Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 6, 1973
Winning time	3:58.18 WR
Medalists
	1975 →

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 6.

Records

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

World record	Kurt Krumpholz (USA)	4:00.11	Chicago, United States	4 August 1972
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
6 September	Heat	Brad Cooper	Australia	4:02.38	CR
6 September	Final	Rick DeMont	United States	3:58.18	WR

?? swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	-	Brad Cooper	Australia	4:02.38	Q, CR
2	3	-	Bengt Gingsjö	Sweden	4:04.35	Q
3	4	-	Rick DeMont	United States	4:04.77	Q
4	1	-	Anders Bellbring	Sweden	4:05.77	Q
5	1	-	Andreas Apel	East Germany	4:06.13	Q
6	3	-	Tim Shaw	United States	4:06.57	Q
7	4	-	Werner Lampe	West Germany	4:07.01	Q
8	2	-	John Kulasalu	Australia	4:09.32	Q
-	3	-	A. Cinoueti	Italy	4:09.37
-	4	-	Wilfried Hartung	West Germany	4:10.90
-	2	-	V. Mihev	Soviet Union	4:13.79
-	2	-	D. Grozal	West Germany	4:16.23

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Rick DeMont	United States	3:58.18	WR
	4	Brad Cooper	Australia	3:58.70	CWR
	5	Bengt Gingsjö	Sweden	4:01.27
4	7	Tim Shaw	United States	4:01.56
5	6	Anders Bellbring	Sweden	4:04.36
6	2	Andreas Apel	East Germany	4:04.92
7	1	Werner Lampe	West Germany	4:09.83
8	8	John Kulasalu	Australia	4:14.62