The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2005 Maccabiah Games

2005 Maccabiah Games

The 2005 Maccabiah Games were the 17th incarnation of the 'Jewish Olympics.' They attracted the largest attendance of any Maccabiah Games to date, including more than 900 representatives from the United States, almost 500 from Australia, and more than 2,000 from Israel, bringing the total...

 took place on 13 July at the Wingate Institute

Wingate Institute

The Wingate Institute is a sports training facility located south of Netanya, Israel, established in 1957. Named after Orde Wingate, the facility serves as the host facility for numerous Israeli national teams as well as a military training base....

. This swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 event used freestyle swimming

Freestyle swimming

Freestyle is an unregulated swimming style used in swimming competitions according to the rules of FINA. The front crawl stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle race, as this style is generally the fastest...

, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl

Front crawl

The front crawl, forward crawl, or freestyle is a swimming stroke usually regarded as the fastest of the four front primary strokes. As such, the front crawl stroke is nearly universally used during a freestyle swimming competition, hence the synonymously used term "freestyle". It is one of two...

 or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool.

Medalists

400 m freestyle

United States Max Jaben Max Jaben Max Jaben is an American-born Israeli swimmer who made headlines when he was suspended from swimming in the 2008 Summer Olympics after failing a random drug test.- Career :... United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  (USA)

Israel Shai Livnat Shai Livnat Shai Livnat is an Israeli swimmer who has represented Israel at numerous international competitions such as the 2006 LEN European Championships and holds the Israeli record for the 400m free as well as the Maccabiah record in the 200m free.- Footnotes :... Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...  (ISR)

United States Bryan Goldberg United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  (USA)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing Maccabiah record was as follows.
The following new Maccabiah records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	MR	NR
July 13	Final	Max Jaben Max Jaben Max Jaben is an American-born Israeli swimmer who made headlines when he was suspended from swimming in the 2008 Summer Olympics after failing a random drug test.- Career :...	United States	3:54.87	MR

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Max Jaben Max Jaben Max Jaben is an American-born Israeli swimmer who made headlines when he was suspended from swimming in the 2008 Summer Olympics after failing a random drug test.- Career :...	United States	4:03.53	?	?	Q
2	Shilo Ayalon	Israel	4:05.92	?	?	Q
3	Michael Dmitriev	Israel	4:07.08	?	?	Q
4	Shai Livnat Shai Livnat Shai Livnat is an Israeli swimmer who has represented Israel at numerous international competitions such as the 2006 LEN European Championships and holds the Israeli record for the 400m free as well as the Maccabiah record in the 200m free.- Footnotes :...	Israel	4:07.10	?	?	Q
5	Ofir Sorias	Israel	4:10.62	?	?
6	Bryan Goldberg	United States	4:13.41	?	?	Q
7	David Harari	United States	4:15.58	?	?	Q
8	David Rifkin	Australia	4:16.93	?	?	Q
9	Michael Freedman Michael Freedman Michael Hartley Freedman is a mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.Freedman was born...	Israel	4:18.29	?	?
10	Barak Merdler	Israel	4:22.10	?	?
11	Daniel Rifkin	Australia	4:23.27	?	?
12	Jose Eduardo Picazo	Mexico	4:28.84	?	?
13	Edward Shraga	Israel	4:28.95	?	?

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	?	Max Jaben Max Jaben Max Jaben is an American-born Israeli swimmer who made headlines when he was suspended from swimming in the 2008 Summer Olympics after failing a random drug test.- Career :...	United States	3:54.87
	?	Shai Livnat Shai Livnat Shai Livnat is an Israeli swimmer who has represented Israel at numerous international competitions such as the 2006 LEN European Championships and holds the Israeli record for the 400m free as well as the Maccabiah record in the 200m free.- Footnotes :...	Israel	3:56.67
	?	Bryan Goldberg	United States	4:01.75
4	?	Shilo Ayalon	Israel	4:01.92
5	?	Michael Dmitriev	Israel	4:07.56
6	?	David Harari	United States	4:15.22
7	?	David Rifkin	Australia	4:15.50