Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	18 June (heats and final)
Competitors	42 from 37 nations
Winning time	3:41.22
Medalists
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The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 18 June 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records[edit]

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

World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009
Competition record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009

The heats were started at 09:16.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:43.83	Q, NR
2	4	4	Elijah Winnington	Australia	3:44.42	Q
3	4	2	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	3:44.52	Q, SA
4	5	4	Lukas Märtens	Germany	3:45.04	Q
5	4	3	Kieran Smith	United States	3:45.70	Q
6	3	4	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	3:45.87	Q
7	4	1	Trey Freeman	United States	3:46.12	Q
8	5	6	Marco De Tullio	Italy	3:46.47	Q
9	5	3	Mack Horton	Australia	3:46.57
10	5	2	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:46.90
11	5	5	Henning Mühlleitner	Germany	3:47.17
12	5	7	Lorenzo Galossi	Italy	3:47.19
13	5	8	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	3:47.21
14	4	7	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	3:48.66
15	3	2	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	3:48.72	NR
16	3	9	Bar Soloveychik	Israel	3:49.87
17	3	5	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	3:49.93
18	4	6	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	3:50.03
19	5	1	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	3:50.18
20	5	0	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	3:50.62
21	3	6	Jeremy Bagshaw	Canada	3:50.77
22	3	8	Juan Morales	Colombia	3:51.50
23	4	8	Ji Xinjie	China	3:51.84
24	4	9	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	3:52.92
25	5	9	Zhang Ziyang	China	3:53.55
26	4	0	Nguyễn Huy Hoàng	Vietnam	3:54.05
27	2	5	Glen Lim Jun Wei	Singapore	3:54.63
28	2	1	Pavel Alovatki	Moldova	3:55.64
29	3	0	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	3:56.52
30	3	1	José Paulo Lopes	Portugal	3:56.59
31	2	2	Tonnam Kanteemool	Thailand	3:56.96
32	3	7	Cheuk Ming Ho	Hong Kong	3:58.38
33	2	3	Kushagra Rawat	India	3:59.69
34	2	4	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	4:00.67
35	2	6	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	4:02.01
36	2	7	Adib Khalil	Lebanon	4:02.64
37	2	8	Noah Mascoll-Gomes	Antigua and Barbuda	4:02.93
38	2	0	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	4:04.57
39	2	9	Ramazan Omarov	Kyrgyzstan	4:16.22
40	1	3	Muhammad Siddiqui	Pakistan	4:18.03
41	1	4	Haziq Samil	Brunei	4:23.59
42	1	5	Charles Bennici	Cambodia	4:26.82
—	3	3	Matthew Sates	South Africa	DNS

The final was held at 18:02.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Elijah Winnington	Australia	3:41.22
	6	Lukas Märtens	Germany	3:42.85
	3	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	3:43.31	SA
4	4	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:43.58	NR
5	8	Marco De Tullio	Italy	3:44.14
6	7	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	3:45.64
7	2	Kieran Smith	United States	3:46.43
8	1	Trey Freeman	United States	3:46.53