Swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 400 metre freestyle
Games:	2019
Venue:	Villa Deportiva Nacional, VIDENA
Dates:	August 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	18
Nations:	15
Win Label:	Winning time
Gold:	Andrew Abruzzo
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Fernando Scheffer
Silvernoc:	BRA
Bronze:	Luiz Altamir Melo
Bronzenoc:	BRA
Prev:	2015
Next:	2023

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games were held on August 6, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record		3:40.07	Rome, Italy	July 26, 2009
Pan American Games record		3:48.29	Toronto, Canada	July 17, 2015

Results

KEY:

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q

Fastest non-qualifiers

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Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 6.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4			3:49.46	QA
2	2	4			3:50.23	QA
3	3	5			3:50.80	QA
4	3	3			3:52.17	QA
5	2	5			3:53.87	QA
6	2	6			3:54.03	QA
7	2	3			3:54.12	QA
8	3	6			3:55.58	QA
9	3	2			3:55.85	QB
10	3	7			3:57.66	QB
11	2	2			3:58.94	WD
12	2	7			3:59.15	QB
13	2	1			4:00.39	QB
14	3	1			4:02.31	QB
15	1	5			4:04.34	QB
16	3	8			4:06.62	QB
17	1	4			4:07.58	QB
18	1	3			4:28.29

Final B

The B final was also held on August 6.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5			3:58.39
10	4			3:58.64
11	3			3:59.09
12	2			4:00.68
13	8			4:02.77
14	6			4:02.81
15	1			4:05.20
16	7			4:10.70

Final A

The A final was also held on August 6.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			3:48.41
	3			3:49.60
	2			3:49.91
4	5			3:50.39
5	8			3:52.27
6	1			3:52.68
7	6			3:54.20
8	7			3:56.00

Notes and References

1. Web site: Villa Deportiva Nacional, VIDENA. 4 August 2019. www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 4 August 2019.
2. Web site: Swimming Schedule. 4 August 2019. www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 4 August 2019.
3. Web site: Entries List. 4 August 2019. www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 4 August 2019.
4. Web site: Start List. 5 August 2019. www.lima2019.pe. ATOS. 5 August 2019.
5. Web site: HEATS RESULTS. 6 August 2019. www.lima2019.pe. ATOS. 6 August 2019.
6. https://wrsd.lima2019.pe/PAG2019/resPAG2019/pdf/PAG2019/SWM/PAG2019_SWM_C73A1_SWMM400MFR------------FNL-000200--.pdf Men's 400m Freestyle - B Final
7. https://wrsd.lima2019.pe/PAG2019/resPAG2019/pdf/PAG2019/SWM/PAG2019_SWM_C74A_SWMM400MFR------------FNL---------.pdf Men's 400m Freestyle - A Final