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

Men's 400 metre individual medley
at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	27 July (heats and final)
Competitors	41 from 38 nations
Winning time	4:08.95
Medalists
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The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 28 July 2019.^[1]^[2]

Records edit

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	4:03.84	Beijing, China	10 August 2008
Competition record	Chase Kalisz (USA)	4:05.90	Budapest, Hungary	30 July 2017

The heats were held at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:12.27	Q
2	5	8	Arjan Knipping	Netherlands	4:13.46	Q, NR
3	5	5	Jay Litherland	United States	4:13.78	Q
4	5	3	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:14.35	Q
5	4	7	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	4:14.56	Q
6	5	6	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	4:14.62	Q
7	4	2	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	4:15.14	Q
8	5	7	Philip Heintz	Germany	4:15.24	Q, WD
9	4	3	Péter Bernek	Hungary	4:15.49	Q
10	5	4	Chase Kalisz	United States	4:15.62
11	4	6	Brandonn Almeida	Brazil	4:15.92
12	5	1	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4:16.93
13	4	5	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:16.95
14	5	0	João Vital	Portugal	4:17.18
15	3	3	Tristan Cote	Canada	4:17.22
16	5	9	Dawid Szwedzki	Poland	4:17.48
17	3	4	Tomas Peribonio	Ecuador	4:17.83
18	3	2	Jarod Arroyo	Puerto Rico	4:18.94	NR
19	3	5	Ayrton Sweeney	South Africa	4:20.32
20	4	8	Wang Hsing-hao	Chinese Taipei	4:21.65
21	3	6	Kim Min-suk	South Korea	4:22.06
22	3	7	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	4:22.56
23	5	2	Wang Shun	China	4:23.23
24	2	5	Denys Kesil	Ukraine	4:24.99
25	3	8	Trần Hưng Nguyễn	Vietnam	4:25.49
26	2	4	Aflah Prawira	Indonesia	4:26.49
27	3	0	Svetlozar Nikolov	Bulgaria	4:26.88
28	3	1	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	4:27.80
29	2	6	Erick Gordillo	Guatemala	4:28.57
30	3	9	Jaouad Syoud	Algeria	4:28.65
31	2	2	Pang Sheng Jun	Singapore	4:28.93
32	2	7	Brandon Schuster	Samoa	4:29.84
33	2	3	Ahmed Hamdy	Egypt	4:30.17
34	4	9	Wang Yizhe	China	4:31.14
35	2	8	Alvi Hjelm	Faroe Islands	4:33.28
36	1	3	Gustavo Gutiérrez	Peru	4:33.87
37	1	4	Faang Der Tiaa	Malaysia	4:33.88
38	2	1	Munzer Kabbara	Lebanon	4:35.58
39	1	5	Simon Bachmann	Seychelles	4:41.42
	4	0	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	DSQ
	4	1	Patrick Stäber	Austria	DSQ

The final was held on 28 July at 21:01.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:08.95
	3	Jay Litherland	United States	4:09.22
	2	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	4:12.07	NR
4	1	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	4:13.30	NR
5	8	Péter Bernek	Hungary	4:13.83
6	7	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	4:14.10
7	6	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:14.75
8	5	Arjan Knipping	Netherlands	4:17.06