The men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships took place on 24 July (heats and final) in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 57 swimmers were entered and in the event in the preliminary heats, the top-8 of which advanced on to swim again in the final heat that event.
The existing records at the start of the event were: World record (WR): 3:40.08, Ian Thorpe (Australia), 30 July 2002 in Manchester, UK. Championship record (CR): 3:40.17, Ian Thorpe (Australia), Fukuoka 2001 (22 July 2001)
Results
Final Place Name Nationality Time Note 1 Grant Hackett 3:42.91 2 Yuri Prilukov 3:44.44 3 Oussama Mellouli 3:46.08 4 Massimiliano Rosolino 3:46.91 5 Dragoș Coman 3:47.16 6 Peter Vanderkaay 3:47.83 7 Takeshi Matsuda 3:48.60 8 Nicolas Rostoucher 3:50.51
Prelims Rank Name Nationality Time Note 1 Grant Hackett 3:44.63 Q 2 Dragoș Coman 3:46.70 Q, NR 3 Takeshi Matsuda 3:47.28 Q 4 Yuri Prilukov 3:47.48 Q 5 Peter Vanderkaay 3:47.59 Q 6 Oussama Mellouli 3:48.89 Q 7 Massimiliano Rosolino 3:48.93 Q 8 Nicolas Rostoucher 3:49.00 Q 9 Emiliano Brembilla 3:49.34 10 Nicholas Sprenger 3:49.55 11 Przemysław Stańczyk 3:49.72 12 Dimitrios Manganas 3:49.99 13 Sergiy Fesenko 3:50.15 14 Sho Uchida 3:50.17 15 Christian Hein 3:50.24 16 Sébastien Rouault 3:50.33 17 Andrew Herd 3:50.47 18 Michael Phelps 3:50.53 19 ZHANG Lin 3:51.88 20 Paul Biedermann 3:52.45 21 David Carry 3:52.88 22 Colin Russell 3:52.92 23 Spyridon Gianniotis 3:53.19 24 Felipe Araujo 3:54.57 25 Igor Snitko 3:55.35 26 Paweł Korzeniowski 3:55.43 27 Květoslav Svoboda 3:55.62 28 Luka Turk 3:56.26 29 Dominik Koll 3:56.58 30 Gard Kvale 3:57.66 31 Stef Verachten 3:58.20 32 Xin Tong 3:58.31 33 Moss Burmester 3:58.35 34 Giancarlo Zolezzi 3:58.74 35 Shai Livnat 3:59.48 36 Mahrez Mebarek 3:59.84 37 HAN Kuk-In 4:01.01 38 Miguel Mendoza 4:02.82 39 Evan Marcus 4:03.50 40 Muhammad Akbar Nasution 4:03.92 41 Sebastian Arango Herrera 4:04.47 42 PARK Tae-Hawn 4:04.76 43 Sheng-Chieh Tang 4:06.72 44 Salvador Mallat 4:06.90 45 Lionel Lee 4:07.04 46 Nawaf Al-Wazzan 4:07.64 47 Timur Irgashev 4:08.58 48 Ibrahim Nazarov 4:10.75 49 Irakli Revishvili 4:12.18 50 Kuo-Chuan Tsai 4:12.58 51 Marcus Cheah 4:13.93 52 Neil Agius 4:16.44 53 Omar Núñez 4:20.27 54 Steven Mangroo 4:20.47 55 Antonio Tong 4:21.43 56 Loai Tashkandi 4:26.07 57 Aung Kyaw Moe 4:46.71
See also Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre freestyle
References
FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 400 Freestyle heats results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21. FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 400 Freestyle final results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.