2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400m Individual Medley2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates	13 December 2012 (heats and final)
Winning time	3:59.15
Medalists
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2012 FINA Short Course Worlds Istanbul, TUR
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 13 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Ryan Lochte	United States	3:55.50	Dubai	16 December 2010

No new records were set during this competition.

43 swimmers participated in 5 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Daiya Seto (JPN)	4:04.28	Q
2	4	4	László Cseh (HUN)	4:04.61	Q
3	4	5	Gal Nevo (ISR)	4:05.99	Q
4	3	4	Dávid Verrasztó (HUN)	4:06.64	Q
5	4	3	Diogo Carvalho (POR)	4:07.42	Q
6	5	5	Kosuke Hagino (JPN)	4:07.78	Q
7	3	5	Chris Christensen (DEN)	4:08.38	Q
8	5	1	Michael Weiss (USA)	4:08.46	Q
9	3	3	Travis Mahoney (AUS)	4:09.59
10	4	0	Liu Weijia (CHN)	4:09.76
11	4	6	Jakub Maly (AUT)	4:10.18
12	5	9	Stephen Schmuhl (USA)	4:10.38
13	4	1	Michael Meyer (RSA)	4:11.08
14	5	2	Roberto Pavoni (GBR)	4:11.17
15	4	2	Jan Świtkowski (POL)	4:11.60
16	3	6	Yury Suvorau (BLR)	4:12.36	NR
17	5	6	Victor Bromer (DEN)	4:12.70
18	3	1	Matthew Johnson (GBR)	4:13.75
19	5	8	Aleksey Derlyugov (UZB)	4:14.42
20	3	9	Alexis Santos (POR)	4:14.44
21	3	2	Esteban Enderica (ECU)	4:14.60
22	5	3	Maksym Shemberev (UKR)	4:14.89
23	4	7	Taki M'Rabet (TUN)	4:15.52
24	4	8	Karol Zaczynski (POL)	4:15.55
25	5	7	Pedro Pinotes (ANG)	4:16.20
26	3	8	Christoph Meier (LIE)	4:17.68
27	3	7	Kristian Kron (SWE)	4:18.17
28	2	3	Esteban Paz (ARG)	4:18.54	NR
29	2	5	Richárd Nagy (SVK)	4:22.01	NR
30	3	0	Pang Sheng Jun (SIN)	4:23.98
31	2	6	Marko Blaževski (MKD)	4:24.62
32	1	6	Andrew Rutherford (BOL)	4:26.13	NR
33	2	2	Ayman Klzie (SYR)	4:26.32
34	4	9	Vasilii Danilov (KGZ)	4:26.70
35	2	1	Jean Luis Gómez (DOM)	4:28.05
36	5	0	Sobitjon Amilov (UZB)	4:29.28
37	2	7	Yeziel Morales (PUR)	4:30.70
38	1	5	Charles Alexander Keller (PAN)	4:32.10
39	2	8	Agnishwar Jayaprakash (IND)	4:35.81
40	2	0	Arvind Mani (IND)	4:39.80
41	2	9	Khader Baqleh (JOR)	4:54.29
	1	4	Franc Aleksi (ALB)	DSQ
	2	4	Anton Sveinn McKee (ISL)	DSQ
	1	3	Marcos Lavado (VEN)	DNS

The final was held at 19:10.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	3:59.15	AS
	5	László Cseh	Hungary	4:00.50
	6	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	4:02.87
4	7	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	4:04.13
5	3	Gal Nevo	Israel	4:04.29	NR
6	1	Chris Christensen	Denmark	4:06.81
7	8	Michael Weiss	United States	4:07.67
8	2	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	4:09.95