Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley
at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	9 August
Competitors	30 from 22 nations
Winning time	4:10.65
Medalists
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The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 9 August 2018.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps	United States	4:03.84	Beijing	10 August 2008
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	4:06.16	Beijing	10 August 2008
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	4:09.59	Eindhoven	24 March 2008

The heats were started at 09:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:14.18	Q
2	3	4	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:14.91	Q
3	2	5	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	4:15.33	Q
4	2	4	João Vital	Portugal	4:15.87	Q
5	3	2	Johannes Hintze	Germany	4:16.18	Q
6	4	3	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	4:17.01	Q
7	4	1	Maxim Stupin	Russia	4:17.60	Q
8	3	6	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	4:17.77	Q
9	4	2	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	4:18.58
10	3	3	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	4:18.64
11	3	5	Mark Szaranek	Great Britain	4:19.34
12	4	7	Federico Turrini	Italy	4:19.74
13	4	9	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	4:19.89
14	3	9	Arjan Knipping	Netherlands	4:19.91
15	4	0	Thomas Dean	Great Britain	4:20.32
16	4	8	Apostolos Papastamos	Greece	4:20.43
17	4	5	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	4:20.89
18	3	0	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	4:21.34
19	2	9	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	4:21.57
20	2	2	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	4:21.69
21	4	6	Patrick Staber	Austria	4:22.48
22	2	7	Tomás Veloso	Portugal	4:22.57
23	3	8	Dawid Szwedzki	Poland	4:23.69
24	2	6	Etay Gurevich	Israel	4:25.31
25	2	1	Semen Makovich	Russia	4:25.88
26	2	8	Samet Alkan	Turkey	4:27.57
27	1	4	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	4:27.71
28	2	0	Filip Chrápavý	Czech Republic	4:29.48
29	1	5	Alvi Hjelm	Faroe Islands	4:30.47
30	1	2	Thomas Wareing	Malta	4:44.13
	1	3	Batuhan Hakan	Turkey	Did not start
	1	6	Armin Lelle	Estonia
	1	7	Metin Aydın	Turkey
	2	3	Brodie Williams	Great Britain
	3	1	Alexis Santos	Portugal
	3	7	Balázs Holló	Hungary

The final was started at 17:27.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:10.65
	5	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:11.00
	7	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	4:14.26
4	2	Johannes Hintze	Germany	4:14.73
5	3	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	4:14.77
6	8	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	4:16.29
7	1	Maxim Stupin	Russia	4:18.41
8	6	João Vital	Portugal	4:19.79