title: Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle
text: # Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle
  
  The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey. Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia was the defending champion from the 2009 Mediterranean Games.
  
  This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool in freestyle.
  
  ## Schedule
  
  All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00)
  
  | Date | Time | Event |
  | - | - | - |
  | Friday, 21 June 2013 | 10:35 | Heats |
  | Friday, 21 June 2013 | 18:00 | Final |
  
  ## Records
  
  Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:
  
  | World record | Paul Biedermann (GER) | 3:40.07 | Rome, Italy | July 26, 2009 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Mediterranean Games record | Oussama Mellouli (TUN) | 3:42.71 | Pescara, Italy | June 27, 2009 |
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Heats
  
  | Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 1 | 4 | Ahmed Mathlouthi | Tunisia | 3:53.81 | Q |
  | 2 | 2 | 5 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 3:54.97 | Q |
  | 3 | 1 | 3 | Marwan Elkamash | Egypt | 3:55.18 | Q |
  | 4 | 1 | 6 | Simon Guerin | France | 3:55.37 | Q |
  | 5 | 3 | 6 | Adonios Fokaidis | Greece | 3:55.48 | Q |
  | 6 | 2 | 6 | Nezir Karap | Turkey | 3:55.51 | Q |
  | 7 | 3 | 4 | Oussama Mellouli | Tunisia | 3:55.81 | Q |
  | 8 | 3 | 5 | Alex Di Giorgio | Italy | 3:55.82 | Q |
  | 9 | 3 | 2 | Ahmed Akram | Egypt | 3:56.55 | |
  | 10 | 2 | 4 | Samuel Pizzetti | Italy | 3:56.56 | |
  | 11 | 2 | 3 | Martin Bau | Slovenia | 3:57.63 | |
  | 12 | 3 | 3 | Lucas Vigoretto | France | 3:58.19 | |
  | 13 | 1 | 2 | Ediz Yıldırımer | Turkey | 3:58.29 | |
  | 14 | 1 | 5 | Stefan Šorak | Serbia | 3:58.43 | |
  | 15 | 2 | 2 | Antonio Arroyo | Spain | 3:59.07 | |
  | 16 | 1 | 7 | Marko Blaževski | Macedonia | 4:00.53 | |
  | 17 | 3 | 7 | Jan Karel Petric | Slovenia | 4:05.82 | |
  | 18 | 2 | 7 | Gerard Rodríguez | Spain | 4:07.63 | |
  