Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley
at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre individual medley ; at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	24 August
Competitors	32 from 21 nations
Winning time	4:11.89
Medalists

The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 24 August.^[1]

Records edit

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps	United States	4:03.84	Beijing	10 August 2008
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	4:06.16	Beijing	10 August 2008
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	4:06.16	Eindhoven	24 March 2008

The heats were held at 09:49.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:16.78	Q
2	4	4	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	4:17.32	Q
3	3	5	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	4:17.94	Q
3	4	5	Federico Turrini	Italy	4:17.94	Q
5	4	1	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	4:18.75	Q
6	3	3	Alexis Santos	Portugal	4:19.11	Q
7	4	6	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:19.23	Q
8	3	8	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	4:19.27	Q
9	4	2	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	4:19.46
10	3	2	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:20.23
11	4	3	Marc Sánchez	Spain	4:20.87
12	4	7	Alexander Tikhonov	Russia	4:20.94
13	2	6	Pavel Janeček	Czech Republic	4:21.15
14	2	4	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	4:21.59
15	3	6	Maksym Shemberev	Ukraine	4:21.78
16	3	1	Jakub Maly	Austria	4:21.96
17	2	3	Jeremy Desplanches	Switzerland	4:22.56
18	4	0	Ivan Trofimov	Russia	4:24.51
19	1	6	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	4:25.26
20	4	9	Dmitry Gorbunov	Russia	4:28.04
21	2	2	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	4:28.48
22	2	1	Alexander Kudashev	Russia	4:28.73
23	1	3	Ensar Hajder	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4:28.77
24	3	0	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	4:28.79
25	2	7	Bogdan Knežević	Serbia	4:29.46
26	3	7	Matteo Pelizzari	Italy	4:29.67
27	2	0	Nikola Dimitrov	Bulgaria	4:31.96
28	2	9	Anton Goncharov	Ukraine	4:32.16
29	2	8	Uladzimir Zhyharau	Belarus	4:32.16
30	1	5	Patrik Schwarzenbach	Switzerland	4:32.43
31	1	4	Irakli Bolkvadze	Georgia	4:33.46
—	3	9	Etay Gurevich	Israel		DSQ
—	2	5	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal		DNS
—	4	8	Quentin Coton	France		DNS

The final was held at 16:32.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:11.89
	5	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	4:13.75
	3	Federico Turrini	Italy	4:14.15
4	1	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:14.97
5	6	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	4:16.17
6	2	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	4:18.10
7	7	Alexis Santos	Portugal	4:18.28
8	8	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	4:18.66