and Woo-min took bronze. The win won Märtens the first swimming gold medal of the games.

National records for Guyana and Chile were broken during the heats, and in the finals Brazil's Guilherme Costa set a new Americas record of 3:42.76.

Background

Tunisia's defending Olympic champion and silver medallist at the 2023 World Championships Ahmed Hafnaoui withdrew from the games due to an undisclosed injury. [2] South Korean Kim Woo-min won the event at the 2024 World Championships, while Lukas Märtens of Germany had swum over a second faster than anyone else that year. Australians Elijah Winnington and Samuel Short won the event at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships respectively, [3] and they also held 2024's second and third fastest times. [4] Both SwimSwam and Swimming World also considered Brazil's Guilherme Costa, Germany's Oliver Klemet and Austria's Felix Auböck as contenders. They also both predicted that Short would win gold and Märtens would take silver. [3] [4]

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). [5] For this event, the OQT was 3:46.78 seconds. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. [5] [6] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 3:47.91 for this event. [5] In total, 23 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 13 athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT. [6]

Heats

Five heats took place on 27 July 2024, starting at 11:45. [a] [7] The swimmers with the best eight times in the heats advanced to the final. Guyana's Raekwon Noel beat his own national record in the first heat, setting it at 4:02.29. Eduardo Cisternas from Chile also lowered his national record by over two and a half seconds to 3:51.29. Austria's Felix Auböck did not qualify. [8]

Results [7]
RankHeatLaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes
154 Lukas Märtens Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:44.13Q
243 Guilherme Costa Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 3:44.23Q
333 Fei Liwei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:44.60Q
455 Elijah Winnington Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:44.87Q
544 Samuel Short Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:44.88Q
641 Aaron Shackell Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:45.45Q
745 Kim Woo-min Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 3:45.52Q
853 Oliver Klemet Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:45.75Q
935 Ahmed Jaouadi Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 3:46.19
1047 Danas Rapšys Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 3:46.27
1148 Kieran Smith Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:46.47
1251 Zhang Zhanshuo Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:46.76
42 Lucas Henveaux Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 3:46.76
1438Zalán SárkányFlag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 3:47.33
1537 David Aubry Flag of France.svg  France 3:47.53
1658 Kieran Bird Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 3:47.54
1757 Marco De Tullio Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:47.90
1834 Victor Johansson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 3:47.98
1931 Alfonso Mestre Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela 3:48.20
2036 Matteo Lamberti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:48.38
2152Petar MitsinFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 3:49.30
2225 Kregor Zirk Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 3:49.59
2346 Antonio Djakovic Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 3:49.77
2456 Felix Auböck Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 3:50.50
2527 Eduardo Cisternas Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 3:51.29 NR
2623Ilia SibirtsevFlag of Uzbekistan (3-2).svg  Uzbekistan 3:51.52
2724 Khiew Hoe Yean Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 3:51.66
2832Eduardo MoraesFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 3:51.74
2922 Joaquín Vargas Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 3:54.59
3026Jovan LekićFlag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina 3:57.90
3128Pavel AlovațkiFlag of Moldova (3-2).svg  Moldova 3:59.77
3221Loris BianchiFlag of San Marino.svg  San Marino 4:01.13
3315Ilias el FallakiFlag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 4:01.59
3413Raekwon NoelFlag of Guyana.svg  Guyana 4:02.29 NR
3516Alberto VegaFlag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 4:03.14
3612Ridhwan AbubakarFlag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 4:05.14
3714 Nikola Ǵuretanoviḱ Flag of North Macedonia (3-2).svg  North Macedonia 4:05.38

Final

The final took place at 20:42 on 27 July. [9] Germany's Lukas Märtens led the race from beginning to end, [10] with both Märtens and South Korean Kim Woo-min splitting below Paul Biedermann's world record pace. [b] Through the rest of the race, Märtens held on for gold with a time of 3:41.78 while Australia's Elijah Winnington overtook Woo-min to take silver with 3:42.21. [12] [13] Woo-min took the bronze with 3:42.50. [12] [14] Brazil's Guilherme Costa set a new Americas record of 3:42.76, beating Larsen Jensen's 16 year old time of 3:42.78. [15] The win won Märtens the first swimming gold medal of the games. [16]

Results [9]
RankLaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Lukas Märtens Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:41.78
Silver medal icon.svg6 Elijah Winnington Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:42.21
Bronze medal icon.svg1 Kim Woo-min Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 3:42.50
42 Samuel Short Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3:42.64
55 Guilherme Costa Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 3:42.76 AM
63 Fei Liwei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:44.24
78 Oliver Klemet Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:46.59
87 Aaron Shackell Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:47.00
Statistics [17]
Name100 metre split200 metre split300 metre splitTimeStroke rate (strokes/min)
Lukas Märtens 00:52.0101:48.4002:45.263:41.7840.9
Elijah Winnington 00:52.7801:49.1802:46.443:42.2142.4
Kim Woo-min 00:52.5001:48.7102:45.873:42.5040.0
Samuel Short 00:53.3401:49.1102:46.223:42.6444.6
Guilherme Costa 00:53.6101:50.2502:47.273:42.7646.8
Fei Liwei 00:53.2301:50.2902:47.963:44.2436.4
Oliver Klemet 00:54.3201:51.2202:48.933:46.5945.5
Aaron Shackell 00:53.8101:51.6602:49.713:47.0038.6

Notes

  1. ↑ All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
  2. ↑ Biedermann set the world record of 3:40.07 at the 2009 World Championships, during the supersuit era. [11] Upon winning the race but not breaking the world record, Märtens said "A lot of people expected the record to fall — I don’t give a shit, I am on top now". [10]

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