Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle
Mack Horton won gold by 0.13 seconds over Sun Yang.
The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 6 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. The winning margin was 0.13 seconds.
Quick Facts
- Event
- Men's 400 metre freestyle
- Games
- 2016 Summer
- Venue
- Olympic Aquatics Stadium
- Dates
- 6 August 2016 (heats & final)
- Competitors
- 50
- Nations
- 39
- Win value
- 3:41.55
- Gold
- Mack Horton
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- The competition consisted of two rounds: heats and a final.
- Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.
- The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advanced to the final.
Summary
Australia's Mack Horton denied China's Sun Yang a second straight Olympic gold in the men's 400-metre freestyle. Horton led by 0.14 seconds at the final turn and held off Sun's late charge to touch first in 3:41.55. Sun finished 13-hundredths behind in 3:41.68 for silver. Italy's Gabriele Detti earned bronze in 3:43.49, his country's first male swimming medal since 2000. Americans Conor Dwyer (3:44.01) and Connor Jaeger (3:44.16) placed fourth and fifth, separated by 0.15 seconds. Britain's James Guy set a world-record pace through the halfway mark but dropped to sixth in 3:44.68. Australia's David McKeon (3:45.28) and France's Jordan Pothain (3:49.07) rounded out the final. South Korea's Park Tae-hwan and Canada's Ryan Cochrane failed to advance from the preliminaries.
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