Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
VenueForo Italico
Dates17 August
Competitors34 from 24 nations
Winning time3:42.50
Medalists
gold medal    Germany
silver medal     Switzerland
bronze medal    Germany
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The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 August 2022.[1][2]

Records

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

Name Nationality Time Location Date
World record
European record
Paul Biedermann  Germany 3:40.07 Rome 26 July 2009
Championship record Gabriele Detti  Italy 3:44.01 London 16 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
17 August Final Lukas Märtens  Germany 3:42.50 CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 09:27.[3]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 5 Henning Mühlleitner  Germany 3:46.79 Q
2 5 4 Lukas Märtens  Germany 3:47.38 Q
3 5 6 Antonio Djakovic  Switzerland 3:47.67 Q
4 1 3 David Popovici  Romania 3:47.99 Q, WD
5 4 6 Lorenzo Galossi  Italy 3:48.15 Q
6 5 3 Gabriele Detti  Italy 3:48.32 Q
7 4 5 Marco De Tullio  Italy 3:48.38
8 4 7 Joris Bouchaut  France 3:49.00 Q
9 4 4 Felix Auböck  Austria 3:49.16 Q
10 5 1 Sven Schwarz  Germany 3:49.58
11 4 2 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 3:51.26 Q
12 4 1 Victor Johansson  Sweden 3:51.29
13 5 2 Matteo Ciampi  Italy 3:52.35
13 3 6 Luis Domínguez  Spain 3:52.35
15 4 8 Kieran Bird  Great Britain 3:52.94
16 3 2 Yordan Yanchev  Bulgaria 3:53.31
17 3 7 Carlos Garach  Spain 3:53.36
18 3 1 Sašo Boškan  Slovenia 3:53.42
19 5 7 Kregor Zirk  Estonia 3:53.43
20 3 9 Damien Joly  France 3:53.63
21 3 3 Krzysztof Chmielewski  Poland 3:53.69
22 5 8 Gábor Zombori  Hungary 3:53.84
23 2 5 Ondřej Gemov  Czech Republic 3:54.00
24 4 9 Bar Soloveychik  Israel 3:54.34
25 2 4 Yoav Romano  Israel 3:54.42
26 3 0 Dániel Mészáros  Hungary 3:54.70
27 2 2 Finn McGeever  Ireland 3:56.52
28 3 8 Luc Kroon  Netherlands 3:58.62
29 2 6 Richard Nagy  Slovakia 3:59.22
30 1 4 Pit Brandenburger  Luxembourg 3:59.73
31 2 7 Loris Bianchi  San Marino 4:01.70
32 2 8 Primož Šenica Pavletič  Slovenia 4:02.69
33 2 1 Dylan Cachia  Malta 4:13.46
34 1 5 Franc Aleksi  Albania 4:19.20
2 0 Liam Custer  Ireland Did not start
2 3 Robin Hanson  Sweden
3 4 Mikkel Gadgaard  Denmark
3 5 Balázs Holló  Hungary
4 0 Jon Jøntvedt  Norway
4 3 Danas Rapšys  Lithuania
5 0 Dimitrios Markos  Greece
5 9 Mykhailo Romanchuk  Ukraine

Final

The final was held at 18:53.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Lukas Märtens  Germany 3:42.50 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 Antonio Djakovic  Switzerland 3:43.93 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 Henning Mühlleitner  Germany 3:44.53
4 1 Felix Auböck  Austria 3:45.76
5 6 Lorenzo Galossi  Italy 3:46.94
6 7 Joris Bouchaut  France 3:47.20
7 2 Gabriele Detti  Italy 3:47.34
8 8 Henrik Christiansen  Norway 3:50.30

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