Swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:

World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009
Commonwealth record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	3:40.08	Manchester, United Kingdom	30 July 2002
Games record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	3:40.08	Manchester, United Kingdom	30 July 2002

The schedule is as follows:^[1]

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	6	Daniel Wiffen	Northern Ireland	3:47.43	Q, NR
2	2	4	Mack Horton	Australia	3:47.54	Q
3	3	4	Elijah Winnington	Australia	3:48.32	Q
4	3	5	Samuel Short	Australia	3:48.46	Q
5	2	3	Luke Turley	England	3:49.61	Q
6	3	2	Matthew Sates	South Africa	3:49.69	Q
7	3	6	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	3:50.03	Q
8	3	3	Daniel Jervis	Wales	3:50.13	Q
9	2	5	Kieran Bird	Wales	3:50.30	R
10	3	7	Toby Robinson	England	3:52.21	R
11	2	2	Jeremy Bagshaw	Canada	3:52.62
12	3	1	Eric Brown	Canada	3:52.88
13	2	1	Stephen Milne	Scotland	3:54.35
14	3	8	Kushagra Rawat	India	3:57.45
15	1	4	James Freeman	Botswana	3:57.56
16	2	8	Andrew Ross	South Africa	3:58.44
17	2	7	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	4:00.62
18	1	5	Isaac Dodds	Jersey	4:01.50
19	1	6	Luke-Kennedy Thompson	Bahamas	4:04.90
20	1	3	Graham Chatoor	Trinidad and Tobago	4:05.50
21	1	2	Samuel Lowe	Guernsey	4:14.62

Final

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Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Elijah Winnington	Australia	3:43.06
	6	Samuel Short	Australia	3:45.07
	5	Mack Horton	Australia	3:46.49
4	4	Daniel Wiffen	Northern Ireland	3:46.62	NR
5	2	Luke Turley	England	3:48.50
6	1	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	3:49.95
7	7	Matthew Sates	South Africa	3:50.07
8	8	Daniel Jervis	Wales	3:51.19