2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
MEN’S 400-METER INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – PRELIMS
- World Record: 4:02.50 – Leon Marchand, FRA (2023)
- World Junior Record: 4:10.02 – Ilya Borodin, RUS (2021)
- Olympic Record: 4:03.84 – Michael Phelps, USA (2008)
- 2021 Winning Time: 4:09.42 – Chase Kalisz, USA
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 4:10.20
- Leon Marchand (France) – 4:08.30
- Max Litchfield (Great Britain) – 4:09.51
- Daiya Seto (Japan) – 4:10.92
- Carson Foster (USA) – 4:11.07
- Tomoyuki Matsushita (Japan) – 4:11.18
- Alberto Raxzeetti (Italy)/Lewis Clareburt (New Zealand)/Cedric Buessing (Germany) – 4:11.52 (TIE)
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Defending Olympic gold medalist in the men’s 400 IM Chase Kalisz has missed finals of the event after an 11th place finish in this morning’s prelims. Kalisz swam to a 4:13.36, about two seconds off of the 4:11.52 that it took to qualify for finals.
Kalisz is not the only medalist from Tokyo to have missed the final as Australia’s Brendon Smith who bronze in Tokyo but was 13th this morning in a 4:14.36.
With both Kalisz and Smith out, the podium tonight will have no returns from Tokyo as silver medalist Jay Litherland missed the US Olympic roster after a 3rd place finish at US Olympic Trials.
Despite no podium members from Tokyo, 2016 Rio bronze medalist Daiya Seto of Japan will look to return to the podium after the 3rd fastest time of the morning. Seto was on the move in the 2nd heat today, staying with Leon Marchand for the first half of the race before falling off the pace slightly to touch in a 4:10.92 this morning. Seto is on his “revenge tour” after a 9th place finish during prelims in Tokyo.
The 400 IM was significantly slower this morning than it was in Tokyo. It took a 4:10.20 to make the final three years ago, over a second faster than the 4:11.52 from today.
