Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	27 July (heats and final)
Competitors	41 from 38 nations
Winning time	4:08.95
Medalists
Daiya Seto    Japan   Jay Litherland    United States   Lewis Clareburt    New Zealand
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The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 28 July 2019.^[1][2]

Records[]

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	4:03.84	Beijing, China	10 August 2008
Competition record	Chase Kalisz (USA)	4:05.90	Budapest, Hungary	30 July 2017

Results[]

Heats[]

The heats were held at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:12.27	Q
2	5	8	Arjan Knipping	Netherlands	4:13.46	Q, NR
3	5	5	Jay Litherland	United States	4:13.78	Q
4	5	3	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:14.35	Q
5	4	7	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	4:14.56	Q
6	5	6	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	4:14.62	Q
7	4	2	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	4:15.14	Q
8	5	7	Philip Heintz	Germany	4:15.24	Q, WD
9	4	3	Péter Bernek	Hungary	4:15.49	Q
10	5	4	Chase Kalisz	United States	4:15.62
11	4	6	Brandonn Almeida	Brazil	4:15.92
12	5	1	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4:16.93
13	4	5	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:16.95
14	5	0		Portugal	4:17.18
15	3	3		Canada	4:17.22
16	5	9	Dawid Szwedzki	Poland	4:17.48
17	3	4	Tomas Peribonio	Ecuador	4:17.83
18	3	2	Jarod Arroyo	Puerto Rico	4:18.94	NR
19	3	5	Ayrton Sweeney	South Africa	4:20.32
20	4	8	Wang Hsing-hao	Chinese Taipei	4:21.65
21	3	6		South Korea	4:22.06
22	3	7	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	4:22.56
23	5	2	Wang Shun	China	4:23.23
24	2	5	Denys Kesil	Ukraine	4:24.99
25	3	8		Vietnam	4:25.49
26	2	4	Aflah Prawira	Indonesia	4:26.49
27	3	0		Bulgaria	4:26.88
28	3	1	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	4:27.80
29	2	6		Guatemala	4:28.57
30	3	9	Jaouad Syoud	Algeria	4:28.65
31	2	2	Pang Sheng Jun	Singapore	4:28.93
32	2	7	Brandon Schuster	Samoa	4:29.84
33	2	3		Egypt	4:30.17
34	4	9		China	4:31.14
35	2	8		Faroe Islands	4:33.28
36	1	3		Peru	4:33.87
37	1	4		Malaysia	4:33.88
38	2	1	Munzer Kabbara	Lebanon	4:35.58
39	1	5	Simon Bachmann	Seychelles	4:41.42
	4	0	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	DSQ
	4	1		Austria

Final[]

The final was held on 28 July at 21:01.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:08.95
	3	Jay Litherland	United States	4:09.22
	2	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	4:12.07	NR
4	1	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	4:13.30	NR
5	8	Péter Bernek	Hungary	4:13.83
6	7	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	4:14.10
7	6	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:14.75
8	5	Arjan Knipping	Netherlands	4:17.06

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