2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Duna Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	12 December (heats and final)

The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 10 December 2024.

Records

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

World record	Yannick Agnel (FRA)	3:32.25	Angers, France	15 November 2012
Competition record	Danas Rapšys (LTU)	3:34.01	Hangzhou, China	11 December 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 09:02.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	8	Elijah Winnington	New Zealand	3:37.22	Q
2	4	8	Carson Foster	United States	3:37.86	Q
3	5	4	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	3:37.87	Q
4	6	2	Zalan Sarkany	Hungary	3:38.43	Q
5	5	6	Roman Fuchs	France	3:38.51	Q
6	6	3	Ahmed Jaouadi	Tunisia	3:38.57	Q
7	5	1	Petar Petrov Mitsin	Bulgaria	4:01.99	Q
8	6	4	Kieran Smith	United States	3:39.14	Q
9	6	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	3:39.60
10	6	6	Victor Johansson	Sweden	3:39.85
11	4	6	Kamil Sieradzki	Poland	3:40.29
12	6	7	Savelii Luzin	Neutral Athletes B	3:40.33
13	6	0	Luca de Tullio	Italy	3:41.50
14	6	8	Kaito Tabuchi	Japan	3:41.58
15	5	7	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	3:41.95
16	4	4	Carlos Garach	Spain	3:42.18
17	3	4	Saso Boskan	Slovenia	3:42.93
=18	3	3	Alexander Axon	Canada	3:43.64
=18	5	5	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:43.64
20	4	2	Juan Manuel Morales	Colombia	3:44.03
21	4	5	Nathan Wiffen	Ireland	3:44.05
22	5	9	Roman Akimov	Neutral Athletes B	3:44.25
23	6	9	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	3:44.69
24	5	3	Xu Yizhou	China	3:44.90
25	4	3	Arno Kruger	South Africa	3:45.28
26	3	0	Joaquin Vargas	Peru	3:46.16
27	3	2	Ben Jago Littlejohn	New Zealand	3:47.53
28	2	2	Niko Janković	Croatia	3:47.77
29	5	0	Kim Jun-woo	South Korea	3:48.09
30	4	1	Galymzhan Balabek	Kazakhstan	3:48.31
31	3	6	Andrei-Theodor Proca	Romania	3:48.87
32	4	0	José Paulo Lopes	Portugal	3:49.11
33	3	8	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	3:50.21
34	4	7	Muhammed Yusuf Özden	Turkey	3:50.35
35	6	1	Lee Ho-joon	South Korea	3:50.75
36	2	4	Kenan Dracic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3:50.77
37	3	5	Caleb Romero	Puerto Rico	3:51.15
38	2	1	Adrian Eichler	Philippines	3:51.62
39	3	7	Wang Yi Shun	Hong Kong	3:52.96
40	2	6	Nikola Gjuretanovski	North Macedonia	3:53.05
41	4	9	Liggjas Joensen	Faroe Islands	3:53.46
42	2	3	Kevin Teixeira	Andorra	3:53.69
43	2	5	Omar Abbass	Syria	3:53.79
44	3	9	Chirill Chirsanov	Moldova	3:55.33
45	2	7	Alberto Vega	Costa Rica	3:55.71
46	2	0	Timothy Tek-Sing Leberl	Mauritius	4:02.51
47	1	4	Vladimir Hernández Mojarrieta	Cuba	4:07.02
48	2	9	Andile Bekker	Botswana	4:09.55
49	2	8	Arion Budima	Kosovo	4:10.76