Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Men's 400 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre,; Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	27 July 2024; (Heats); 27 July 2024; (Final)
Competitors	37 from 31 nations
Winning time	3:41.78
Medalists
	← 2020 2028 →

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.^[1]

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	^[2]
Olympic record	Sun Yang (CHN)	3:40.14	London, Great Britain	28 July 2012	^[3]

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).^[4]^[5]

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.^[4]

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.^[6]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

Men's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
400 m freestyle	3:46.78ª	3:47.91

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
27 July 2024	10:00	Heats
27 July 2024	20:42	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Lukas Märtens	Germany	3:44.13	Q
2	4	3	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	3:44.23	Q
3	3	3	Fei Liwei	China	3:44.60	Q
4	5	5	Elijah Winnington	Australia	3:44.87	Q
5	4	4	Samuel Short	Australia	3:44.88	Q
6	4	1	Aaron Shackell	United States	3:45.45	Q
7	4	5	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	3:45.52	Q
8	5	3	Oliver Klemet	Germany	3:45.75	Q
9	3	5	Ahmed Jaouadi	Tunisia	3:46.19
10	4	7	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	3:46.27
11	4	8	Kieran Smith	United States	3:46.47
12	5	1	Zhang Zhanshuo	China	3:46.76
12	4	2	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	3:46.76
14	3	8	Zalán Sárkány	Hungary	3:47.33	PB
15	3	7	David Aubry	France	3:47.53
16	5	8	Kieran Bird	Great Britain	3:47.54
17	5	7	Marco De Tullio	Italy	3:47.90
18	3	4	Victor Johansson	Sweden	3:47.98
19	3	1	Alfonso Mestre	Venezuela	3:48.20
20	3	6	Matteo Lamberti	Italy	3:48.38
21	5	2	Petar Mitsin	Bulgaria	3:49.30
22	2	5	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	3:49.59
23	4	6	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:49.77
24	5	6	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:50.50
25	2	7	Eduardo Cisternas	Chile	3:51.29	NR
26	2	3	Ilia Sibirtsev	Uzbekistan	3:51.52
27	2	4	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	3:51.66
28	3	2	Eduardo Moraes	Brazil	3:51.74
29	2	2	Joaquín Vargas	Peru	3:54.59
30	2	6	Jovan Lekić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3:57.90
31	2	8	Pavel Alovațki	Moldova	3:59.77
32	2	1	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	4:01.13
33	1	5	Ilias el Fallaki	Morocco	4:01.59
34	1	3	Raekwon Noel	Guyana	4:02.29	NR
35	1	6	Alberto Vega	Costa Rica	4:03.14
36	1	2	Ridhwan Abubakar	Kenya	4:05.14
37	1	4	Nikola Ǵuretanoviḱ	North Macedonia	4:05.38

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Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Lukas Märtens	Germany	3:41.78
	6	Elijah Winnington	Australia	3:42.21
	1	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	3:42.50
4	2	Samuel Short	Australia	3:42.64
5	5	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	3:42.76	AM
6	3	Fei Liwei	China	3:44.24
7	8	Oliver Klemet	Germany	3:46.59
8	7	Aaron Shackell	United States	3:47.00