Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	3:40.07	Rome	July 26, 2009

Heats

49 swimmers participated in 7 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	Sun Yang	China	3:44.87	Q
2	5	3	Peter Vanderkaay	United States	3:45.02	Q
3	5	5	Paul Biedermann	Germany	3:45.18	Q
4	6	5	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	3:45.90	Q
5	6	6	Sébastien Rouault	France	3:46.20	Q
6	5	4	Yannick Agnel	France	3:46.72	Q
7	6	4	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	3:46.74	Q
8	6	3	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	3:46.88	Q
9	7	6	Samuel Pizzetti	Italy	3:47.12
10	6	2	Gergő Kis	Hungary	3:47.26
11	6	1	Dai Jun	China	3:47.58
12	7	1	Mads Glæsner	Denmark	3:48.41
13	7	5	Ryan Napoleon	Australia	3:48.54
14	5	6	Charlie Houchin	United States	3:48.80
15	5	1	David Carry	Great Britain	3:48.89
16	5	8	Heerden Herman	South Africa	3:49.55
17	7	8	Sho Uchida	Japan	3:49.70
18	7	7	Robert Renwick	Great Britain	3:49.91
19	7	3	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	3:50.71
20	4	2	Juan Martin Pereyra	Argentina	3:51.03	NR
21	7	2	Clemens Rapp	Germany	3:51.07
22	5	7	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	3:51.32
23	4	1	Cristian Quintero	Venezuela	3:52.73
24	5	2	Nikita Lobintsev	Russia	3:53.52
25	4	5	David Brandl	Austria	3:54.73
26	4	3	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	3:54.87
27	6	8	Sergiy Frolov	Ukraine	3:55.01
28	3	3	Mohamed Farhoud	Egypt	3:55.32
29	4	7	Mateo de Angulo	Colombia	3:55.92
30	4	4	Dylan Dunlop-Barrett	New Zealand	3:56.04
31	4	6	Mateusz Sawrymowicz	Poland	3:56.22
32	4	8	Raul Martinez	Puerto Rico	3:58.35
33	3	2	Sobitjon Amilov	Uzbekistan	3:59.01
34	3	6	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	4:00.88
35	3	5	Sebastian Jahnsen	Peru	4:00.93
36	3	4	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	4:02.97
37	3	7	Pavol Jelenak	Slovakia	4:03.82
38	3	8	Emanuele Nicolini	San Marino	4:04.38
39	2	4	Allan Gutierrez	Honduras	4:06.56
40	3	1	Nicholas Schwab	Dominican Republic	4:08.40
40	6	7	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	4:08.40
42	2	3	Mattew Abeysinghe	Sri Lanka	4:09.45
43	2	5	Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou	Cyprus	4:13.53
44	2	6	Gebrel Ahmed	Palestine	4:18.40
45	2	7	Douglas Miller	Fiji	4:20.74
46	2	2	Heimanu Sichan	French Polynesia	4:21.24
47	1	4	Anderson Lim	Brunei	4:34.95
48	1	5	Ryan Govinden	Seychelles	4:55.10
49	1	3	Chamraen Youri Maximov	Cambodia	4:55.35

Final

The final was held at 18:13.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	3:42.04
	4	Sun Yang	China	3:43.24
	3	Paul Biedermann	Germany	3:44.14
4	5	Peter Vanderkaay	United States	3:44.83
5	8	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	3:45.17
6	7	Yannick Agnel	France	3:45.24
7	6	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	3:45.31
8	2	Sébastien Rouault	France	3:47.66

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 400 metre freestyle entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.