Swimming, FINA Aquatics World Championships, 400 metre freestyle - 400 metre freestyle World Champions, men

1973 Rick DeMont
1975 Timothy Shaw
1978 Vladimir Salnikov
1982 Vladimir Salnikov
1986 Rainer Henkel
1991 Jörg Hoffmann
1994 Kieren Perkins
1998 Ian Thorpe
2001 Ian Thorpe
2003 Ian Thorpe
2005 Grant Hackett
2007 Park Tae-Hwan
2009 Paul Biedermann
2011 Park Tae-Hwan