Colonel William A. Phillips

The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 21 July 2019.^[1][2] The three-time defending champion was Sun Yang, and he successfully defended his title for a record-breaking 4th consecutive victory in the world championships in this event.^[3] He became the third man to win an event 4 times at the world championships after Grant Hackett in the 1500 meter freestyle and Ryan Lochte in the 200 meter individual medley.^[4]

Records

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

World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009
Competition record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:16.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Sun Yang	China	3:44.10	Q
2	5	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	3:44.31	Q
3	5	3	Jack McLoughlin	Australia	3:44.79	Q
4	4	4	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:45.49	Q
5	4	5	Mack Horton	Australia	3:45.51	Q
6	4	3	Zane Grothe	United States	3:45.83	Q
7	5	2	Marco De Tullio	Italy	3:45.99	Q
8	4	1	Ji Xinjie	China	3:46.34	Q
9	5	6	Aleksandr Krasnykh	Russia	3:46.65
10	5	7	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	3:46.99
11	4	6	Martin Malyutin	Russia	3:47.43
12	4	8	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	3:48.50
13	4	7	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:48.78
14	5	8	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	3:48.81
15	4	9	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	3:48.87
16	3	6	Dimitrios Negris	Greece	3:50.81
17	5	1	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	3:50.90
18	3	5	Zac Reid	New Zealand	3:51.25
19	3	7	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	3:51.30	NR
20	5	9	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:51.51
21	2	4	Khader Baqlah	Jordan	3:51.59	NR
22	5	0	Lee Ho-joon	South Korea	3:51.89
23	4	0	Marwan El-Kamash	Egypt	3:52.51
24	3	4	Welson Sim	Malaysia	3:52.85
25	4	2	Grant Shoults	United States	3:52.96
26	3	8	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	3:53.38
27	2	6	Erge Can Gezmiş	Turkey	3:54.01
28	3	2	Denis Loktev	Israel	3:54.53
29	2	7	Igor Mogne	Mozambique	3:54.90
30	2	5	Cheuk Ming Ho	Hong Kong	3:55.05
31	3	3	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	3:55.06
32	2	1	Christian Bayo	Puerto Rico	3:55.33
33	3	1	Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn	Vietnam	3:55.59
34	3	9	Glen Lim Jun Wei	Singapore	3:55.60
35	2	2	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	3:58.12
36	2	8	Alex Sobers	Barbados	3:58.97
37	2	0	Kushagra Rawat	India	3:59.39
38	3	0	Aflah Prawira	Indonesia	3:59.98
39	2	3	James Freeman	Botswana	4:00.48
40	1	5	Daniel Jacobs	Aruba	4:00.69
41	2	9	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	4:00.88
42	1	3	Christian Mayer	Peru	4:05.33
43	1	6	Adib Khalil	Lebanon	4:06.70
44	1	7	Franci Aleksi	Albania	4:07.39
45	1	2	Filip Derkoski	North Macedonia	4:07.99
46	1	1	Mawupemon Otogbe	Togo	4:25.30
—	1	4	Omar Abbas	Syria	DSQ

Final

The final was held at 20:02.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sun Yang	China	3:42.44
	2	Mack Horton	Australia	3:43.17
	6	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:43.23	NR
4	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	3:43.50
5	1	Marco De Tullio	Italy	3:44.86
6	3	Jack McLoughlin	Australia	3:45.19
7	8	Ji Xinjie	China	3:45.64
8	7	Zane Grothe	United States	3:45.78

References