The men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held 17 July 2025. Nikolai Kolesnikov from Individual Neutral Athletes won the gold medal, Khiew Hoe Yean from Malaysia took the silver medal and Ryan Erisman from the United States earned the bronze medal.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round17 July 09:00 Heats 19:00 Final
Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Lukas Märtens 3:39.96 12 April 2025 Stockholm, Sweden 2025 Stockholm Open Universiade record Mykhailo Romanchuk 3:45.96 20 August 2017 Taipei, Chinese Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade
Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 8 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 5 6 3:48.75 2 5 4 3:48.81 3 4 4 3:48.84 4 5 5 Khiew Hoe Yean 3:50.13 5 4 2 3:50.43 6 4 3 3:50.94 7 5 1 3:51.01 8 4 5 3:51.32 9 5 7 3:51.42 10 5 8 3:51.44 11 5 2 3:51.58 12 4 7 3:54.11 13 4 8 3:54.23 14 3 6 3:54.70 15 3 5 3:54.88 16 3 4 3:56.04 17 4 1 3:56.90 18 2 6 3:56.95 19 5 3 3:57.65 20 3 3 Cho Seung-been 3:57.67 21 4 6 3:59.07 22 3 1 3:59.45 23 2 5 3:59.55 24 3 7 4:00.28 25 2 4 4:02.30 26 3 8 4:02.62 27 3 2 4:02.96 28 2 3 4:05.42 29 2 7 4:06.61 30 2 2 4:12.75 31 2 1 4:14.29 32 2 8 4:26.15 33 1 4 4:39.80 34 1 5 5:23.04 35 1 3 5:27.37
Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 4 3:46.66 6 Khiew Hoe Yean 3:47.38 5 3:47.52 4 2 3:47.88 5 3 3:47.97 6 1 3:49.96 7 8 3:50.06 8 7 3:52.45
External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025
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