Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	July 28, 2013 (heats & final)
Competitors	48 from 43 nations
Winning time	3:41.59
Medalists
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Barcelona Palau San Jordi

The men's 400 metre freestyle event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 28 July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records[]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009	^[3]^[4]
Competition record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009	^[3]^[4]

The heats were held at 10:16.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Sun Yang	China	3:44.67	Q
2	5	6	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	3:45.74	Q
3	5	5		Australia	3:46.85	Q
4	3	4	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	3:46.92	Q
5	5	7	Devon Brown	South Africa	3:47.17	Q
6	3	5	Hao Yun	China	3:47.49	Q
7	4	5	Connor Jaeger	United States	3:47.83	Q
8	3	6	James Guy	Great Britain	3:47.86	Q
9	3	3	Robbie Renwick	Great Britain	3:47.99
10	4	6	Matthew Stanley	New Zealand	3:48.25
11	4	7	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	3:49.45
12	4	4	David McKeon	Australia	3:49.51
13	5	3	Matt McLean	United States	3:49.74
14	4	2	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:49.78
15	4	1	Filip Zaborowski	Poland	3:50.22
16	4	3	Gergő Kis	Hungary	3:50.87
17	3	1	Matias Koski	Finland	3:51.04
18	5	2	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	3:51.90
19	5	0	David Brandl	Austria	3:51.98
20	3	7	Cristian Quintero	Venezuela	3:52.03
21	2	3	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	3:53.10
22	3	2	Samuel Pizzetti	Italy	3:53.26
23	5	8	Ward Bauwens	Belgium	3:53.60
24	2	5		Egypt	3:53.80	NR
25	5	1	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	3:53.92
26	1	8		Germany	3:54.47
27	2	6	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	3:54.67	NR
28	2	1		Syria	3:56.29
28	2	2		Lithuania	3:56.29
30	4	9		South Korea	3:56.68
31	5	9	Arturo Pérez Vertti	Mexico	3:57.28
32	3	8	Damien Joly	France	3:57.32
33	2	4	Nezir Karap	Turkey	3:57.37
34	4	8	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	3:57.65
35	3	0	Ihar Boki	Belarus	3:58.27
36	4	0	Martin Naidich	Argentina	3:58.92
37	3	9	Kevin Yeap	Malaysia	3:59.08
38	1	4	Nicholas Schwab	Dominican Republic	3:59.29	NR
39	2	7		El Salvador	4:02.21
40	2	0	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	4:02.28
41	2	9	Matthew Lowe	Bahamas	4:03.01
42	1	5	Ahmed Gebrel	Palestine	4:07.70
43	2	8		Vietnam	4:13.91
44	1	3		Nicaragua	4:20.85
45	1	7	Sovijja Pou	Cambodia	4:22.67
46	1	6	Klavio Meca	Albania	4:27.25
47	1	1	Brandon Schuster	Samoa	4:29.60
48	1	2	Khalid Baba	Bahrain	4:29.94

The final was held at 18:13.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Sun Yang	China	3:41.59
	6	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	3:44.82
	1	Connor Jaeger	United States	3:44.85
4	5	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	3:45.02
5	8	James Guy	Great Britain	3:47.96
6	2	Devon Brown	South Africa	3:48.40
6	3		Australia	3:48.40
8	7	Hao Yun	China	3:48.88

^ "BCN 2013 – Swimming: Schedule". FINA. 8 July 2013. Archived from the original on 23 December 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
^ Start list
^ ^a ^b Cowley, Michael (27 July 2009). "Thorpe's mark tumbles in night of world records". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
^ ^a ^b Dillman, Lisa (27 July 2009). "U.S. beats France in 400 relay at world swim championships". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
^ Heats Results
^ Final Results