Records

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Michael Phelps Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions... ,U.S.A.	Erik Vendt Erik Vendt Erik Vendt is a retired American swimmer. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics... , USA	László Cseh László Cseh László Cseh , is a four-time Olympic medalist Hungarian swimmer.-Personal:Cseh has competed in swimming from an early age, and has won numerous Hungarian swimming events. Cseh is coached by György Turi and Zoltán Nemes... , HUN

Heat 1

1. Saša Imprić
   Saša Impric
   Saša Imprić is a medley swimmer from Croatia, who made his Olympic debut for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the 400 m Individual Medley....
   
     4:32.02
2. Andrew Mackay
   Andrew Mackay (swimmer)
   Andrew Mackay is an Olympic-swimmer from the Cayman Islands. He swam for the Cayman Islands at the 2004 Olympics and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games...
   
     4:32.38
3. Yu-An Lin ( Chinese Taipei) 4:41.76
4. Nikita Polyakov  5:09.66

Heat 2

1. Dean Kent
   Dean Kent
   Dean Kent is a 3-time Olympic swimmer from New Zealand. He represented New Zealand at the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Olympics.At the 2004 Olympics, he set the New Zealand Records in the 200 and 400 IMs...
   
   , New Zealand
   New Zealand
   New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
   
    4:18.55
2. Bang-Hyun Kim, Korea
   Korea
   Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
   
    4:23.05
3. Jeremy Knowles
   Jeremy Knowles (swimmer)
   Jeremy Daniel Knowles is a 3-time Olympic and Bahamian-Record-holding swimmer from The Bahamas.He was the Bahamas flag-bearer at the 2007 Pan American Games.-International tournaments:*1997 Short Course Worlds...
   
   , Bahamas 4:23.29
4. Bradley Ally
   Bradley Ally
   Bradley Kevin Ally is a two-time Olympic swimmer from Barbados. He represented Barbados at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. He was the bronze medalist in the 200-metre individual medley at the Pan-American Games in Brazil 2007...
   
   , Barbados
   Barbados
   Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
   
    4:24.70
5. Vytautas Janušaitis
   Vytautas Janušaitis
   Vytautas Janušaitis is an Olympic swimmer from Lithuania, who represented his home country at the 2004 and 2008 Games.He has swam at every edition of the SC Europeans from 2004-'08....
   
   , Lithuania
   Lithuania
   Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
   
    4:26.30
6. Yves Platel, Switzerland
   Switzerland
   Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
   
    4:28.94
7. Guntars Deicmans, Latvia
   Latvia
   Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
   
    4:29.17
8. Miguel Molina
   Miguel Molina (swimmer)
   Miguel Molina is a swimmer from the Philippines. He represented the country in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. Attended St. Mary's International School in Tokyo.-References:*...
   
   , Philippines
   Philippines
   The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
   
    4:33.25

Heat 3

1. Alessio Boggiatto
   Alessio Boggiatto
   Alessio Boggiatto is an Italian medley swimmer.Born at Moncalieri, Boggiatto is specialized in 400 m medley, he won several European Championship and one World Championship medals...
   
   , Italy
   Italy
   Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
   
    4:15.78 -Q
2. Jiro Miki, Japan
   Japan
   Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
   
    4:16.32 -Q
3. Ioannis Kokkodis, Greece
   Greece
   Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
   
    4:16.56 -Q
4. Wu Peng
   Wu Peng
   Wu Peng is a Chinese swimmer. His height is 1.80 m and he weights approximately 72 kg. His father died when he was only 16 years old. He has concentrated on the butterfly since the 10th National Games in 2005.-Early life and career:...
   
   , China
   People's Republic of China
   China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
   
    4:19.32
5. Thiago Pereira
   Thiago Pereira
   Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira is an international competition swimmer from Brazil. He became known in his native country after winning the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2003.Pereira's biggest success came one year...
   
   , Brazil
   Brazil
   Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
   
    4:22.06
6. Susumu Tabuchi, Japan 4:22.46
7. Lucas Salatta
   Lucas Salatta
   Lucas Vinícius Yokoo Salatta is a Brazilian backstroke swimmer.At his 1998 state championship, Salatta set two age records in the 100m freestyle and 100m butterfly with only 11 years old....
   
   , Brazil 4:23.01
8. Marko Milenkovič
   Marko Milenkovic
   Marko Milenkovič is a retired male medley and backstroke swimmer from Slovenia, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 2000 and 2004.-References:*...
   
   , Slovenia
   Slovenia
   Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
   
    4:30.99

Heat 4

1. László Cseh
   László Cseh
   László Cseh , is a four-time Olympic medalist Hungarian swimmer.-Personal:Cseh has competed in swimming from an early age, and has won numerous Hungarian swimming events. Cseh is coached by György Turi and Zoltán Nemes...
   
   , Hungary
   Hungary
   Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
   
    4:14.26 -Q
2. Oussama Mellouli
   Oussama Mellouli
   Oussama "Ous" Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He currently is an African Record holder, and trains with the USA club based at the University of Southern California, where he went to school and swam, collegiately....
   
   , Tunisia
   Tunisia
   Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
   
    4:16.68 -Q
3. Ioannis Drymonakos
   Ioannis Drymonakos
   Ioannis Drymonakos is a Greek swimmer from Athens. He became the first ever Greek swimmer to hold a European swimming record by clocking a time of 1:54.16 seconds in 200 m butterfly event of the 2008 European Aquatics Championships final on 21 March 2008.He tested positive for banned drugs...
   
   , Greece 4:16.83
4. Luca Marin
   Luca Marin
   Luca Marin is an Italian medley swimmer. He specializes in the 400 m medley, and won six silver medals at the European and World Championship in this event. At the 2006 European Championship he won a gold medal, beating László Cseh, world record holder...
   
   , Italy 4:16.85
5. Robin Francis
   Robin Francis
   Robin Francis is a former British International Swimmer. He was born on the 20th of April 1982 in Durban, South Africa.Francis is a two time European Championship Silver Medallist in the 400 m Individual Medley from 2001 and 2003. He also won the Silver medal at the 2004 World Championships in...
   
   , Great Britain
   United Kingdom
   The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
   
    4:18.34
6. Adrian Turner
   Adrian Turner
   Adrian Turner is an actor and former British Olympic swimmer, known also for winning silver and bronze medals representing England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games....
   
   , Great Britain 4:23.53
7. Dmytro Nazarenko, Ukraine
   Ukraine
   Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
   
    4:26.15
8. Liu Weijia, China 4:27.02

Heat 5

1. Michael Phelps
   Michael Phelps
   Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...
   
   , United States
   United States
   The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
   
    4:13.29 -Q
2. Erik Vendt
   Erik Vendt
   Erik Vendt is a retired American swimmer. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics...
   
   , United States 4:16.68 -Q
3. Travis Nederpelt
   Travis Nederpelt
   Travis Nederpelt is a swimmer from Western Australia. A butterfly specialist, he represented his country in the 2004 Olympic Games at Athens and in 2008 at Beijing...
   
   , Australia
   Australia
   Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
   
    4:16.77 -Q
4. Justin Norris
   Justin Norris
   Justin Neville Norris is an Australian butterfly and individual medley swimmer, who won the bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2000 Sydney Olympics....
   
   , Australia 4:16.90
5. Brian Johns
   Brian Johns
   Brian Johns is an Olympic swimmer from Canada. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he grew up in Richmond, British Columbia and trained with the Aquanauts and Racers swim clubs. He started swimming at age five. He is currently attending the University of British Columbia and is on the varsity swimming...
   
   , Canada
   Canada
   Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
   
    4:21.10
6. Keith Beavers
   Keith Beavers
   Keith Beavers was born in London, Ontario and grew up in the small town of Orangeville, Ontario, attending Mono and Amaranth Public School. He is a backstroke and medley swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Keith is a Masters...
   
   , Canada 4:21.47
7. Igor Berezutskiy, Russia
   Russia
   Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
   
    4:23.20
8. Alexey Kovrigin, Russia 4:23.77

Heats ranking

1. Michael Phelps, United States 4:13.29 -Q
2. László Cseh, Hungary 4:14.26 -Q
3. Alessio Boggiatto, Italy 4:15.78 -Q
4. Jiro Miki, Japan 4:16.32 -Q
5. Ioannis Kokkodis, Greece 4:16.56 -Q
6. Oussama Mellouli, Tunisia 4:16.68 -Q
7. Erik Vendt, United States 4:16.68 -Q
8. Travis Nederpelt, Australia 4:16.77 -Q
9. Ioannis Drymonakos, Greece 4:16.83
10. Luca Marin, Italy 4:16.85
11. Justin Norris, Australia 4:16.90
12. Robin Francis, Great Britain 4:18.34
13. Dean Kent, New Zealand 4:18.55
14. Peng Wu, China 4:19.32
15. Brian Johns, Canada 4:21.10
16. Keith Beavers, Canada 4:21.47
17. Thiago Pereira, Brazil 4:22.06
18. Susumu Tabuchi, Japan 4:22.46
19. Lucas Salatta, Brazil 4:23.01
20. Bang-Hyun Kim, Korea 4:23.05
21. Igor Berezutskiy, Russia 4:23.20
22. Jeremy Daniel Knowles, Bahamas 4:23.29
23. Adrian Turner, Great Britain 4:23.53
24. Alexey Kovrigin, Russia 4:23.77
25. Bradley Ally, Barbados 4:24.70
26. Dmytro Nazarenko, Ukraine 4:26.15
27. Vytautas Janušaitis, Lithuania 4:26.30
28. Weijia Liu, China 4:27.02
29. Yves Platel, Switzerland 4:28.94
30. Guntars Deicmans, Latvia 4:29.17
31. Marko Milenkovic, Slovenia 4:30.99
32. Sasa Impric, Croatia 4:32.02
33. Andrew Mackay, Cayman Islands 4:32.38
34. Miguel Molina, Philippines 4:33.25
35. Yu-An Lin, Chinese Taipei 4:41.76
36. Nikita Polyakov, Uzbekistan 5:09.66

Final

1. Michael Phelps, United States 4:08.26 World Record
2. Erik Vendt, United States 4:11.81
3. László Cseh, Hungary 4:12.15
4. Alessio Boggiatto, Italy 4:12.28
5. Oussama Mellouli, Tunisia 4:14.49 African Record
6. Ioannis Kokkodis, Greece 4:18.60
7. Jiro Miki, Japan 4:19.97
8. Travis Nederpelt, Australia 4:20.08