Men's 400 metre freestyle S7 at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	London Aquatics Centre
Dates	6 September
Competitors	16 from 13 nations
Medalists
Josef Craig  Great Britain Shiyun Pan  China Andrey Gladkov  Russia
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Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle		S2		S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
100 m freestyle		S2		S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
200 m freestyle		S2	S4	S5	S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
50 m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13	S14
50 m breaststroke			SB3
100 m breaststroke				SB4	SB5
	SB6	SB7	SB8	SB9
	SB11	SB12	SB13	SB14
50 m butterfly					S5
	S6	S7
100 m butterfly			S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
150 m medley				SM4
200 m medley	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
		SM12	SM13
Freestyle relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
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The men's 400 metre freestyle S7 event at the 2012 Paralympic Games took place on 6 September, at the London Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park, London. The event was for athletes included in the S7 classification, which is for competitors with physical impairments.^[1] Sixteen swimmers took part, representing a total of thirteen different nations. Great Britain's Josef Craig set a new world records in both the heats and the final as he won the gold medal.

Two heats were held, each with eight swimmers; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final. The heats took place on 6 September starting at 9:51 BST.^[2]

British swimmer Josef Craig won the first heat while setting a new world record time of four minutes, 45.79 seconds. Shiyun Pan of China finished third in the heat but set a new Asian record time Croatian Mihovil Spanja and Australian Matthew Levy also qualified for the final from heat one.^[2]

The second heat was won by Jonathan Fox of Great Britain in a time of four minutes, 49.91 seconds. Fox qualified from the heats as the second fastest swimmer overall and was joined in the final by Andrey Gladkov of Russia, Marian Kvasnytsia of Ukraine and Lantz Lamback of the United States, who finished second, third and fourth in the second heat.^[2]

The final of the event took place on 6 September at 17:47 BST.^[3] Great Britain's Craig won the gold medal in a time of four minutes, 42.81 seconds, breaking his own world record that he had set in heats earlier in the day. At the age of 15 Craig was the youngest gold medallist for the hosts Great Britain at the 2012 Games.^[4] The silver medal went to Pan of China as he beat his own Asian record time from the heats. Bronze was won by 15-year-old Russian Gladkov.^[3]

Key

•   Q   Qualified for next round
• AS = Asian record
• WR = World record

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes[2]
1	5	Josef Craig	Great Britain	4:45.79	Q, WR
2	4	Mihovil Spanja	Croatia	4:52.99	Q
3	3	Shiyun Pan	China	4:53.37	Q, AS
4	6	Matthew Levy	Australia	4:57.68	Q
5	2	Oleksandr Komarov	Ukraine	5:14.14
6	1	Ronaldo Santos	Brazil	5:19.85
7	7	Tobias Pollap	Germany	5:20.08
8	8	Jumpei Kimura	Japan	5:45.79

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes[2]
1	4	Jonathan Fox	Great Britain	4:49.91	Q
2	5	Andrey Gladkov	Russia	4:50.06	Q
3	3	Lantz Lamback	United States	4:59.47	Q
4	2	Marian Kvasnytsia	Ukraine	5:05.50	Q
5	1	Italo Pereira	Brazil	5:08.70
6	7	Francesco Bocciardo	Italy	5:14.78
7	6	Jay Dohnt	Australia	5:22.30
8	8	Enrique Perez Davila	Mexico	5:25.32

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes[3]
	4	Josef Craig	Great Britain	4:42.81	WR
	5	Shiyun Pan	China	4:46.22	AS
	3	Andrey Gladkov	Russia	4:46.76
4	7	Jonathan Fox	Great Britain	4:48.03
5	6	Mihovil Spanja	Croatia	4:52.22
6	2	Lantz Lamback	United States	4:56.87
7	8	Matthew Levy	Australia	4:58.12
8	1	Marian Kvasnytsia	Ukraine	5:04.92