Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 400 metre individual medley
Competition:	2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates:	August 4, 2013 (heats & final)
Competitors:	39
Nations:	34
Win Value:	4:08.69
Gold:	Daiya Seto
Goldnoc:	JPN
Silver:	Chase Kalisz
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Thiago Pereira
Bronzenoc:	BRA
Prev:	2011
Next:	2015

The men's 400 metre individual medley event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 4 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	5	4:11.87	Q
2	2	4	4:12.96	Q
3	4	6	4:13.55	Q
4	4	4	4:13.80	Q
5	2	5	4:13.95	Q
6	2	6	4:14.15	Q
7	3	4	4:14.52	Q
8	4	2	4:15.81	Q
9	2	3	4:15.90
10	4	5	4:15.96
11	4	3	4:16.23
12	4	8	4:16.30	NR
13	2	7	4:16.62
14	3	3	4:17.71
15	3	6	4:17.95
16	2	1	4:19.21
17	3	1	4:21.17
18	3	8	4:21.74
19	3	0	4:21.82	NR
20	3	2	4:22.65
21	4	7	4:23.18
22	2	8	4:23.27
23	4	9	4:23.36
24	1	9	4:23.39
25	1	7	4:23.90	NR
26	2	0	4:23.99	NR
27	4	1	4:25.07
28	1	6	4:25.14
29	3	7	4:25.42
30	1	5	4:28.22
31	1	4	4:28.73
32	1	2	4:29.05
33	1	3	4:29.94
34	1	1	4:30.67
35	2	9	4:30.73
36	3	9	4:32.95
37	4	0	4:34.69
38	1	0	4:35.37	NR
39	1	8	4:41.12
	2	2

The final was held at 18:15.^[4]