Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 400 metre individual medley
Championship:	2017 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	30 July (heats and final)
Venue:	Danube Arena
Location:	Budapest, Hungary
Competitors:	37
Nations:	32
Win Value:	4:05.90
Gold:	Chase Kalisz
Gold Nation:	USA
Silver:	Dávid Verrasztó
Silver Nation:	HUN
Bronze:	Daiya Seto
Bronze Nation:	JPN
Prev:	2015
Next:	2019

The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 30 July 2017.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

The following new records were set during this competition.

The heats were held at 09:50.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3	4		4:09.79	Q
2	3	3		4:10.57	Q, NR
3	4	5		4:11.89	Q
4	3	5		4:12.89	Q
5	3	6		4:13.13	Q
6	4	3		4:13.95	Q
7	4	4		4:14.15	Q
8	3	1		4:15.69	Q
9	4	8		4:15.71
10	4	1		4:16.27
11	3	8		4:17.34
12	2	6		4:17.37	NR
13	3	7		4:17.68
14	4	6		4:18.25
15	4	7		4:18.69
16	2	7		4:19.15
17	4	9		4:19.87
18	3	2		4:19.90
19	4	2	Wang Shun	4:20.01
20	2	8		4:20.10
21	4	0		4:20.34
22	2	4		4:20.48
23	2	3		4:20.65
24	2	0		4:20.74
25	2	5		4:22.11
26	2	2		4:22.29
27	3	9		4:22.66
28	1	3		4:25.16
28	1	4	Cho Cheng-chi	4:25.16
30	1	8		4:26.07
31	3	0		4:28.25
32	1	5		4:30.37
33	1	2		4:30.77
34	2	9		4:31.14
35	1	7		4:34.49
36	1	1		4:34.60	NR
37	1	0		5:48.11	NR
	1	6
	2	1

The final was held at 17:39.^[4]