Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates22 July 2001
Competitors37
Winning time3:40.17 WR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
  1998
2003  

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 22 July. Both the heats and final were held on 22 July. [1] [2]

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In the final, Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe broke his own world record with a time of 3:40.17, bettering his previous record of 3:40.59 and successfully defending his world title. [3] At the 200 metre mark in this race, Thorpe was over a second outside world record pace but had a split of 53.78 in the last 100 metres to break the record. [4] This was the first of six gold medals he would win, and the first of four world records he would set at these championships.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:

World recordFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Ian Thorpe  (AUS)3:40.59 Sydney, Australia16 September 2000
Championship recordFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Kieren Perkins  (AUS)3:43.80 Rome, Italy9 September 1994

The following record was established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord
22 JulyFinal Ian Thorpe Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3:40.17 WR

Results

Preliminaries

RankSwimmerNationTimeNotes
1 Grant Hackett Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3:44.88Q
2 Ian Thorpe Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3:45.22Q
3 Emiliano Brembilla Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:46.45Q
4 Massimiliano Rosolino Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:47.92Q
5 Chad Carvin Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 3:49.93Q
6 Shunichi Fujita Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 3:50.36Q
7 Spyridon Gianniotis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 3:50.98Q
8 Dragoș Coman Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 3:50.99Q
9 Athanasios Oikonomou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 3:51.64
10 Jacob Carstensen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 3:52.23
11 Rick Say Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3:52.55
12 James Salter Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:52.72
13 Alexey Filipets Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 3:52.88
14 Heiko Hell Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3:54.06
15 Edward Sinclair Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:54.52
16 Robert Margalis Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 3:54.65
17 Han Kyu-Chul Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 3:54.82
18 Nicolas Rostoucher Flag of France.svg  France 3:55.24
19 Masato Hirano Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 3:55.91
20 Andrew Hurd Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3:56.45
21 Květoslav Svoboda Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 3:56.59
22 Ricardo Monasterio Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 3:56.96
23 Leonardo Salinas Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 4:00.47
24 Stepan Ganzey Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 4:01.01
25 Jorge Carral Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 4:01.10
26 Shilo Ayalon Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 4:02.06
27 Giancarlo Zolezzi Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 4:03.19
28 Jiang Bing-Ru Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 4:07.55
29 Mohammad Naeem Masri Flag of Syria (2025-).svg  Syria 4:19.60
30 Hsu Kuo-Tung Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 4:21.87
31 Barnsley Albert Flag of Seychelles.svg  Seychelles 4:25.09
32 Mumtaz Ahmad Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 4:32.10
33 Semen Danilov Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg  Kyrgyzstan 4:35.17
34 Kin Duenas Flag of Guam.svg  Guam 4:38.72
35 Dean Palacios Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg  Northern Mariana Islands 4:38.99
36 Mark Unpingco Flag of Guam.svg  Guam 4:41.92
37 Zaid Saeed Flag of Iraq.svg  Iraq 4:50.64
Thamer Al Shamroukh Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait DNS

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Ian Thorpe Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3:40.17 WR
Silver medal icon.svg Grant Hackett Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3:42.51
Bronze medal icon.svg Emiliano Brembilla Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:45.11
4 Massimiliano Rosolino Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3:45.41
5 Chad Carvin Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 3:50.11
6 Dragoș Coman Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 3:50.13
7 Spyridon Gianniotis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 3:52.09
8 Shunichi Fujita Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 3:52.11

Key: WR = World record

References

  1. "Heats Results". FINA . Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  2. "Final Results". FINA . Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  3. Lord, Craig (22 July 2001). "Thorpe Sets WR, Wins Two Gold on First Day of Competition at World Champs". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  4. Lonsbrough, Anita (22 July 2001). "Swimming: World record for restrained Thorpe". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 June 2013.