Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates	6 August 2016 (heats & final)
Competitors	27 from 20 nations
Winning time	4:06.05 AS
Medalists
Kosuke Hagino  Japan Chase Kalisz  United States Daiya Seto  Japan
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The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 6 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.^[1]

Summary

London 2012 bronze medalist Kosuke Hagino held off a late challenge from the U.S. swimmer Chase Kalisz down the final stretch to touch the wall first in a new Asian record of 4:06.05.^[2][3] Kalisz managed to secure his first Olympic career medal with a personal best of 4:06.75 for a silver. Meanwhile, Hagino's fellow countryman and 2015 world champion Daiya Seto captured the bronze in 4:09.71, to give Japan two swimmers on the same Olympic podium for the first time in 60 years.^[4]

Great Britain's Max Litchfield finished off the podium with a fourth-place time in 4:11.62, edging out the American Jay Litherland by six-hundredths of a second (4:11.68). Australian duo Thomas Fraser-Holmes (4:11.90) and Travis Mahoney (4:15.48), as well as Spain's Joan Lluís Pons (4:16.58) closed out the field.^[3]

Germany's Jacob Heidtmann, who established a new national record of 4:11.85 to finish among the top eight for the final, was disqualified for using two dolphin kicks in the breaststroke leg during the prelims.^[5]

The medals for the competition were presented by Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, IOC member, and the gifts were presented by Dr. Julio Maglione, President of the FINA.

Records

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	4:03.84	Beijing, China	10 August 2008	[6]
Olympic record	Michael Phelps (USA)	4:03.84	Beijing, China	10 August 2008	[6]

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advanced to the final. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.^[1]

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Chase Kalisz	United States	4:08.12	Q
2	4	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:08.47	Q
3	3	4	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	4:10.00	Q
4	4	3	Jay Litherland	United States	4:11.10	Q
5	3	6	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:11.95	Q
6	3	3	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4:12.51	Q
7	2	4	Travis Mahoney	Australia	4:13.37	Q
8	2	5	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	4:13.55	Q, NR
9	3	7	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	4:13.87
10	3	2	Wang Shun	China	4:14.46
11	3	8	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	4:14.81
12	3	5	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:15.04
13	2	8	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	4:15.46
14	2	1	Alexis Santos	Portugal	4:15.84
15	4	7	Brandonn Almeida	Brazil	4:17.25
16	4	1	Luca Marin	Italy	4:17.88
17	2	3	Michael Meyer	South Africa	4:18.13
18	3	1	Johannes Hintze	Germany	4:18.25
19	2	6	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:18.29
20	4	6	Federico Turrini	Italy	4:18.39
21	4	8	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	4:18.72
22	1	4	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	4:19.19
23	2	7	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	4:20.37
24	2	2	Pavel Janeček	Czech Republic	4:22.09
25	1	5	Pedro Pinotes	Angola	4:25.84
26	1	3	Luis Vega Torres	Cuba	4:27.27
	4	2	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	DSQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	4:06.05	AS
	4	Chase Kalisz	United States	4:06.75
	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:09.71
4	2	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:11.62
5	6	Jay Litherland	United States	4:11.68
6	7	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4:11.90
7	1	Travis Mahoney	Australia	4:15.48
8	8	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	4:16.58

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