2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 400 metre individual medley
The Men's 400 metre individual medley competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships was held on 4 December.
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |
| World record Championship record | Ryan Lochte | 3:55.50 | Dubai | 16 December 2010 |
Results
Heats
The heats were held at 10:09.| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | 4:02.13 | Q | |
| 2 | 5 | 6 | Tyler Clary | 4:02.27 | Q | |
| 3 | 5 | 7 | Sebastien Rousseau | 4:02.71 | Q | |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | Dávid Verrasztó | 4:02.97 | Q | |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | Daiya Seto | 4:03.73 | Q | |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | Semen Makovich | 4:06.31 | Q | |
| 7 | 4 | 5 | Gal Nevo | 4:06.56 | Q | |
| 8 | 4 | 8 | Michael Weiss | 4:07.47 | Q | |
| 9 | 3 | 5 | Fu Haifeng | 4:07.49 | ||
| 10 | 5 | 8 | Diogo Carvalho | 4:07.68 | ||
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Nathan Capp | 4:07.70 | ||
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Jakub Maly | 4:07.91 | ||
| 13 | 3 | 6 | Richárd Nagy | 4:07.94 | ||
| 14 | 4 | 7 | Benjámin Grátz | 4:08.55 | ||
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Thiago Simon | 4:09.02 | ||
| 16 | 3 | 2 | Pavel Janeček | 4:09.09 | ||
| 17 | 5 | 0 | Jeremy Desplanches | 4:09.14 | ||
| 18 | 3 | 0 | Robert Žbogar | 4:09.38 | ||
| 19 | 3 | 3 | Alpkan Örnek | 4:11.35 | ||
| 20 | 5 | 2 | Alexander Tikhonov | 4:11.74 | ||
| 21 | 4 | 6 | Travis Mahoney | 4:12.21 | ||
| 22 | 3 | 7 | Henrik Christiansen | 4:12.32 | ||
| 23 | 4 | 0 | Matteo Pelizzari | 4:12.45 | ||
| 24 | 3 | 8 | Aleksey Derlyugov | 4:12.71 | ||
| 25 | 2 | 6 | Marko Blaževski | 4:13.04 | ||
| 26 | 4 | 9 | Taki M'Rabet | 4:13.82 | ||
| 27 | 3 | 4 | Christoph Meier | 4:13.92 | ||
| 28 | 5 | 9 | Wei Haobo | 4:15.57 | ||
| 29 | 2 | 4 | Esteban Enderica | 4:16.74 | ||
| 30 | 3 | 1 | Pedro Pinotes | 4:20.09 | ||
| 31 | 2 | 2 | Wen Ren-hau | 4:20.38 | ||
| 32 | 2 | 3 | Andrés Olvera | 4:20.71 | ||
| 33 | 2 | 5 | Lies Nefsi | 4:22.22 | ||
| 34 | 3 | 9 | Irakli Bolkvadze | 4:23.68 | ||
| 35 | 1 | 1 | Nguyễn Ngọc Huỳnh | 4:29.39 | ||
| 36 | 2 | 8 | Jean Pierre Monteagudo | 4:30.78 | ||
| 37 | 2 | 1 | Oli Mortensen | 4:30.82 | ||
| 38 | 1 | 5 | Sanu Debnath | 4:35.61 | ||
| 39 | 1 | 4 | Patrick Groters | 4:35.73 | ||
| 40 | 2 | 0 | Matthew Courtis | 4:36.99 | ||
| 41 | 2 | 9 | Noah Al-Khulaifi | 4:43.36 | ||
| 42 | 1 | 6 | Heimanu Sichan | 4:46.13 | ||
| 43 | 1 | 2 | Binald Mahmuti | 4:51.55 | ||
| 44 | 2 | 7 | Said Saber | 4:52.62 | ||
| 45 | 1 | 7 | Khalid Al-Kulaibi | 5:02.15 | ||
| — | 4 | 3 | Federico Turrini | DNS | ||
| — | 1 | 3 | Franci Aleksi | DSQ |
Final
The final was held at 18:14.| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 2 | Daiya Seto | 3:56.33 | AS | ||
| 4 | Kosuke Hagino | 4:01.17 | |||
| 6 | Dávid Verrasztó | 4:01.82 | |||
| 4 | 3 | Sebastien Rousseau | 4:02.00 | ||
| 5 | 5 | Tyler Clary | 4:03.44 | ||
| 6 | 8 | Michael Weiss | 4:05.37 | ||
| 7 | 7 | Semen Makovich | 4:07.54 | ||
| 8 | 1 | Gal Nevo | 4:07.99 |