Swimming at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle S8

Men's 400 metre freestyle S8 at the XVII Paralympic Games
Venue	La Défense Arena
Date	4 September 2024
Competitors	14 from 10 nations
Winning time	4:23.23
Medalists
Alberto Amodeo  Italy Reid Maxwell  Canada Andrei Nikolaev  Neutral Paralympic Athletes

Swimming at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle	S3	S4	S5	S7	S9
	S10	S11	S13
100 m freestyle	S4	S5	S6	S8	S10
	S12
200 m freestyle	S2	S3	S4	S5	S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7		S9	S11
	S13
50 m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	S1	S2	S6	S7	S8
	S9	S10	S11	S12	S13
	S14
50 m breaststroke	SB2	SB3
100 m breaststroke	SB4	SB5	SB6	SB8	SB9
	SB11	SB13	SB14
50 m butterfly	S5	S6	S7
100 m butterfly	S8	S9	S10	S11	S12
	S13	S14
150 m medley	SM3	SM4
200 m medley	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
	SM11	SM13	SM14

The men's 400 metre freestyle swimming (S8) event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place on 4 September 2024, at the La Défense Arena in Paris.

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

World Record	Oliver Hynd (GBR)	4:19.74	Sheffield, Great Britain	25 July 2017
Paralympic Record	Oliver Hynd (GBR)	4:21.89	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	8 September 2016

The heats were started at 10:05.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Reid Maxwell	Canada	4:25.95	Q, AM
2	1	5	Noah Jaffe	United States	4:26.80	Q
3	2	3	Matthew Torres	United States	4:32.75	Q
4	2	5	Andrei Nikolaev	Neutral Paralympic Athletes	4:32.87	Q
5	2	4	Alberto Amodeo	Italy	4:33.12	Q
6	2	2	Callum Simpson	Australia	4:35.79	Q
7	1	3	Xu Haijiao	China	4:36.82	Q
8	1	6	Iñigo Llopis	Spain	4:37.02	Q
9	2	1	Li Ting	China	4:37.11
10	1	2	Diogo Cancela	Portugal	4:37.50
11	1	7	Philippe Vachon	Canada	4:39.79
12	2	6	Mark Malyar	Israel	4:42.39
13	1	1	Wu Hongliang	China	4:45.07
14	2	7	Turgut Aslan Yaraman	Turkey	4:45.71

The final was held at 17:58.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Alberto Amodeo	Italy	4:23.23
	4	Reid Maxwell	Canada	4:23.90	AM
	6	Andrei Nikolaev	Neutral Paralympic Athletes	4:24.00
4	5	Noah Jaffe	United States	4:25.07
5	3	Matthew Torres	United States	4:32.25
6	7	Callum Simpson	Australia	4:34.79
7	1	Xu Haijiao	China	4:36.34
8	8	Iñigo Llopis	Spain	4:37.29