The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 21 July 2019. The three-time defending champion was Sun Yang, and he successfully defended his title for a record-breaking 4th consecutive victory in the world championships in this event. He became the third man to win an event 4 times at the world championships after Grant Hackett in the 1500 meter freestyle and Ryan Lochte in the 200 meter individual medley.World Championships Olympic Channel
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were held at 10:16.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Sun Yang 3:44.10 Q 2 5 5 Danas Rapšys 3:44.31 Q 3 5 3 Jack McLoughlin 3:44.79 Q 4 4 4 Gabriele Detti 3:45.49 Q 5 4 5 Mack Horton 3:45.51 Q 6 4 3 Zane Grothe 3:45.83 Q 7 5 2 Marco De Tullio 3:45.99 Q 8 4 1 Ji Xinjie 3:46.34 Q 9 5 6 Aleksandr Krasnykh 3:46.65 10 5 7 Henrik Christiansen 3:46.99 11 4 6 Martin Malyutin 3:47.43 12 4 8 Anton Ipsen 3:48.50 13 4 7 Felix Auböck 3:48.78 14 5 8 Wojciech Wojdak 3:48.81 15 4 9 Luiz Altamir Melo 3:48.87 16 3 6 Dimitrios Negris 3:50.81 17 5 1 Daniel Jervis 3:50.90 18 3 5 Zac Reid 3:51.25 19 3 7 Kregor Zirk 3:51.30 NR 20 5 9 Antonio Djakovic 3:51.51 21 2 4 Khader Baqlah 3:51.59 NR 22 5 0 Lee Ho-joon 3:51.89 23 4 0 Marwan El-Kamash 3:52.51 24 3 4 Welson Sim 3:52.85 25 4 2 Grant Shoults 3:52.96 26 3 8 Richard Nagy 3:53.38 27 2 6 Erge Can Gezmiş 3:54.01 28 3 2 Denis Loktev 3:54.53 29 2 7 Igor Mogne 3:54.90 30 2 5 Cheuk Ming Ho 3:55.05 31 3 3 Marcelo Acosta 3:55.06 32 2 1 Christian Bayo 3:55.33 33 3 1 Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn 3:55.59 34 3 9 Glen Lim Jun Wei 3:55.60 35 2 2 Wesley Roberts 3:58.12 36 2 8 Alex Sobers 3:58.97 37 2 0 Kushagra Rawat 3:59.39 38 3 0 Aflah Prawira 3:59.98 39 2 3 James Freeman 4:00.48 40 1 5 Daniel Jacobs 4:00.69 41 2 9 Irakli Revishvili 4:00.88 42 1 3 Christian Mayer 4:05.33 43 1 6 Adib Khalil 4:06.70 44 1 7 Franci Aleksi 4:07.39 45 1 2 Filip Derkoski 4:07.99 46 1 1 Mawupemon Otogbe 4:25.30 1 4 Omar Abbas
Final The final was held at 20:02.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Sun Yang 3:42.44 2 Mack Horton 3:43.17 6 Gabriele Detti 3:43.23 NR 4 5 Danas Rapšys 3:43.50 5 1 Marco De Tullio 3:44.86 6 3 Jack McLoughlin 3:45.19 7 8 Ji Xinjie 3:45.64 8 7 Zane Grothe 3:45.78
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