The heats for the men's 400 metre freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on Sunday, 26 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.
Records
World record 3:40.08 Manchester, United Kingdom 30 July 2002Championship record 3:40.17 Fukuoka, Japan 22 July 2001
The following records were established during the competition:
DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 26 July Final Paul Biedermann Germany 3:40.07 WR
Results
Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Paul Biedermann 3:43.01 9 2 ER 2 Zhang Lin 3:43.58 9 4 3 Oussama Mellouli 3:43.78 8 4 4 Mads Glæsner 3:44.59 8 3 NR 5 Peter Vanderkaay United States 3:45.40 10 5 6 David Davies 3:45.43 9 3 7 Ryan Cochrane 3:45.52 8 5 8 Gergő Kis 3:45.68 8 6 NR 9 Daniel Madwed United States 3:45.95 9 7 10 Nikita Lobintsev 3:45.97 9 5 11 Robert Hurley 3:46.01 10 2 12 Park Tae-Hwan 3:46.04 10 4 13 Jean Basson 3:46.64 10 8 14 Robert Renwick 3:46.75 9 0 15 Takeshi Matsuda 3:46.95 10 3 16 Massimiliano Rosolino 3:47.05 10 6 17 Cesare Sciocchetti 3:47.40 8 7 18 Sun Yang 3:47.51 10 0 19 David Brandl 3:47.61 9 8 20 Ahmed Mathlouthi 3:47.83 10 7 21 Ryan Napoleon 3:47.98 10 1 22 Pál Joensen 3:48.93 8 1 23 Jon Rahauge Rud 3:49.17 10 9 24 Péter Bernek 3:49.43 7 4 25 Sho Uchida 3:50.16 8 2 26 Moss Burmester 3:51.31 8 8 27 Blake Worsley 3:51.86 6 5 28 Gard Kvale 3:52.22 8 0 29 Dominik Koll 3:52.57 9 1 30 David Karasek 3:52.64 6 4 31 Esteban Paz 3:53.07 7 5 NR 32 Julio Galofre 3:54.24 6 2 NR 33 Stef Verachten 3:54.66 7 3 34 Djordje Markovic 3:54.87 8 9 35 Fabio Pereira 3:55.00 7 7 36 Daniele Tirabassi 3:55.55 7 6 37 Jorge Maia 3:55.76 9 9 38 Ryan Harrison 3:55.88 7 1 NR 39 Jang Sangjin 3:56.35 7 2 40 Mohamed Farhoud 3:57.01 7 0 41 Raphaël Stacchiotti 3:57.34 6 3 42 Daniel Delgadillo 3:58.66 7 8 43 Jan Karel Petric 3:58.91 6 7 44 Ricardo Monasterio 3:59.04 6 1 45 Mateo de Angulo 3:59.11 6 6 46 Nicolas Rostoucher 3:59.15 9 6 47 Kemal Arda Gürdal 3:59.47 5 5 48 Oleg Rabota 3:59.60 6 8 49 Chien Jui-Ting 3:59.78 5 4 50 Sebastián Jahnsen Madico 4:01.47 5 6 51 Dmitriy Gordiyenko 4:02.13 5 3 52 Ivan Alejandro Enderica 4:02.86 6 0 53 Saeid Maleka Ashtiani 4:03.69 4 1 NR 54 Sebastian Arispe Silva 4:03.72 5 2 55 Lin Kuan-Ting 4:04.61 5 8 56 Sobitjon Amilov 4:04.92 4 4 56 Pan Kai-Wen 4:04.92 7 9 58 Irakli Revishvili 4:05.18 6 9 59 Hajder Ensar 4:05.50 4 2 60 Mandar Divase 4:06.18 1 6 61 Berrada Morad 4:06.48 4 5 62 Marzouq Alsalem 4:07.43 5 0 63 Esteban Enderica 4:07.58 5 7 64 José Alberto Montoya 4:08.84 4 7 65 Gary Pineda 4:08.99 3 2 66 Danny Yeo 4:11.32 5 9 67 Loai Abdulwahid Tashkandi 4:12.19 4 3 68 Colin Bensadon 4:12.31 3 7 NR 69 Ahmed Jebrel 4:12.94 3 5 70 Antonio Tong 4:13.87 3 6 71 Aleksandr Slepchenko 4:14.31 4 8 72 Neil Agius 4:16.10 3 3 73 Allan Gutiérrez Castro 4:16.14 4 6 74 Radhames Kalaf 4:16.29 4 0 75 Rafael Alfaro 4:16.95 3 1 76 Vitalii Khudiakov 4:17.26 3 4 77 Luis Andres Martorell Name 4:18.18 3 9 78 Ngou Pok Man 4:18.21 2 4 79 Cheah Mingzhe Marcus 4:19.28 5 1 80 Ignacio Iván Quevedo Bubba 4:20.09 2 5 80 Omar Núñez 4:20.09 3 8 82 Heimanu Sichan 4:20.11 4 9 83 Ali Al Kaabi 4:25.78 2 7 84 Jean Marie Froget 4:26.48 2 3 85 Paul Elaisa 4:26.61 2 1 86 Douglas Miller 4:27.13 2 2 87 Vincent Perry 4:27.41 3 0 88 Ahmed Majeed Ali Tayawi 4:30.55 2 8 89 Mathieu Marquet 4:32.36 2 6 90 Adam Viktora 4:43.14 2 9 91 Shin Kimura 4:47.58 2 0 92 Elio Berberi 4:49.85 1 5 93 Henk Aloysius Lowe 4:52.56 1 4 94 Shameel Ibrahim 5:28.11 1 3 Legend: ER: European record; NR: National record
Final Rank Name Nationality Lane Time Notes Paul Biedermann 4 3:40.07 WR Oussama Mellouli 3 3:41.11 AF Zhang Lin 5 3:41.35 AS 4 Peter Vanderkaay United States 2 3:43.20 5 Mads Glæsner 6 3:44.40 NR 6 Gergő Kis 8 3:46.30 7 Ryan Cochrane 1 3:46.60 8 David Davies 7 3:47.02 Legend: WR: World record; AF: African record; AS: Asian record; NR: National record
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