SwimmingSwimming world record
400 m freestyle, men
Record
3 min 39.96 s
- Holder
- Lukas Märtens
- Date
- Place
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Standing since
- 2025 (1 year)
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What to remember
A spring meet in Sweden was enough: at the Swim Open Stockholm on April 12, 2025, Germany's Lukas Märtens swam the 400 m freestyle in 3 min 39.96 s. The record was set in a long course pool, away from the major championships.
Born in Magdeburg, Lukas Märtens specializes in middle-distance freestyle. Over 400 m he has also won the Olympic title.
At the Olympics, the men's event was first held in 1908 and the women's in 1924. It has also been on the World Championships program since the very first edition, in 1973. Like every swimming record, this one is ratified by World Aquatics, formerly FINA.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world records in swimming” (revision used 1379527312). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Republic of Korea from Seoul, Republic of Korea, Photo licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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