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

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The men's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 25 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.^[1]

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Venue	Campclar Aquatic Center
Location	Tarragona, Spain
Dates	25 June
Competitors	18 from 13 nations
Winning time	3:46.29
Medalists
Gregorio Paltrinieri    Italy   Domenico Acerenza    Italy   Marwan Elkamash    Egypt
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Records

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

World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	26 July 2009
Mediterranean Games record	Oussama Mellouli (TUN)	3:42.71	Pescara, Italy	27 June 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:17.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	3:51.98	Q
2	3	4	Domenico Acerenza	Italy	3:52.41	Q
3	3	6	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	3:52.43	Q
4	2	2	Mohamed Agili	Tunisia	3:53.23	Q
5	3	2	Marcos Rodríguez	Spain	3:53.55	Q
6	3	3	Dimitrios Dimitriou	Greece	3:53.64	Q
7	3	5	Miguel Durán	Spain	3:54.05	Q
8	2	5	Martin Bau	Slovenia	3:55.05	Q
9	2	3	Joris Bouchaut	France	3:56.25
10	2	6	Dimitrios Negris	Greece	3:56.42
11	2	8	Efe Turan	Turkey	3:56.64
12	2	7	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	3:58.48
13	3	8	Mohamed Djaballah	Algeria	4:02.56
14	1	4	Tomás Veloso	Portugal	4:03.85
15	1	5	Marko Kovačić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4:04.07
16	3	7	Jonathan Atsu	France	4:06.16
17	3	1	Constantinos Hadjittooulis	Cyprus	4:08.54
18	1	3	Franci Aleksi	Albania	4:13.04
	2	1	Erge Can Gezmiş	Turkey	DNS

Final

The final was held at 18:52.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	3:46.29
	5	Domenico Acerenza	Italy	3:47.50
	4	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	3:47.51
4	6	Mohamed Agili	Tunisia	3:52.54
5	1	Miguel Durán	Spain	3:53.88
6	2	Marcos Rodríguez	Spain	3:54.51
7	8	Martin Bau	Slovenia	3:54.82
8	7	Dimitrios Dimitriou	Greece	3:55.27