Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 27, 2012 (heats and final)
Competitors	31 from 19 nations
Winning time	4:12.17
Medalists
László Cseh    Hungary   Dávid Verrasztó    Hungary   Ioannis Drymonakos    Greece

2012 European Aquatics Championships
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Team	team
Synchronised swimming
Individual	Solo	Duet
Team	Team	Combination
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The men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 27. The heats and final took place on May 27.^[1]

Records[]

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

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

Results[]

Heats[]

31 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	László Cseh	Hungary	4:16.14	Q
2	4	6	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:16.55	Q
3	4	3	Luca Marin	Italy	4:16.81	Q
4	3	4	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:17.01	Q
5	2	5		Ukraine	4:17.86	Q
6	4	7	Ward Bauwens	Belgium	4:18.24	Q
7	2	8	Lukasz Wojt	Poland	4:18.55	Q
8	3	5	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	4:18.77	Q
9	3	7	Alexis Manacas Santos	Portugal	4:20.01
10	2	4	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	4:20.34
11	4	1	Yury Suvorau	Belarus	4:21.35
12	2	2		Germany	4:21.70
13	2	3	Dinko Jukić	Austria	4:21.89
14	3	6	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	4:22.19
15	4	5	Federico Turrini	Italy	4:22.21
16	4	2	Eduardo Solaeche Gomez	Spain	4:22.91
17	1	4		Russia	4:23.75
18	2	7	Dmitry Gorbunov	Russia	4:24.07
19	3	1		Austria	4:24.24
20	2	1		Austria	4:24.73
21	3	3	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	4:24.83
22	3	2		Germany	4:26.20
23	4	8	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	4:26.46
24	1	1		Slovenia	4:28.18
25	1	7	Irakli Bolkvadze	Georgia	4:29.25
26	1	5	Nikša Roki	Croatia	4:29.85
27	2	6	Raphael Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	4:31.04
28	1	6		Slovakia	4:32.51
29	1	3		Slovakia	4:33.49
30	3	8		Israel	4:36.12
	1	2		Slovenia	DSQ

Final[]

The final was held at 17:32.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	László Cseh	Hungary	4:12.17
	6	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:14.23
	8	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	4:14.41	NR
4	5	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:16.14
5	3	Luca Marin	Italy	4:16.46
6	1	Lukasz Wojt	Poland	4:17.36
7	7	Ward Bauwens	Belgium	4:18.47
8	2		Ukraine	4:19.24

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