Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The Men's 400 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 20 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.[1][2]

Men's 400m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	20 July 2003
Winning time	3 minute 42.58 seconds
Medalists
Ian Thorpe    Australia   Grant Hackett    Australia   Dragos Coman    Romania

Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 3:40.08 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on 30 July 2002 in Manchester, UK
• CR: 3:40.17 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on 22 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:42.58
2	Grant Hackett	Australia	3:45.11
3	Dragoș Coman	Romania	3:46.87
4	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	3:47.44
5	Klete Keller	USA	3:47.70
6	Yuri Prilukov	Russia	3:48.50
7	Chad Carvin	USA	3:50.36
8	Graeme Smith	Great Britain	3:51.83

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H8 L4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	3:47.44	q
2	H7 L4	Grant Hackett	Australia	3:48.35	q
3	H8 L3	Yuri Prilukov	Russia	3:48.49	q
4	H7 L5	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	3:49.59	q
5	H8 L5	Klete Keller	United States	3:49.85	q
6	H7 L3	Graeme Smith	Great Britain	3:49.92	q
7	H6 L3	Chad Carvin	United States	3:50.28	q
8	H6 L5	Dragoș Coman	Romania	3:50.29	q
9	H6 L7	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	3:52.04
10	H8 L8	Sergiy Fesenko	Ukraine	3:52.24
11	H7 L7	Nikolaos Xylouris	Greece	3:52.34
12	H8 L2	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	3:52.53
13	H6 L1	Alexey Filipets	Russia	3:52.93
14	H6 L2	Mark Johnston	Canada	3:53.06
14	H8 L6	Rick Say	Canada	3:53.06
16	H6 L4	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	3:53.43
17	H7 L6	Athanasios Oikonomou	Greece	3:54.17
18	H8 L1	Przemysław Stańczyk	Poland	3:54.68
19	H7 L2	David Davies	Great Britain	3:54.70
20	H7 L8	Dzmitry Koptur	Belarus	3:54.87
21	H4 L8	Bojan Zdešar	Slovenia	3:55.07
22	H6 L6	Shunichi Fujita	Japan	3:55.13
23	H5 L1	Lin Zhang	China	3:55.41
24	H8 L7	Ihor Chervynskyi	Ukraine	3:55.81
25	H6 L8	Shai Livnat	Israel	3:56.33
26	H5 L3	Shilo Ayalon	Israel	3:57.79
27	H5 L8	Gian Carlo Zolezzi	Chile	3:57.92
28	H5 L6	Luis Monteiro	Portugal	3:58.57
29	H5 L5	Felipe Araujo	Brazil	3:58.74
30	H5 L2	Bruno Bonfim	Brazil	3:59.57
31	H7 L1	Cheng Yu	China	3:59.93
32	H5 L4	Erwin Maldonado	Venezuela	4:00.47
33	H4 L5	Victor Rogut	Moldova	4:01.46
34	H3 L4	Cameron Gibson	New Zealand	4:02.87
35	H4 L4	Raouf Benabid	Algeria	4:02.99
36	H4 L3	Juan Pablo Valdivieso	Peru	4:03.83
37	H3 L6	Anovar Bennaceur	Tunisia	4:04.32
38	H3 L5	Dean Kent	New Zealand	4:04.60
39	H3 L1	Igor Erhartic	Yugoslavia	4:05.38
40	H3 L7	Yi-Khy Saw	Malaysia	4:05.87
41	H5 L7	Gerry Strasser	Switzerland	4:06.94
42	H4 L1	Emanuele Nicolini	San Marino	4:08.35
43	H3 L2	Kwok Leung Chung	Hong Kong	4:08.49
44	H2 L4	Timur Irgashev	Uzbekistan	4:09.83
45	H2 L3	Jonathan Mauri	Costa Rica	4:11.13
46	H3 L3	Mohammad Naeem Masri	Syria	4:11.49
47	H4 L7	Petr Vasilev	Uzbekistan	4:11.54
48	H3 L8	Carlos Castro	Chile	4:11.68
49	H2 L6	Youssef Hafdi	Morocco	4:12.70
50	H2 L2	Rehan Poncha	India	4:14.22
51	H4 L6	Ronald Cowen	Bermuda	4:14.39
52	H2 L1	Rony Bakale	Republic of the Congo	4:23.67
53	H1 L6	Seung Gin Lee	Northern Mariana Islands	4:25.25
54	H1 L5	Neil Agius	Malta	4:25.44
55	H1 L4	Anas Samir Abo Yousif	Qatar	4:26.27
56	H1 L3	Mumtaz Ahmed	Pakistan	4:30.26
57	H L	Vasilii Danilov	Kyrgyzstan	4:30.52
58	H L	Steven Mangroo	Seychelles	4:31.41
58	H L	Sergey Dyachkov	Azerbaijan	4:31.41
60	H L	Barnsley Albert	Seychelles	4:31.51
-	-	Mihail Alexandrov	Bulgaria	DNS
-	-	Trevor Kakunze	Burundi	DNS

References

1. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 400 Free -- Prelims from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-20; retrieved 2013-06-06.
2. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 400 Free -- Final from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-20; retrieved 2013-06-06.

• Worlds 2003: Men's 400 Free results from swimrankings.net, retrieved 2012-08-16