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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
Lukas Märtens  Germany Elijah Winnington  Australia Kim Woo-min  South Korea
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 m	men		women
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
800 m	men		women
1500 m	men		women
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	mixed	women
Marathon
10 km	men		women
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The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.

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

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). For this event, the OQT was 3:46.78 seconds. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 3:47.91 for this event. In total, 23 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 13 athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT.

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)

Results

Heats

Results

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
	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

Final

Results

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

References

1. "Competition Schedule | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
2. Cowley, Michael (27 July 2009). "Thorpe's mark tumbles in night of world records". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
3. "Olympic swimming: China's Sun Yang beats rival Park to gold". BBC Sport. 28 July 2012. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
4. ^ "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
5. ^ Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
6. "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
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