2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Men's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Dates	15 December (heats and final)
Competitors	34 from 30 nations
Winning time	3:34.38
Medalists
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The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 15 December 2022.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Yannick Agnel (FRA)	3:32.25	Angers, France	15 November 2012
Competition record	Danas Rapšys (LTU)	3:34.01	Hangzhou, China	11 December 2018

The heats were started at 12:25.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Kieran Smith	United States	3:36.91	Q
2	5	3	Matteo Ciampi	Italy	3:37.73	Q
3	4	2	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	3:37.96	Q
4	4	3	Mack Horton	Australia	3:38.09	Q
5	4	6	Thomas Neill	Australia	3:38.23	Q
6	4	5	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:38.57	Q
7	4	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	3:38.71	Q
8	5	6	Jake Magahey	United States	3:38.74	Q
9	3	6	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	3:38.86
10	5	1	Tom Dean	Great Britain	3:39.79
11	5	7	Logan Fontaine	France	3:39.84
12	5	5	Matthew Sates	South Africa	3:41.05
13	3	4	Breno Correia	Brazil	3:41.89
14	4	7	Shogo Takeda	Japan	3:42.16
15	3	1	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	3:42.85
16	2	3	Luis Domínguez	Spain	3:43.18
17	5	2	Luc Kroon	Netherlands	3:44.76
18	3	3	Joaquín Vargas	Peru	3:45.66
19	2	6	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	3:45.70
20	3	2	Louis Clark	New Zealand	3:46.19
21	1	4	Mert Kılavuz	Turkey	3:46.32
22	2	5	Santiago Corredor	Colombia	3:47.60
23	3	8	Lucas Alba	Argentina	3:48.47
24	2	2	Jakub Poliačik	Slovakia	3:49.93
25	2	4	Cheuk Ming Ho	Hong Kong	3:49.94
26	2	8	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	3:50.03
27	1	7	Max Mannes	Luxembourg	3:50.63
28	1	6	Luke Thompson	Bahamas	3:56.22	NR
29	1	3	Mark Ducaj	Albania	3:56.41
30	2	1	Pavel Alovatki	Moldova	3:56.60
31	3	7	David Popovici	Romania	3:58.48
32	1	5	Dylan Cachia	Malta	4:05.61
33	1	2	Ivan Hart	Suspended Member Federation	4:08.64
34	1	1	Israel Poppe	Guam	4:17.65
	2	7	Victor Johansson	Sweden	Did not start
	3	5	Jon Jøntvedt	Norway
	4	1	Roman Fuchs	France
	4	8	Fei Liwei	China
	5	8	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt

The final was held at 21:31.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Kieran Smith	United States	3:34.38	AM
	2	Thomas Neill	Australia	3:35.05
	1	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	3:36.26
4	3	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	3:36.87	NR
5	7	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:37.86
6	6	Mack Horton	Australia	3:37.94
7	8	Jake Magahey	United States	3:38.12
8	5	Matteo Ciampi	Italy	3:38.98