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Park missed the Olympic final in the event last summer but has rebounded considerably this year.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Olympic gold medalist\u00a0<strong>Mack Horton<\/strong> was fifth in 3:45.60, followed by Great Britain&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>James Guy\u00a0<\/strong>(3:45.64), Italy&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Gabriele Detti\u00a0<\/strong>(3:45.72) and the USA&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Zane Grothe\u00a0<\/strong>(3:46.14).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"267472\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/felix-auboeck-edges-sun-yang-for-top-spot-in-mens-400-free\/men-400-free-prelims\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/men-400-free-prelims.png\" data-orig-size=\"1148,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"men-400-free-prelims\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;men-400-free-prelims&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/men-400-free-prelims-700x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/men-400-free-prelims-1024x595.png\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-267472 \" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/men-400-free-prelims.png\" alt=\"men-400-free-prelims\" width=\"599\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/men-400-free-prelims.png 1148w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/men-400-free-prelims-533x310.png 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/men-400-free-prelims-280x163.png 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/men-400-free-prelims-1024x595.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria&#8217;s\u00a0Felix Auboeck\u00a0was the surprising No. 1 seed in the first men&#8217;s event of the World Championships, posting a time of 3:44.19 to win his heat from lane seven and beat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[59716],"class_list":["post-267456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-2017-fina-world-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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