Swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games were held on August 6, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.^[1]

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2019 Pan American Games
Venue	Villa Deportiva Nacional, VIDENA
Dates	August 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	18 from 15 nations
Medalists
Andrew Abruzzo   United States   Fernando Scheffer   Brazil   Luiz Altamir Melo   Brazil
«2015 2023»

Records

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

World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	3:40.07	Rome, Italy	July 26, 2009
Pan American Games record	Ryan Cochrane (CAN)	3:48.29	Toronto, Canada	July 17, 2015

Results

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 6.^[2][3][4][5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Andrew Abruzzo	United States	3:49.46	QA
2	2	4	Christopher Wieser	United States	3:50.23	QA
3	3	5	Fernando Scheffer	Brazil	3:50.80	QA
4	3	3	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	3:52.17	QA
5	2	5	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	3:53.87	QA
6	2	6	Santiago Corredor	Colombia	3:54.03	QA
7	2	3	Ricardo Vargas	Mexico	3:54.12	QA
8	3	6	Rafael Zambrano	Venezuela	3:55.58	QA
9	3	2	Christian Bayo	Puerto Rico	3:55.85	QB
10	3	7	Alex Sobers	Barbados	3:57.66	QB
11	2	2	Franco Cassini	Argentina	3:58.94	WD
12	2	7	Joaquín Vargas	Peru	3:59.15	QB
13	2	1	Matheo Mateos	Paraguay	4:00.39	QB
14	3	1	Yugo Tsukikawa	Ecuador	4:02.31	QB
15	1	5	John Michael Bodden	Cayman Islands	4:04.34	QB
16	3	8	Christian Martinelli	Peru	4:06.62	QB
17	1	4	Graham Chatoor	Trinidad and Tobago	4:07.58	QB
18	1	3	Daniel Scott	Guyana	4:28.29

Final B

The B final was also held on August 6.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	Alex Sobers	Barbados	3:58.39
10	4	Christian Bayo	Puerto Rico	3:58.64
11	3	Joaquín Vargas	Peru	3:59.09
12	2	Yugo Tsukikawa	Ecuador	4:00.68
13	8	Graham Chatoor	Trinidad and Tobago	4:02.77
14	6	Matheo Mateos	Paraguay	4:02.81
15	1	Christian Martinelli	Peru	4:05.20
16	7	John Michael Bodden	Cayman Islands	4:10.70

Final A

The A final was also held on August 6.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Andrew Abruzzo	United States	3:48.41
	3	Fernando Scheffer	Brazil	3:49.60
	2	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	3:49.91
4	5	Christopher Wieser	United States	3:50.39
5	8	Rafael Zambrano	Venezuela	3:52.27
6	1	Ricardo Vargas	Mexico	3:52.68
7	6	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	3:54.20
8	7	Santiago Corredor	Colombia	3:56.00