Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships - Men's 400 m freestyle

The men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships

2007 World Aquatics Championships

The 2007 World Aquatics Championships or the XII FINA World Championships were held in Melbourne, Australia from 17 March to 1 April 2007...

took placed on 25 March (preliminaries and finals) at Rod Laver Arena

Rod Laver Arena

Rod Laver Arena is a tennis stadium that is part of the Melbourne Park complex located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and has been the main venue for the Australian Open in tennis since 1988, replacing the ageing Kooyong Stadium...

in Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne

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.

The existing records at the start of the event were:

World record (WR): 3:40.08, Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe OAM , nicknamed the Thorpedo and Thorpey, is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most...

(Australia), 30 July 2002 in Manchester, UK
Aquatics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
The aquatics events at the 2002 Commonwealth Games were held at the Manchester Aquatics Centre and were divided into 3 separate disciplines, with medals awarded in 54 events:* Diving * Swimming * Synchronized swimming -Men:-Women:-Men:...
Championship record (CR): 3:40.17, Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe OAM , nicknamed the Thorpedo and Thorpey, is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most...

(Australia), at Fukuoka 2001
2001 World Aquatics Championships
rightThe 2001 World Aquatics Championships or the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan between 16 July and 29 July 2001....

(22 July 2001)

On 11 September 2007, the Court of Arbitration for Sport

Court of Arbitration for Sport

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, as part of a retroactive 18-month suspension for an earlier doping

Doping (sport)

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infraction, nullified Tunisia's Oussama Mellouli

Oussama Mellouli

Oussama "Ous" Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He currently is an African Record holder, and trains with the USA club based at the University of Southern California, where he went to school and swam, collegiately....

results from these championships, which effected this event and the men's 800 m freestyle in particular.

Final

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	50m	100m	150m	200m	250m	300m	350m	Time	Notes
	5	Park Tae-Hwan Park Tae-hwan Park Tae-hwan is a South Korean swimmer. He is a member of the South Korean national swimming team, based in Taereung, Seoul. He won a gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle and a silver in the 200 meter freestyle events at the 2008 Summer Olympics...		26.19	55.00	1:23.83	1:52.87	2:21.49	2:50.39	3:18.24	3:44.30
	8	Grant Hackett Grant Hackett Grant Hackett OAM is an Australian former swimmer most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This achievement has led him to be regarded as one of the greatest distance swimmers in history...		26.18	54.80	1:23.27	1:52.14	2:20.63	2:49.44	3:17.81	3:45.43
	3	Yury Prilukov Yury Prilukov Yury Aleksandrovich Prilukov is a freestyle swimmer from Russia, who specializes in long distance swimming.Prilukov is a five-time European champion , eight-time European champion and five-time World Short Course Champion and has also set three European records...		26.52	55.35	1:24.16	1:52.86	2:21.41	2:49.94	3:17.78	3:45.47
4	4	Peter Vanderkaay Peter Vanderkaay Peter Vanderkaay is an American middle-distance freestyle swimmer. He is a three-time Olympic medalist.-Personal life:...	United States	26.01	54.76	1:23.28	1:52.51	2:21.21	2:50.28	3:18.83	3:46.36
5	7	Federico Colbertaldo Federico Colbertaldo Federico Colbertaldo is an Italian freestyle swimmer.In 2006, Colbertaldo was Junior European Champion in 400 m freestyle and won the silver medal in 200 m and 1500 m of the same stroke....		26.76	55.42	1:24.29	1:53.48	2:22.28	2:51.36	3:19.91	3:48.01
6	2	Craig Stevens Craig Stevens (swimmer) Craig Stevens is an Australian freestyle swimmer specialising in the 400 m. 800 m and 1500 m freestyle events....		27.04	55.87	1:24.73	1:53.89	2:22.99	2:51.98	3:20.53	3:48.26
7	1	Sergiy Fesenko		27.17	55.92	1:24.95	1:54.01	2:23.29	2:52.25	3:20.99	3:48.49
DSQ	6	Oussama Mellouli Oussama Mellouli Oussama "Ous" Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He currently is an African Record holder, and trains with the USA club based at the University of Southern California, where he went to school and swam, collegiately....		~~26.13~~	~~54.87~~	~~1:23.45~~	~~1:52.46~~	~~2:20.80~~	~~2:49.23~~	~~3:17.47~~	~~3:45.12~~	DSQ

Heats

Rank	Heat : Lane	Name	Nationality	100m	200m	300m	Time	Q
1	8 : 5	Peter Vanderkaay Peter Vanderkaay Peter Vanderkaay is an American middle-distance freestyle swimmer. He is a three-time Olympic medalist.-Personal life:...	United States	00:54.25	1:52.26	2:49.69	3:45.82	Q
2	9 : 4	Park Tae-Hwan Park Tae-hwan Park Tae-hwan is a South Korean swimmer. He is a member of the South Korean national swimming team, based in Taereung, Seoul. He won a gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle and a silver in the 200 meter freestyle events at the 2008 Summer Olympics...		00:55.51	1:53.45	2:50.80	3:46.24	Q
3	8 : 4	Yury Prilukov Yury Prilukov Yury Aleksandrovich Prilukov is a freestyle swimmer from Russia, who specializes in long distance swimming.Prilukov is a five-time European champion , eight-time European champion and five-time World Short Course Champion and has also set three European records...		00:55.80	1:53.70	2:51.00	3:46.57	Q
4	9 : 7	Oussama Mellouli Oussama Mellouli Oussama "Ous" Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He currently is an African Record holder, and trains with the USA club based at the University of Southern California, where he went to school and swam, collegiately....		~~00:54.96~~	~~1:52.21~~	~~2:49.84~~	~~3:46.82~~	Q
5	9 : 5	Craig Stevens Craig Stevens (swimmer) Craig Stevens is an Australian freestyle swimmer specialising in the 400 m. 800 m and 1500 m freestyle events....		00:55.94	1:53.73	2:51.41	3:46.96	Q
6	8 : 6	Federico Colbertaldo Federico Colbertaldo Federico Colbertaldo is an Italian freestyle swimmer.In 2006, Colbertaldo was Junior European Champion in 400 m freestyle and won the silver medal in 200 m and 1500 m of the same stroke....		00:54.90	1:52.40	2:50.23	3:48.13	Q
7	10 : 1	Sergiy Fesenko		00:55.28	1:53.33	2:51.45	3:48.50	Q
8	10 : 5	Grant Hackett Grant Hackett Grant Hackett OAM is an Australian former swimmer most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This achievement has led him to be regarded as one of the greatest distance swimmers in history...		00:55.72	1:53.80	2:52.08	3:48.72	Q
8.5	7.5						3:48.79	O
9	10 : 6	Przemysław Stańczyk		00:55.64	1:53.80	2:51.69	3:48.81
10	10 : 4	Klete Keller Klete Keller Klete Keller is an American freestyle swimmer who won medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 400 m freestyle and the 4x200 m freestyle relay. In the 4x200 m freestyle relay, Keller held off a charging Ian Thorpe in the anchor leg to win the race by 0.13 seconds...	United States	00:56.06	1:54.94	2:53.25	3:49.03
11	8 : 3	ZHANG Lin Zhang Lin (swimmer) Zhang Lin is a Chinese swimmer specializing in the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle events. He is China's most successful male swimmer.Zhang, who began swimming at six, is China's fastest freestyle swimmer. He was selected for the national team in 2002...		00:54.53	1:52.75	2:51.12	3:49.08
12	10 : 3	Massimiliano Rosolino Massimiliano Rosolino -Biography:Born in Naples of an Italian father, Salvatore, and Australian mother, Carolyn, he moved to Australia at the age of three, coming back to Italy at six. Rosolino declared about his beginnings as a swimmer:...		00:54.99	1:53.26	2:51.76	3:49.10
13	10 : 7	Takeshi Matsuda Takeshi Matsuda is a Japanese Olympic and Asian and National Record holding swimmer. He swam for Japan at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. At the latter event, he won a bronze medal in the men's 200m long course butterfly in an Asian Record of 1:52.97; in doing so, he also set the Japanese Record in the event...		00:55.39	1:53.63	2:51.61	3:49.26
14	10 : 2	Sébastien Rouault Sébastien Rouault Sébastien Rouault is a male freestyle swimmer from France, who competed for his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.- References :*...		00:55.26	1:52.88	2:51.03	3:49.46
15	8 : 1	Robert Renwick Robert Renwick Robert Peter "Robbie" Renwick is a Scottish swimmer who first rose to prominence by swimming the anchor leg in the Scottish men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games...		00:55.38	1:53.22	2:51.63	3:50.07
16	10 : 8	Dominik Koll		00:55.61	1:54.26	2:52.76	3:50.40
17	8 : 2	Dragoş Coman Dragos Coman Dragoş Coman is an international freestyle swimmer from Romania, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia....		00:54.85	1:52.57	2:51.06	3:50.53
18	9 : 3	Nicolas Rostoucher Nicolas Rostoucher Nicolas Rostoucher is a freestyle and medley swimmer from France, who is on the French National Swimming Team since 2000. He has competed for his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000...		00:55.83	1:54.07	2:52.52	3:50.65
19	7 : 6	Ryan Cochrane Ryan Cochrane (swimmer) Ryan Andrew Cochrane is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Cochrane is an Olympic bronze medalist as well as the reigning double gold medalist in both the Commonwealth Games and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. He holds multiple world championship medals...		00:56.27	1:54.87	2:54.16	3:50.68
20	7 : 4	Luka Turk		00:55.90	1:54.46	2:53.14	3:50.72
21	9 : 6	Mateusz Sawrymowicz Mateusz Sawrymowicz Mateusz Sawrymowicz is a Polish swimmer who specializes in the 1500 m freestyle. Having won in Melbourne in 2007 he became the first person to beat Grant Hackett at the 1500 m in the World Championships for 10 years...		00:56.38	1:54.69	2:53.06	3:50.82
22	9 : 2	Andrew Hurd Andrew Hurd Andrew Hurd is a Canadian freestyle swimmer. He began swimming at age eight and was a student at the University of Michigan. He won a gold medal on the world cup circuit in 2000 in Edmonton, Alberta in the 1500 m freestyle event...		00:56.16	1:55.01	2:53.77	3:51.52
23	9 : 1	David Brandl		00:56.31	1:55.19	2:53.95	3:51.58
24	8 : 7	Alexander Selin		00:55.52	1:53.47	2:52.40	3:52.32
25	7 : 7	Dávid Verrasztó Dávid Verrasztó Dávid Verrasztó is a Hungarian swimmer.His father and coach, Zoltán Verrasztó, and his sister, Evelyn Verrasztó are also swimmers.-References:* http://www.swimrankings.net/index.php?page=athleteDetail&athleteId=1546744...		00:56.73	1:55.09	2:54.21	3:52.88
26	7 : 8	Mads Glæsner Mads Glæsner Mads Glæsner is a Danish swimmer. He participated for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the disciplines 400 metre freestyle and the 1500 metre freestyle. His swimming club is Vallensbæk-VAT but he trains at the National Training Center in Copenhagen.-References:...		00:56.99	1:56.57	2:55.35	3:52.98
27	9 : 8	Marcos Rivera Miranda		00:55.28	1:54.58	2:54.51	3:53.89
28	6 : 8	Yuji Sakurai		00:55.56	1:55.66	2:56.10	3:54.52
29	6 : 2	Ahmed Mathlouthi		00:55.89	1:56.50	2:55.99	3:54.70
30	7 : 3	Květoslav Svoboda Kvetoslav Svoboda Květoslav Svoboda is a freestyle swimmer from the Czech Republic, who won the silver medal in the 400m Freestyle at the 2002 FINA Short Course World Championships behind Australia's Grant Hackett. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in...		00:55.37	1:54.44	2:53.60	3:54.76
31	7 : 5	Armando Negreiros		00:56.55	1:55.78	2:56.44	3:55.77
32	8 : 8	SUN Yang Sun Yang Sun Yang is an Olympic and world-record-holding distance swimmer from China. He swam for China at the 2008 Olympics. At the 2010 Asian Games, he won the men's 1500m freestyle in an Asian Record; this swim and his two other medals at the Games were cited in his being named the Rookie of the Year...		00:56.37	1:55.87	2:57.38	3:56.11
33	5 : 8	Fabio Pereira		00:56.73	1:56.83	2:57.12	3:56.46
34	6 : 6	Robert Voss		00:56.27	1:56.39	2:57.03	3:57.55
35	7 : 1	Ricardo Monasterio Ricardo Monasterio Ricardo Andrés Monasterio Guimaraes is a Venezuelan international swimmer who represented his native country in the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.Monasterio was born in Caracas, Venezuela...		00:57.21	1:57.75	2:58.36	3:57.71
36	5 : 4	Gard Kvale Gard Kvale Gard Kvale is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from Norway. He swam for Norway at the 2008 Olympics, where he lowered the Norwegian Records in the 3 events he swam: the 200 and 400 frees and the 200 IM....		00:56.88	1:57.48	2:58.43	3:57.98
37	6 : 3	Shai Liwnat		00:55.82	1:56.42	2:57.48	3:58.53
38	7 : 2	Felipe Araujo		00:56.78	1:56.91	2:57.70	3:59.15
39	6 : 5	Adriano Niz		00:56.83	1:57.53	2:59.31	3:59.27
40	4 : 5	Ryan Arabejo		00:58.77	1:59.64	2:59.93	3:59.88
41	6 : 4	Daniel William Bego		00:58.21	1:59.66	3:00.69	3:59.93
42	6 : 1	Michael Jack		00:56.19	1:57.02	2:58.73	3:59.94
43	5 : 3	Giancarlo Zolezzi Seoane		00:57.26	1:58.41	2:59.98	4:01.03
44	5 : 6	Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart		00:58.95	2:00.24	3:02.14	4:02.99
45	5 : 5	Caglar Gokbulut		00:59.65	2:01.20	3:02.91	4:04.54
45	5 : 7	Salvador Mallat Arcaya		00:58.06	1:59.96	3:02.98	4:04.54
47	5 : 1	Oscar Jahnsen		00:57.55	1:59.61	3:02.88	4:05.00
48	4 : 4	Irakli Revishvili		00:59.35	2:01.10	3:03.77	4:05.14
49	4 : 3	Rehan Poncha		00:59.27	2:01.56	3:04.11	4:05.21
50	4 : 8	Emanuele Nicolini		1:00.47	2:02.63	3:03.84	4:05.35
51	4 : 1	Mario Montoya Mario Montoya (swimmer) Mario Montoya is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from Costa Rica. He represented native country at the:2008 Olympics,2007 Pan American Games,*2007 World Championships, and...		00:58.07	2:01.46	3:05.58	4:07.75
52	3 : 3	Pál Joensen Pál Joensen Pál Joensen is a Faroese elite swimmer. He was born in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Pál is training in a short pool 25 m, because there is no 50 m pool in the Faroe Islands. Pál Joensen still lives in his hometown Vágur, and he is training with Susvim...		00:59.37	2:02.79	3:06.75	4:08.40
53	3 : 6	Zhi Cong Lim		1:00.22	2:03.68	3:06.87	4:09.10
54	5 : 2	Micky van der Vaart		00:58.46	2:00.74	3:04.88	4:09.33
55	4 : 2	Sebastian Jahnsen		00:58.01	2:00.56	3:05.03	4:09.34
56	3 : 5	Ibrahim Nazarov		1:00.29	2:04.42	3:08.80	4:11.36
57	3 : 4	Timur Irgashev		00:59.70	2:04.00	3:09.46	4:12.24
58	4 : 6	Kevin Soow Choy Yeap		00:58.60	2:01.77	3:06.96	4:12.35
59	2 : 2	Wen Hao Joshua Lim		1:02.39	2:09.52	3:15.59	4:17.12
60	3 : 1	Neil Agius		1:01.32	2:06.98	3:12.86	4:17.39
61	2 : 4	Omar Yosser Nunez Munguia		1:00.58	2:05.57	3:12.02	4:18.37
62	2 : 3	Juan Francisco Lagos Diaz		1:01.68	2:07.95	3:14.44	4:19.16
63	3 : 2	Davor Trnovljakovic		1:00.62	2:06.20	3:13.09	4:19.42
64	3 : 8	Colin Bensadon		1:00.14	2:06.09	3:13.19	4:19.86
65	4 : 7	Anas Abuyousuf		1:00.52	2:05.20	3:12.44	4:20.48
66	2 : 1	Heimanu Sichan		1:01.02	2:07.94	3:16.16	4:23.04
67	2 : 8	Gael Adam		1:01.29	2:08.89	3:17.36	4:24.08
68	2 : 7	Oliver Quick		1:02.70	2:11.51	3:19.90	4:24.78
69	3 : 7	Rashid Iunusov		1:00.29	2:07.11	3:17.73	4:27.83
70	2 : 5	Timur Kartabaev		1:02.12	2:10.88	3:22.07	4:32.84
71	1 : 3	Eli Ebenezer Wong		1:05.10	2:16.70	3:28.83	4:36.90
72	2 : 6	Eros Qama		1:03.49	2:15.55	3:28.40	4:43.97
73	1 : 6	Cooper Theodore Graf		1:09.20	2:25.37	3:42.19	4:57.26
74	1 : 1	Seraj Mouloud	Libya	1:02.41	2:19.23	3:42.12	5:04.67
75	1 : 2	Ibrahim Shameel		1:11.49	2:36.98	4:04.77	5:31.83
76	1 : 7	Bernard Blewudzi		1:16.76	2:54.64	4:39.70	6:23.27
999	1 : 4	Samson Opuakpo					DNS
999	1 : 5	Nemune Tebesa					DNS
999	6 : 7	Mohammed Naeem Masri					DNS

Final

Heats

See also