Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 400 metre individual medley
Championship:	2019 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	27 July (heats and final)
Venue:	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location:	Gwangju, South Korea
Competitors:	41
Nations:	38
Win Value:	4:08.95
Gold:	Daiya Seto
Gold Nation:	JPN
Silver:	Jay Litherland
Silver Nation:	USA
Bronze:	Lewis Clareburt
Bronze Nation:	NZL
Prev:	2017
Next:	2022

The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 28 July 2019.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	4:12.27	Q
2	5	8	4:13.46	Q, NR
3	5	5	4:13.78	Q
4	5	3	4:14.35	Q
5	4	7	4:14.56	Q
6	5	6	4:14.62	Q
7	4	2	4:15.14	Q
8	5	7	4:15.24	Q,
9	4	3	4:15.49	Q
10	5	4	4:15.62
11	4	6	4:15.92
12	5	1	4:16.93
13	4	5	4:16.95
14	5	0	4:17.18
15	3	3	4:17.22
16	5	9	4:17.48
17	3	4	4:17.83
18	3	2	4:18.94	NR
19	3	5	4:20.32
20	4	8	4:21.65
21	3	6	4:22.06
22	3	7	4:22.56
23	5	2	4:23.23
24	2	5	4:24.99
25	3	8	4:25.49
26	2	4	4:26.49
27	3	0	4:26.88
28	3	1	4:27.80
29	2	6	4:28.57
30	3	9	4:28.65
31	2	2	4:28.93
32	2	7	4:29.84
33	2	3	4:30.17
34	4	9	4:31.14
35	2	8	4:33.28
36	1	3	4:33.87
37	1	4	4:33.88
38	2	1	4:35.58
39	1	5	4:41.42
	4	0
	4	1

The final was held on 28 July at 21:01.^[4]