Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	17 August
Competitors	34 from 24 nations
Winning time	3:42.50
Medalists
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The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 August 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	3:40.07	Rome	26 July 2009
Championship record	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:44.01	London	16 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
17 August	Final	Lukas Märtens	Germany	3:42.50	CR

The heats were started at 09:27.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	5	Henning Mühlleitner	Germany	3:46.79	Q
2	5	4	Lukas Märtens	Germany	3:47.38	Q
3	5	6	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:47.67	Q
4	1	3	David Popovici	Romania	3:47.99	Q, WD
5	4	6	Lorenzo Galossi	Italy	3:48.15	Q
6	5	3	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:48.32	Q
7	4	5	Marco De Tullio	Italy	3:48.38
8	4	7	Joris Bouchaut	France	3:49.00	Q
9	4	4	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:49.16	Q
10	5	1	Sven Schwarz	Germany	3:49.58
11	4	2	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	3:51.26	Q
12	4	1	Victor Johansson	Sweden	3:51.29
13	5	2	Matteo Ciampi	Italy	3:52.35
13	3	6	Luis Domínguez	Spain	3:52.35
15	4	8	Kieran Bird	Great Britain	3:52.94
16	3	2	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	3:53.31
17	3	7	Carlos Garach	Spain	3:53.36
18	3	1	Sašo Boškan	Slovenia	3:53.42
19	5	7	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	3:53.43
20	3	9	Damien Joly	France	3:53.63
21	3	3	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	3:53.69
22	5	8	Gábor Zombori	Hungary	3:53.84
23	2	5	Ondřej Gemov	Czech Republic	3:54.00
24	4	9	Bar Soloveychik	Israel	3:54.34
25	2	4	Yoav Romano	Israel	3:54.42
26	3	0	Dániel Mészáros	Hungary	3:54.70
27	2	2	Finn McGeever	Ireland	3:56.52
28	3	8	Luc Kroon	Netherlands	3:58.62
29	2	6	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	3:59.22
30	1	4	Pit Brandenburger	Luxembourg	3:59.73
31	2	7	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	4:01.70
32	2	8	Primož Šenica Pavletič	Slovenia	4:02.69
33	2	1	Dylan Cachia	Malta	4:13.46
34	1	5	Franc Aleksi	Albania	4:19.20
	2	0	Liam Custer	Ireland	Did not start
	2	3	Robin Hanson	Sweden
	3	4	Mikkel Gadgaard	Denmark
	3	5	Balázs Holló	Hungary
	4	0	Jon Jøntvedt	Norway
	4	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania
	5	0	Dimitrios Markos	Greece
	5	9	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine

The final was held at 18:53.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Lukas Märtens	Germany	3:42.50	CR
	3	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:43.93	NR
	4	Henning Mühlleitner	Germany	3:44.53
4	1	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:45.76
5	6	Lorenzo Galossi	Italy	3:46.94
6	7	Joris Bouchaut	France	3:47.20
7	2	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:47.34
8	8	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	3:50.30