Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates May 21, 2012 (heats and final)
Competitors 33 from 18 nations
Winning time 3:47.84
Medalists
   Germany
   Hungary
   Italy
2012 LEN
European Championships

Eindhoven, Netherlands
Debrecen, Hungary
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m 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
Synchronised swimming
Individual Solo Duet
Team Team Combination

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 21. The heats and final took place on May 21.[1]

Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record
European record
Paul Biedermann Germany3:40.07RomeJuly 26, 2009
Championship recordYury Prilukov Russia3:45.10EindhovenMarch 18, 2008

Results

Heats

33 swimmers participated in 5 heats.[2]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 5 Samuel Pizzetti  Italy 3:49.65 Q
2 5 4 Paul Biedermann  Germany 3:50.43 Q
3 4 5 Gergő Kis  Hungary 3:52.57 Q
4 5 1 Patrik Rakos  Hungary 3:52.58 Q
5 3 3 Gabriele Detti  Italy 3:52.74 Q
6 4 4 Sébastien Rouault  France 3:53.06 Q
7 3 6 Alex di Giorgio  Italy 3:53.25
8 4 6 Evgeny Kulikov  Russia 3:53.35 Q
9 3 4 Robert Renwick  Great Britain 3:53.49 Q
10 5 3 Dominik Meichtry   Switzerland 3:53.93
11 4 8 Stefan Šorak  Serbia 3:53.97
12 5 2 Christian Scherübl  Austria 3:54.04
13 3 2 Dorde Marković  Serbia 3:54.17
14 4 3 Alexander Selin  Russia 3:54.48
15 4 2 David Brandl  Austria 3:55.14
16 3 1 Richard Nagy  Slovakia 3:55.63
17 3 5 Clemens Rapp  Germany 3:56.02
18 3 8 Jovan Mitrovic   Switzerland 3:56.39
19 2 4 Filip Bujoczek  Poland 3:56.62
20 3 7 Pavel Medvedtsky  Russia 3:56.86
21 1 4 Jean-Baptiste Febo   Switzerland 3:56.96
22 2 6 Ediz Yildirimer  Turkey 3:57.02
23 4 1 David Karasek   Switzerland 3:57.47
24 2 5 Gard Kvale  Norway 3:57.89
24 5 8 Uladzimir Zhyharau  Belarus 3:57.89
26 4 7 Velimir Stjepanović  Serbia 3:58.10
27 5 6 Damien Joly  France 3:58.56
28 2 7 Jan Karel Petric  Slovenia 4:00.86
29 2 3 Antonio Arroyo Pérez  Spain 4:01.50
30 5 7 Michal Szuba  Poland 4:03.06
31 2 2 Irakli Revishvili  Georgia 4:03.79
32 1 5 Aleksandar Nikolov  Bulgaria 4:09.99
33 1 3 Peter Gutyan  Slovakia 4:10.27

Final

The final was held at 17:02.[3]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st 5 Paul Biedermann  Germany 3:47.84
2nd 3 Gergő Kis  Hungary 3:48.09
3rd 4 Samuel Pizzetti  Italy 3:48.66
4 8 Robert Renwick  Great Britain 3:50.46
5 7 Sébastien Rouault  France 3:50.62
6 2 Gabriele Detti  Italy 3:51.92
7 1 Evgeny Kulikov  Russia 3:52.57
8 6 Patrik Rakos  Hungary 3:52.80

References

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