Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle
# Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 5 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:

| World record | Paul Biedermann (GER) | 3:40.07 | Rome, Italy | 26 July 2009 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Commonwealth record | Ian Thorpe (AUS) | 3:40.08 | Manchester, United Kingdom | 30 July 2002 |
| Games record | Ian Thorpe (AUS) | 3:40.08 | Manchester, United Kingdom | 30 July 2002 |

## Schedule

The schedule is as follows:

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| Thursday 5 April 2018 | 10:47 | Qualifying |
| Thursday 5 April 2018 | 19:46 | Final |

## Results

### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Mack Horton | Australia | 3:47.93 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 6 | Daniel Jervis | Wales | 3:48.18 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | Jack McLoughlin | Australia | 3:48.31 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 5 | David McKeon | Australia | 3:48.86 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 4 | James Guy | England | 3:50.23 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Jeremy Bagshaw | Canada | 3:50.76 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 3 | Stephen Milne | Scotland | 3:51.65 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 6 | Welson Sim | Malaysia | 3:51.78 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 2 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 3:56.09 | |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | Brent Szurdoki | South Africa | 3:56.40 | |
| 11 | 1 | 7 | Eben Vorster | South Africa | 3:56.82 | |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 4:03.50 | |
| 13 | 2 | 7 | Constantinos Hadjittooulis | Cyprus | 4:06.03 | |
| 14 | 2 | 1 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 4:09.79 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | 4 | Mack Horton | Australia | 3:43.76 |
| | 3 | Jack McLoughlin | Australia | 3:45.21 |
| | 2 | James Guy | England | 3:45.32 |
| 4 | 5 | Daniel Jervis | Wales | 3:48.08 |
| 5 | 7 | Jeremy Bagshaw | Canada | 3:49.52 |
| 6 | 6 | David McKeon | Australia | 3:49.60 |
| 7 | 8 | Welson Sim | Malaysia | 3:53.36 |
| 8 | 1 | Stephen Milne | Scotland | 3:55.01 |
