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[edit]

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