The Men's 400 Individual Medley event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heatsWorlds 2003 results: Men's 400m IM -- prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24. swam during the morning session, with the top-8 finisher advancing to swim again in the FinalWorlds 2003 results: Men's 400m IM -- final, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24. 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 4:09.09 WR 2 László Cseh 4:10.79 3 Oussama Mellouli 4:15.36 4 Tom Wilkens 4:16.06 5 Massimiliano Rosolino 4:17.30 6 Takahiro Mori 4:17.54 7 Brian Johns 4:20.27 8 Alessio Boggiatto 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 Jun Yoshi 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 Carlos Sayao 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 Shilo Ayalon 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 Vladimir Labzin 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 Marcos Burgos 4:41.55 43 H1 L4 Kunakorn Yimsomruay 4:44.13 44 H2 L3 David Cartin 4:46.30 45 H2 L6 Yury Zaharov 4:48.33 46 H1 L5 Dean Palacios 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 Seung Gin Lee 5:01.16 51 H1 L7 Hei Meng Lao 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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