Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 August 2022.

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	17 August
Competitors	34 from 24 nations
Winning time	3:42.50
Medalists
Lukas Märtens   Germany   Antonio Djakovic   Switzerland   Henning Mühlleitner   Germany

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	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 following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
17 August	Final	Lukas Märtens	Germany	3:42.50	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 09:27.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	5	Henning Mühlleitner	Germany	3:46.79	Q
2	5	4	Lukas Märtens	Germany	3:47.38	Q
3	5	6	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:47.67	Q
4	1	3	David Popovici	Romania	3:47.99	Q, WD
5	4	6	Lorenzo Galossi	Italy	3:48.15	Q
6	5	3	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:48.32	Q
7	4	5	Marco De Tullio	Italy	3:48.38
8	4	7	Joris Bouchaut	France	3:49.00	Q
9	4	4	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:49.16	Q
10	5	1	Sven Schwarz	Germany	3:49.58
11	4	2	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	3:51.26	Q
12	4	1	Victor Johansson	Sweden	3:51.29
13	5	2	Matteo Ciampi	Italy	3:52.35
13	3	6	Luis Domínguez	Spain	3:52.35
15	4	8	Kieran Bird	Great Britain	3:52.94
16	3	2	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	3:53.31
17	3	7	Carlos Garach	Spain	3:53.36
18	3	1	Sašo Boškan	Slovenia	3:53.42
19	5	7	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	3:53.43
20	3	9	Damien Joly	France	3:53.63
21	3	3	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	3:53.69
22	5	8	Gábor Zombori	Hungary	3:53.84
23	2	5	Ondřej Gemov	Czech Republic	3:54.00
24	4	9	Bar Soloveychik	Israel	3:54.34
25	2	4	Yoav Romano	Israel	3:54.42
26	3	0	Dániel Mészáros	Hungary	3:54.70
27	2	2	Finn McGeever	Ireland	3:56.52
28	3	8	Luc Kroon	Netherlands	3:58.62
29	2	6	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	3:59.22
30	1	4	Pit Brandenburger	Luxembourg	3:59.73
31	2	7	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	4:01.70
32	2	8	Primož Šenica Pavletič	Slovenia	4:02.69
33	2	1	Dylan Cachia	Malta	4:13.46
34	1	5	Franc Aleksi	Albania	4:19.20
	2	0	Liam Custer	Ireland	Did not start
	2	3	Robin Hanson	Sweden
	3	4	Mikkel Gadgaard	Denmark
	3	5	Balázs Holló	Hungary
	4	0	Jon Jøntvedt	Norway
	4	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania
	5	0	Dimitrios Markos	Greece
	5	9	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine

Final

The final was held at 18:53.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Lukas Märtens	Germany	3:42.50	CR
	3	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	3:43.93	NR
	4	Henning Mühlleitner	Germany	3:44.53
4	1	Felix Auböck	Austria	3:45.76
5	6	Lorenzo Galossi	Italy	3:46.94
6	7	Joris Bouchaut	France	3:47.20
7	2	Gabriele Detti	Italy	3:47.34
8	8	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	3:50.30