Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates 6 August 2016 (heats & final)
Competitors 50 from 39 nations
Winning time 3:41.55
Medalists
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1st Mack Horton  Australia
2nd Sun Yang  China
3rd Gabriele Detti  Italy
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Swimming at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
List of swimmers
Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Marathon
10 km men women

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 6 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.[1]

China's Sun Yang fell short of his attempt to a back-to-back gold in one of the program's long-distance freestyle races due to an upset performance from Australia's Mack Horton. Heading into the final lap with a narrow 0.14-second lead, Horton managed to hold off the fast-charging Sun towards the finish for his first individual gold medal in 3:41.55.[2] Unable to catch his Aussie rival near the wall by 13-hundredths of a second, Sun settled for the silver in 3:41.68. Meanwhile, Gabriele Detti picked up the bronze with a time of 3:43.49 to become Italy's first male Olympic medalist in swimming since 2000.[3]

Conor Dwyer (3:44.01), the fastest swimmer headed into the final, and fellow American Connor Jaeger (3:44.16) finished off the podium in fourth and fifth respectively, separated by a 0.15-second margin.[4] Great Britain's James Guy led the pack towards the halfway mark under a world record pace, but faded to sixth in 3:44.68. Horton's teammate David McKeon (3:45.28) and France's Jordan Pothain (3:49.07) rounded out the field.[3]

South Korean swimmer and Beijing 2008 champion Park Tae-hwan, as well as Canada's long distance ace Ryan Cochrane, did not advance to the final, finishing tenth and eleventh in the prelims.[5]

Records

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

World record  Paul Biedermann (GER) 3:40.07 Rome, Italy 26 July 2009 [6]
Olympic record  Sun Yang (CHN) 3:40.14 London, Great Britain 28 July 2012 [7]

Results

Heats

The heats began at 1:48 pm.[8]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 2 Conor Dwyer  United States 3:43.42 Q
2 7 4 Mack Horton  Australia 3:43.84 Q
3 7 3 Gabriele Detti  Italy 3:43.95 Q
4 6 4 Sun Yang  China 3:44.23 Q
5 7 6 David McKeon  Australia 3:44.68 Q
6 7 5 James Guy  Great Britain 3:45.31 Q
7 6 5 Connor Jaeger  United States 3:45.37 Q
8 5 7 Jordan Pothain  France 3:45.43 Q
9 6 2 Florian Vogel  Germany 3:45.49
10 6 3 Park Tae-hwan  South Korea 3:45.63
11 6 6 Ryan Cochrane  Canada 3:45.83
12 5 1 Myles Brown  South Africa 3:45.92
13 7 1 Stephen Milne  Great Britain 3:46.00
14 7 8 Velimir Stjepanović  Serbia 3:46.78
15 5 4 Aleksandr Krasnykh  Russia 3:47.39
16 4 5 Marwan El-Kamash  Egypt 3:47.43
17 6 7 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 3:47.90
18 5 5 Maarten Brzoskowski  Netherlands 3:48.00
19 4 2 Matthew Hutchins  New Zealand 3:48.25
20 4 3 Anton Ipsen  Denmark 3:48.31
21 7 7 Péter Bernek  Hungary 3:48.58
22 3 8 Marcelo Acosta  El Salvador 3:48.82
23 6 1 Wojciech Wojdak  Poland 3:48.87
24 5 3 Clemens Rapp  Germany 3:49.10
25 6 8 Felix Auböck  Austria 3:49.35
26 5 8 Qiu Ziao  China 3:49.45
27 4 4 Ahmed Akram  Egypt 3:49.46
28 5 2 Filip Zaborowski  Poland 3:49.84
29 4 1 Jan Micka  Czech Republic 3:49.97
30 4 8 Vyacheslav Andrusenko  Russia 3:50.23
31 5 6 Naito Ehara  Japan 3:50.61
32 3 2 Luiz Altamir Melo  Brazil 3:50.82
33 2 3 Cristian Quintero  Venezuela 3:50.84
34 3 7 Welson Sim  Malaysia 3:51.57
35 2 4 Ahmed Mathlouthi  Tunisia 3:52.00
36 4 6 Mads Glæsner  Denmark 3:52.59
37 4 7 Miguel Durán  Spain 3:53.40 ƒ
38 3 5 Gergő Kis  Hungary 3:54.15
39 2 5 Martín Naidich  Argentina 3:54.58
40 3 6 David Brandl  Austria 3:54.59
41 3 1 Dimitrios Dimitriou  Greece 3:54.98
42 3 4 Matias Koski  Finland 3:55.57
43 3 3 Nezir Karap  Turkey 3:58.37
44 2 7 Alex Sobers  Barbados 3:59.97
45 2 2 Irakli Revishvili  Georgia 4:00.56
46 2 6 Jessie Lacuna  Philippines 4:01.70
47 2 1 Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou  Cyprus 4:03.53
48 1 4 Geoffrey Butler  Cayman Islands 4:07.87
49 1 5 Pol Arias  Andorra 4:21.16
50 1 3 Haris Bandey  Pakistan 4:33.13

ƒ False start, but allowed to continue at referee's discretion.[9]

Final

The final began at 10:30 pm.[10]

Medal ceremony for the 400 m freestyle.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st 5 Mack Horton  Australia 3:41.55
2nd 6 Sun Yang  China 3:41.68
3rd 3 Gabriele Detti  Italy 3:43.49
4 4 Conor Dwyer  United States 3:44.01
5 1 Connor Jaeger  United States 3:44.16
6 7 James Guy  Great Britain 3:44.68
7 2 David McKeon  Australia 3:45.28
8 8 Jordan Pothain  France 3:49.07

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