Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Medallists
Dates	9 August (heats and final)
Competitors	41 from 34 nations
Winning time	4:08.50
Medalists
Daiya Seto    Japan   Dávid Verrasztó    Hungary   Chase Kalisz    United States

The 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 9 August with the heats and the final.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	4:03.84	Beijing, China	10 August 2008
Championship record	Michael Phelps (USA)	4:06.22	Melbourne, Australia	1 April 2007

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Chase Kalisz	United States	4:11.83	Q
2	4	3	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:11.99	Q
3	5	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:12.17	Q
4	5	4	Tyler Clary	United States	4:12.22	Q
5	5	3	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	4:13.07	Q
6	5	7	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	4:13.62	Q
7	4	7	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	4:13.91	Q
8	5	2	Yang Zhixian	China	4:15.47	Q
9	4	2	Federico Turrini	Italy	4:15.70
10	4	5	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4:15.93
11	3	4	Aleksandr Osipenko	Russia	4:16.35
12	3	5	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	4:16.37
13	5	1	Benjámin Grátz	Hungary	4:16.69
14	4	8	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:17.34
15	5	8	Kevin Wedel	Germany	4:17.42
16	3	2	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	4:17.90	NR
17	4	0	Semen Makovich	Russia	4:18.61
18	3	3	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	4:18.67
19	5	6	Huang Chaosheng	China	4:19.11
20	3	1	Jakub Maly	Austria	4:19.20
21	4	6	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	4:20.16
22	3	6	Pavel Janeček	Czech Republic	4:20.43
23	3	7	Carlos Omaña	Venezuela	4:20.74
24	4	1	Marc Sánchez	Spain	4:21.26
25	1	4	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	4:21.67
26	5	0	Alexis Santos	Portugal	4:22.35
27	2	7	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	4:22.72
28	5	9	Nathan Capp	New Zealand	4:23.00
29	1	5	Ahmed Hamdy	Egypt	4:23.02
30	3	8	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	4:23.57
31	2	5	Pedro Pinotes	Angola	4:23.85
32	2	1	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	4:25.10
33	2	0	Marko Blaževski	Macedonia	4:25.57
34	3	0	Uvis Kalniņš	Latvia	4:26.17
35	2	8	Trần Duy Khôi	Vietnam	4:27.43
36	1	6	Luis Vega Torres	Cuba	4:29.57
36	2	4	Wen Ren-hau	Chinese Taipei	4:29.57
38	2	6	Pang Sheng Jun	Singapore	4:29.61
39	2	2	Nikola Dimitrov	Bulgaria	4:30.78
40	1	7	Alvi Hjelm	Faroe Islands	4:33.15	NR
41	1	2	Esteban Araya	Costa Rica	4:40.23
42	1	3	Luis Ventura	Mexico	9:99.99 !	DNS
42	2	3	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	9:99.99 !	DNS
42	2	9	Christian Punter	Puerto Rico	9:99.99 !	DNS
42	3	9	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	9:99.99 !	DNS
42	4	9	Thiago Simon	Brazil	9:99.99 !	DNS

Final

The final was held at 17:47.^[3]

Breaststroke stage of final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	3	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:08.50
02 !	5	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:09.90
03 !	4	Chase Kalisz	United States	4:10.05
4	6	Tyler Clary	United States	4:11.71
5	7	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	4:12.08	NR
6	2	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	4:13.77
7	1	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	4:13.81
8	8	Yang Zhixian	China	4:16.74

References