Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley
Introduction The '''men's 400 metre individual medley''' event at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships took place on August 2 at the Foro Italico. The heats were held during the morning session and the final were held during the evening session. This swimming event used medley swimming. Because the swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:'''World record'''    '''4:03.84'''  Beijing, China  10 August 2008'''Championship record'''    '''4:06.22'''  Melbourne, Australia  April 1, 2007
Results ===Heats=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Heat  Lane  Notes 1  Tyler Clary     4:10.04  6  4  2  László Cseh     4:10.33  7  4   3  Gergő Kis     4:10.99  7  5   4  Ryan Lochte     4:11.05  8  4  5  Thomas Haffield     4:11.32  6  3  '''NR''' 6  Gal Nevo     4:11.51  7  2  '''NR''' 7  Luca Marin     4:12.66  8  5   8  Thiago Pereira     4:13.05  8  3   9  Yuya Horihata     4:14.43  6  6   10  Alessio Boggiatto     4:14.56  6  5   11  Mateusz Matczak     4:14.57  8  7   12  Ken Takakuwa     4:14.73  8  6   13  Riaan Schoeman     4:15.50  7  3   14  Leith Brodie     4:15.52  4  2    15  Chris Christensen     4:16.78  5  5  '''NR''' 16  Chad le Clos     4:17.39  7  1  17  Lewis Smith     4:17.56  6  2   18  Diogo Carvalho     4:18.08  6  8   19  Liu Weijia     4:18.11  6  7   20  Dinko Jukić     4:18.38  8  1   21  Yannick Lebherz     4:18.43  7  7   22  Stephen Parkes     4:18.60  8  8    23  Vadym Lepskyy     4:18.88  5  7   24  Jordan Hartney     4:20.15  6  1  25  Omar Pinzón     4:20.98  7  9  '''NR''' 26  Carlos Almeida     4:21.36  5  6   27  Dominik Dur     4:22.04  8  0   28  Andrey Krylov     4:22.29  7  6   29  Dmitriy Gordiyenko     4:22.84  5  3   30  Niksa Roki     4:25.40  5  4    31  Pedro Pinotes     4:25.62  4  6   32  Miguel Molina     4:26.20  6  0  33  Henrique Rodrigues     4:26.39  7  8   34  Vytautas Janušaitis     4:26.52  7  0  35  Raphaël Stacchiotti     4:26.63  4  4   36  Taki Mrabet     4:26.98  6  9   37  Anders McIntyre     4:27.78  5  2   38  Jan Karel Petric     4:29.15  4  1   39  Aleksey Derlyugov     4:29.49  4  3   40  Ezequiel Trujillo     4:29.81  5  9    41  Raúl López     4:30.91  5  0   42  Rehan Poncha     4:31.34  3  3  43  Chien Jui-Ting     4:31.99  4  3   44  Esteban Enderica     4:33.73  3  8  45  Benjamin Guzman Blanco     4:34.43  4  8   46  Sobitjon Amilov     4:37.16  3  2   47  Saeed Malekae Aahtiani     4:37.65  2  5   48  Berrada Morad     4:38.95  3  9  '''NR''' 49  Robert Walsh     4:40.57  3  5   50  Pan Kai-Wen     4:41.92  4  5  51  Loai Abdulwahid Tashkandi     4:42.09  2  2   52  Rafael Alfaro     4:42.15  2  3  53  Ivan Alejandro Enderica     4:42.62  3  6   54  Giorgi Mtvralashvili     4:42.65  3  0  55  Pang Sheng Jun     4:43.20  4  0   56  Ahmed Jebrel     4:45.73  2  7   57  Colin Bensadon     4:47.14  2  6   58  Nicholas James     4:48.21  1  3   59  Vitalii Khudiakov     4:52.96  2  4   60  Radomyos Matjiur     4:59.20  3  7  61  Bryson Mays   Virgin Islands  4:59.30  2  1   62  Benjamin Gabbard     5:05.88  1  5  63  Vincent Perry     5:07.98  2  8   –  Elio Berberi     DNS  1  4  –  Ryan Nelthropp   Virgin Islands  DNS  2  0   –  Marzouq Alsalem     DNS  3  1   –  Cheah Mingzhe Marcus     DNS  3  4   –  Saša Imprić     DNS  4  9   –  Bradley Ally     DNS  8  2   –  Romanos Alyfantis     DNS  8  9  –  Sun Han     DSQ  5  1   –  Vasilii Danilov     DSQ  5  8 ===Final=== Rank  Lane  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes  6 Ryan Lochte    4:07.01    4 Tyler Clary    4:07.31     5 László Cseh    4:07.37  4  8  Thiago Pereira    4:08.86 '''SA''' 5  3  Gergő Kis    4:10.40  6  7  Gal Nevo    4:12.33  7  1  Luca Marin    4:13.63  7  2  Thomas Haffield    4:13.63
References
External links * 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-05-07.