Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400m Freestyle
at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates20 July 2003
Winning time3 minute 42.58 seconds
Medalists
gold medal Ian Thorpe   Australia
silver medal Grant Hackett   Australia
bronze medal Dragos Coman   Romania
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The Men's 400 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 20 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.[1][2]

Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

  • WR: 3:40.08 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on 30 July 2002 in Manchester, UK
  • CR: 3:40.17 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on 22 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 Ian Thorpe  Australia 3:42.58
2 Grant Hackett  Australia 3:45.11
3 Dragoș Coman  Romania 3:46.87
4 Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy 3:47.44
5 Klete Keller  United States 3:47.70
6 Yuri Prilukov  Russia 3:48.50
7 Chad Carvin  United States 3:50.36
8 Graeme Smith  United Kingdom 3:51.83

Preliminaries

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 8 4 Ian Thorpe  Australia 3:47.44 q
2 7 4 Grant Hackett  Australia 3:48.35 q
3 8 3 Yuri Prilukov  Russia 3:48.49 q
4 7 5 Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy 3:49.59 q
5 8 5 Klete Keller  United States 3:49.85 q
6 7 3 Graeme Smith  United Kingdom 3:49.92 q
7 6 3 Chad Carvin  United States 3:50.28 q
8 6 5 Dragoș Coman  Romania 3:50.29 q
9 6 7 Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia 3:52.04
10 8 8 Sergiy Fesenko  Ukraine 3:52.24
11 7 7 Nikolaos Xylouris  Greece 3:52.34
12 8 2 Nicolas Rostoucher  France 3:52.53
13 6 1 Alexey Filipets  Russia 3:52.93
14 6 2 Mark Johnston  Canada 3:53.06
14 8 6 Rick Say  Canada 3:53.06
16 6 4 Emiliano Brembilla  Italy 3:53.43
17 7 6 Athanasios Oikonomou  Greece 3:54.17
18 8 1 Przemysław Stańczyk  Poland 3:54.68
19 7 2 David Davies  United Kingdom 3:54.70
20 7 8 Dzmitry Koptur  Belarus 3:54.87
21 4 8 Bojan Zdešar  Slovenia 3:55.07
22 6 6 Shunichi Fujita  Japan 3:55.13
23 5 1 Lin Zhang  China 3:55.41
24 8 7 Ihor Chervynskyi  Ukraine 3:55.81
25 6 8 Shai Livnat  Israel 3:56.33
26 5 3 Shilo Ayalon  Israel 3:57.79
27 5 8 Gian Carlo Zolezzi  Chile 3:57.92
28 5 6 Luis Monteiro  Portugal 3:58.57
29 5 5 Felipe Araujo  Brazil 3:58.74
30 5 2 Bruno Bonfim  Brazil 3:59.57
31 7 1 Cheng Yu  China 3:59.93
32 5 4 Erwin Maldonado  Venezuela 4:00.47
33 4 5 Victor Rogut  Moldova 4:01.46
34 3 4 Cameron Gibson  New Zealand 4:02.87
35 4 4 Raouf Benabid  Algeria 4:02.99
36 4 3 Juan Pablo Valdivieso  Peru 4:03.83
37 3 6 Anovar Bennaceur  Tunisia 4:04.32
38 3 5 Dean Kent  New Zealand 4:04.60
39 3 1 Igor Erhartic  Yugoslavia 4:05.38
40 3 7 Yi-Khy Saw  Malaysia 4:05.87
41 5 7 Gerry Strasser  Switzerland 4:06.94
42 4 1 Emanuele Nicolini  San Marino 4:08.35
43 3 2 Kwok Leung Chung  Hong Kong 4:08.49
44 2 4 Timur Irgashev  Uzbekistan 4:09.83
45 2 3 Jonathan Mauri  Costa Rica 4:11.13
46 3 3 Mohammad Naeem Masri  Syria 4:11.49
47 4 7 Petr Vasilev  Uzbekistan 4:11.54
48 3 8 Carlos Castro  Chile 4:11.68
49 2 6 Youssef Hafdi  Morocco 4:12.70
50 2 2 Rehan Poncha  India 4:14.22
51 4 6 Ronald Cowen  Bermuda 4:14.39
52 2 1 Rony Bakale  Republic of the Congo 4:23.67
53 1 6 Seung Gin Lee  Northern Mariana Islands 4:25.25
54 1 5 Neil Agius  Malta 4:25.44
55 1 4 Anas Samir Abo Yousif  Qatar 4:26.27
56 1 3 Mumtaz Ahmed  Pakistan 4:30.26
57 2 5 Vasilii Danilov  Kyrgyzstan 4:30.52
58 1 2 Steven Mangroo  Seychelles 4:31.41
58 2 7 Sergey Dyachkov  Azerbaijan 4:31.41
60 2 8 Barnsley Albert  Seychelles 4:31.51
– – - Mihail Alexandrov  Bulgaria DNS
– – - Trevor Kakunze  Burundi DNS

References

  1. ^ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 400 Free -- Prelims from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-20; retrieved 2013-06-06.
  2. ^ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 400 Free -- Final from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-20; retrieved 2013-06-06.
  • Worlds 2003: Men's 400 Free results from swimrankings.net
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World long-course champions in men's 400 m freestyle