Swimming at the 2010 South American Games – Men's 400 metre individual medley

The Men's 400m individual medley event at the 2010 South American Games was held on March 29, with the heats at 11:02 and the Final at 18:25.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Thiago Pereira  Brazil	Esteban Salgado  Ecuador	Cristhian Rodriguez  Colombia

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 South American Games
World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	4:03.84	Beijing, China	10 August 2008
Competition Record	Diogo Yabe (BRA)	4:31.91	Buenos Aires, Argentina	18 November 2006
South American record	Thiago Pereira (BRA)	4:08.86	Rome, Italy	2 August 2009

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	3	4	Thiago Pereira (BRA)	4:36.48	Q
2	1	3	Cristhian Rodriguez (COL)	4:38.92	Q
3	2	3	Benjamin Blanco (CHI)	4:39.74	Q
4	3	6	Diego Orozco (COL)	4:42.12	Q
5	3	3	Esteban Salgado (ECU)	4:42.40	Q
6	2	5	Diego Castillo (PAN)	4:43.56	Q
7	1	6	Joel Romeu (URU)	4:45.40	Q
8	1	5	Sebastian Madico (PER)	4:45.46	Q
9	2	6	Esteban Paz (ARG)	4:46.41
10	3	2	Victor de la Rosa Garcia (PER)	4:58.17
11	3	5	Gaston Rodriguez (ARG)	5:00.56
12	1	2	Julio Laurentino (PAR)	5:23.39
	1	4	Leopoldo Andara (VEN)	DNS
	2	2	Diguan Pigot (SUR)	DNS
	2	4	Leonardo de Deus (BRA)	DNS
	2	7	Armando Esteban Claure (BOL)	DNS
	3	7	Jair Boerenveen (SUR)	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Result	Notes
	4	Thiago Pereira (BRA)	4:28.79	CR
	2	Esteban Salgado (ECU)	4:30.41
	5	Cristhian Rodriguez (COL)	4:35.24
4	3	Benjamin Blanco (CHI)	4:38.76
5	8	Sebastian Madico (PER)	4:45.00
6	7	Diego Castillo (PAN)	4:45.06
7	6	Diego Alejandro Orozco (COL)	4:45.11
8	1	Joel Romeu (URU)	4:56.56

References

• Heats
• Final