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Men's 400 metre individual medley
at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre individual medley ; at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	23 May 2021
Competitors	27 from 20 nations
Winning time	4:10.02
Medalists
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The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 23 May 2021.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps	United States	4:03.84	Beijing	10 August 2008
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	4:06.16	Beijing	10 August 2008
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	4:09.59	Eindhoven	24 March 2008

The heats were started at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:13.39	Q
2	4	3	Péter Bernek	Hungary	4:13.83	Q
3	4	4	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:13.87	Q
4	4	6	Joan Lluis Pons	Spain	4:14.16	Q
5	1	3	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	4:14.57	Q
6	3	4	Ilya Borodin	Russia	4:14.64	Q
7	3	7	Pier Andrea Matteazzi	Italy	4:14.70	Q
8	3	2	Maxim Stupin	Russia	4:15.58	Q
9	4	9	José Paulo Lopes	Portugal	4:17.22
10	3	6	Arjan Knipping	Netherlands	4:17.47
11	4	2	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	4:18.18
12	2	4	Dominik Márk Török	Hungary	4:19.67
13	3	1	Dawid Szwedzki	Poland	4:19.70
14	3	0	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	4:20.22
15	4	1	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	4:20.87
16	3	8	Émilien Mattenet	France	4:22.07
17	2	5	Marius Toscan	Switzerland	4:22.09
18	3	5	Apostolos Papastamos	Greece	4:23.15
19	3	3	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	4:23.81
20	4	0	Dániel Sós	Hungary	4:24.29
21	2	6	Daniil Giourtzidis	Greece	4:25.33
22	2	2	Arthur Dalén Ellegaard	Denmark	4:26.25
23	2	1	Maksym Holubnychyi	Ukraine	4:27.51
24	2	3	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	4:27.54
25	3	9	Danny Schmidt	Germany	4:27.99
26	1	4	Tomáš Ludvík	Czech Republic	4:32.14
27	1	5	Thomas Wareing	Malta	4:40.16
	2	8	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	Did not start
	4	8	Anton Ipsen	Denmark
	4	7	Léon Marchand	France
	2	7	Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas	Norway

The final was held at 18:42.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Ilya Borodin	Russia	4:10.02	WJ, NR
	2	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	4:11.17
	3	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	4:11.56
4	4	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:12.15
5	1	Pier Andrea Matteazzi	Italy	4:12.79
6	5	Péter Bernek	Hungary	4:14.33
7	6	Joan Lluis Pons	Spain	4:16.75
8	8	Maxim Stupin	Russia	4:17.06