Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 400 metre individual medley
Introduction The '''Men's 400 Individual Medley''' event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats swam during the morning session, with the top-8 finisher advancing to swim again in the Final 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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