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

Men's 400 metre individual medley
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 31, 2011 (heats and final)
Competitors	36 from 29 nations
Winning time	4:07.13
Medalists
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The men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events was held on July 31 with the semifinals and the final.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps	United States	4:03.84	Beijing	August 10, 2008
Championship record	Michael Phelps	United States	4:06.22	Melbourne	April 1, 2007

34 swimmers participated in 5 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	4:11.89	Q
2	5	3	Yuya Horihata	Japan	4:13.68	Q
3	3	3	Huang Chaosheng	China	4:14.07	Q
4	4	4	Tyler Clary	United States	4:14.98	Q
5	3	7	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	4:15.01	Q
5	5	5	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:15.01	Q
7	4	5	Wang Chengxiang	China	4:16.45	Q
8	4	3	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	4:16.48	Q
9	4	7	Riaan Schoeman	South Africa	4:16.53
10	4	6	Joseph Roebuck	Great Britain	4:16.95
11	5	6	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	4:17.31
12	4	1	Dinko Jukić	Austria	4:17.36
13	5	1	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4:18.49
14	3	1	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	4:18.68
15	2	4	Jung Won-Yong	South Korea	4:18.98
16	2	3	Taki M'rabet	Tunisia	4:18.99
17	5	7	Maksym Shemberev	Ukraine	4:19.29
18	4	2	Luca Marin	Italy	4:19.48
19	3	6	Federico Turrini	Italy	4:19.50
20	4	8	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	4:20.64	NR
21	5	8	Andrew Ford	Canada	4:20.87
22	3	4	László Cseh	Hungary	4:22.26
23	5	2	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:25.96
24	2	2	Nuttapong Ketin	Thailand	4:26.41
25	3	2	Mitch Larkin	Australia	4:26.91
26	2	1	Aleksey Derlyugov	Uzbekistan	4:27.19
27	2	5	Pedro Pinotes	Angola	4:28.81
28	3	8	Ezequiel Trujillo Aviles	Mexico	4:30.85
29	2	7	Morad Berrada	Morocco	4:31.97
30	2	8	Diego Castillo	Panama	4:32.39
31	1	4	Marko Blazevski	North Macedonia	4:32.96
32	1	5	Rafael Alfaro	El Salvador	4:35.84
33	2	6	Vo Thái Nguyên	Vietnam	4:41.02
34	1	3	Ahmed Atari	Qatar	5:16.80
-	1	6	Adbulrahman Alishaq	Qatar		DNS
-	3	5	Thiago Pereira	Brazil		DNS

The final was held at 18:09.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	4:07.13
	6	Tyler Clary	United States	4:11.17
	5	Yuya Horihata	Japan	4:11.98	NR
4	3	Huang Chaosheng	China	4:13.62
5	2	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	4:14.62	NR
6	7	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:15.67
7	1	Wang Chengxiang	China	4:15.89
8	8	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	4:19.85