2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 400 metre individual medley
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	10 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	47
Nations:	35
Win Value:	3:59.24
Gold:	Daiya Seto
Goldnoc:	JPN
Silver:	Max Litchfield
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Dávid Verrasztó
Bronzenoc:	HUN
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 10 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:04.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5			4:03.56	Q
2	5	4			4:04.08	Q
3	5	6			4:04.43	Q
4	5	8			4:04.64	Q
5	5	5			4:04.88	Q
6	4	4			4:05.00	Q
7	4	2			4:05.83	Q
8	1	7			4:06.07	Q
9	4	3			4:06.09
10	5	3			4:07.19
11	4	1			4:08.01
12	5	2			4:08.52
13	4	7			4:09.38
14	1	2			4:09.46
15	4	9			4:09.63
16	3	3			4:10.27	NR
17	5	0			4:10.96
18	3	4			4:11.80
19	4	0			4:11.92
20	2	4			4:12.00
21	3	2			4:12.73
22	4	8			4:13.96
23	5	7			4:14.59
24	5	9			4:14.80	NR
25	3	7			4:15.58
26	2	7			4:20.12
27	2	3			4:20.26
28	2	2			4:21.56	NR
29	3	8			4:23.19
30	3	0			4:23.65	NR
31	3	9			4:25.00	NR
32	2	5			4:25.14	NR
33	3	1			4:25.79
34	2	1			4:28.91	NR
35	1	1			4:30.97
36	1	4			4:32.74
37	2	0			4:32.78	NR
38	2	8			4:35.97	NR
39	1	5			4:42.45
40	1	3			5:02.23	NR
	1	6
	2	9
	4	6
	2	6
	3	6
	4	5
	5	1

Final

The final was held at 19:50.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7			3:59.24
	4			4:00.66	NR
	5			4:01.56
4	3			4:01.94
5	8			4:04.57
6	2			4:04.89
7	1			4:04.90
8	6			4:06.02

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
2. Web site: Heats Results . 2017-06-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170510172341/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00041100FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2017-05-10 . dead .
3. Web site: Final Results . 2017-06-23 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113107/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00041102FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .