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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    Australia
silver medal    Australia
bronze medal    Italy
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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]

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

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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

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Preliminaries

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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

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ian Thorpe  Australia 3:40.17 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Grant Hackett  Australia 3:42.51
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

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  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.