# Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 August.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 3:40.07 | Rome | 28 July 2009 |
| European record | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 3:40.07 | Rome | 28 July 2009 |
| Championship record | Yury Prilukov | Russia | 3:45.10 | Eindhoven | 18 March 2008 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Stephen Milne | Great Britain | 3:48.62 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | Andrea D'Arrigo | Italy | 3:48.77 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 5 | Gabriele Detti | Italy | 3:48.79 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 1 | Clemens Rapp | Germany | 3:49.03 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 3 | Jan Micka | Czech Republic | 3:49.10 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 3:49.49 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 2 | Jay Lelliott | Great Britain | 3:49.82 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Gergő Kis | Hungary | 3:50.35 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 4 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 3:50.42 | |
| 10 | 4 | 5 | Anders Lie | Denmark | 3:50.62 | |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Yannick Agnel | France | 3:50.81 | |
| 12 | 5 | 0 | Matias Koski | Finland | 3:50.84 | |
| 13 | 6 | 8 | Florian Vogel | Germany | 3:50.92 | |
| 14 | 5 | 3 | Ferry Weertmann | Netherlands | 3:51.05 | |
| 15 | 6 | 9 | David Brandl | Austria | 3:51.09 | |
| 16 | 6 | 7 | Filip Zaborowski | Poland | 3:51.40 | |
| 17 | 5 | 8 | Mads Glæsner | Denmark | 3:51.42 | |
| 18 | 6 | 0 | Miguel Durán | Spain | 3:51.57 | |
| 19 | 3 | 4 | Alexander Krasnykh | Russia | 3:51.62 | |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | Joris Bouchaut | France | 3:52.22 | |
| 21 | 4 | 7 | Anton Ipsen | Denmark | 3:52.66 | |
| 22 | 5 | 6 | Samuel Pizzetti | Italy | 3:52.83 | |
| 23 | 4 | 3 | Serhiy Frolov | Ukraine | 3:52.89 | |
| 24 | 2 | 5 | Martin Bau | Slovenia | 3:52.96 | |
| 25 | 4 | 0 | Richárd Nagy | Slovakia | 3:53.39 | |
| 26 | 3 | 2 | Maarten Brzoskowski | Netherlands | 3:53.44 | |
| 27 | 4 | 6 | Anthony Pannier | France | 3:53.45 | |
| 28 | 1 | 4 | Jean-Baptiste Febo | Switzerland | 3:53.54 | |
| 29 | 4 | 4 | Marc Sánchez | Spain | 3:53.71 | |
| 30 | 5 | 9 | Dmitry Ermakov | Russia | 3:54.15 | |
| 31 | 5 | 7 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 3:54.18 | |
| 32 | 4 | 9 | Lander Hendrickx | Belgium | 3:54.67 | |
| 33 | 3 | 3 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 3:54.94 | |
| 34 | 3 | 5 | Nezir Karap | Turkey | 3:55.00 | |
| 35 | 3 | 7 | Stefan Šorak | Serbia | 3:55.15 | |
| 36 | 4 | 2 | Damien Joly | France | 3:55.48 | |
| 37 | 4 | 8 | Pawel Furtek | Poland | 3:55.65 | |
| 38 | 3 | 0 | Anton Goncharov | Ukraine | 3:56.18 | |
| 39 | 3 | 8 | Adam Paulsson | Sweden | 3:56.22 | |
| 40 | 2 | 3 | David Kunčar | Czech Republic | 3:56.51 | |
| 41 | 1 | 3 | Ensar Hajder | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3:57.60 | |
| 42 | 3 | 9 | Eetu Piiroinen | Finland | 3:58.07 | |
| 43 | 2 | 6 | Alexander Kudashev | Russia | 3:58.20 | |
| 44 | 2 | 7 | Irakli Revishvili | Georgia | 3:58.45 | |
| 45 | 3 | 6 | Ediz Yıldırımer | Turkey | 3:59.02 | |
| 46 | 2 | 8 | Maksym Shemberev | Ukraine | 3:59.44 | |
| 47 | 2 | 4 | Jan Kutník | Czech Republic | 4:00.37 | |
| 48 | 2 | 0 | Pit Brandenburger | Luxembourg | 4:00.99 | |
| 49 | 2 | 2 | Tomás Novovesky | Czech Republic | 4:01.33 | |
| 50 | 3 | 1 | Uladzimir Zhyharau | Belarus | 4:02.14 | |
| 51 | 2 | 1 | David Karasek | Switzerland | 4:03.20 | |
| 52 | 1 | 5 | Davit Sikharulidze | Georgia | 4:10.76 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:07.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 7 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 3:45.66 | NR |
| | 5 | Andrea D'Arrigo | Italy | 3:46.91 | |
| | 1 | Jay Lelliott | Great Britain | 3:47.50 | |
| 4 | 3 | Gabriele Detti | Italy | 3:48.10 | |
| 5 | 6 | Clemens Rapp | Germany | 3:48.44 | |
| 6 | 4 | Stephen Milne | Great Britain | 3:48.55 | |
| 7 | 2 | Jan Micka | Czech Republic | 3:48.57 | |
| 8 | 8 | Gergő Kis | Hungary | 3:53.14 | |