Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	3 August
Competitors	35 from 22 nations
Winning time	3:45.18
Medalists
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The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 3 August 2018.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	3:40.07	Rome	26 July 2009
Championship record	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:44.01	London	16 May 2016

The heats were started at 09:50.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	3:46.95	Q
2	3	2	Poul Zellmann	Germany	3:47.14	Q
3	3	3	Henning Mühlleitner	Germany	3:47.29	Q
4	4	4	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:48.01	Q
5	4	2	Victor Johansson	Sweden	3:48.05	Q
6	4	3	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	3:48.14	Q
7	3	8	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	3:49.17	Q
8	3	5	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	3:49.67	Q
9	3	6	Filip Zaborowski	Poland	3:49.72
10	4	8	David Aubry	France	3:49.87
11	4	5	Domenico Acerenza	Italy	3:50.00
12	3	1	Stephen Milne	Great Britain	3:50.05
13	4	7	Jay Lelliott	Great Britain	3:50.21
14	3	9	Marin Mogić	Croatia	3:50.48
15	4	1	Martin Malyutin	Russia	3:50.94
16	2	8	Robin Hanson	Sweden	3:51.33
17	3	0	Balázs Holló	Hungary	3:51.56
18	2	4	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	3:51.86
19	2	0	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	3:51.89
20	4	9	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	3:51.98
21	4	0	Roman Fuchs	France	3:52.77
22	4	6	Viacheslav Andrusenko	Russia	3:53.02
23	2	5	Denis Loktev	Israel	3:53.04
24	2	2	Bogdan-Andrei Scarlat	Romania	3:53.80
25	2	9	Ergecan Gezmiş	Turkey	3:53.52
26	2	3	Ilya Druzhinin	Russia	3:54.40
27	2	1	László Cseh	Hungary	3:55.49
28	1	6	Batuhan Hakan	Turkey	3:56.81
29	2	6	Yonatan Batsha	Israel	3:57.07
30	1	4	Daniel Namir	Israel	3:57.37
31	2	7	Andreas Georgakopoulos	Greece	4:00.36
32	1	5	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	4:00.95
33	1	3	Alvi Hjelm	Faroe Islands	4:02.29
34	1	2	Frenc Berdaku	Albania	4:09.78
35	1	7	Spiro Goga	Albania	4:13.88
—	3	7	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	Did not start

The final was held at 17:09.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	3:45.18
	7	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	3:47.07
	3	Henning Mühlleitner	Germany	3:47.18
4	6	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:47.24
5	2	Victor Johansson	Sweden	3:47.74
6	1	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	3:48.46
7	5	Poul Zellmann	Germany	3:48.97
8	8	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	3:49.08