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

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]

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates22 July 2001
Competitors37
Winning time3:40.17 WR
Medalists
gold medal Ian Thorpe   Australia
silver medal Grant Hackett   Australia
bronze medal Emiliano Brembilla   Italy
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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 edit

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

World record   Ian Thorpe (AUS) 3:40.59 Sydney, Australia 16 September 2000
Championship record   Kieren Perkins (AUS) 3:43.80 Rome, Italy 9 September 1994

The following record was established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record
22 July Final Ian Thorpe   Australia 3:40.17 WR

Results edit

Preliminaries edit

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

Final edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Ian Thorpe   Australia 3:40.17 WR
  Grant Hackett   Australia 3:42.51
  Emiliano Brembilla   Italy 3:45.11
4 Massimiliano Rosolino   Italy 3:45.41
5 Chad Carvin   United States 3:50.11
6 Dragoș Coman   Romania 3:50.13
7 Spyridon Gianniotis   Greece 3:52.09
8 Shunichi Fujita   Japan 3:52.11

Key: WR = World record

References edit

  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.
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