2012 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 400m Freestyle (Men)
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sport | swim |
discipline | 400 meters freestyle |
gender | Men |
place | London Aquatics Center |
Attendees | 28 athletes from 23 countries |
Competition phase | July 28, 2012 |
The contest over 400 meters freestyle men at the 2012 Olympics in London , on 28 July 2012 at the London Aquatics Center held. 28 athletes took part.
There were four preliminary runs. The eight fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the final.
Abbreviations: WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record, PB = personal best, JWB = annual world record
Existing records
World record |
Paul Biedermann ( Germany )
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3: 40.07 min | Rome , Italy | July 26, 2009 |
Olympic record |
Ian Thorpe ( Australia )
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3: 40.59 min | Sydney , Australia | September 16, 2000 |
Title holder
Olympic champion |
Park Tae-hwan ( South Korea )
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3: 41.86 min | Beijing 2008 |
World Champion |
Park Tae-hwan ( South Korea )
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3: 42.04 min | Shanghai 2011 |
European champion |
Paul Biedermann ( Germany )
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3: 47.84 min | Debrecen 2012 |
German champions | Paul Biedermann | 3: 47.98 min | Berlin 2012 |
leader
Forward 1
July 28, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Mateusz Sawrymowicz |
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3: 53.33 min | |
2 | Mateo de Angulo |
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3: 57.76 min | |
3 | Ahmed Gebrel |
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4: 08.51 min | |
4th | Allan Gutiérrez Castro |
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4: 09.10 min |
Forward 2
July 28, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Ryan Cochrane |
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3: 47.26 min | |
2 | Robert Renwick |
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3: 47.44 min | |
3 | Mads Glæsner |
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3: 48.27 min | |
4th | Paul Biedermann |
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3: 48.50 min | |
5 | Matthew Stanley |
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3: 49.44 min | |
6th | Igor Degtyaryov |
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3: 52.33 min | |
7th | Đorđe Marković |
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3: 55.35 min | |
8th | Juan Martín Pereyra |
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3: 56.76 min |
Forward 3
July 28, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Tae-hwan Park |
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3: 46.68 min | |
2 | Gergő Kis |
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3: 46.77 min | |
3 | Ryan Napoleon |
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3: 47.01 min | |
4th | David Carry |
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3: 47.25 min | |
5 | David McKeon |
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3: 48.57 min | |
6th | Sergei Frolov |
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3: 50.63 min | |
7th | Matias Koski |
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3: 54.96 min | |
8th | Heerden Herman |
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3: 57.28 min |
Park was first disqualified for false starts. The disqualification was withdrawn after a protest by the Korean Federation. Cornel Marculescu, executive director of the umbrella organization FINA , said Park's shrug on the starting block was unconscious and did not affect the race.
Forward 4
July 28, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Sun Yang |
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3: 45.07 min | |
2 | Peter Vanderkaay |
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3: 45.80 min | |
3 | Conor Dwyer |
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3: 46.24 min | |
4th | Hao Yun |
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3: 46.88 min | |
5 | Pál Joensen |
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3: 47.36 min | |
6th | Cristian Quintero |
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3: 50.44 min | |
7th | Samuel Pizzetti |
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3: 50.93 min | |
8th | Dominik Meichtry |
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3: 51.34 min |
final
July 30, 2012, 7:51 p.m. CET
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Sun Yang |
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3: 40.14 min | OR |
2 | Tae-hwan Park |
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3: 42.06 min | |
3 | Peter Vanderkaay |
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3: 44.69 min | |
4th | Hao Yun |
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3: 46.02 min | |
5 | Conor Dwyer |
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3: 46.39 min | |
6th | Gergő Kis |
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3: 47.03 min | |
7th | David Carry |
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3: 48.62 min | |
8th | Ryan Napoleon |
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3: 49.25 min |
Yang achieved the third fastest time ever swum over this distance. Only world record holder Paul Biedermann and the Australian Ian Thorpe, whose best performance is 1/100 of a second below the world record.
Yang is also the first male Olympic swimming champion from China.
Web links
- Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 400 m freestyle in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Report in the English edition of Chosun from July 30, 2012
- ↑ Report of Swimmingworld Magazine from July 28, 2012 (English) ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.