Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

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Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay
at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships
Winning time3:14.10
Medalists
gold medal    Australia
silver medal    Netherlands
bronze medal    Germany
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The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place in Marine Messe in Fukuoka, Japan in July 2001.

Prior to this meet, the United States have never lost this race since the inception of the World Championships in 1973. The final of the relay was notable for Ian Thorpe's swimming the closing leg for Australia with his fastest-ever relay split of 47.87 s, for the 47.02 seconds final leg, the fastest relay leg in history by Pieter van den Hoogenband and for the disqualification after the race of the American team.[1][2]

Results[]

Final[]

1st place, gold medalist(s)  Australia (Michael Klim, Ashley Callus, Todd Pearson, Ian Thorpe) 3:14.10

2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Netherlands (Mark Veens, Johan Kenkhuis, Klaas-Erik Zwering, Pieter van den Hoogenband) 3:14.56 European Record

3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Germany (Stefan Herbst, Torsten Spanneberg, Lars Conrad, Sven Lodziewski) 3:17.52

4.  Sweden 3:18.00

5.  Italy 3:19.37

6.  Russia 3:21.63

DQ  United States 3:15.29 Disqualified for Nate Dusing replacing without announcing the change at least one hour before the competition.

DQ  Brazil

References[]

  1. ^ Lord, Craig with Takahisa Ide (2001) Thorpe Sets WR, Wins Two Gold on First Day of Competition at World Champs, Swimming World Magazine, 22 July Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed June 2013)
  2. ^ "Staff and Wire Reports (2001) Thorpe Starts Fast With World Record". Los Angeles Times. 23 July 2001. Retrieved June 2013. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
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