# 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The Men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December 2016, in Ontario, Canada.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Yannick Agnel | France | 3:32.25 | Angers | 15 November 2012 |
| Championship record | Péter Bernek | Hungary | 3:34.32 | Doha | 5 December 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 5 | Alexander Krasnykh | Russia | 3:38.40 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | 9 | Park Tae-Hwan | South Korea | 3:38.47 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 3 | Zane Grothe | United States | 3:38.70 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 4 | Péter Bernek | Hungary | 3:39.08 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 6 | Jordan Pothain | France | 3:39.31 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | 3 | Wojciech Wojdak | Poland | 3:40.49 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 2 | Maarten Brzoskowski | Netherlands | 3:40.80 | Q |
| 8 | 8 | 2 | Stephen Milne | Great Britain | 3:40.87 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 5 | Henrik Christiansen | Norway | 3:41.18 | |
| 10 | 8 | 6 | Myles Brown | South Africa | 3:41.49 | |
| 11 | 8 | 1 | Daniel Smith | Australia | 3:42.02 | |
| 12 | 7 | 4 | Gabriele Detti | Italy | 3:42.58 | |
| 13 | 6 | 9 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 3:42.98 | |
| 14 | 7 | 0 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 3:43.32 | |
| 15 | 6 | 5 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 3:43.42 | |
| 16 | 8 | 7 | Poul Zellmann | Germany | 3:44.09 | |
| 17 | 6 | 2 | Qiu Ziao | China | 3:44.43 | |
| 17 | 6 | 3 | Reed Malone | United States | 3:44.43 | |
| 19 | 7 | 8 | Victor Johansson | Sweden | 3:44.63 | |
| 20 | 6 | 7 | Lucas Kanieski | Brazil | 3:45.38 | |
| 21 | 5 | 6 | Jeremy Bagshaw | Canada | 3:45.54 | |
| 22 | 6 | 8 | Frans Johannessen | Denmark | 3:45.56 | |
| 23 | 7 | 7 | Adam Paulsson | Sweden | 3:45.99 | |
| 24 | 6 | 0 | Richárd Nagy | Slovakia | 3:46.28 | |
| 25 | 6 | 1 | Richárd Márton | Hungary | 3:46.52 | |
| 26 | 8 | 9 | Martin Bau | Slovenia | 3:46.77 | |
| 27 | 6 | 4 | Lander Hendrickx | Belgium | 3:46.91 | |
| 28 | 4 | 1 | Peter Brothers | Canada | 3:46.99 | |
| 28 | 5 | 2 | Jordan Sloan | Ireland | 3:46.99 | |
| 30 | 8 | 8 | Yuki Kobori | Japan | 3:47.25 | |
| 31 | 5 | 4 | Brent Szurdoki | South Africa | 3:47.29 | |
| 32 | 5 | 5 | Florian Wellbrock | Germany | 3:47.30 | |
| 33 | 3 | 3 | Fernando Scheffer | Brazil | 3:47.42 | |
| 34 | 7 | 1 | Jan Micka | Czech Republic | 3:47.47 | |
| DSQ (35) | 5 | 8 | Artem Lobuzov | Russia | 3:47.67 | |
| 36 | 5 | 1 | Marcus Krøyer | Denmark | 3:48.20 | |
| 37 | 5 | 9 | Erik Gidskehaug | Norway | 3:48.27 | |
| 38 | 4 | 2 | Wu Yuhang | China | 3:48.45 | |
| 39 | 4 | 3 | Bogdan Scarlat | Romania | 3:49.18 | |
| 40 | 8 | 0 | Joris Bouchaut | France | 3:49.55 | |
| 41 | 3 | 6 | Christian Punter | Puerto Rico | 3:50.53 | |
| 42 | 4 | 8 | Khader Baqlah | Jordan | 3:50.58 | |
| 43 | 4 | 6 | Pang Sheng Jun | Singapore | 3:50.70 | |
| 44 | 6 | 6 | Pál Joensen | Faroe Islands | 3:50.95 | |
| 45 | 5 | 0 | Michael Mincham | New Zealand | 3:50.98 | |
| 46 | 4 | 5 | Oil Mortensen | Faroe Islands | 3:52.26 | |
| 47 | 4 | 7 | Pit Brandenburger | Luxembourg | 3:53.53 | |
| 48 | 3 | 3 | Irakli Revishvili | Georgia | 3:53.89 | |
| 49 | 1 | 3 | Igor Mogne | Mozambique | 3:54.44 | |
| 50 | 3 | 9 | Cho Cheng-chi | Chinese Taipei | 3:55.06 | |
| 51 | 3 | 5 | Matías López | Paraguay | 3:55.42 | |
| 52 | 3 | 2 | Felipe Tapia | Chile | 3:55.90 | |
| 53 | 3 | 4 | Angelo Šimić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3:57.75 | |
| 54 | 4 | 9 | Alex Sobers | Barbados | 3:58.13 | |
| 55 | 5 | 7 | An Ting-yao | Chinese Taipei | 3:59.29 | |
| 56 | 2 | 2 | Jarod Alexander Arroyo | Puerto Rico | 4:00.16 | |
| 57 | 3 | 7 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 4:00.17 | NR |
| 58 | 3 | 1 | Dioser Nunez | Dominican Republic | 4:00.65 | |
| 59 | 3 | 8 | Lin Sizhuang | Macau | 4:02.55 | |
| 60 | 2 | 1 | Emilio Ávila | Guatemala | 4:03.08 | |
| 61 | 4 | 0 | Dominic Walter | Jamaica | 4:03.16 | |
| 62 | 2 | 4 | Antonio González | Costa Rica | 4:03.35 | |
| 63 | 2 | 6 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 4:04.74 | |
| 64 | 2 | 3 | Walter Caballero | Bolivia | 4:07.73 | |
| 65 | 3 | 0 | Constantinos Hadjittooulis | Cyprus | 4:07.74 | |
| 66 | 2 | 5 | Axel Ngui | Philippines | 4:10.35 | |
| 67 | 2 | 7 | Franci Aleksi | Albania | 4:10.84 | |
| 68 | 1 | 4 | Amir Amrollahi Biuoki | Iran | 4:10.88 | |
| 69 | 4 | 4 | Lâm Quang Nhật | Vietnam | 4:14.36 | |
| 70 | 2 | 8 | Frenc Berdaku | Albania | 4:15.84 | |
| 71 | 2 | 0 | Dean Hoffman | Seychelles | 4:18.11 | |
| 72 | 2 | 9 | Tanner Poppe | Guam | 4:54.15 | |
| | 1 | 5 | Oussama Mellouli | Tunisia | DNS | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:30.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Park Tae-hwan | South Korea | 3:34.59 | AS |
| | 4 | Aleksandr Krasnykh | Russia | 3:35.30 | NR |
| | 6 | Péter Bernek | Hungary | 3:37.65 | |
| 4 | 7 | Wojciech Wojdak | Poland | 3:37.90 | |
| 5 | 2 | Jordan Pothain | France | 3:39.35 | |
| 6 | 1 | Maarten Brzoskowski | Netherlands | 3:39.91 | NR |
| 7 | 3 | Zane Grothe | United States | 3:40.20 | |
| 8 | 8 | Stephen Milne | Great Britain | 3:43.63 | |