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

Men's 400m Individual Medley at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	27 July
Winning time	4 minute 09.09 seconds
Medalists
Michael Phelps    United States   László Cseh    Hungary   Oussama Mellouli    Tunisia
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The Men's 400 Individual Medley event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats^[1] swam during the morning session, with the top-8 finisher advancing to swim again in the Final^[2] that evening.

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

• WR: 4:10.73 swum by Michael Phelps (USA) on April 6, 2003 in Indianapolis, USA
• CR: 4:12.30 swum by Tom Dolan (USA) on September 6, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results[]

Final[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Michael Phelps	USA	4:09.09	WR
2	László Cseh	Hungary	4:10.79
3	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	4:15.36
4	Tom Wilkens	USA	4:16.06
5	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	4:17.30
6	Takahiro Mori	Japan	4:17.54
7	Brian Johns	Canada	4:20.27
8	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	4:21.23

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat/Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H6 L5	László Cseh		4:14.11	q
2	H7 L4	Michael Phelps		4:15.72	q
3	H5 L4	Takahiro Mori		4:17.12	q
4	H7 L3	Tom Wilkens		4:17.21	q
5	H5 L3	Oussama Mellouli		4:18.21	q
6	H5 L5	Brian Johns		4:18.33	q
7	H6 L4	Alessio Boggiatto		4:18.88	q
8	H6 L6	Massimiliano Rosolino		4:19.50	q
9	H5 L8	Cezar Bădiță		4:19.72
10	H6 L2	Robin Francis		4:20.10
11	H6 L3	Justin Norris		4:20.51
11	H6 L1	Ioannis Kokkodis		4:20.51
13	H7 L2			4:20.52
14	H7 L1	Igor Berezutskiy		4:20.61
15	H7 L6	István Batházi		4:20.67
16	H7 L5	Peng Wu		4:20.92
17	H4 L5	Marko Milenkovič		4:21.23
18	H5 L6	Dmytro Nazarenko		4:21.74
19	H5 L1	Michael Halika		4:21.76
20	H7 L8	Terence Parkin		4:22.34
21	H6 L8	Yves Platel		4:23.16
22	H5 L2	Trent Steed		4:23.29
23	H4 L7	Vytautas Janušaitis		4:25.14
24	H4 L3	Thiago Pereira		4:25.32
25	H4 L4	Ioannis Drymonakos		4:26.07
26	H6 L7			4:26.27
27	H5 L7	Dean Kent		4:27.69
28	H4 L8	Paulius Andrijauskas		4:27.80
29	H3 L4	Tao Zhao		4:27.94
30	H4 L1	Alexei Zatsepine		4:28.27
31	H3 L6			4:28.37
32	H3 L5	Guntars Deicmanis		4:29.17
33	H3 L2	Carlo Piccio		4:30.19
34	H3 L3	Miguel Molina		4:32.27
35	H2 L4			4:33.26
36	H4 L6	Jan Vitazka		4:33.52
37	H3 L8	Yi-Khy Saw		4:37.21
38	H4 L2	Mihail Alexandrov		4:37.90
39	H3 L7	Hocine Haciane		4:38.13
40	H2 L2	Jonathan Mauri		4:41.41
41	H2 L7	Rehan Poncha		4:41.49
42	H2 L5			4:41.55
43	H1 L4			4:44.13
44	H2 L3			4:46.30
45	H2 L6	Yury Zaharov		4:48.33
46	H1 L5			4:55.06
47	H1 L2	Roy Barahona		4:56.15
48	H2 L1	Vasilii Danilov		4:57.90
49	H1 L3	Rony Bakale		5:01.16
49	H1 L1			5:01.16
51	H1 L7			5:10.29
-	H7 L7	Nicolas Rostoucher		DQ
-	-	George Demetriades		DNS
-	-	Jean-Luc Razakarivony		DNS
-	-	Joao Matias		DNS
-	-	Chisela Kanchela		DNS

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