Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre individual medley
| Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad |
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 Medal winners |
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| Venue | Beijing National Aquatics Center | |||||||||
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| Dates | August 9 18:33-18:57 (heats) August 10 10:04-10:13 (final) |
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| Competitors | 29 from 22 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 4:03.84 (WR) | |||||||||
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| Swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics  |
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| 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 2008 Olympic took place on 9-10 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events.
Four heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top eight times from the entire field qualified for the final; there, they all competed in a single final heat to earn final placements.
The qualifying standards were for the 2008 event were 4:18.40 (A norm) and 4:27.45 (B norm). Nations with two or more swimmers meeting the A standard could enter any two such swimmers; otherwise, they could enter a single swimmer meeting the B standard.
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[edit] Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record |  Michael Phelps (USA) |
4:05.25 | Omaha, United States | 29 June 2008 | [1] |
| Olympic record | Michael Phelps (USA) |
4:08.26 | Athens, Greece | 14 August 2004 | - |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | OR | WR |
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| August 9 | Heat 4 | Michael Phelps | United States |
4:07.82 | OR | |
| August 10 | Final | Michael Phelps | United States |
4:03.84 | OR | WR |
[edit] Heats
- OR = Olympic Record; Q = Qualified for next round
- NR = National Record
[edit] Final
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Michael Phelps | United States |
4:03.84 | WR |
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5 | László Cseh |  Hungary |
4:06.16 | ER |
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6 | Ryan Lochte | United States |
4:08.09 | |
| 4 | 7 | Alessio Boggiatto |  Italy |
4:12.16 | |
| 5 | 3 | Luca Marin | Italy |
4:12.47 | |
| 6 | 2 | Gergő Kis | Hungary |
4:12.84 | |
| 7 | 1 | Brian Johns |  Canada |
4:13.38 | |
| 8 | 8 | Thiago Pereira |  Brazil |
4:15.40 |
- WR = World Record; OR = Olympic Record
- NR = National Record; ER = European Record
[edit] References
- ^ Crouse, Karen (2008-06-30). "Rival’s fast finish propels Phelps to another record". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/sports/olympics/30swimming.html. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
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