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

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

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		3:47.44	q
2	H7 L4	Grant Hackett		3:48.35	q
3	H8 L3	Yuri Prilukov		3:48.49	q
4	H7 L5	Massimiliano Rosolino		3:49.59	q
5	H8 L5	Klete Keller		3:49.85	q
6	H7 L3	Graeme Smith		3:49.92	q
7	H6 L3	Chad Carvin		3:50.28	q
8	H6 L5	Dragoș Coman		3:50.29	q
9	H6 L7	Oussama Mellouli		3:52.04
10	H8 L8	Sergiy Fesenko		3:52.24
11	H7 L7	Nikolaos Xylouris		3:52.34
12	H8 L2	Nicolas Rostoucher		3:52.53
13	H6 L1	Alexey Filipets		3:52.93
14	H6 L2	Mark Johnston		3:53.06
14	H8 L6	Rick Say		3:53.06
16	H6 L4	Emiliano Brembilla		3:53.43
17	H7 L6	Athanasios Oikonomou		3:54.17
18	H8 L1	Przemysław Stańczyk		3:54.68
19	H7 L2	David Davies		3:54.70
20	H7 L8	Dzmitry Koptur		3:54.87
21	H4 L8	Bojan Zdešar		3:55.07
22	H6 L6			3:55.13
23	H5 L1	Lin Zhang		3:55.41
24	H8 L7	Ihor Chervynskyi		3:55.81
25	H6 L8	Shai Livnat		3:56.33
26	H5 L3			3:57.79
27	H5 L8	Gian Carlo Zolezzi		3:57.92
28	H5 L6	Luis Monteiro		3:58.57
29	H5 L5			3:58.74
30	H5 L2	Bruno Bonfim		3:59.57
31	H7 L1			3:59.93
32	H5 L4	Erwin Maldonado		4:00.47
33	H4 L5	Victor Rogut		4:01.46
34	H3 L4	Cameron Gibson		4:02.87
35	H4 L4	Raouf Benabid		4:02.99
36	H4 L3	Juan Pablo Valdivieso		4:03.83
37	H3 L6	Anovar Bennaceur		4:04.32
38	H3 L5	Dean Kent		4:04.60
39	H3 L1	Igor Erhartic		4:05.38
40	H3 L7	Yi-Khy Saw		4:05.87
41	H5 L7			4:06.94
42	H4 L1	Emanuele Nicolini		4:08.35
43	H3 L2			4:08.49
44	H2 L4			4:09.83
45	H2 L3	Jonathan Mauri		4:11.13
46	H3 L3			4:11.49
47	H4 L7	Petr Vasilev		4:11.54
48	H3 L8			4:11.68
49	H2 L6			4:12.70
50	H2 L2	Rehan Poncha		4:14.22
51	H4 L6	Ronald Cowen		4:14.39
52	H2 L1	Rony Bakale		4:23.67
53	H1 L6			4:25.25
54	H1 L5	Neil Agius		4:25.44
55	H1 L4			4:26.27
56	H1 L3	Mumtaz Ahmed		4:30.26
57	H L	Vasilii Danilov		4:30.52
58	H L			4:31.41
58	H L	Sergey Dyachkov		4:31.41
60	H L			4:31.51
–	–	Mihail Alexandrov		DNS
–	–			DNS

References[]

• Worlds 2003: Men's 400 Free results from swimrankings.net