Colonel William A. Phillips

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	Australia	3:42.91
2	Yuri Prilukov	Russia	3:44.44
3	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	3:46.08
4	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	3:46.91
5	Dragoș Coman	Romania	3:47.16
6	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	3:47.83
7	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	3:48.60
8	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	3:50.51

Prelims

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Grant Hackett	Australia	3:44.63	Q
2	Dragoș Coman	Romania	3:46.70	Q, NR
3	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	3:47.28	Q
4	Yuri Prilukov	Russia	3:47.48	Q
5	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	3:47.59	Q
6	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	3:48.89	Q
7	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	3:48.93	Q
8	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	3:49.00	Q
9	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	3:49.34
10	Nicholas Sprenger	Australia	3:49.55
11	Przemysław Stańczyk	Poland	3:49.72
12	Dimitrios Manganas	Greece	3:49.99
13	Sergiy Fesenko	Ukraine	3:50.15
14	Sho Uchida	Japan	3:50.17
15	Christian Hein	Germany	3:50.24
16	Sébastien Rouault	France	3:50.33
17	Andrew Herd	Canada	3:50.47
18	Michael Phelps	USA	3:50.53
19	ZHANG Lin	China	3:51.88
20	Paul Biedermann	Germany	3:52.45
21	David Carry	Great Britain	3:52.88
22	Colin Russell	Canada	3:52.92
23	Spyridon Gianniotis	Greece	3:53.19
24	Felipe Araujo	Brazil	3:54.57
25	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	3:55.35
26	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	3:55.43
27	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	3:55.62
28	Luka Turk	Slovenia	3:56.26
29	Dominik Koll	Austria	3:56.58
30	Gard Kvale	Norway	3:57.66
31	Stef Verachten	Belgium	3:58.20
32	Xin Tong	China	3:58.31
33	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	3:58.35
34	Giancarlo Zolezzi	Chile	3:58.74
35	Shai Livnat	Israel	3:59.48
36	Mahrez Mebarek	Algeria	3:59.84
37	HAN Kuk-In	South Korea	4:01.01
38	Miguel Mendoza	Philippines	4:02.82
39	Evan Marcus	Guatemala	4:03.50
40	Muhammad Akbar Nasution	Indonesia	4:03.92
41	Sebastian Arango Herrera	Colombia	4:04.47
42	PARK Tae-Hawn	South Korea	4:04.76
43	Sheng-Chieh Tang	Chinese Taipei	4:06.72
44	Salvador Mallat	Chile	4:06.90
45	Lionel Lee	Singapore	4:07.04
46	Nawaf Al-Wazzan	Kuwait	4:07.64
47	Timur Irgashev	Uzbekistan	4:08.58
48	Ibrahim Nazarov	Uzbekistan	4:10.75
49	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	4:12.18
50	Kuo-Chuan Tsai	Chinese Taipei	4:12.58
51	Marcus Cheah	Singapore	4:13.93
52	Neil Agius	Malta	4:16.44
53	Omar Núñez	Nicaragua	4:20.27
54	Steven Mangroo	Seychelles	4:20.47
55	Antonio Tong	Macao	4:21.43
56	Loai Tashkandi	Saudi Arabia	4:26.07
57	Aung Kyaw Moe	Myanmar	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.