Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
File:Kazan 2015 - Victory Ceremony 400m individual medley M.JPG Medallists
Dates	9 August (heats and final)
Competitors	41 from 34 nations
Winning time	4:08.50
Medalists
Daiya Seto   Japan   Dávid Verrasztó   Hungary   Chase Kalisz   United States

2015 FINA World Championships Kazan, Russia
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Mixed	3 m	10 m
	Team
High diving
men women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Team	team
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Mixed relay
4×100 m	freestyle	medley
Synchronised swimming
Solo	technical	free
Duet	technical	free
Team	technical	free
	combination
Mixed duet	technical	free
Water polo
men (rosters) women (rosters)

The 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 9 August with the heats and the final.

Records

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	4:03.84	Beijing, China	10 August 2008
Championship record	Michael Phelps (USA)	4:06.22	Melbourne, Australia	1 April 2007

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Chase Kalisz	United States	4:11.83	Q
2	4	3	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:11.99	Q
3	5	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:12.17	Q
4	5	4	Tyler Clary	United States	4:12.22	Q
5	5	3	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	4:13.07	Q
6	5	7	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	4:13.62	Q
7	4	7	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	4:13.91	Q
8	5	2	Yang Zhixian	China	4:15.47	Q
9	4	2	Federico Turrini	Italy	4:15.70
10	4	5	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4:15.93
11	3	4	Aleksandr Osipenko	Russia	4:16.35
12	3	5	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	4:16.37
13	5	1	Benjámin Grátz	Hungary	4:16.69
14	4	8	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:17.34
15	5	8	Kevin Wedel	Germany	4:17.42
16	3	2	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	4:17.90	NR
17	4	0	Semen Makovich	Russia	4:18.61
18	3	3	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	4:18.67
19	5	6	Huang Chaosheng	China	4:19.11
20	3	1	Jakub Maly	Austria	4:19.20
21	4	6	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	4:20.16
22	3	6	Pavel Janeček	Czech Republic	4:20.43
23	3	7	Carlos Omaña	Venezuela	4:20.74
24	4	1	Marc Sánchez	Spain	4:21.26
25	1	4	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	4:21.67
26	5	0	Alexis Santos	Portugal	4:22.35
27	2	7	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	4:22.72
28	5	9	Nathan Capp	New Zealand	4:23.00
29	1	5	Ahmed Hamdy	Egypt	4:23.02
30	3	8	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	4:23.57
31	2	5	Pedro Pinotes	Angola	4:23.85
32	2	1	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	4:25.10
33	2	0	Marko Blaževski	Macedonia	4:25.57
34	3	0	Uvis Kalniņš	Latvia	4:26.17
35	2	8	Trần Duy Khôi	Vietnam	4:27.43
36	1	6	Luis Vega	Cuba	4:29.57
36	2	4	Wen Ren-hau	Chinese Taipei	4:29.57
38	2	6	Pang Sheng Jun	Singapore	4:29.61
39	2	2	Nikola Dimitrov	Bulgaria	4:30.78
40	1	7	Alvi Hjelm	Faroe Islands	4:33.15	NR
41	1	2	Esteban Araya	Costa Rica	4:40.23
	1	3	Luis Ventura	Mexico		DNS
	2	3	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia		DNS
	2	9	Christian Punter	Puerto Rico		DNS
	3	9	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg		DNS
	4	9	Thiago Simon	Brazil		DNS

Final

The final was held at 17:47.

File:Kazan 2015 - Seto swims to 400m medley gold.JPG

Breaststroke stage of final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Daiya Seto	Japan	4:08.50
	5	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:09.90
	4	Chase Kalisz	United States	4:10.05
4	6	Tyler Clary	United States	4:11.71
5	7	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	4:12.08	NR
6	2	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	4:13.77
7	1	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	4:13.81
8	8	Yang Zhixian	China	4:16.74