Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre individual medley
| Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | ||||||||||
| Venue | Olympic Aquatics Stadium | |||||||||
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| Dates | 6 August 2016 (heats & final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 27 from 20 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 4:06.05 AS | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Qualification | ||||
| Freestyle | ||||
| 50 m | men | women | ||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 800 m | women | |||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| Backstroke | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Breaststroke | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Butterfly | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Individual medley | ||||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| Freestyle relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | ||
| 4×200 m | men | women | ||
| Medley relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | ||
| Marathon | ||||
| 10 km | men | women | ||
The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 6 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.[1]
London 2012 bronze medalist Kosuke Hagino ended the 24-year American supremacy to win Japan's first ever gold medal in the event at these Games. He held off a late challenge from the top-seeded U.S. swimmer Chase Kalisz down the final stretch to touch the wall first in a new Asian record of 4:06.05.[2][3] Snapping a streak of five straight golds for the United States, Kalisz managed to secure his first Olympic career medal with a personal best of 4:06.75 for a silver. Meanwhile, Hagino's fellow countryman and 2015 world champion Daiya Seto captured the bronze in 4:09.71, to give Japan two swimmers on the same Olympic podium for the first time in 60 years.[4]
Great Britain's Max Litchfield finished off the podium with a fourth-place time in 4:11.62, edging out the American Jay Litherland by six-hundredths of a second (4:11.68). Australian duo Thomas Fraser-Holmes (4:11.90) and Travis Mahoney (4:15.48), as well as Spain's Joan Lluís Pons (4:16.58) closed out the field.[3]
Germany's Jacob Heidtmann, who established a new national record of 4:11.85 to finish among the top eight for the final, was disqualified for using two dolphin kicks in the breaststroke leg during the prelims.[5]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record |  Michael Phelps (USA) | 4:03.84 | Beijing, China | 10 August 2008 |
| Olympic record | Michael Phelps (USA) | 4:03.84 | Beijing, China | 10 August 2008 |
Results
Heats
Final
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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 | 3 | Kosuke Hagino |  Japan | 4:06.05 | AS |
 | 4 | Chase Kalisz | United States | 4:06.75 | |
 | 5 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 4:09.71 | |
| 4 | 2 | Max Litchfield |  Great Britain | 4:11.62 | |
| 5 | 6 | Jay Litherland | United States | 4:11.68 | |
| 6 | 7 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes |  Australia | 4:11.90 | |
| 7 | 1 | Travis Mahoney | Australia | 4:15.48 | |
| 8 | 8 | Joan Lluís Pons |  Spain | 4:16.58 |
References
- ↑ "Men's 400m Individual Medley". Rio 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ↑ "Kosuke Hagino wins Olympic gold in 400m individual medley, Chase Kalisz gets silver". Rio 2016. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
- 1 2 "Kosuke Hagino Ends American Winning Streak with Gold in 400 IM at Rio Olympics". Swimming World Magazine. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ↑ McKirdy, Andrew (7 August 2016). "Hagino earns Japan's first Rio Games gold with victory in 400-meter individual medley". The Japan Times. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ↑ "Olympics: Hungary's Hosszu shatters world record, Horton claims gold for Australia". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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