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

Event:Men's 400m Individual Medley
Competition:2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:27 July
Win Value:4 minute 09.09 seconds
Gold:Michael Phelps
Goldnoc:USA
Silver:László Cseh
Silvernoc:HUN
Bronze:Oussama Mellouli
Bronzenoc:TUN
Prev:2001
Next:2005

See main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships.

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:

Results

Final

Rank Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 4:09.09 WR
2 4:10.79
3 4:15.36
4 4:16.06
5 4:17.30
6 4:17.54
7 4:20.27
8 4:21.23

Preliminaries

Rank Heat/Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 H6 L5 4:14.11 q
2 H7 L4 4:15.72 q
3 H5 L4 4:17.12 q
4 H7 L3 4:17.21 q
5 H5 L3 4:18.21 q
6 H5 L5 4:18.33 q
7 H6 L4 4:18.88 q
8 H6 L6 4:19.50 q
9 H5 L8 4:19.72
10 H6 L2 4:20.10
11 H6 L3 4:20.51
11 H6 L1 4:20.51
13 H7 L2 4:20.52
14 H7 L1 4:20.61
15 H7 L6 4:20.67
16 H7 L5 4:20.92
17 H4 L5 4:21.23
18 H5 L6 4:21.74
19 H5 L1 4:21.76
20 H7 L8 4:22.34
21 H6 L8 4:23.16
22 H5 L2 4:23.29
23 H4 L7 4:25.14
24 H4 L3 4:25.32
25 H4 L4 4:26.07
26 H6 L7 4:26.27
27 H5 L7 4:27.69
28 H4 L8 4:27.80
29 H3 L4 4:27.94
30 H4 L1 4:28.27
31 H3 L6 4:28.37
32 H3 L5 4:29.17
33 H3 L2 4:30.19
34 H3 L3 4:32.27
35 H2 L4 4:33.26
36 H4 L6 4:33.52
37 H3 L8 4:37.21
38 H4 L2 4:37.90
39 H3 L7 4:38.13
40 H2 L2 4:41.41
41 H2 L7 4:41.49
42 H2 L5 4:41.55
43 H1 L4 4:44.13
44 H2 L3 4:46.30
45 H2 L6 4:48.33
46 H1 L5 4:55.06
47 H1 L2 4:56.15
48 H2 L1 4:57.90
49 H1 L3 5:01.16
49 H1 L1 5:01.16
51 H1 L7 5:10.29
- H7 L7 DQ
- - DNS
- - DNS
- - DNS
- - DNS

Notes and References

  1. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 400m IM -- prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.
  2. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 400m IM -- final, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.