Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 400 m medley (men)

sport	swim
discipline	400 meter locations
gender	Men
place	London Aquatics Center
Attendees	37 athletes from 29 countries
Competition phase	July 28, 2012

The contest over 400 meters individual medley men at the 2012 Olympics in London , on 28 July 2012 at the London Aquatics Center held. 37 athletes took part.

There were five preliminary runs. The eight fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the final, which was held on the same day.

Abbreviations: WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record, PB = personal best, JWB = annual world record

Existing records

World record	Michael Phelps ( United States )	4: 03.84 min	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 10, 2008
Olympic record

Title holder

Olympic champion	Michael Phelps ( United States )	4: 03.84 min	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Ryan Lochte ( United States )	4: 07.13 min	Shanghai 2011
European champion	László Cseh ( Hungary )	4: 12.17 min	Debrecen 2012
German champions	Yannick Lebherz	4: 14.90 min	Berlin 2012

leader

Forward 1

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Bradley Ally	Barbados	4: 21.32 min
2	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	4: 25.06 min	NO
3	Marko Blaževski	Macedonia	4: 32.38 min
4th	Rafael Alfaro	El Salvador	4: 35.80 min
5	Ahmed Atari	Qatar	5: 21.30 min

Forward 2

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ward Bauwens	Belgium	4: 16.71 min	NO
2	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	4: 17.20 min	NO
3	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	4: 23.06 min
3	Yuri Suworau	Belarus	4: 23.06 min	NO
5	Jeong Won-yong	South Korea	4: 23.12 min
6th	Esteban Enderica	Ecuador	4: 24.32 min	NO
7th	Pedro Pinotes	Angola	4: 24.69 min
8th	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	4: 26.81 min

Forward 3

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	4: 10.01 min	NO
2	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	4: 12.39 min
3	Gal Nevo	Israel	4: 14.77 min
4th	Yang Zhixian	People's Republic of China	4: 15.45 min
5	Alexander Tikhonov	Russia	4: 18.12 min
6th	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4: 18.31 min
6th	Joseph Roebuck	United Kingdom	4: 20.24 min
-	Taki M'Rabet	Tunisia	DSQ

Forward 4

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Phelps	United States	4: 13.33 min
2	László Cseh	Hungary	4: 13.40 min
3	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	4: 15.41 min
4th	Roberto Pavoni	United Kingdom	4: 15.56 min
5	Weng Chengxiang	People's Republic of China	4: 15.57 min
6th	Maxim Schemberew	Ukraine	4: 16.63 min
7th	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	4: 17.04 min
8th	Alec Page	Canada	4: 19.17 min

Forward 5

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Chad le Clos	South Africa	4: 12.24 min	NO
2	Ryan Lochte	United States	4: 12.35 min
3	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4: 12.66 min
4th	Luca Marin	Italy	4: 13.02 min
5	Yuya Horihata	Japan	4: 13.09 min
6th	Federico Turrini	Italy	4: 17.22 min
6th	Riaan Schoeman	South Africa	4: 17.22 min
8th	Daniel Tranter	Australia	4: 25.76 min

final

July 28, 2012, 7:30 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ryan Lochte	United States	4: 05.18 min	PB
2	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	4.08.86 min	NO
3	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	4: 08.94 min	NO
4th	Michael Phelps	United States	4: 09.28 min
5	Chad le Clos	South Africa	4: 12.42 min
6th	Yuya Horihata	Japan	4: 13.30 min
7th	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	4: 13.49 min
8th	Luca Marin	Italy	4: 14.89 min

Winner Lochte swam the second fastest time ever achieved in this discipline.
Bronze medalist Hagino won Japan's first precious metal in this discipline.

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 400 m medley in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swimming World Magazine (Engl.) From July 28, 2012 ( Memento of the original January 28, 2013 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.