2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 400 metre individual medley

The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 15 December 2018.

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	15 December (heats and final)
Competitors	35
Winning time	3:56.43
Medalists
Daiya Seto   Japan   Thomas Fraser-Holmes   Australia   Brandonn Almeida   Brazil

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Ryan Lochte	United States	3:55.50	Dubai	16 December 2010

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 9:56.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:00.50	Q
2	3	2	Brandonn Almeida	Brazil	4:04.58	Q
3	2	3	Tomas Peribonio	Ecuador	4:05.08	Q, NR
3	4	3	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4:05.08	Q
5	4	6	Tomoya Takeuchi	Japan	4:05.21	Q
6	4	4	Péter Bernek	Hungary	4:05.49	Q
7	3	5	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	4:06.13	Q
8	3	8	João Vital	Portugal	4:06.93	Q
9	4	9	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	4:07.91
10	4	1	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	4:08.33
11	3	6	David Schlicht	Australia	4:08.41
12	4	7	Marc Sánchez	Spain	4:08.51
13	2	6	Kieran Smith	United States	4:08.52
14	2	2	Mark Szaranek	United Kingdom	4:08.86
15	4	2	Leonardo Coelho Santos	Brazil	4:08.93
16	3	3	Daniil Pasynkov	Russia	4:09.19
17	2	7	Jarod Arroyo	Puerto Rico	4:10.40
18	3	0	Patrick Staber	Austria	4:11.05
19	3	9	Wang Hsing-Hao	Chinese Taipei	4:11.22
20	3	7	Wang Yizhe	China	4:11.64
21	4	8	Tomoe Hvas	Norway	4:12.56
22	4	0	Ayrton Sweeney	South Africa	4:13.21
23	2	4	Wilrich Coetzee	New Zealand	4:13.81
24	3	1	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	4:14.16
25	2	5	Svetlozar Nikolov	Bulgaria	4:14.25
26	1	5	Brandon Schuster	Samoa	4:17.20
27	2	8	Hưng Nguyên Tran	Vietnam	4:17.92
28	2	0	Luis Vega Torres	Cuba	4:19.27	NR
29	2	9	Erick Gordillo	Guatemala	4:21.02
30	1	3	Munzer Kabbara	Lebanon	4:21.59	NR
31	1	2	Nichita Bortnicov	Moldova	4:23.08
32	1	4	Malcolm Low	Singapore	4:25.31
33	2	1	Alberto Batungbacal	Philippines	4:25.90
34	1	6	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	4:33.24
	3	4	Wang Shun	China	DNS	WD

Final

The final was held on 15 December at 20:22.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	3:56.43
	6	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4:02.74
	5	Brandonn Almeida	Brazil	4:03.71
4	7	Péter Bernek	Hungary	4:04.71
5	1	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	4:04.74
6	3	Tomas Peribonio	Ecuador	4:06.26
7	2	Tomoya Takeuchi	Japan	4:06.99
8	8	João Vital	Portugal	4:07.69