Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held on 27 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.^[1]

Records

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

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).^[2][3]

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.^[2]

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.^[4]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European time (UTC+1)

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
			Samuel Short	Australia
			Elijah Winnington	Australia
			Felix Auboeck	Austria
			Lucas Pierre A Henveaux	Belgium
			Jovan Lekic	Bosnia and Herzegovina
			Guilherme Costa	Brazil
			Eduardo Oliveira De Moraes	Brazil
			Petar Petrov Mitsin	Bulgaria
			Eduardo Cisternas	Chile
			Liwei Fei	China
			Zhanshuo Zhang	China
			Alberto Vega	Costa Rica
			Carlos Garach Benito	Spain
			Kregor Zirk	Estonia
			David Aubry	France
			Kieran Bird	Great Britain
			Oliver Klemet	Germany
			Lukas Martens	Germany
			Raekwon Jibril Noel	Guyana
			Zalan Sarkany	Hungary
			Marco De Tullio	Italy
			Matteo Lamberti	Italy
			Ridhwan Abubakar Bwana Mohamed	Kenya
			Woomin Kim	South Korea
			Danas Rapsys	Lithuania
			Ilias El Fallaki	Morocco
			Hoe Yean Khiew	Malaysia
			Pavel Alovatki	Moldova
			Nikola Gjuretanovikj	North Macedonia
			Joaquin Vargas	Peru
			Loris Bianchi	San Marino
			Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland
			Victor Johansson	Sweden
			Ahmed Jaouadi	Tunisia
			Aaron Shackell	United States
			Kieran Smith	United States
			Ilia Sibirtsev	Uzbekistan
			Alfonso Enrique Mestre Vivas	Venezuela

Final

References