{"id":506700,"date":"2022-06-18T01:20:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T08:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=506700"},"modified":"2022-06-18T02:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T09:14:00","slug":"world-championships-felix-aubock-heads-qualifiers-into-mens-400m-freestyle-mack-horton-misses-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-felix-aubock-heads-qualifiers-into-mens-400m-freestyle-mack-horton-misses-out\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships: Felix Aubock Heads Qualifiers Into Men\u2019s 400m Freestyle; Mack Horton Misses Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felix Aubock Heads Qualifiers Into Men\u2019s 400m Freestyle With Rio Olympic Champion; Mack Horton Missing Out<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s 400m freestyle in Budapest it will be Austria\u2019s Felix Aubock <\/strong>who leads the qualifiers into tonight\u2019s opening final of these 19th World Championships.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old will be hoping he can add the World Long Course title to his World Short Course win last year in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

Aubock clocked a personal best time of 3:43.83 with a perfectly timed final 100m, after Australia\u2019s Olympic finalist Elijah Winnington<\/strong> led the field through the first 200m under world record pace 1:51.02.<\/p>\n

Winnington, a disappointing seventh in Tokyo, finished second in 3:44.42 and that\u2019s where he qualified for the final ahead of Brazil\u2019s Guilherme Costa<\/strong> (3:44.52).<\/p>\n