Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre individual medley

The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 14.<ref name="Swimming schedule">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps broke a new world record of 4:08.26 to claim his first ever Olympic gold medal. Phelps' teammate Erik Vendt added a second silver to the one he earned behind Tom Dolan in Sydney four years earlier, finishing with a time of 4:11.81. Hungary's László Cseh, silver medalist at the 2003 FINA World Championships, held on for bronze in 4:12.15.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Records

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

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
August 14	Final	Michael Phelps	Template:FlagIOC	4:08.26	Template:WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Michael Phelps	Template:FlagIOC	4:13.29	Q
2	4	4	László Cseh	Template:FlagIOC	4:14.26	Q
3	3	4	Alessio Boggiatto	Template:FlagIOC	4:15.78	Q
4	3	5	Jiro Miki	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.32	Q
5	3	7	Ioannis Kokkodis	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.56	Q
6	4	3	Oussama Mellouli	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.68	Q
	5	5	Erik Vendt	Template:FlagIOC		Q
8	5	6	Travis Nederpelt	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.77	Q
9	4	2	Ioannis Drymonakos	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.83
10	4	5	Luca Marin	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.85
11	5	3	Justin Norris	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.90
12	4	7	Robin Francis	Template:FlagIOC	4:18.34
13	2	2	Dean Kent	Template:FlagIOC	4:18.55
14	3	6	Wu Peng	Template:FlagIOC	4:19.32
15	5	2	Brian Johns	Template:FlagIOC	4:21.10
16	5	7	Keith Beavers	Template:FlagIOC	4:21.47
17	3	2	Thiago Pereira	Template:FlagIOC	4:22.06
18	3	3	Susumu Tabuchi	Template:FlagIOC	4:22.46
19	3	1	Lucas Salatta	Template:FlagIOC	4:23.01
20	2	1	Kim Bang-hyun	Template:FlagIOC	4:23.05	NR
21	5	1	Igor Berezutskiy	Template:FlagIOC	4:23.20
22	2	4	Jeremy Knowles	Template:FlagIOC	4:23.29
23	4	6	Adrian Turner	Template:FlagIOC	4:23.53
24	5	8	Alexey Kovrigin	Template:FlagIOC	4:23.77
25	2	6	Bradley Ally	Template:FlagIOC	4:24.70
26	4	1	Dmytro Nazarenko	Template:FlagIOC	4:26.15
27	2	7	Vytautas Janušaitis	Template:FlagIOC	4:26.30
28	4	8	Liu Weijia	Template:FlagIOC	4:27.02
29	2	5	Yves Platel	Template:FlagIOC	4:28.94
30	2	8	Guntars Deičmans	Template:FlagIOC	4:29.17
31	3	8	Marko Milenkovič	Template:FlagIOC	4:30.99
32	1	4	Saša Imprić	Template:FlagIOC	4:32.02
33	1	5	Andrew Mackay	Template:FlagIOC	4:32.38
34	2	3	Miguel Molina	Template:FlagIOC	4:33.25
35	1	6	Lin Yu-an	Template:FlagIOC	4:41.76
36	1	3	Nikita Polyakov	Template:FlagIOC	5:09.66

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
Template:Gold01	4	Michael Phelps	Template:FlagIOC	4:08.26	Template:WR
Template:Silver02	1	Erik Vendt	Template:FlagIOC	4:11.81
Template:Bronze03	5	László Cseh	Template:FlagIOC	4:12.15
4	3	Alessio Boggiatto	Template:FlagIOC	4:12.28
5	7	Oussama Mellouli	Template:FlagIOC	4:14.49	AF
6	2	Ioannis Kokkodis	Template:FlagIOC	4:18.60
7	6	Jiro Miki	Template:FlagIOC	4:19.97
8	8	Travis Nederpelt	Template:FlagIOC	4:20.08

External links

• Official Olympic Report