Records

Medals

Ian Thorpe, AUS	Grant Hackett, AUS	Klete Keller , USA

Event Summary

After dropping back around the middle of the race, Grant Hackett put on a major spurt in the last 50m of the race in an effort to catch up with the race leader and world record holder, Ian Thorpe. In the end, however, he could not catch up with Thorpe, who won the race by just 26 hundredths of a second. At seeing that he had won the race, Thorpe was overcome with emotion. He had been disqualified from the Australian team for this event after a false start at the Australian Trials, and was only reinstated to the team after team-mate Craig Stevens stood aside for him.

Notes

The japanese swimmer Takeshi Matsuda broke the asian record for this distance in both the qualifying heats and the final.

Heats

Heat 1

1. Juan Carlos Miguel Mendoza , Philippines 4:01.99
2. Te Tung Chen , Chinese Taipei 4:03.71
3. Emanuele Nicolini , San Marino 4:08.28
4. Anas Sameer N H Abuyousuf , Qatar 4:11.99
5. Vasily Danilov , Kyrgyzstan 4:15.32
6. Sergey Tsoy , Uzbekistan 4:16.91
7. Neil Agius , Malta 4:22.14

Heat 2

1. Giancarlo Zolezzi , Chile 3:56.52
2. Moss Burmester , New Zealand 3:57.29
3. Petar Stoychev , Bulgaria 3:59.86
4. Charnvudth Saengsri , Thailand 3:59.89
5. Victor Rogut , Republic of Moldova 4:01.68
6. Nenad Buljan , Croatia 4:02.76
7. Martin Kutscher , Uruguay 4:03.21
8. Aytekin Mindan , Turkey 4:06.85

Heat 3

1. Lin Zhang , China 3:56.65
2. Juan Martin Pereyra , Argentina 3:57.26
3. Leonardo Salinas Saldana , Mexico 3:58.36
4. Mahrez Mebarek , Algeria 3:59.10
5. Bojan Zdesar , Slovenia 3:59.38
6. Bruno Bonfim , Brazil 3:59.96
7. Boldizsar Kiss , Hungary 4:02.87
8. Tae-Hwan Park , Korea Disqualified or excluded

Heat 4

1. Massimiliano Rosolino , Italy 3:47.72 -Q
2. Klete Keller , United States 3:47.77 -Q
3. Nicolas Rostoucher , France 3:50.73
4. Andrew Hurd, Canada 3:50.81
5. Heiko Hell , Germany 3:52.06
6. Serhii Phyesenko , Ukraine 3:53.41
7. Ricardo Monasterio , Venezuela 3:54.41
8. Dimitrios Manganas , Greece 3:54.78

Heat 5

1. Grant Hackett, Australia 3:46.36 -Q
2. Yuri Prilukov , Russia 3:48.71 -Q
3. Takeshi Matsuda , Japan 3:49.05 -Q
4. Lukasz Drzewinski , Poland 3:50.97
5. Jacob Carstensen , Denmark 3:51.09
6. Dragos Coman , Romania 3:51.73
7. Adam Faulkner , Great Britain 3:51.97
8. Mark Johnston , Canada 3:54.27

Heat 6

1. Ian Thorpe, Australia 3:46.55 -Q
2. Larsen Jensen, United States 3:46.90 -Q
3. Spyridon Gianniotis , Greece 3:48.77 -Q
4. Przemyslaw Stanczyk , Poland 3:49.22
5. Christian Hein , Germany 3:49.66
6. Emiliano Brembilla , Italy 3:50.55
7. Marcos Rivera , Spain 3:52.39
8. Graeme Smith , Great Britain 3:52.41

Heat rankings

1. Grant Hackett, Australia 3:46.36 -Q
2. Ian Thorpe, Australia 3:46.55 -Q
3. Larsen Jensen, United States 3:46.90 -Q
4. Massimiliano Rosolino, Italy 3:47.72 -Q
5. Klete Keller, United States 3:47.77 -Q
6. Yuri Prilukov, Russia 3:48.71 -Q
7. Spyridon Gianniotis, Greece 3:48.77 -Q
8. Takeshi Matsuda, Japan 3:49.05 -Q Asian Record
9. Przemyslaw Stanczyk, Poland 3:49.22
10. Christian Hein, Germany 3:49.66
11. Emiliano Brembilla, Italy 3:50.55
12. Nicolas Rostoucher, France 3:50.73
13. Andrew Hurd, Canada 3:50.81
14. Lukasz Drzewinski, Poland 3:50.97
15. Jacob Carstensen, Denmark 3:51.09
16. Dragos Coman, Romania 3:51.73
17. Adam Faulkner, Great Britain 3:51.97
18. Heiko Hell, Germany 3:52.06
19. Marcos Rivera, Spain 3:52.39
20. Graeme Smith, Great Britain 3:52.41
21. Serhii Phyesenko, Ukraine 3:53.41
22. Mark Johnston, Canada 3:54.27
23. Ricardo Monasterio, Venezuela 3:54.41
24. Dimitrios Manganas, Greece 3:54.78
25. Giancarlo Zolezzi, Chile 3:56.52
26. Lin Zhang, China 3:56.65
27. Juan Martin Pereyra, Argentina 3:57.26
28. Moss Burmester, New Zealand 3:57.29
29. Leonardo Salinas Saldana, Mexico 3:58.36
30. Mahrez Mebarek, Algeria 3:59.10
31. Bojan Zdesar, Slovenia 3:59.38
32. Petar Stoychev, Bulgaria 3:59.86
33. Charnvudth Saengsri, Thailand 3:59.89
34. Bruno Bonfim, Brazil 3:59.96
35. Victor Rogut, Republic of Moldova 4:01.68
36. Juan Carlos Miguel Mendoza, Philippines 4:01.99
37. Nenad Buljan, Croatia 4:02.76
38. Boldizsar Kiss, Hungary 4:02.87
39. Martin Kutscher, Uruguay 4:03.21
40. Te Tung Chen, Chinese Taipei 4:03.71
41. Aytekin Mindan, Turkey 4:06.85
42. Emanuele Nicolini, San Marino 4:08.28
43. Anas Sameer N H Abuyousuf, Qatar 4:11.99
44. Vasily Danilov, Kyrgyzstan 4:15.32
45. Sergey Tsoy, Uzbekistan 4:16.91
46. Neil Agius, Malta 4:22.14
47. Tae-Hwan Park, Korea Disqualified or excluded

Final

1. Ian Thorpe, Australia 3:43.10
2. Grant Hackett, Australia 3:43.36
3. Klete Keller, United States 3:44.11 American Record
4. Larsen Jensen, United States 3:46.08
5. Massimiliano Rosolino, Italy 3:46.25
6. Yuri Prilukov, Russia 3:46.69
7. Spyridon Gianniotis, Greece 3:48.77
8. Takeshi Matsuda, Japan 3:48.96 Asian Record