Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Men's 400 metre freestyle ; at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Date	25 March 2007
Competitors	79
Winning time	3 minutes 44.30 seconds
Medalists
	← 2005 2009 →

Last updated December 21, 2024

The men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 25 March (preliminaries and finals^[1]^[2]) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:40.08	Manchester	July 30, 2002
Championship record	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:40.17	Fukuoka	July 22, 2001

No new world or competition records were set during this competition.

Results

Final

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	50m	100m	150m	200m	250m	300m	350m	Time	Notes
	5	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	26.19	55.00	1:23.83	1:52.87	2:21.49	2:50.39	3:18.24	3:44.30
	8	Grant Hackett	Australia	26.18	54.80	1:23.27	1:52.14	2:20.63	2:49.44	3:17.81	3:45.43
	3	Yury Prilukov	Russia	26.52	55.35	1:24.16	1:52.86	2:21.41	2:49.94	3:17.78	3:45.47
4	4	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	26.01	54.76	1:23.28	1:52.51	2:21.21	2:50.28	3:18.83	3:46.36
5	7	Federico Colbertaldo	Italy	26.76	55.42	1:24.29	1:53.48	2:22.28	2:51.36	3:19.91	3:48.01
6	2	Craig Stevens	Australia	27.04	55.87	1:24.73	1:53.89	2:22.99	2:51.98	3:20.53	3:48.26
7	1	Sergiy Fesenko	Ukraine	27.17	55.92	1:24.95	1:54.01	2:23.29	2:52.25	3:20.99	3:48.49
DSQ	6	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	~~26.13~~	~~54.87~~	~~1:23.45~~	~~1:52.46~~	~~2:20.80~~	~~2:49.23~~	~~3:17.47~~	~~3:45.12~~	DSQ

Heats

Rank	Heat : Lane	Name	Nationality	100m	200m	300m	Time	Q
1	8 : 5	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	00:54.25	1:52.26	2:49.69	3:45.82	Q
2	9 : 4	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	00:55.51	1:53.45	2:50.80	3:46.24	Q
3	8 : 4	Yury Prilukov	Russia	00:55.80	1:53.70	2:51.00	3:46.57	Q
4	9 : 7	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	~~00:54.96~~	~~1:52.21~~	~~2:49.84~~	~~3:46.82~~	Q
5	9 : 5	Craig Stevens	Australia	00:55.94	1:53.73	2:51.41	3:46.96	Q
6	8 : 6	Federico Colbertaldo	Italy	00:54.90	1:52.40	2:50.23	3:48.13	Q
7	10 : 1	Sergiy Fesenko	Ukraine	00:55.28	1:53.33	2:51.45	3:48.50	Q
8	10 : 5	Grant Hackett	Australia	00:55.72	1:53.80	2:52.08	3:48.72	Q
8.5	7.5						3:48.79	O
9	10 : 6	Przemysław Stańczyk	Poland	00:55.64	1:53.80	2:51.69	3:48.81
10	10 : 4	Klete Keller	USA	00:56.06	1:54.94	2:53.25	3:49.03
11	8 : 3	Zhang Lin	China	00:54.53	1:52.75	2:51.12	3:49.08
12	10 : 3	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	00:54.99	1:53.26	2:51.76	3:49.10
13	10 : 7	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	00:55.39	1:53.63	2:51.61	3:49.26
14	10 : 2	Sébastien Rouault	France	00:55.26	1:52.88	2:51.03	3:49.46
15	8 : 1	Robert Renwick	Great Britain	00:55.38	1:53.22	2:51.63	3:50.07
16	10 : 8	Dominik Koll	Austria	00:55.61	1:54.26	2:52.76	3:50.40
17	8 : 2	Dragoş Coman	Romania	00:54.85	1:52.57	2:51.06	3:50.53
18	9 : 3	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	00:55.83	1:54.07	2:52.52	3:50.65
19	7 : 6	Ryan Cochrane	Canada	00:56.27	1:54.87	2:54.16	3:50.68
20	7 : 4	Luka Turk	Slovenia	00:55.90	1:54.46	2:53.14	3:50.72
21	9 : 6	Mateusz Sawrymowicz	Poland	00:56.38	1:54.69	2:53.06	3:50.82
22	9 : 2	Andrew Hurd	Canada	00:56.16	1:55.01	2:53.77	3:51.52
23	9 : 1	David Brandl	Austria	00:56.31	1:55.19	2:53.95	3:51.58
24	8 : 7	Alexander Selin	Russia	00:55.52	1:53.47	2:52.40	3:52.32
25	7 : 7	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	00:56.73	1:55.09	2:54.21	3:52.88
26	7 : 8	Mads Glæsner	Denmark	00:56.99	1:56.57	2:55.35	3:52.98
27	9 : 8	Marcos Rivera Miranda	Spain	00:55.28	1:54.58	2:54.51	3:53.89
28	6 : 8	Yuji Sakurai	Japan	00:55.56	1:55.66	2:56.10	3:54.52
29	6 : 2	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	00:55.89	1:56.50	2:55.99	3:54.70
30	7 : 3	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	00:55.37	1:54.44	2:53.60	3:54.76
31	7 : 5	Armando Negreiros	Brazil	00:56.55	1:55.78	2:56.44	3:55.77
32	8 : 8	Sun Yang	China	00:56.37	1:55.87	2:57.38	3:56.11
33	5 : 8	Fabio Pereira	Portugal	00:56.73	1:56.83	2:57.12	3:56.46
34	6 : 6	Robert Voss	New Zealand	00:56.27	1:56.39	2:57.03	3:57.55
35	7 : 1	Ricardo Monasterio	Venezuela	00:57.21	1:57.75	2:58.36	3:57.71
36	5 : 4	Gard Kvale	Norway	00:56.88	1:57.48	2:58.43	3:57.98
37	6 : 3	Shai Liwnat	Israel	00:55.82	1:56.42	2:57.48	3:58.53
38	7 : 2	Felipe Araujo	Brazil	00:56.78	1:56.91	2:57.70	3:59.15
39	6 : 5	Adriano Niz	Portugal	00:56.83	1:57.53	2:59.31	3:59.27
40	4 : 5	Ryan Arabejo	Philippines	00:58.77	1:59.64	2:59.93	3:59.88
41	6 : 4	Daniel Bego	Malaysia	00:58.21	1:59.66	3:00.69	3:59.93
42	6 : 1	Michael Jack	New Zealand	00:56.19	1:57.02	2:58.73	3:59.94
43	5 : 3	Giancarlo Zolezzi Seoane	Chile	00:57.26	1:58.41	2:59.98	4:01.03
44	5 : 6	Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart	Thailand	00:58.95	2:00.24	3:02.14	4:02.99
45	5 : 5	Caglar Gokbulut	Turkey	00:59.65	2:01.20	3:02.91	4:04.54
45	5 : 7	Salvador Mallat Arcaya	Chile	00:58.06	1:59.96	3:02.98	4:04.54
47	5 : 1	Oscar Jahnsen	Peru	00:57.55	1:59.61	3:02.88	4:05.00
48	4 : 4	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	00:59.35	2:01.10	3:03.77	4:05.14
49	4 : 3	Rehan Poncha	India	00:59.27	2:01.56	3:04.11	4:05.21
50	4 : 8	Emanuele Nicolini	San Marino	1:00.47	2:02.63	3:03.84	4:05.35
51	4 : 1	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	00:58.07	2:01.46	3:05.58	4:07.75
52	3 : 3	Pál Joensen	Faroe Islands	00:59.37	2:02.79	3:06.75	4:08.40
53	3 : 6	Zhi Cong Lim	Singapore	1:00.22	2:03.68	3:06.87	4:09.10
54	5 : 2	Micky van der Vaart	Aruba	00:58.46	2:00.74	3:04.88	4:09.33
55	4 : 2	Sebastian Jahnsen	Peru	00:58.01	2:00.56	3:05.03	4:09.34
56	3 : 5	Ibrahim Nazarov	Uzbekistan	1:00.29	2:04.42	3:08.80	4:11.36
57	3 : 4	Timur Irgashev	Uzbekistan	00:59.70	2:04.00	3:09.46	4:12.24
58	4 : 6	Kevin Soow Choy Yeap	Malaysia	00:58.60	2:01.77	3:06.96	4:12.35
59	2 : 2	Wen Hao Joshua Lim	Singapore	1:02.39	2:09.52	3:15.59	4:17.12
60	3 : 1	Neil Agius	Malta	1:01.32	2:06.98	3:12.86	4:17.39
61	2 : 4	Omar Núñez	Nicaragua	1:00.58	2:05.57	3:12.02	4:18.37
62	2 : 3	Juan Francisco Lagos Diaz	Honduras	1:01.68	2:07.95	3:14.44	4:19.16
63	3 : 2	Davor Trnovljakovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:00.62	2:06.20	3:13.09	4:19.42
64	3 : 8	Colin Bensadon	Gibraltar	1:00.14	2:06.09	3:13.19	4:19.86
65	4 : 7	Anas Abuyousuf	Qatar	1:00.52	2:05.20	3:12.44	4:20.48
66	2 : 1	Heimanu Sichan	Tahiti	1:01.02	2:07.94	3:16.16	4:23.04
67	2 : 8	Gael Adam	Mauritius	1:01.29	2:08.89	3:17.36	4:24.08
68	2 : 7	Oliver Quick	Gibraltar	1:02.70	2:11.51	3:19.90	4:24.78
69	3 : 7	Rashid Iunusov	Kyrgyzstan	1:00.29	2:07.11	3:17.73	4:27.83
70	2 : 5	Timur Kartabaev	Kyrgyzstan	1:02.12	2:10.88	3:22.07	4:32.84
71	1 : 3	Eli Ebenezer Wong	Northern Mariana Islands	1:05.10	2:16.70	3:28.83	4:36.90
72	2 : 6	Eros Qama	Albania	1:03.49	2:15.55	3:28.40	4:43.97
73	1 : 6	Cooper Theodore Graf	Northern Mariana Islands	1:09.20	2:25.37	3:42.19	4:57.26
74	1 : 1	Seraj Mouloud	Libya	1:02.41	2:19.23	3:42.12	5:04.67
75	1 : 2	Ibrahim Shameel	Maldives	1:11.49	2:36.98	4:04.77	5:31.83
76	1 : 7	Bernard Blewudzi	Ghana	1:16.76	2:54.64	4:39.70	6:23.27
999	1 : 4	Samson Opuakpo	Nigeria				DNS
999	1 : 5	Nemune Tebesa	Nigeria				DNS
999	6 : 7	Mohammed Naeem Masri	Syria				DNS

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References

↑ "FINA World Championships Men's 400m Freestyle Heats Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-01.
↑ "FINA World Championships Men's 400m Freestyle Final Official Results" (PDF). FINA.

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[prelims-1] "FINA World Championships Men's 400m Freestyle Heats Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-01.

[final-2] "FINA World Championships Men's 400m Freestyle Final Official Results" (PDF). FINA.

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