The Men's 400 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 20 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.Worlds 2003 results: Men's 400 Free -- Prelims from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-20; retrieved 2013-06-06.Worlds 2003 results: Men's 400 Free -- Final from Omega Timing (official timer). Published 2003-07-20; retrieved 2013-06-06.

Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: WR: 3:40.08 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on 30 July 2002 in Manchester, UK CR: 3:40.17 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on 22 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Ian Thorpe 3:42.58 2 Grant Hackett 3:45.11 3 Dragoș Coman 3:46.87 4 Massimiliano Rosolino 3:47.44 5 Klete Keller 3:47.70 6 Yuri Prilukov 3:48.50 7 Chad Carvin 3:50.36 8 Graeme Smith 3:51.83

Preliminaries Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 8 4 Ian Thorpe 3:47.44 Q 2 7 4 Grant Hackett 3:48.35 Q 3 8 3 Yuri Prilukov 3:48.49 Q 4 7 5 Massimiliano Rosolino 3:49.59 Q 5 8 5 Klete Keller 3:49.85 Q 6 7 3 Graeme Smith 3:49.92 Q 7 6 3 Chad Carvin 3:50.28 Q 8 6 5 Dragoș Coman 3:50.29 Q 9 6 7 Oussama Mellouli 3:52.04 10 8 8 Sergiy Fesenko 3:52.24 11 7 7 Nikolaos Xylouris 3:52.34 12 8 2 Nicolas Rostoucher 3:52.53 13 6 1 Alexey Filipets 3:52.93 14 6 2 Mark Johnston 3:53.06 14 8 6 Rick Say 3:53.06 16 6 4 Emiliano Brembilla 3:53.43 17 7 6 Athanasios Oikonomou 3:54.17 18 8 1 Przemysław Stańczyk 3:54.68 19 7 2 David Davies 3:54.70 20 7 8 Dzmitry Koptur 3:54.87 21 4 8 Bojan Zdešar 3:55.07 22 6 6 Shunichi Fujita 3:55.13 23 5 1 Lin Zhang 3:55.41 24 8 7 Ihor Chervynskyi 3:55.81 25 6 8 Shai Livnat 3:56.33 26 5 3 Shilo Ayalon 3:57.79 27 5 8 Gian Carlo Zolezzi 3:57.92 28 5 6 Luis Monteiro 3:58.57 29 5 5 Felipe Araujo 3:58.74 30 5 2 Bruno Bonfim 3:59.57 31 7 1 Cheng Yu 3:59.93 32 5 4 Erwin Maldonado 4:00.47 33 4 5 Victor Rogut 4:01.46 34 3 4 Cameron Gibson 4:02.87 35 4 4 Raouf Benabid 4:02.99 36 4 3 Juan Pablo Valdivieso 4:03.83 37 3 6 Anovar Bennaceur 4:04.32 38 3 5 Dean Kent 4:04.60 39 3 1 Igor Erhartic 4:05.38 40 3 7 Yi-Khy Saw 4:05.87 41 5 7 Gerry Strasser 4:06.94 42 4 1 Emanuele Nicolini 4:08.35 43 3 2 Kwok Leung Chung 4:08.49 44 2 4 Timur Irgashev 4:09.83 45 2 3 Jonathan Mauri 4:11.13 46 3 3 Mohammad Naeem Masri 4:11.49 47 4 7 Petr Vasilev 4:11.54 48 3 8 Carlos Castro 4:11.68 49 2 6 Youssef Hafdi 4:12.70 50 2 2 Rehan Poncha 4:14.22 51 4 6 Ronald Cowen 4:14.39 52 2 1 Rony Bakale 4:23.67 53 1 6 Seung Gin Lee 4:25.25 54 1 5 Neil Agius 4:25.44 55 1 4 Anas Samir Abo Yousif 4:26.27 56 1 3 Mumtaz Ahmed 4:30.26 57 2 5 Vasilii Danilov 4:30.52 58 1 2 Steven Mangroo 4:31.41 58 2 7 Sergey Dyachkov 4:31.41 60 2 8 Barnsley Albert 4:31.51 – – - Mihail Alexandrov DNS – – - Trevor Kakunze DNS

References

Worlds 2003: Men's 400 Free results from swimrankings.net