Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	August 2, 2009
Competitors	72
Winning time	4 minutes 7.01 seconds
Medalists
Ryan Lochte    United States   Tyler Clary    United States   László Cseh    Hungary
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The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships took place on August 2 at the Foro Italico. The heats were held during the morning session and the final were held during the evening session. This swimming event used medley swimming. Because the swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events.

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	August 10, 2008
Championship record	Michael Phelps	United States	4:06.22	Melbourne	April 1, 2007

No new world or competition records were set during this competition.

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Tyler Clary	USA	4:10.04	6	4
2	László Cseh	Hungary	4:10.33	7	4
3	Gergő Kis	Hungary	4:10.99	7	5
4	Ryan Lochte	USA	4:11.05	8	4
5	Thomas Haffield	Great Britain	4:11.32	6	3	NR
6	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:11.51	7	2	NR
7	Luca Marin	Italy	4:12.66	8	5
8	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	4:13.05	8	3
9	Yuya Horihata	Japan	4:14.43	6	6
10	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	4:14.56	6	5
11		Poland	4:14.57	8	7
12	Ken Takakuwa	Japan	4:14.73	8	6
13	Riaan Schoeman	South Africa	4:15.50	7	3
14	Leith Brodie	Australia	4:15.52	4	2
15	Chris Christensen	Denmark	4:16.78	5	5	NR
16	Chad le Clos	South Africa	4:17.39	7	1
17		Great Britain	4:17.56	6	2
18	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	4:18.08	6	8
19	Liu Weijia	China	4:18.11	6	7
20	Dinko Jukić	Austria	4:18.38	8	1
21	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	4:18.43	7	7
22	Stephen Parkes	Australia	4:18.60	8	8
23	Vadym Lepskyy	Ukraine	4:18.88	5	7
24	Jordan Hartney	Canada	4:20.15	6	1
25	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	4:20.98	7	9	NR
26	Carlos Almeida	Portugal	4:21.36	5	6
27		Austria	4:22.04	8	0
28	Andrey Krylov	Russia	4:22.29	7	6
29	Dmitriy Gordiyenko	Kazakhstan	4:22.84	5	3
30	Niksa Roki	Croatia	4:25.40	5	4
31	Pedro Pinotes	Angola	4:25.62	4	6
32	Miguel Molina	Philippines	4:26.20	6	0
33	Henrique Rodrigues	Brazil	4:26.39	7	8
34	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	4:26.52	7	0
35	Raphael Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	4:26.63	4	4
36	Taki Mrabet	Tunisia	4:26.98	6	9
37		Canada	4:27.78	5	2
38		Slovenia	4:29.15	4	1
39		Uzbekistan	4:29.49	4	3
40		Mexico	4:29.81	5	9
41		Mexico	4:30.91	5	0
42	Rehan Poncha	India	4:31.34	3	3
43		Chinese Taipei	4:31.99	4	3
44	Esteban Enderica	Ecuador	4:33.73	3	8
45		Chile	4:34.43	4	8
46		Uzbekistan	4:37.16	3	2
47		Iran	4:37.65	2	5
48		Morocco	4:38.95	3	9	NR
49		Philippines	4:40.57	3	5
50		Chinese Taipei	4:41.92	4	5
51		Saudi Arabia	4:42.09	2	2
52	Rafael Alfaro	El Salvador	4:42.15	2	3
53		Ecuador	4:42.62	3	6
54		Georgia	4:42.65	3	0
55	Pang Sheng Jun	Singapore	4:43.20	4	0
56		Palestine	4:45.73	2	7
57	Colin Bensadon	Gibraltar	4:47.14	2	6
58		Zimbabwe	4:48.21	1	3
59		Kyrgyzstan	4:52.96	2	4
60	Radomyos Matjiur	Thailand	4:59.20	3	7
61		Virgin Islands	4:59.30	2	1
62		American Samoa	5:05.88	1	5
63	Vincent Perry	Tahiti	5:07.98	2	8
–		Albania	DNS	1	4
–		Virgin Islands	DNS	2	0
–		Kuwait	DNS	3	1
–		Singapore	DNS	3	4
–	Saša Imprić	Croatia	DNS	4	9
–	Bradley Ally	Barbados	DNS	8	2
–	Romanos Alyfantis	Greece	DNS	8	9
–		China	DSQ	5	1
–	Vasilii Danilov	Kyrgyzstan	DSQ	5	8

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Final[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Ryan Lochte	United States	4:07.01
	4	Tyler Clary	United States	4:07.31
	5	László Cseh	Hungary	4:07.37
4	8	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	4:08.86	SA
5	3	Gergő Kis	Hungary	4:10.40
6	7	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:12.33
7	1	Luca Marin	Italy	4:13.63
7	2	Thomas Haffield	Great Britain	4:13.63

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References[]

External links[]

• 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-05-07.