Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 400 metre individual medley
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 31, 2011 (heats and final)
Competitors:	36
Nations:	29
Win Value:	4:07.13
Gold:	Ryan Lochte
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Tyler Clary
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Yuya Horihata
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events was held on July 31 with the semifinals and the final.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps		align=left	4:03.84	Beijing	August 10, 2008
Championship record	Michael Phelps		align=left	4:06.22	Melbourne	April 1, 2007

34 swimmers participated in 5 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	4	4:11.89	Q
2	5	3	4:13.68	Q
3	3	3	4:14.07	Q
4	4	4	4:14.98	Q
5	3	7	4:15.01	Q
5	5	5	4:15.01	Q
7	4	5	4:16.45	Q
8	4	3	4:16.48	Q
9	4	7	4:16.53
10	4	6	4:16.95
11	5	6	4:17.31
12	4	1	4:17.36
13	5	1	4:18.49
14	3	1	4:18.68
15	2	4	4:18.98
16	2	3	4:18.99
17	5	7	4:19.29
18	4	2	4:19.48
19	3	6	4:19.50
20	4	8	4:20.64	NR
21	5	8	4:20.87
22	3	4	4:22.26
23	5	2	4:25.96
24	2	2	4:26.41
25	3	2	4:26.91
26	2	1	4:27.19
27	2	5	4:28.81
28	3	8	4:30.85
29	2	7	4:31.97
30	2	8	4:32.39
31	1	4	4:32.96
32	1	5	4:35.84
33	2	6	4:41.02
34	1	3	5:16.80
-	1	6		DNS
-	3	5		DNS

The final was held at 18:09.^[2]