# 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 400 metre individual medley

The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 4 December.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record Championship record | Ryan Lochte | United States | 3:55.50 | Dubai | 16 December 2010 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:09.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 4:02.13 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 6 | Tyler Clary | United States | 4:02.27 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 7 | Sebastien Rousseau | South Africa | 4:02.71 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | Dávid Verrasztó | Hungary | 4:02.97 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 4:03.73 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | Semen Makovich | Russia | 4:06.31 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 5 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 4:06.56 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 8 | Michael Weiss | United States | 4:07.47 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 5 | Fu Haifeng | China | 4:07.49 | |
| 10 | 5 | 8 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 4:07.68 | |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Nathan Capp | New Zealand | 4:07.70 | |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 4:07.91 | |
| 13 | 3 | 6 | Richárd Nagy | Slovakia | 4:07.94 | |
| 14 | 4 | 7 | Benjámin Grátz | Hungary | 4:08.55 | |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Thiago Simon | Brazil | 4:09.02 | |
| 16 | 3 | 2 | Pavel Janeček | Czech Republic | 4:09.09 | |
| 17 | 5 | 0 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 4:09.14 | |
| 18 | 3 | 0 | Robert Žbogar | Slovenia | 4:09.38 | |
| 19 | 3 | 3 | Alpkan Örnek | Turkey | 4:11.35 | |
| 20 | 5 | 2 | Alexander Tikhonov | Russia | 4:11.74 | |
| 21 | 4 | 6 | Travis Mahoney | Australia | 4:12.21 | |
| 22 | 3 | 7 | Henrik Christiansen | Norway | 4:12.32 | |
| 23 | 4 | 0 | Matteo Pelizzari | Italy | 4:12.45 | |
| 24 | 3 | 8 | Aleksey Derlyugov | Uzbekistan | 4:12.71 | |
| 25 | 2 | 6 | Marko Blaževski | Macedonia | 4:13.04 | |
| 26 | 4 | 9 | Taki Mrabet | Tunisia | 4:13.82 | |
| 27 | 3 | 4 | Christoph Meier | Liechtenstein | 4:13.92 | |
| 28 | 5 | 9 | Wei Haobo | China | 4:15.57 | |
| 29 | 2 | 4 | Esteban Enderica | Ecuador | 4:16.74 | |
| 30 | 3 | 1 | Pedro Pinotes | Angola | 4:20.09 | |
| 31 | 2 | 2 | Wen Ren-hau | Chinese Taipei | 4:20.38 | |
| 32 | 2 | 3 | Andrés Olvera | Mexico | 4:20.71 | |
| 33 | 2 | 5 | Lies Nefsi | Algeria | 4:22.22 | |
| 34 | 3 | 9 | Irakli Bolkvadze | Georgia | 4:23.68 | |
| 35 | 1 | 1 | Nguyễn Ngọc Huỳnh | Vietnam | 4:29.39 | |
| 36 | 2 | 8 | Jean Pierre Monteagudo | Peru | 4:30.78 | |
| 37 | 2 | 1 | Oli Mortensen | Faroe Islands | 4:30.82 | |
| 38 | 1 | 5 | Sanu Debnath | India | 4:35.61 | |
| 39 | 1 | 4 | Patrick Groters | Aruba | 4:35.73 | |
| 40 | 2 | 0 | Matthew Courtis | Barbados | 4:36.99 | |
| 41 | 2 | 9 | Noah Al-Khulaifi | Qatar | 4:43.36 | |
| 42 | 1 | 6 | Heimanu Sichan | Tahiti | 4:46.13 | |
| 43 | 1 | 2 | Binald Mahmuti | Albania | 4:51.55 | |
| 44 | 2 | 7 | Said Saber | Morocco | 4:52.62 | |
| 45 | 1 | 7 | Khalid Al-Kulaibi | Oman | 5:02.15 | |
| — | 4 | 3 | Federico Turrini | Italy | | DNS |
| — | 1 | 3 | Franci Aleksi | Albania | | DSQ |

### Final

The final was held at 18:14.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 2 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 3:56.33 | AS |
| | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 4:01.17 | |
| | 6 | Dávid Verrasztó | Hungary | 4:01.82 | |
| 4 | 3 | Sebastien Rousseau | South Africa | 4:02.00 | |
| 5 | 5 | Tyler Clary | United States | 4:03.44 | |
| 6 | 8 | Michael Weiss | United States | 4:05.37 | |
| 7 | 7 | Semen Makovich | Russia | 4:07.54 | |
| 8 | 1 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 4:07.99 | |