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

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates 22 July 2001
Winning time 3 minute 40.17 seconds WR
Medalists
 Ian Thorpe   Australia
 Grant Hackett   Australia
 Emiliano Brembilla   Italy

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.

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.[1] 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.[2] 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.

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World recordIan Thorpe Australia3:40.59Sydney16 September 2000
Championship recordKieren Perkins Australia3:43.80Rome9 September 1994

The following record was established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationTimeWRCR
22 July 2001FinalIan Thorpe Australia3:40.17WRCR

Results

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Ian Thorpe Australia3:40.17WR
2nd, silver medalist(s)Grant Hackett Australia3:42.51
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Emiliano Brembilla Italy3:45.11
4Massimiliano Rosolino Italy3:45.41
5Chad Carvin United States3:50.11
6Dragoș Coman Romania3:50.13
7Spyridon Gianniotis Greece3:52.09
8Shunichi Fujita Japan3:52.11

Key: WR = World record

Preliminaries

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RankSwimmerNationTimeNotes
1Grant Hackett Australia3:44.88Q
2Ian Thorpe Australia3:45.22Q
3Emiliano Brembilla Italy3:46.45Q
4Massimiliano Rosolino Italy3:47.92Q
5Chad Carvin United States3:49.93Q
6Shunichi Fujita Japan3:50.36Q
7Spyridon Gianniotis Greece3:50.98Q
8Dragoș Coman Romania3:50.99Q
9Athanasios Oikonomou Greece3:51.64
10Jacob Carstensen Denmark3:52.23
11Rick Say Canada3:52.55
12James Salter Great Britain3:52.72
13Alexey Filipets Russia3:52.88
14Heiko Hell Germany3:54.06
15Edward Sinclair Great Britain3:54.52
16Robert Margalis United States3:54.65

Note: 37 swimmers were in the event.

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Lonsbrough, Anita (2001-07-22). "Swimming: World record for restrained Thorpe". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-06-27.

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